US woman who faked being an Irish heiress re-arrested on UK fraud charges
by Ramon Antonio Vargas from on (#6KFW5)
Marianne Mair' Smyth scammed a television producer of $100,000 and will now face charges for swindling others in the UK
A US-born woman who feigned being the heiress to a $30m fortune while scamming nearly $100,000 from a television producer who later sent her to prison and exposed her on a popular podcast has again been arrested, this time in connection with a raft of fraud charges in the UK.
Marianne Mair" Smyth is awaiting extradition to Belfast, Northern Ireland, on charges that she bilked multiple people out of hundreds of thousands of dollars while she lived there between 2002 and 2009.
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