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Part One: The King of Con Artists, Victor Lustig

Behind the Bastards

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Don't Drink It When Conducting Interviews

Lusdig kept his wife and daughter out of his life on the road as much as possible. He justified this to them by claiming that they needed to be hidden both from his marks and from the law for their own protection. Lusdig also sleeps with a ton of prostitutes that he meets at various brothels, because brothels are the best place to meet rich people that you can con. Billy Scheibel eventually fell in love with yet another madam who gave him $250,000 a year.

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