27 Nov, 2009 @ 12:21
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‘Aristocrat’ arrested after trickery

A BOGUS aristocrat who “seduced women and tricked them out of their savings” has been arrested in Bilbao.

The 47-year-old Spaniard spoke with a refined English accent and convinced a trail of women he was an upper-class statesman and the heir to a vast fortune.

Once the affair was under way the trickster would reveal his rightful inheritance was in the midst of a lengthy legal battle, following a family feud.

Using the same tale every time, the phoney aristocrat would use promises of marriage to persuade women to hand over up to 700,000 euros “to help pay for his lawyers¨.

Police swooped on Monday after tracking him down to a hotel in Bilbao and opened an investigation into the case.

They had already been investigating three cases but believe he may have duped two or three more women that he was dating at the same time as the others.

One woman parted with a huge sum to fund their projected wedding at his supposed ancestral home in England.

After dishing out the money, she was later contacted by a girl claiming to be the fraudster’s daughter saying that he had died suddenly.

Police said he wooed his lovers at the most fancy restaurants and hotels along Spain´s northern coast.

A police spokesperson said: “He was very clever and left no trail. It was almost as if he did not exist.

“Yet he was able to give a very convincing performance and appeared to live in style.”

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Jon Clarke (Publisher & Editor)

Jon Clarke is a Londoner who worked at the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday as an investigative journalist before moving to Spain in 2003 where he helped set up the Olive Press.

After studying Geography at Manchester University he fell in love with Spain during a two-year stint teaching English in Madrid.

On returning to London, he studied journalism and landed his first job at the weekly Informer newspaper in Teddington, covering hundreds of stories in areas including Hounslow, Richmond and Harrow.

This led on to work at the Sunday Telegraph, Sunday Mirror, Standard and even the Sun, before he landed his first full time job at the Daily Mail.

After a year on the Newsdesk he worked as a Showbiz correspondent covering mostly music, including the rise of the Spice Girls, the rivalry between Oasis and Blur and interviewed many famous musicians such as Joe Strummer and Ray Manzarak, as well as Peter Gabriel and Bjorn from Abba on his own private island.

After a year as the News Editor at the UK’s largest-selling magazine Now, he returned to work as an investigative journalist in Features at the Mail on Sunday.

As well as tracking down Jimi Hendrix’ sole living heir in Sweden, while there he also helped lead the initial investigation into Prince Andrew’s seedy links to Jeffrey Epstein during three trips to America.

He had dozens of exclusive stories, while his travel writing took him to Jamaica, Brazil and Belarus.

He is the author of three books; Costa Killer, Dining Secrets of Andalucia and My Search for Madeleine.

Contact jon@theolivepress.es

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