In XIX-XX centuries marriage fraud was quite common.
“Married” – as is usually said about women, oharisi wealthy gentlemen and entered into a marriage of convenience. For men however, too many who want to improve the financial position through profitable marriage. For some of them it becomes a habit and the only source of income. As a rule, marriage Scam choose victims among the wealthy middle-aged single ladies, many of whom later ashamed to say that we were deceived. Therefore, the names of the crooks no one knows, although the most insidious of them went down in history.
Anthropometric card Nicholas Savin, made in the Hamburg police
Marriage fraud was not the only “craft” inventive fraudster Nicholas Savin. At the turn of the century his name did not descend from pages of Newspapers around the world. As a cornet of the guards cavalry regiment and adjutant to Grand Duke Nikolai Konstantinovich, he was caught stealing a precious Reese from the bedroom of Grand Duchess Alexandra Iosifovna. At the same time in the incident he accused the Prince Nicholas. Then he had to leave the service and to leave Russia.
A retired cornet N. Savin. The picture was taken in Central anthropometric Bureau in Paris, 1902
Said Savin women acted hypnotically, and could seduce any. Abroad, he used this “talent” in new York under the name of Comte de Toulouse-Lautrec crook married the daughter of wealthy parents and a month later disappeared with a large sum of money. And then repeated the same Scam in London. He was arrested several times for financial fraud, and 25 years of his life he spent behind bars, but often he was able to get away with it. In Paris, he even managed to seduce the warden’s daughter, and she helped him escape from prison.
The Comte de La Rome with his happy wife, Princess de Tucson
Monte Carlo became a favorite “hunting” for card tricksters of the count de La Roma. There, he met 40-year-old Princess de Tucson. The woman lost a head from passion and with delight accepted his proposal of marriage. During the honeymoon the husband had sold all the jewels of his wife and under the pretext of urgent Affairs in India fled in an unknown direction with the money. The Princess awaited his return for many years. He at that time pulled the exact same Scam in Berlin: met with the heir to a large fortune, married her and got their hands on all the securities of the family. Cash, the scammer disappeared. When he was arrested in the Hague, revealed that he is a member of an international gang of swindlers, but his real name is Bella Klim.
Princess Victoria zu Schaumburg-Lippe with her husband, Alexander Zubkov, 1927
Princess Victoria zu Schaumburg-Lippe with her husband, Alexander Zubkov, 1927
In 1927, hosted the Bonn sister’s wedding last German Kaiser, Wilhelm II, 61-year-old Princess Victoria zu Schaumburg-Lippe with the 27-year-old Alexander Zubkov. In Europe, the scandal broke. The ex-Kaiser did not give consent to this marriage, all the European Royal and noble families boycotted the event, but the Princess lost her mind and no one listened. The young husband of a few months squandered her fortune and got into debt. To pay them back, the Princess had to auction off personal property. Her heart failed, and in 1929 she died. The cheater is expelled from the country, he moved to Luxembourg, where he worked as a waiter and seemed all “brother-in-law of the Kaiser”.
Henri Landrieu, a crook and a murderer
Henri Landrieu with one of the victims
The worst was the story of “Bluebeard,” Henri désiré Landrieu. Marriage fraud was not his greatest crime – the victims he not only cheated, but was brutally murdered after his marriage, and the corpses were burned in a furnace. Single ladies, he was looking for using the personals in the Newspapers. Every time he was under another name – all he had 96 aliases. From 1914 to 1919. “master of murder”, as he was called in the Newspapers, 283 seduced and murdered 11 women, for which he was executed.
Henri Landrieu fervently argued indignantly against *unfair accusations*
Giovanni Velotto
And the most effective marriage swindler and a polygamist believe Giovanni Velotto (aka Nicholas Perusko, aka Fred Jeep): from 1949 to 1981, he managed to marry 105 times! He had 50 passports in different names. In 1983, he was convicted and put in prison, where he died in 1991
Bender and Madame gritsatsuyeva is a classic example of marriage fraud
