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Inside Wealth-Conference Con Man Anthony Ritossa’s Wild Web of Lies | Vanity Fair

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A VF investigation reveals that a self-styled knight and purported Nobel Prize nominee is actually a Wall Street washout, a deadbeat dad, and a con artist, repeatedly jailed by European authorities.

Save this story Save this story It was a warm June evening in Monaco. Outside, yachts were plying the azure sea. Inside, flashbulbs were popping. Anthony Ritossa was in his element. Charming and cherubic, Ritossa was glad-handing in front of a step-and-repeat backdrop at the Fairmont Monte Carlo. His perma-tan, sun-kissed hair, and tailored suit suggested a man of refined wealth and taste. An outsider might easily have mistaken the scene for a movie premiere in nearby Cannes. But that would have undersold the pomp and pomposity of the moment. Sir Anthony, as he likes to be called, was holding

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