I was blissfully happy. [00:32:33] Matthew Christopher: (laugh) She said to me as I um, she said to me, "Well, Matthew, (or team)" she goes, "Well, I'm getting married by the Pope." ABC News reported that Macchiarini has never spoken publicly about his relationship with Benita. [00:35:25] Matthew Christopher: Um, gosh, 1-2-3 for her. If I had a checklist, he, he was everything I would want in a partner, everything you would want in a man. It defeats the point, Benita recently said. So just under two months before the wedding, and it was just difficult. Cetir died waiting for the lung transplant she desperately needed. Um, made dinner, and did all this, and then we were discussing and showing fabrications and doing sketching and then like, you know, where were we going to begin? [00:30:34] Bob: Now your wedding is a cause. Um, and so he had, we were coming back into the room after dinner one night, and I was kind of teasing him. That hideous under eye makeup , the obvious heavy Botox , that absurd VERY heavy makeup AND that over-dyed silly black hair says it all. This is totally different. I'm kind of a control, you know, right, I'm kind of a control freak. Benita Alexander thought she had found her modern day Prince Charming. (chuckle). ", Jupiter and Venus appear to 'kiss' in the sky, What is graupel? And I was, I was really moved by that. And he, so his reputation sort of proceeds him, but when he walked in to where we were sitting that day, he, when he walked in, he looked right at me, and our eyes met, and I've never in my life had something like this happen to me before, but I, I felt like a silly, little schoolgirl. Documentary producer Benita Alexander thought it was love when her job introduced her to internationally renowned surgeon Paolo Macchiarini. "Paolo was a really good listener," Alexander said. It does so much unnecessary damage. Cetir came to Macchiarini's attention after undergoing an elective procedure to correct a condition that caused excessive sweating. So I just found him very, I don't want to say intimidating, because intimidating's not the word. Documentary producer Benita Alexander thought it was love when her job introduced her to internationally renowned surgeon Paolo Macchiarini. "He [the Pope] wanted to use us as the poster couple for the Catholic church, to prove people who are divorced can get married in the Catholic church.". And basically giving up everything. Um, she was being brought to Illinois, the Children's Hospital of Illinois because a Korean nurse there had found Hannah in the hospital in Seoul and had sort of lobbied to bring her to the US. It just never stopped, to the point that I would come home from these trips, and all my friends were hanging on the edge of their seat. [00:35:53] Bob: And while the dresses are being made, while the other wedding preparations are underway, Matthew meets Paolo. And that presence was really something, it was really something. Benita Alexanders personal life story was part of the documentary film, He Lied About Everything. Journalist Benita Alexander is swept off her feet by a dashing Italian doctor, Paolo Macchiarini, while filming a documentary about his miraculous surgeries. Macchiarini did not respond to a request for comment from ABC News. And somehow, when I read that email, I guess all those little red flags that I had been ignoring, the things that were eating at my gut, I just knew. He was kind of a rebel. None of the promises Alexander said her fianc Paolo Macchiarini had made for their wedding day would come true. But before the wedding can happen, Benita makes a . Elton John was going to be performing. Anyone that knows anything about private schools in New York knows how hard that is. And he had been fighting with her in the courts in Brazil over this, and then she passed away, unfortunately. I want to focus on work. She said she later sent a lengthy text message to him, and received a single-word response: "Wow! She is honestly proud of how far she has come (as she should be), and its evident shell never let anything or anyone take this journey/narrative away from her. I mean we were there to speak about science, so I thought, okay. Alexander had already sent invitations to her closed ones. [00:04:39] Benita: I think one of the things that can make you a good journalist if, is if you're able to put yourself in the other person's shoes, and if you're able to sympathize with them and empathize them and really try to understand what it is they're going through. I really felt that we made a difference, you know, we, our story played a huge role, I think, in paving the way for him to finally bring his son home, and those are the kind of things that really mean a lot, at least to me in journalism. Macchiarini was already being scrutinized for his work, including by doctors who had been trying to save the life of one of his patients, Yesim Cetir. My friends and my family all adored him. Alexander, an award-winning documentary TV producer, met Macchiarini in 2013 while working on a story about the surgeon's pioneering work transplanting synthetic tracheas, or windpipes. Along the way he promises her a fairy tale wedding to be officiated by the Pope. When a magical romance with a world-renowned surgeon develops into a nightmare, his fianc uncovers a path of destruction that leaves dead patients and shattered families in its wake. The third season, called "Dr. Death: Miracle Man" includes 6 episodes, along with a bonus episode that is an interview with Benita by host Laura Beil. "None of these people were coming," Benita said she tragically discovered. [00:42:58] Bob: If you have been targeted by a scam or fraud, you are not alone. Are you new to podcasts? And I open the door, and there's a trail of rose petals leading up to the bed, and it says "I love you" in rose petals on the bed. He's Catholic. [00:12:41] Bob: And you went forward with that weekend pushing the feeling aside, right? I didn't know what to think. They became friends and over time she felt herself falling for him, despite her journalistic integrity impeding the romance. I mean it was, I felt butterflies, you know. You know, no, how do we take viewers through a two-hour journey of this little girl coming, you know, halfway across the world to get this radical surgery, and then she doesn't make it? We had been divorced for a couple of years at that point and for three years, and he was diagnosed with glioblastoma which is a very, there's no good kind of cancer, no good kind of brain cancer, but the, you know, the outlook is not good, you know they, they kind of give someone two years at the most. And he actually said his barber in uh the south of Russia, he, he managed to find this excellent, excellent barber in Kazan there where he performed his Russian experiments, brilliant guy. It said he'd be in South America and that the "trip had been planned for quite some time," Alexander said. I, I thought it was ridiculous. [00:39:32] Bob: And as the day approaches, Benita gets to try on that custom-made wedding dress. [00:24:45] Bo Lindquist: I mean he basically said that he was going to revolutionize medicine, and, and not just invent a new kind of a trachea or a new kind of transplant, but actually revolutionize surgery. I'm going to have to do the exact number but [00:12:07] Bob: And you hadn't felt that way ever, or at least not for 30 years, something like that. [00:24:20] Bo Lindquist: When we made our initial agreement to, to start filming, he said that his uh, personal life would be out of bounds, and I mean a bit odd that, that we couldn't even talk about where he went to school or, or something like that, but why should we? They set their wedding for 11 July 2015 in Rome. Um, you know, they come in and I'd say, "Welcome to your closet." Macchiarini took Alexander to several romantic getaways in Europe. But Benita's intuition overtook her and she hired a private investigator to look into the surreal wedding. He wrote love notes in lipstick on her mirror and left roses on the bed in the shape of hearts. And he was putting artificial tracheas, the windpipe, into patients. After doing her own research, Alexander found that Pope Francis had just married 20 couples and began to believe it was possible after all. So he was very interesting and very fascinating and also because he was a pioneer, and he was pushing the envelope, you know, he was a little bit, a little bit radical, but doing, he was taking chances that nobody else would, and we actually need people like that in medicine. You know he loves to surprise you. I was, I was conflicted about it. Documentary producer Benita Alexander thought it was love when her job introduced her to internationally renowned surgeon Paolo Macchiarini. And they kind of laughed. What started as dream relationship developed into a nightmare filled with lies and deceit. Their trained fraud specialists can provide you with free support and guidance on what to do next. Capping off a whirlwind romance filled with gondola rides in Venice and quiet dinners in the Greek islands, she was promised a wedding in the Italian countryside officiated by the Pope himself. "The woman in Barcelona was not his wife. She was able to get the Vatican to verify that he had never been the pope's personal doctor. [00:30:37] Bob: So now that she's been told the Pope is involved, Benita has another secret to keep. You know, we should do this to help Pope Francis, we should do this to help the Catholic church, and so it was almost like an obligation. Copyright 2023 ABC News Internet Ventures. And it's Paolo who helps Benita figure out the best way to say goodbye. I was so career-driven, and so career-oriented, but I was madly in love. Benita Alexander-Jeune started her career as a journalist for a few minor television stations. (Pasadena, Calif.) - This Valentine's Day, Investigation Discovery (ID) presents a love story gone wrong with HE LIED ABOUT EVERYTHING, the astonishing true tale of the love affair between award-winning investigative news producer Benita Alexander, and the brilliant, world-renowned surgeon Paolo Macchiarini.What started as a picture-perfect dream relationship between two people at the . Although her family said the injury wasn't serious enough to necessitate a tracheal transplant, she still underwent the procedure and went on to experience tremendous pain. So it was uh, quite, quite in--, incredible or remarkable to, for those words to come out of her mouth. What do they discover? We had a long time together on the flight from Korea to Illinois. I was just giddy with happiness. During her investigation into Macchiarini, Alexander hired private investigators in the U.S. and Italy. [00:09:12] Bob: And so, Benita travels to Boston to meet the miracle worker for herself. Who lost her dad. The Perfect ScamSMis a project of theAARP Fraud Watch Network, which equips consumers like you with the knowledge to give you power over scams. The Sun website is regulated by the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO), Our journalists strive for accuracy but on occasion we make mistakes. Benita has to keep a secret. Sought after worldwide, people believed Macchiarini would one day revolutionize the field of organ transplantation, journalist Bo Lindquist said. She was devasted to learn all the lies told by Macchiarini. Macchiarini proposed to Alexander on Christmas Day in 2013. Nothing anybody could do for her, and then like so many of Dr. Paolo Macchiarini's patients, they did a google search and found this kind of a magician of a surgeon who said I can help your little girl. And I, I think at least that it makes me a better writer and a better journalist. But our guest list was insane because now that the Pope was marrying us, he kept inviting all these dignitaries, you know, so world leaders were coming to our wedding. On what was supposed to be the day of her wedding, Alexander flew to Rome, where she eventually met others who'd kept their travel plans. Benita Alexander is a producer, director, writer, and narrator, who has actually been behind several episodes of ID's 'Now,' 'Dateline,' and even 'Inside the Obama White House.' It thus comes as no surprise that her professional success has given way to her confidence. [00:10:16] Bob: And when they meet, well Benita is stunned by what happens. Three months later, the Karolinska Institute ruled that while Macchiarini did not always rise to the level of its standards, he had not committed scientific misconduct. The qualified journalist then began working at a string of local television stations. In 2015, Alexander sent emails to the Karolinska Institute expressing concerns about the acclaimed surgeon. [00:11:55] Bob: And how old were you then? "I wanted to get all the information that I could before I really confronted him.". She later tied the knot with a ballroom instructor Edson Jeune in 2012, yet even that didnt work out. And so I thought, okay, maybe its not as crazy as it, as it sounds. He speaks 5 or 6 languages, and he works all over the world, and you know, dresses very beautifully. Benita met and married a fellow reporter, John Noel, and moved with him to New York, where they welcomed their daughter in 2003. "He was a top doctor, he spoke six or seven languages. [00:23:14] Bo Lindquist: And then we traveled to different places. ID gives the viewer the opportunity to experience this along with Benita the highs and the lows and to discover, along with her, howhe lied about everything, says Henry Schleiff, Group President of Investigation Discovery, Destination America and American Heroes Channel in a press release about the documentary. I literally felt like I was floating on clouds. . Her mother was Korean, and her dad, Canadian. What is happening? In addition to her work at NBC, she was the Executive Producer of the Oxygen documentary, "Seduced by Evil," which premiered in 2019 and reveals how a group of women banded together to take down the man who stole everything from them. Benita Alexander attended Wayne State University, where she studied journalism. I was so conflicted about it. I see a woman and two kids," she said, adding that she knew about Paolo's wife in Italy. Quack, quack, quack. [00:31:37] Bob: Matthew is no stranger to dressing important people at important times. Meanwhile, the doctors were still trying to save Cetir's life. In 2019, the film was nominated in the documentary category for the WIN Awards, Women's Image Network. Alexander then married, Edson Jeune, a ballroom dancer. In the course of that operation, the surgeons had nicked her trachea. Some even believed he'd win a Nobel Prize one day, according to author Stuart Ritchie. After doing some digging, it transpired that Macchiarini was not the medical genius she thought he was. [00:37:05] Benita: Everything was very, very secretive, and because the Pope was doing this, um, and Paolo told me that the Vatican would not even announce it until the day of our wedding so that the news didn't leak out. Macchiarini denied the accusations coming from his colleagues at the Karolinska Institute to Alexander, and she doubled down on supporting Macchiarini. And that's where we met for the first time. Oh, and a dance gown too, that was crazy fun. In need of a lung transplant, doctors arranged to transfer her to Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia. ABC7's Dallas Raines explains the difference, Jury selection begins for convicted torturer accused of escaping jail. It was killing me, and but I was also so in love with him. [00:22:38] Bob: What Benita doesn't know at the time, she couldn't have known, is that Hannah's death also sparks the interest of the European journalist named Bo Lindquist, a Swedish filmmaker, he's already working on a documentary film about Paolo, but it isn't designed with a happy ending in mind. She was even more stunned when she began to realize that so much of what Macchiarini had told her about his personal and professional life was a lie. You can also manage your communication preferences by updating your account at anytime. Thats what I have the power to do now. Capping off a whirlwind romance filled with gondola rides in Venice and quiet dinners in the Greek islands, she was. [00:15:45] Benita: There was a particular moment when my ex-husband had gone into a coma, and I was in Illinois, and I was, I was um, very upset about everything and trying to figure out a way, I was talking to Paolo about trying to figure out what to do and how to say goodbye, and uh crying about the fact that I hadn't been able to say goodbye. "From that moment on, it felt like my head was spinning," Alexander said, "and it didn't stop spinning.". [00:13:10] Benita: When I met Dr. Paolo Macchiarini, and when I was working on this story, I was at an extremely vulnerable place in my life. One of the reasons I am so adamant about continuing to talk about this is because I think victim-shaming is terrible. And it was, when I walked back to the motorcycle, he kind of, he just got off the motorcycle and I walked up to him, and I had tears streaming down my face, and he, he just grabbed me, you know. "And then I want him to be held accountable. I loved my work at NBC. Benita Alexander, an award-winning documentary television producer and single mother, shares her story in ABC's "The Con." ABC News At the time, Macchiarini was employed by the prestigious Karolinska Institute in Sweden. [00:23:10] Bo Lindquist: The first time was in Stockholm at the Karolinska Institute. And it was so fun to work with, with all of them, you know, anybody that, and they have private appointments that wanted to come in. He actually brought him home on Christmas Day, and he and I are still in touch. "When I started reading specifically the papers that Paolo himself had written, then we could quite quickly come to the conclusion that what was written in the papers was not what was going on in reality," Corbascio said. And he came to visit us in Australia, and I was just, I was only 8, but I was ab--, absolutely infatuated with what he was doing and asked him all these questions. Why don't you, can you just for once sit back and let somebody else take over, just let him, let him take it over." Then, two years later, her father, whod married a neighbor, asked her to pack up her bags and leave for good. It was magical. I also believe that exposing what happened, and exposing him, might keep him from hurting others. But unfortunately, her personal life has been marred by a turbulent childhood in Huntington Woods, Michigan, and a series of unsuccessful relationships. She soon discovered that as she lived an apparent fairy tale romance -- with someone who not only seemed to care for her and her daughter but also lavished her with expensive gifts and trips -- others were already searching for the truth about Macchiarini. He is one of the world's leading cardio thoracic surgeons. And you know, dozens of roses and champagne and always the best champagne. En Espanol AARP is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that empowers people to choose how they live as they age. Then, just before New Year's Eve, he left the U.S., telling Alexander that he had a "really important surgery" to perform. She is an executive producer, narrator, writer and director known for her work in the true crime genre. Her purpose for doing so is simple; to not only move on but also build a safe community for survivors like her a place where theres self-healing through sharing and unconditional support. [00:24:07] Bob: For many months, Paolo plays his cards very close to the vest as Bo starts asking questions about the patients Paolo has worked on. Spouse John Noel, Edson Jeune, Macchiarini, Source of Wealth Acting and Producing career. It does make it difficult sometimes, because you, some stories are so heavy and so difficult, and I would sometimes, it would take me weeks sometimes to sort of shake a story, and people would sit with me, and their stories would sit with me for a long, long time. www.aarp.org/volunteer. [00:00:03] He was incredibly generous, you know, and so romantic and just so wonderful. [00:23:20] Bob: Bo also spent many months following Paolo around the world, getting to know him, getting Paolo to open up to him. [00:36:44] Bob: I feel like there's some people you meet who are simultaneously uh impressive but uncomfortable. I don't want you to do anything except find your dresses and just, all you have to do is show up and look beautiful. Cetir's family has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the manufacturer of the plastic tube used in Macchiarini's procedure. [00:25:49] Bob: But, and this made him a fun interview, he doesn't mind debating his controversial techniques. [00:03:01] Benita: Yeah, one of the ones um, there was a father in New Jersey, whose wife had abducted their son to Brazil, parental abduction, which is when one parent takes the child, against the other parent's will to another country. Then, one morning, she read in The New York Times that Macchiarini's colleagues at the Karolinska Institute had accused him of scientific misconduct and filed a complaint with the university. They had already decided to marry in Italy, where Macchiarini wanted a Catholic wedding despite rules against remarriages. And I also had my beard uh, uh, cut there. Her film "He Lied About Everything," about her own personal story with a con man, aired on Investigation Discovery in 2018 and continues to air around the world. The procedure uses the framework of a plastic tube lined with the patient's stem cells and is intended to help them replicate into a healthy version of the failing organ. [00:21:08] Bob: Benita is proud of her work and happy with her husband-to-be, excited to put the finishing touches on Hannah's medical miracle story, but before the piece airs, the story takes a dark turn. It was beyond Benita's wildest dreams - Macchiarini reportedly told her he invited Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, and Elton John, and that the Pope himself would oversee the ceremony. Since her romance with Paolo imploded in 2015, the brunette beauty has continued working on documentaries and docuseries'. [00:20:06] Benita: We had kind of quietly gotten engaged, but we weren't telling anybody um, because I mean the complicated thing about this is that there's a sort of unwritten rule in journalism that everybody understands, that, you know, there's, there is a line you just don't cross a kind of sacred line where you don't, you can empathize with a story subject, you can sympathize, but you don't become personally involved with a story subject for, for the reason, obviously, that your objectivity could be compromised, right. Benita has spoken about her experience in numerous national and international TV and radio programs. Please enable Javascript in your browser and try Journalist Benita Alexander is swept off her feet by a dashing Italian doctor, Paolo Macchiarini, while filming a documentary about his miraculous surgeries. He was speaking at a conference in Boston, and we went there to interview him, sort of ahead of Hannah coming to the US, about his work and about Hannah. Wake up to the real world! related to AARP volunteering. Alexander was assigned to work on the documentary about Paolo Macchiarini who has considered a pioneer in organ transplant. The Pope doesnt marry people. There's so much she couldn't do, but she had this sparkling personality. Most importantly, though, we need to mention that Benita not only attended the former doctor/her former fiancs trial in Sweden, but she also covered it as a correspondent for season 3 of the Dr. The group eventually grew into four doctors, who compared the journal reports Macchiarini had published about his procedure -- all of which reported relatively positive results -- to the actual medical records of those patients. Benita was also the Co-Executive Producer and narrator for the 2016 TLC documentary, "Breaking the Silence," about sexual abuse. 5 People Vanished Along the Snake River Beginning in 1979: Will Police Finally Catch a Serial Killer? She is also the CEO of Berraca Productions, a company she founded to further her advocacy work empowering women who are the survivors of fraud. Fans can also watch He Lied About Everything on InvestigationDiscovery.com. After relocating to New York, Benita worked for NBC and was featured in NBC's documentary "A Leap of Faith" in 2013. In 2013, she was featured in the NBC documentary "A Leap of Faith." She has won numerous awards for her work. Of the eight patients given artificial tracheas by Macchiarini, only one is still alive today. [00:12:46] Benita: Oh yeah, no, I immediately just sort of shoved it down and thought whatever that was, it was, it was silly, and uh, let's forget about that. And she, unfortunately, was born with no windpipe. Alexander was in head over heels for Macchiarini. Paolo says to me, "I want to take over the wedding planning and I want to surprise you with everything. But there was something, yeah, something happened between us the, the moment we met. Macchiarini had reported that after his first patient underwent the procedure, a healthy trachea was beginning to develop, Lindquist said. As Alexander began to unravel the web of lies Macchiarini had told her, she began to wonder if the world-renowned thoracic surgeon had also misled people in his professional life. 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