How a Journalist Finally Tracked Down the Elusive Con Queen of Hollywood

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How a Journalist Finally Tracked Down the Elusive Con Queen of Hollywood
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In an exclusive excerpt from a new book based on his explosive investigation in THR, Scott Johnson describes the culmination of an international pursuit to confront a brilliant imposter.

of Hollywood, the infamous imposter who stole the identities of dozens of well-known, mostly female producers in order to lure unwitting victims to Indonesia. The genesis of that moniker dates back to the spring of 2018 when I received a tip about a peculiar scam targeting the entertainment industry. I began reporting and soon found myself puzzled and fascinated by the uniquely twisted mind of the imposter. That initial burst of reporting led to .

The person behind the mask, Hargobind Tahilramani, or Harvey, turned out to be an Indonesian man with a criminal record and a complicated past, a figure as perplexing as he was disturbing, whose talent for impersonation was matched only by a relentless desire to lure people into complicated psychological traps. The Con Queen’s exploits in Hollywood were a small part of a decades-long pattern of deception and manipulation that stretched all the way back to his childhood in Jakarta.

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