The Gilded Age Con Built on a Fortune That Never Existed

Описание: She walked into some of America's most powerful banks and let the bankers draw their own conclusion: that she was the secret, illegitimate daughter of Andrew Carnegie, heir to one of the largest fortunes on earth. The catch was that the fortune did not exist, and Carnegie had never heard her name.

This documentary follows Cassie Chadwick through the Gilded Age con that made her, for a few years, one of the most lucratively trusted women in the country. We trace how a single forged promissory note became collateral worth millions, why seasoned financiers competed to lend her money rather than risk offending a Carnegie, and how their own greed kept them quiet long after the math stopped working. It is a story less about one woman's nerve than about the men who wanted so badly to believe her.

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