The Deck - INTRODUCING... Chameleon: The Weekly
Episode Date: November 13, 2025Today we are bringing you stories from a slightly different side of true crime: stories about people who live by deception. Individuals who don't just tell lies but become someone else entirely. From... Audiochuck and Campside Media, this is Chameleon. Each week, host and journalist Josh Dean unravels a new case that pushes the limits of human deception. Stories of imposters, shapeshifters, and master con artists who have turned illusion into a way of life.The first episode dives into the unbelievable story of Rafaello Follieri, the charming con artist who fooled everyone from Hollywood to high society. He swept a famous actress off her feet, claimed ties to powerful politicians, and convinced investors he was on a mission to save the Catholic Church’s finances.Chameleon is a psychological deep dive into the human capacity for deceit, and it will make you question how well we really know the people around us. Find episode two wherever you listen to podcasts. https://chameleon.simplecast.com/ Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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Hi everyone. Ashley here, dropping in your feeds to tell you about the newest weekly show from
AudioChuck called Camellion. In partnership with Campside Media, we're bringing you stories from a
slightly different side of true crime, stories about people who live by deception, individuals
who don't just tell lies, but become someone else entirely. They build new identities,
they hide in plain sight, and they manipulate everyone.
around them, often for years before the truth finally comes to light. Each week, host and journalist
Josh Dean unravels a new case that pushes the limits of human deception, stories of impostors,
shapeshifters, and master con artists who have turned illusion into a way of life. The first episode
dives into the unbelievable story of Rafaelo Foliere, the charming con artist who fooled everyone
from Hollywood to high society. He swept a famous actress off.
her feet, claimed ties to powerful politicians, and convinced investors that he was on a mission
to save the Catholic Church's finances. But behind the designer suits and the Vatican Connections
was a master manipulator running a multi-million dollar scam. Camelian unravels how Folieri
built his illusion, who got caught in his web, and how it all came crashing down when the
lies finally surfaced. This isn't just a true crime podcast. It's a science.
psychological deep dive into the human capacity for deceit, and it will make you question how
well we really know the people around us. I'm going to play the first episode of Chameleon
for you right here, and when you're done, you can find episode two right away wherever you listen
to podcasts.
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Back in the fall of 2008, Anne Hathaway was a guest on late night with David Letterman
talking about her latest movie, Rachel Getting Married.
It's a thing stars have to do as part of their contracts with studios.
But the timing of this one for Hathaway was unfortunate because she was in the middle of a devastating breakup.
You would think that maybe this happens more to people.
You meet somebody you fall in love and then it turns out.
about maybe that person wasn't all that great.
Maybe.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Promotional appearances don't typically get this personal.
But this breakup had unfortunately happened in full public view.
And, well, as Hathaway said herself to Dave, it's, quote, what everyone is thinking about.
Did you have any hints that there was a problem?
You know what?
I don't want to go into the specifics, but I will say that you do have to give me credit
because as far as relationships crashing and burning goes, come on.
It did pretty great.
It was actually, yeah, it was.
You know.
That's right.
Dave, never afraid of pushing an envelope pressed on.
And it was different from what we're accustomed to hearing, you know.
This was pretty unusual.
That's definitely one of the words that, yeah.
And is this person, is he in jail now?
Not a question you typically hear a huge Hollywood star asked after a breakup, but a relevant one in this case, because the answer was yes.
Anne Hathaway's ex, the man she nearly married after a whirlwind romance, was in jail.
His name was Raphaelho Foliere, a swashbuckling Italian with a deep tan, floppy hair,
and apparently close ties to the Vatican, who'd arrived in New York in 2003, ready to make his fortune,
and meet some ladies.
The two fell in love, and Anne practically screamed from the rooftops, or at least in interviews,
like the one she gave Newsweek, in which she said the two worshipped each other, or Vanity Fair.
It was totally love at first sight, she said.
He is so good-looking. He looks like a god.
It was a real-life fairy tale for an actress who was famous, in part, for playing a princess, until it wasn't.
Because on June 24, 2008, federal agents descended upon the Trump Tower apartment where Folieri was staying and arrested him.
How long did you know the guy?
Aha.
How long we did it for four years?
Four years.
And was there ever like, you know, stuff missing out of your purse?
This uncomfortable turn on Letterman came four months after their breakup.
Foliari would later say that the last time they spoke, Annie, as he called her,
phoned him from L.A. during a press tour and seemed tense.
We were on the phone for 10 minutes talking about when she might come home,
he explained to a reporter from the Daily Mail.
If I remember, Annie's last words were,
I love you forever, and we ended the call.
I never spoke to Annie again.
Foliari didn't begrudge his ex, at least not publicly.
She'd made what he called a business decision, and he understood.
I don't think I'm spoiling anything by telling you that Anne Hathaway got over it.
She did fall in love again, got married, had kids.
She even managed to turn the punchline around and wielded herself during the monologue when she hosted Saturday Night Live that fall.
I broke up with my Italian boyfriend, and two weeks later he was sent to prison for fraud.
I mean, we've all been there, am I right, ladies?
This is Chameleon, the weekly show about people who pretend to be something they aren't.
And I'm Josh Dean.
This week, Raphaelho Foliari, the charming Italian playboy who fooled an A-list movie star, one of Bill Clinton's closest friends, and a long, long list of investors.
That's after the break.
Back in January 2006, a Wall Street Journal reporter named Christine Haney was invited to lunch by a publicist to meet one of their newest and flashiest clients.
Christine had been hearing about this dynamic young real estate developer for some time and was curious to speak with him.
He was known as the Italian boyfriend of the movie star Anne Hathaway, and this is, you know, The Devil Wears Prada time. We're talking mid-2000s in New York.
Hathaway was a superstar in a time of spectacular wealth and excess, and this was indeed boom time,
in the lead up to the 2008 global financial collapse.
And so, by association with his movie star girlfriend, Raphaelho Follieri, was already a fixture of the gossip rags.
He was portraying himself as a real estate developer with ties to the Catholic Church,
and I met him because my beat was real estate finance.
Christine's editor asked her to take a closer look into this buzzy Emma Gray's
business dealings. This guy is claiming to have ties to the Vatican. That is opening doors for him
to buy up all of the real estate owned by the Catholic Church. Folieri had started a company in his
name, the Folieri Group, apparently to help the church unload many of its valuable U.S. real estate
holdings. This was, of course, a time in which the Catholic Church was still reeling from a series
of exposés revealing the cover-up of child sex abuse by priests. It needed money.
So they were struggling for money, they were selling properties.
So in that world, it didn't sound that far-fetched.
Foliari claimed that he was tight with the longtime number two official at the Vatican,
the former Secretary of State, Angelo Sedano,
whose nephew was a senior advisor to the Folieri group.
That was his calling card, and he could come in and he could buy this real estate
and turn it around for a profit.
Foliari attracted tens of millions in investment from some huge names.
This flamboyant Italian seemed to come basically out of nowhere.
That was what Christine's editors wanted her to probe.
They met at a posh restaurant in Manhattan.
Presented himself very well.
They just felt something very off to me.
It was a good conversation, but my questions were really about, like,
what are your transactions, what are you doing, how do you plan to do this?
Like, how are you going to make money?
Where are you buying these properties?
What have you bought so far?
Really just basic journalism 101.
Not exactly gotcha questions.
But Follieri bobbed in week.
And I just left the whole meeting kind of unsettled.
Christine had been in the game long enough to know when something wasn't right.
And in this case, something definitely wasn't right.
I worked on that story for nearly eight months, trying to piece it together.
There was plenty to keep me busy besides Raphael Follieri, but he was always in the back of my head.
And then he's popping up like, oh, I'm in the Dominican Republic.
Oh, I'm doing stuff with the Clinton Global initiative.
Harvey Weinstein knew him.
The Duchess of York was there.
Like, he was at the heart of this frothy, pre-crash scene, and he just kept cropping up.
Like, the world is just sparkling in this pre-crash moment, and he was part of that.
And he just blended in beautifully.
It's right out of, like, an Edith Wharton novel.
Edith Wharton, the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize, by the way, in 1921.
She documented the lives of the rich and famous throughout the Gilded Age.
And this is someone who was new to the country who didn't have all that many family connections just showing up and coming from like a poorer part of Italy.
People were questioning his education background, like where was the creation of his wealth?
Where did this come from?
But Christine kind of got it.
She could see how people were drawn in.
It was charm.
It was looks.
It was nice suits.
It was a beautiful girlfriend.
It was a determination.
I remember one of his close friends from the center circle saying he just would like call and nudge.
and nudge and nudge, like, get coffee with me, hang out with me.
He was always kind of a sponge in a way to this network of, like, in the know New Yorkers.
But she continued to probe.
What I found in the reporting is that he, through that time, was definitely trying to make a lot of
gestures in the United States.
I think he sent gift baskets to all these Catholic officials at a major conference.
He was trying to make purchases, but my headline was Vatican ties just go so far.
You know, no matter how many ties and connections you have to the Vatican, it can only get you so far if you're trying to buy and redevelop a kind of dilapidated and abandoned property in the heart of Philadelphia.
And trying to do this all over the country is difficult.
There's that pyramid scheme that often happens with real estate, especially during booms, that you see you go from, you know, you get a little money, you put it into a property, then you spend it, get another property.
So you could see what he was thinking in terms of that pyramid scheme, but he had no experience in these markets.
And the contacts with the Vatican don't really help you when you have to deal with remediating a property that needs to be transformed and turned into something profitable.
There also just seemed like a lot of leveraging.
And as we see in his story, there's a lot of watches, jewelry, red carpets.
We know that he had a relationship with Ron Burkle's UKIPA companies.
Ron Burkle, a very wealthy and successful investor who's probably,
most famous or infamous for his friends, like former President Bill Clinton, who he'd famously
flown around on his jet, which former aides reportedly nicknamed Air Fuck One.
Berkel was also friends with Jeffrey Upstein, but was never named in any criminal complaints.
He purchased Michael Jackson's sprawling Neverland Ranch, and most recently found himself closely
associated with disgraced rapper Sean Diddy Combs. He's said to have invested $100 million
in Combs's Sean John clothing label, and is reportedly even the godfather of Diddy's kids.
Burkle had been persuaded by Foliari to invest in his business, but he quickly realized that
Foliari couldn't deliver on his promises. And in 2007, Berkel took Foliari to court.
The over $100 million he had invested in the business, turns out Foliari had apparently been using
it to fund his lavish lifestyle. To put it simply,
He was in the know enough to get these very significant meetings.
He is leveraging loans to have this fabulous apartment and to get this girlfriend.
And as you already know, that girlfriend, Anne Hathaway, didn't stick around.
This is the point at which things really start to fall apart for Raphael O'Folliari.
And then he was arrested.
The case went pretty quickly.
He was arrested in June of 2008, and he pleaded guilty by September of 2008.
And that was 14 counts of wire fraud, money laundering, and conspiracy.
Poliary was just 30 years old.
He was basically using the money that he was getting and loans for his real estate transactions
to finance the luxurious lifestyle he had.
There's this list of jewelry, like a gold-colored ring with light blue, green stone,
silver earrings with silver clasps and blue and clear stones,
a 16-inch five-strand necklace with pearl bands, and a 32-inch gold-colored.
chain with red brownstone. So he liked his jewelry. He liked his beautiful actresses. And all this money
that was meant for Catholic Church properties was essentially going to that.
To be fair, there were a lot of people he charmed and swindled from all sectors of society,
whether it's business or religion, whether real estate, you know, in the world of like the
Clinton Global Initiative. Like, I just saw it across the board. It wasn't just like in one industry
where people were raising concerns
or were charmed by him
or taken advantage by him.
And even you saw that in the end
when he was like pleading guilty.
He just, I think he had friends.
They're typically female
who just were charmed and persuaded by him
and stood by him,
which was fascinating to watch like at the courthouse.
Follieri came quietly.
He didn't fight.
He accepted the charges.
He pleaded so quickly there was no trial.
He was like, I did it.
Like, it was a reporter's dream.
It was just like the first.
fastest thing ever. I saw him in court that day. And it's so funny, I remember this because his
guilty plea was in September. He had actually asked to move up his case because he was having
such a difficult time at the Metropolitan Detention Center. So he's like, just get me out of here.
I'll plead guilty faster. It's extraordinary how quickly it fell, but it didn't feel like it was
going to topple until it did.
Rafaelo Foliari was ordered to pay a fine of $1.4 million, plus...
Yeah, he goes to federal prison, and then he's deported.
Back to Italy, to the homeland.
And that, you might think, would be the end of our story.
You might think Foliari would disappear, maybe go back to his family home, never to be seen in the business world again.
But as I've learned while making this show, a chameleon rarely changes the spots.
This is Chameleon, the weekly.
Raphaelio Follieri.
The more I read, the more I was fascinated and wanted to know.
Who was this guy who had shown up in New York
and charmed the pants off some of our most prominent citizens?
How does one just become a bon vivant who opens the wallets of very wealthy men?
Okay.
I hear you, but...
So I called Rebecca Pecori.
She's a reporter for one of Italy's largest TV broadcasters.
Okay, perfect.
She worked on a special about Foliari, which came out last year, and she had a lot to say.
He has been able to reinvent himself many times, pretending it's time to be a businessman,
but within different fields.
I mean, at first, in Italy, started in his hometown, which is...
Polieri is from Fosia.
a small town in the deep south, known as the granary of Italy.
Primarily agricultural, quiet, conservative, deeply Catholic,
the kind of place where if you make a name for yourself, you are not forgotten.
He has always said that it was linked with this little town
because it's also the town of Padre Pio.
I don't know if I've ever heard about him.
It's like a religious speaker.
Padre Pio, actually Saint Pio since 2002,
was a friar who had become a kind of folk hero in Italy in the early 20th century.
Sigmata, visions, healing miracles, the whole package.
And you see his image everywhere in Fosia, in homes, shops, and on car dashboards.
Rebecca told me that Foliari saw Padre Pio as almost a blueprint for fame, a notoriety to aim for.
And I've talked to many courses from also the neighborhood when they have this big house.
And I told me that Follieri, when he was really young, like an 18 years old, he had a big little car, very flashy car.
Even as a teenager, Rafaelo wanted to be noticed.
He came from money.
Nothing like the wealth he would later project,
but enough to make a splash in a small place like Fosia.
And certainly enough to get a leg up when he decided to go into business.
He started his career, let's say, in 1999 with a brand that was called Beauty Planet.
And he started producing like shampoos and conditioners and things like stuff like that.
So far away from what we have read about him.
It didn't go well.
But the venture was disastrous financially and also in terms of public inmates because in 2001, the company for the loss of nearly 32,000 euros.
Still, that didn't stop him.
He launched a private finance firm backed with money from his dad.
And the key to this business wasn't in selling a product.
It was in selling himself, selling a dream, to make people trust him with their money.
The strategy has always been the one of sending out with his hearing, which,
his flattering manners, and there is another bad agent, which is weird, is that he never
drank alcohol, but he always offered others the best champagne and the best fake coin wines.
He gave this kind of whole impression of a really well-mannered person.
Someone important, someone connected, someone who belonged in whatever room he happened to be in.
So it's strange because, you know, these things that come again.
again, because I think it has always been fascinated by the imagine that he could get to
people.
So movie stars and cinema, I don't know, more me-made than the substance of what it was
doing, I say.
And nowhere is this clear that in Raphaelho Foliere's obsession with soccer.
Because in Italy, football is a really crucial aspect of social life.
I mean, for instance, being in the VIP tribune of a big stadium,
it means to get to know, like, politicians, a member of the police,
but also managers of big industries or people from the church or from, you know,
so that gives you links that are really useful.
A few years after returning to Italy, following his adventures in the U.S.,
Foliari made bids for several major Italian clubs, including Palermo, and what would be the local club from his childhood home, Fosia Calcio, which he claimed in 2018 to be buying a 50% stake in, with backing, in part, from a familiar name, Ron Burkle.
But here's what one of Burkle's attorneys told the New York Post when they called for comment.
Follieri is just making this stuff up. There's absolutely zero chance that Ron would invest with Follieri directly or indirectly.
to which Foliari replied, also to the post,
my interviews in the Italian press were accurate and precise.
It is a shame that after I paid my debt to society,
some people still have the need to put me down
and don't give a person a second chance.
Foliari did not acquire a stake in Palermo or Fosia,
but he wasn't done yet.
In 2023, he made Italian headlines again
by showing interest in a club you might have heard of
even if you don't follow European soccer,
the vaunted A.S. Roma.
Asse Roma is the main football club of the capital of Italy, and it's a really big football team, and it moves a huge amount of money.
Foliari announced that he was submitting a bid of 850 million euros for the club to buy it from its American owners.
A.S. Roma then denied that such an offer was ever made, and Follieri fired back via a statement on his Instagram which refuted Roma's denial, reasserted his offer,
provided the email address where he sent that offer
and called the club's denial, quote,
completely inexplicable and untruthful.
It went on,
Rafaelo Foliari reconfirms his intention
to acquire all of the shares of AS Roma
to relaunch the team on an international level.
My lawyers will protect my image and reputation
in every competent office.
Whether or not these offers were ever real,
Foliari surrounded himself with the appearance of power,
including a mysterious Arab who had followed him around
and was allegedly linked to the Saudi
royal family.
It reminds me of a story from earlier in his life, where Foliari allegedly had someone
dressed as a nun following him around to strengthen his perceived ties to the church.
Rebecca tells me that buying a soccer team, a storied club, is just about the best thing
you can do to plant a flag in the Italian business world.
So Foliari was taking the biggest of swings.
But the money?
It never showed up.
In fact, at first, he offered like $840 million.
and the Fritzin family said they've never received this offer.
This strategy was the same when in the United States.
Money are coming, yes, they're coming, yes, they're coming, and then never.
In Italy, he was known, if not exactly famous, as a kind of local celebrity,
the stylish young man from Fosia who somehow ended up dating Anne Hathaway.
There was a lot of kid chatting about it.
It was like the beautiful Italian boy who,
was able to, you know, make Han Hathaway falling in love with them.
Everything else, though, the U.S. scandal, the exaggerated links to the Vatican,
in Italy, it seemed to just pass people by.
Because it's not such well-known story in Italy, the legal issues in the United States.
People almost know only about unhathaway and this.
Which made Foliari's home country the perfect environment for a chameleon to rebuild his empire
after he was deported.
Right now, I was trying to create a new image.
hoping that people don't know about his past.
These days, Raphaelho Foliere's interest in controlling a football club seems to have cooled.
The game he's interested in now is much bigger.
He's been investing in clean energy, shipping, and now his main thing seems to be mining,
specifically rare earth metals.
The elements essential for batteries and electric cars and smartphones.
This is big business, the kind of industry that's usually dominated by entire nations.
So I was shocked to see that foliaria claims to control 8% of the world's rare earth market.
To put that in perspective, if true, this would put this slippery Italian man somewhere between the whole of the U.S.
in a medium-sized mining country like Australia or Canada.
And he's certainly not shy about it.
On his Instagram, the foliaria of today shares a strange mix of images to his 1.9 million followers.
The lavish lifestyle of an international jet setter, fancy suits, rich-looking power.
with screenshots of business media profiles
touting massive deals with headlines like
Raphaelho, King of Rare Earths,
or Raphaelho Foliere,
powering the future through rare metals and clean energy.
They come from publications like American Daily Post,
the American Reporter, and Vogue magazine,
which are not publications I'm familiar with.
They feel a lot like PR puff pieces
placed in friendly outlets to help burnish his reputation,
which honestly wouldn't be a bad strategy.
Now, I'm no rare earth metals expert.
Who am I to say whether his claims are legit?
But Italian reporters are skeptical, and something about this feels flimsy.
Rebecca Pecori agrees.
She sees Follieri as someone who just isn't going to change.
In high school, it was one of the most popular guy.
He went out with his fleshy cards, and he was well-known from a wealthy family.
So this is the only thing that he has to offer, this image of power and power.
and of, I don't know, wealthy life.
And so given that, I don't think it will change.
I hope so.
I mean, as far as I know, he has always done the same thing,
using different names and different places
and different fields and different companies,
but the aim is the same.
I think it's part of creating this image of someone
who can be the great,
right manager that leads you to make a huge amount of money in an easy way, investing once in
river, once on oil, once on real estate. I think it's part of a strategy on pretending to be
someone that I think he has never been. Some people are just resilient. They get knocked
down and stand right back up. Rafaelo Foliere seems to be one of those guys. Christine Haney,
the former Wall Street Journal reporter, is married now. She's Christine Derre Brown.
these days. She's still a business reporter who loves a good investigation. And after covering
Raphaelio Folieri's fall from Grace in New York, way back in 2008, she's never been able to totally
get this mysterious Italian man fully out of her head. There just seems to be similar patterns.
There seems to be a lot of activity with him in buying football club. Having this career now in
minerals and energy, I mean, I wouldn't speculate. For the record, Christine herself is not back on the
beat. She had no interest in reopening this particular file. She just wants to say, to anyone who
does have that interest, pay very close attention to what he may be claiming. I just know
all businesses take a lot of work and a lot more work than you would think. So I would just
look at those numbers. That's the art of being a con man and being so charming and to construct
this world around you. The ability to change colors, to fall and rise, isn't that the definition of a
There's this kind of wave that these criminals ride where they just can kind of emerge and
keep coming back and reinventing. And that's what we love also about American stories. We love
that reinvention and narrative. We love that. You know, you look at, it's like, this is no Miss
Havisham. This is like, I'm going to keep emerging and rising again and never give up. And we all kind
of love those stories, even though we don't want to have our money stolen from us. I see that a lot
with, like, children's literature, like Laura Ingalls.
The author of Little House on the Prairie.
They keep, like, locusts, you know, scarlet fever, nothing stops them.
They're kind of like Raphael Fulieri.
They just keep getting up and getting on that wagon
and, like, driving further west.
And, yeah, he's created this myth and was the boyfriend to the princess of princess
diaries, who we all grew up with.
And it's fascinating to watch.
One of Christine's specialties back then was real estate, a business niche that is actually quite kind to charlatans.
Throw a rock at a developer's conference and you'll probably hit a fraud.
So it makes sense to Christine why Raphaelho Follieri gravitated toward it.
There's no regulation.
Like if you want to work on Wall Street, you have to take your X and Y exams.
There are no certifications like that.
I mean, you have to get a broker's license if you want to sell co-ops on the every side.
But other than that, there is.
There's no regulation like there is in Wall Street.
So a lot of people who have gotten in trouble on Wall Street
can just migrate to real estate and be totally fine.
Also, you have a lot of generational wealth,
so you have people who aren't trained.
They've come into it because they inherited 300 apartment buildings from their dad or their grandpa.
You have a lot of immigrant wealth that can get into real estate because you buy it
and then you have the separate mobility.
And as one of my real estate sources said to me,
real estate moguls, thirst for money like water in the desert.
and nothing is going to get in their way for them to get that because they're so thirsty.
So you have to factor that primal feeling in when you're reporting on them,
that what their motivation is.
Really, all you need is money.
Capital is everything.
You show up with a bag full of cash and you win.
It's not based on like where you went to college,
not based on the fact that you passed your Series 7.
It's not based on the fact that you went to Wharton.
You have the most money, so you win.
And so it is the greatest entry point for upward mobility in America.
and it's also a great entry point for criminals because it's just perceived to be like easy money.
I had this one source one say to me, who was a victim of Madoff, he said like how, almost like how dare you to be a journalist?
Because your purpose in life is to make as much money as possible so you can give it to your family and for future generations.
He thought I was very honestly like I was doing a disservice to my family legacy by not devoting
my life completely to just amassing millions and billions of dollars, like you were not a good
family member if you were not doing that. There is no chit-chat. There is no, like, fake, let's talk
about how your garden's going. It's all like, I have a deal. I want press. I got to make more money.
And there's something refreshing about that. And that is hilarious to me, but also, like, I admire it.
There's no wasting time. Looking back on this man decades later from across an ocean,
Christine is skeptical, but really more bemused than anything.
It's illuminating how he's reinvented himself,
and they're asking a lot of the questions that I was asking
in the mid-2000s now in Italy.
Where do the money come from?
How do you buy a team?
Wow, that's kind of interesting, yeah.
That came up on another show I was reporting recently.
It's like they don't learn.
I'd love it if they learned, but they usually don't learn.
Foliari did speak at least once about the idea of a comeback.
This was to ABC's Lama Hassan.
Shortly after, is released from a federal prison in Pennsylvania back in 2012.
You have two choice.
One choice is to give up and be broken, you know, psychologically forever.
Or stay stronger and overcome it.
And I choose the second one.
There's this interesting magical thinking and optimism that comes with these con artists
that is kind of fascinating to watch.
In the case of Folieri, there was also that arrogance of like, I'm part of this world.
And you got to love it.
They don't sit home.
and cry.
They just, like, get up and put on another brioni suit and think up another idea that might
get them in a whole world of trouble, and women just fall at their feet, and they keep
going.
Chameleon is a production of Campside Media and AudioChuck.
It's written and hosted by me, Josh Dean.
This episode was written by me and Joe Barrett.
It was produced by Joe Barrett.
Our associate producer is Emma Simmonoff.
sound design and mix by Tiffany Dimack
Theme music by Ewan Lightram Ewan and Mark McAdam
Our production manager is Ashley Warren
Campside's executive producers are Vanessa Gregoriatis
Matt Cher and me, Josh Dean
And finally, if I can ask a few favors
Before sending you on your way today
Please rate, follow, and review Chameleon
on your favorite podcast platforms to help spread the word
I know everyone says this, but it's true
ratings and reviews really do help.
And if you have any feedback, tips, or story ideas,
you can email us at chameleonpod at campsidemedia.com
or leave us a message at a special number we've set up.
201-4-3-8-368.
Dial plus one from outside North America.
Thanks for listening.
We'll see you next week.
I think Chuck would approve.
Oh!
