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- TV producer’s romance with star surgeon begins against better judgment: Part 1
Benita Alexander met Paolo Macchiarini while covering his pioneering work for a documentary. He took her to Italy and lavished her with gifts, but their romance wasn’t all that it seemed to be.
#ABCNews #ABC2020 #Documentary
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The thing with ABC is when they post these 20/20 stories they never post all of them. That’s a huge problem.
Yes it's so annoying!
Oooh yes it is! I watched the episodes of Perfekt lie and had to watch other doku to know the end of the story 😡
Yes they leave the last one
I stopped watching them for this reason!
It tells you where you can watch the entire episode. Grow up.
What this show leaves out is that Alexander married second husband, Edson Jeune, in October 2012. Then she meets and begins an affair with Macchiarini in February 2013, only four months after marrying Jeune. They were both cheating on their respective spouses. But he preserved his preexisting marriage while she threw hers away.
You're the first person I see that stated this! Thank you!
Yes, and I love how she tries to brush of that part by just saying she was in a relationship, er, no lady, you were married.
@@ceramicvasesnobody plays the victim like she does. I’m so sick of seeing her all over the internet never once excepting her responsibility in this. The only victims were little Hannah and the rest of his patients.
Smh why wasn’t this a part of the show???
Heard this story a million times and every time I hear it I scream inside LOVE BOMBING!
You and I - we together should set an example to the world of what true love is.
@Shawn Robins Yes the dr. is but I think this woman is too - either that or she lives in lala land
@@user-lq8pe2gs1u yep , wouldn't have happened is he was a manager at a convenience store .
@Michelle Rodriquez Why are you victim blaming her when she clearly thought he was legitimate. The entire time he lied to her and pulled the curtains over her eyes, imagine trying to defend that. Nobody even brought up man hating or oppressors or whatever, narcissism is something can happen to anyone, you're just obsessed. Fucking incels.
Yes, love bombing. I think he tried to divert her attention from her news story. He knew that if she did a thorough investigation she would find out he was a fraud, in both his personal and professional life.
So to be clear, while Benita Alexander was engaged to Macchiarini, she produced a favorable 2-hour NBC TV documentary which promoted the man and his surgical methods and went very light on any criticism of either. The documentary may well have helped convince patients to allow Macchiarini to operate on them. It's an extraordinary example of journalistic misconduct.
Cool. 😂
She Cops to that
That “electric spark” she felt was the red flag that she’d run straight into a malignant narcissist!
To the people attacking her parenting and her looks, you need help. this documentary is about a man who committed scientific misconduct and his surgery led to the death of patients, including Hannah who had her whole life ahead of her. And he also played this woman, yet she’s insulted, body shammed, called a terrible mother and partner (even though she was divorced). It’s quite sad that in these situations the woman is always blamed and judged the most. Maybe focus on your own life and stop showing hate, it’s pathetic.
100%. This is why people are too afraid to tell their secrets that could protect others
🎵it takes two ba- by🎶
the truth isn’t hate
Hate is to discriminate and truth can’t do that
An opinion isn’t truth
One is man
One is God who came as a man - so man could be redeemed
People can say she was a gold digger, but being a gold digger is not a crime; using people as Guinea pig is
She committed egregious journalistic misconduct by producing a favorable tv documentary about him while she was secretly engaged to marry him. And she stayed in the relationship despite red flags galore, even helping to defend him after The NY Times blew the whistle. She was a victim of his deceit - and she did the right thing by eventually going public - but her hands were not entirely clean.
Don’t forget her daughter. Her father die of cancer and she found comfort from this guy. The mom trusted him to let her daughter, not only meet him but to be a “father figure”
i know this is what hurts me the most about this,that her poor daughter lost her dad like that,and she lost her husband like that.
Benita left him when she found out about the husband cancer
Everyone is singing her praises but her kid’s father just died and she’s jetting off with a new boyfriend all over the world 🤔 I don’t care she made sure her daughter is looked after. I bet she’d prefer to be with her mom
Oh hush
Oh thank god someone else said it. I was thinking the same thing but didn't want to labeled a "woman-hater" even though I'm a woman too🙄. Anytime you mention something like this you get the brigade saying "BUT IF A MAN DID IT IT WOULD BE OK". Like um no. If the other parent dies of a terminal disease you don't go jet setting off with your lover leaving your child to deal with it alone!!
She was divorced still caring for her dying ex husband & vulnerable to this narcissistic creep. Stop judging the victim
@@curiousmac5715 She seems awfully vulnerable to creeps.. I looked her up online after this and saw this would have been her third try at marriage- the second marriage was just a year prior to this and failed. Not judging but seems like she does have some issues of her own. Maybe she was trying desperately to meet the perfect man and when he showed it to her, she fell for it hook line and sinker because she wanted to believe it desperately even though a normal person would have seen the red flags.
Thank you
This documentary was gross. This woman is only concerned about her story of her personal love life - when this man caused the deaths of many people.
Well, I think she's just trying to expose one area of lies in which he was involved; the area with which she was most familiar.
The perfect example of "to good to be true"
Im just thinking “who the hell is taking care of her daughter?!”
Exactly definitely not her she was convinced jhon legend and the pope was marrying her even her friends were laughing because she believed him hook line and sinker their is something off about her😵 had I been a friend I would have said are you crazy to believe thisis way to far fetched to believe
@@kassandraahuero7962 o
I was thinking the same thing
good question
@@kassandraahuero7962 Sad thing is I doubt this delusional woman would have listened to them
Had to come here after watching the Netflix doc. Holy smokes this was a crazy ride.
Or perhaps he targeted her because she was going to help with great stories about him and his accomplishments. Who knows!!! Only he knows why he did this and left with no explanation that is the hard part for a woman
Holy crap this woman is unbearable. The naivety, ego and gloating. I couldn't finish.
His wife (of 30 years) is Emanuela Pecchia they live in Barcelona.
Benita Alexander could of found that out just by looking it up on the internet.
Or was there no internet in those days ?? 🙄🙄
A lot of his arrests and background was hidden
I feel like she just ran with the relationship, many red flags that were not addressed. It could happen to any of us.
Women think to catch a Dr ( especially a ‘surgeon) is the ultimate. It’s actually the ultimate in nativity. They are obviously just as imperfect as any other and I’m sure if someone did a study on the incidence of narcissism in Drs it would be greater than general society. The profession itself historically produces prideful entitled narcissistic behaviour. This stems also from the ‘god-like mentality’ that the community itself also perpetuates towards doctors. How do I know? I worked with them professionally for 45 years and observed their patients attitudes. I’ve noticed however that the younger Drs of today generally speaking seem to have been trained with more respect for the people they treat but also they’re no doubt aware that people today won’t take the arrogance and abuse of the past
Glad I’m not the only one wondering where the h e l l her daughter is
If u keep watching verses judging u will see in other clips the daughter is embraced as well
I think she was at boarding school.
ABC, please have all the parts of this story together.
Seriously where is part 6?
@@Fti193 that's what I say! And cant find it. Smh
@@bethgresham404 its annoying but i find most parts on their website. i should def check :)
@@Fti193 check their website. I find missing parts there. It quite annoying tho
Look up When Fraudsters Do Science. It's hilarious.
Throughout this story I felt bad for her daughter. Her dad was dying but mummy was away chasing a dude. This lady priority is whack
back to love is blind ugh...
Yep. I wondered that too. She described all the world traveling trips she went on with the doctor but the daughter only went with them once, where was she during all the other times - esp. after her dad just passed, geez.
@@user-lq8pe2gs1u Hopefully her paternal grandparents have custody and not her whack-job mother.
@@user-lq8pe2gs1u right. And she said she agonized about how to tell her daughter that her dad was dying? Her “agony” sure looks a lot different than most’s!
@@user-lq8pe2gs1u It said when she would travel the world with her dude, she relied heavily on family and friends to watch daughter. I thought to myself, how sad she must have felt. Being dumped to travel the world with some guy thats not even good!
This story is badly organized with repetition.
I don’t understand why they split this into so many videos and don’t post the rest of the story?! Clickbait? Benita Benita Benita... I’m just a regular woman and I would know “in surgery” as a constant excuse is a coverup for more! Thru everything I just feel bad for her daughter.
Bc $....like 5 min Utube video makes more $ than full 2 hrs video upload
Full video is on hulu.
We use your head dummy
Benita you are such a trooper🙏🏽You are telling your story with such humor , which is a great way to heal. The way you tell your story in its plain , nude simple truthfulness is also therapeutic for you🥰
You are soooo blessed to be surrounded with such supportive, solid family members and a concrete circle of friends who understand you , emphasize with you ♥️♥️ but also tell your story with such grace, love and humor.You are so blessed 🙏🏽
My heart goes out to you , to your friends and most especially to that precious young daughter who together you both had such wonderful dreams that were shattered within a blink of an eye but as I listen to your story , the good times you had with Paul despite all the lies he told you, I believe that he loved you❤️
Your heart was broken but it will mend and I truly believe that you will find another soulmate who will be true to you , to your daughter and to himself.
I kept thinking, wow her friends seem great but she is awesome too!
Benita Alexander is a very brave woman. My utmost respect to her. 🙏
A brave woman...eventually. Until then, a horribly irresponsible journalist who legitimized a psychopath. She's made up for her journalistic sins, but I hope she's never allowed to be a reporter ever again.
"Award winning investigative journalist" Now that's hilarious, and truly shows you the state of the press in this country..
Wow,you’re a loser.
Right, its an absolute joke that someone who genuinely believed the pope was going to marry her has a highly successful, award winning career!
Let me guess your race?
@Michelle Rodriquez news flash, journalists are humans with opinions like everyone else
@@damien1781 I don’t agree w what they said but what does their race have to do with it?
you better post part 6 & 7 this time...please
Mee too
the never have and never will
Oh my you mean they might not post the full story wooow I’ll never watch this channel again
@@Fti193 they never ever post the ending and that's because they want you to go to their website or their app or whatever .
Usually I Google it to get the rest of the story and the ending or see if another show or Channel did a story on it
@@Fti193 but I remember a time and it wasn't that long ago that it seemed you could find the whole episodes of 20/20 here unless my imagination is running wild
Anyone reading.... dont bother going through every part on this channel. Its just summaries of the part before.
Just look up the doctor name.
Story is years old.
Listen to Dr Death Podcast. They have a whole season on this. I believe the 2nd but double check pls. It's really good
Thank You Benita - You are amazing , kind and , deserving of True Happiness
To everyone asking, the entire special is on Hulu
Thanks
What’s it under? Looking for it right now
@@lasenoritacometa1977 20/20 True Lies
Thanx!!
That feeling she got when she saw him was a warning
Why did she refer to her second MARRIAGE as a "rebound relationship"? Wasn't she married when she met Paolo??? She has the audacity to show a clip of herself dancing with her then husband and blurs out his face!
That's what I was thinking! Why hide the fact that you were married!
Also, if the lady thinks that the 2 lady friends are sad that they saw George Clooney in Spain with the kids, then she is also mistaken. They came to Spain to see her come back to earth after months of constant bragging that she had George Clooney BF, Pope marriage, Elton John and Russell Crowe as guests. Those ladies are laughing at you behind your back. lol
If something looks too good to be true it is
Well....definitely this man would have reeled me in too. Good-looking, soft-spoken, sexy voice, highly successful and renowned..... It’s hard to understand why there are people out there who want to succeed at all costs like that. They must just be egomaniacs pure and simple.
He fooled them all.proved academia isnt everything,common sense is.
The corny song at the end of this 😂😂😂😂
Oh I know, that was beyond cringe 😬
I remember that song from dance moms from Maddie and Kendall 😂
All the music in this, sucks
Dang, I am invested now. Where is the rest
@Gratefully Blessed what does that even mean? You have issues.
It's split in a few parts but it is posted already.
@@ashastewart2862 20/20 never gives the ending ... that's why people have to Google it or just see if this same story is done on another show and it was done on something ID
@Gratefully Blessed 🤦♂️
@@ashastewart2862 I cant find part 6
I'm 100% sure there will be no ending to this story!
He killed a bunch of trusting patients. She produced a news story that helped him con them into deadly surgeries, but you won’t hear that part on here anyway.
She is making money and isn’t going to end.
I know she felt like a fool for falling for this con artist. But, was there no one in this ladies life that had common sense?
Just a note: parts 1-5 says the same story. No ending on part 5.
th-cam.com/video/jWJ2uWZ-lQk/w-d-xo.html
Your hubby was probably at hospice for a while before slipping into a coma. You just didn’t show up.
Ex husband ,is not her responsibility anymore maybe have compassion for him because he is the father of her daughter
My granpa
@@AC-ly6tg He’s Your grandfather?
ex-husband. messy divorce. who knows what happened.
So sad.
To sum it up. He lied, she's upset . No wedding. THE END.
Very funny reality show to me... Whole episode is very funny.
They should’ve spent waaaaaaay less time talking about her looks. They made it seem like she was too beautiful for anyone to make eye contact with her. She’s just an overfilled, older woman. The plastic surgery is strong with this one. Her looks had nothing to do with the story.
He knew he could get her, 😒😒 she was very NEEDY. He knew she wouldn't go against anything because of her state of mind, 😒😒 she wasn't paying attention to him and what he was doing. All of this is a plan of his
Her lips...I refuse to feel sorry for anyone who has lips like that.
She had some cosmetic work done because she had video of herself before and her lips were normal
"rubber raft" lips. She doesn't need to use botox on her lips. She was prettier before.
The sad part is - she paid good money for those "lips"
I do feel bad that this woman went through this. However, allowing a man that was still married to pursue her wasn’t wise.
Its crazy how all these people are such great people.if u let there friends tell you the story,they are the greatest people on the earth lol
I was thinking of what you said. Lol
What. A. Fool. She was producing in television and fell for this? Lmao
I found that whole aspect embarrassing. And then the bit about the pope business--she looks like a moron. I'd die before I told anyone, much less made a documentary about it.
Exactly!! The fact that the Pope was going to give communion to a gay couple when it has NEVER been done in THOUSANDS of years of Catholicism just because this man was just soooo special?! And they fell for it.
This woman believed in fairy tales. Okay.
Instead of making a love story you should make a real documentary about everything this man did!
I don't even know what to call him.
The things he did to his patients is unbelievable!
He's gruesome.
He used people as ginny pigs and did horrible things to them.
He must like to see people suffer.
He knew they we're in so much pain, yet he continued!
He should be jailed.
There are a number of full stories on the internet and TH-cam about what he did medically and scientifically ...
... don't you feel this piece was a cautionary tale for people two things I have found their soulmate and it's too good to be true because it actually is too good to be true ... let's face it she shouldn't have been so easily fooled .
Watch Dr. Death on peacock
What a surprise. I just clicked randomly and I found out this is Dr Death. I figured the characters completely different in my mind. Especially Benita. If you haven't.. listen to the podcast. It's really good
He is an other Dr Death… one is in prison in Texas, a neurosurgeon called Christopher Duntsch
She must be so traumatized wondering if literally everything he said and did was a lie. The disturbing part is it's probably a mixed bag, and she'll never really know.
Also I love how people in the comments are dissing her for being naive, meanwhile this guy hustled his way through an entire medical community. Individuals like him are so brazen and bold that they can manipulate ANYONE except for the extremely suspicious and skeptical by nature, which isn't most people to begin with.
Love this comment
@@DanniMonroe23 Everyone is always so judgmental. She's a human being who fell for someone. Where's the empathy?
Exactly and not just any medical Institution the karolinska that gives away Nobel prizes for research in medical etc
I am unsubscribing because you NEVER A FINISH A STORY! Whats the point?
Green clouded her vision, happens all the time.
Exactly that's all she cared about not those people that died she rubs me wrong
She didn’t even take the time to mourn her husband
Who else is here from the chris delia pod lol
She said goodbye to her ex husband or she used that to look needy? I'm confused.
She divorced while the husband was suffering from brain cancer and her daughter was only 9. She had put priority on her new love than her child which was selfish and hurtful which I can’t imagine .
Ex husband
They had to get a LOT of people to talk good about her for this one
But he’s still married, you should have said no and kept walking
You would think that’s the most decent thing to do but she wanted to travel and receive expensive gifts first, meanwhile she was receiving expensive presents and traveling to London, Athens, Mexico, Bahamas, Russia, Sweden, Puerto Rico, Greece, Venice, eating expensive and private Jets, etc with an intelligent man that speaks 6 languages and throws attention and money to her sadly she forgot that she had a daughter.
She is a journalist I would do the same things, investigating him.scam man
Please don't waist your time,after the five parts of just repeating everything they give us no ending. AS USUAL
But you know they always do this ... if another Channel or so doesn't have the whole story then I usually just Google and find out the ending
Listen to Dr Death Podcast. They have a whole season on this. I believe the 2nd but double check pls. It's really good
She wasn't asking any questions on those lavish vacations
I’m sorry, I do feel bad for her and I certainly feel bad for her daughter, but she admits her objectivity was compromised from the beginning. If she had been more professional and not gotten personally involved with him so quickly she might have seen the red flags sooner and spared herself and her daughter further heartbreak. It’s quite possible he originally romanced her just so she would treat his story more favorably and then just kept going with it.
How many moms' make bad choices? 😂
I expected a lot more from her, as she was a journalist.
I don't know who is more loathsome, Paolo or Benita Alexander. Why hasn't this show mentioned her second husband, 14 years her junior and a "life coach" and "dance instructor?" She married him about a year before she "fell" for Paolo.
This woman is a narcissist of the worst order.
He's awful. She might be worse.
IKR 😂😂🤣
Ah yes she's worse than someone who's literally killed a bunch of people because he falsified credentials. She literally brought up the man before Paolo and said he was a good guy but she wasn't ready to settle. Rewatch before you run your mouth
@@Bettersucksaul Wasn't ready to settle? She married him, you idiot.
@@Bettersucksaul Yes, but she was *legally married* to her second husband when she met Paolo. There is a wedding announcement in the NY Times from October 2012. Benita was actually a newlywed when she got together with Paolo; she and her second husband had been married only a few months when she “fell in love” with Paolo. If she wasn’t ready to settle down, why did she even marry her second husband and then cheat on him with Paolo just a couple of months later?
I had to see what he looked like after listening to season 3 of doctor death podcast and yes i understand why she fell for him and exspecially what she was going through and being an American woman as most Americans & Canadians find us Europeans very interesting
It’s very suspicious when someone is over too much romantic 😏my ex was so romantic and sweet, turned out that he is womaniser. They all make women feel special and happy. Such a talent 🤌🏻
If it sounds toooo good to be true, BEWARE!!!
So her ex-husband is in hospice dying in another state, while she’s in Illinois for work and crushing on this doctor, and she does not put work on hold to go be with her 9 year old daughter, see the husband/ father in hospice for their goodbyes? That is horrible for the daughter. This woman clearly thinks of herself only. She’s not even embarrassed to be in a TV special because she did *nothing* wrong in her narc mind.
She's a gold digger and saw dollar signs.
This women only cared about the 💵💳💲
Exactly! I thought the same thing
I think she was thinking long term. She thought this man was going to care of her for the rest of her life.
Good News Translation
The next day John saw Jesus coming to him, and said, "There is the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
John 1:29
😂😂😂😂
Go away, Bible thumper.
Amen Sister💞🙏🏼💯💪🏼
Good news translation is false, you probably don't think you have to actually live holy in order to believe in Jesus.
🤮 yuck..
This is very heartbreaking 💔 I cried at the start and till the end of the documentary’s
I can’t even imagine what it must painful for those who lost their loved ones and I just automatically felt that if I was involved in this tragedy or could be my son or my daughter or anyone who I known it would be extremely painful for me to cope with this terrifying situation💔💔💔💔💔🥺🥺🥺🥺
I am so sorry for those ladies who also believed him too but my mainly condolences are to those who lost their loved ones!!!!😢😢😢
Can you imagine what’s feeling that you hopping for treatment and then being told that you’re going to be in good hands and get your health back..
but your story will be turned outside down.💔💔💔🤑🤑🤑😞😞
How could anyone human being do not feel other life’s? I felt absolutely disgusting and disappointed by medical professionals who treated life’s consequences and for their own profits and celebrity status. Oh! Well stinky world we live in….🥺🤑
Yeah😢😢💔I wish to unseen this documentary… All nights after this film I can’t sleep normally, keep dreaming about these poor patients😢
Am sorry…. But she always has a smirk on her face on her pictures with Paolo.
He's psycho, she's narc.
Where is part 6? I’m hooked!
Listen to Dr Death Podcast. They have a whole season on this. I believe the 2nd but double check pls. It's really good
Nobel Prize is given to wrong people many times.
Romantico and Machiavellico!
Not going to lie... from the thumbnail, I thought this was about the Soul Patrol guy from American Idol. I'm so weird.
Where the heck is Part 6-I had to go to an interview with her to find out how it ended.
He had multiple families-she went to the house in Barcelona and he had a wife and kids(not the one she thought he was married to)-look up the interview or watch her documentary
I watched the whole thing on Hulu
Listen to Dr Death Podcast. They have a whole season on this. I believe the 2nd but double check pls. It's really good
Warning! There is no last part, they just leave you hanging!
I hate that they do this...
The whole 20/20 episode is available for free on the ABC app
The full 20/20 story also on Hulu.
WHERE IS PART 6?!!!!
No other episodes darn poor poor journalism
Money will be the downfall of many
It looks like when George clooney and amal clooney went to ve ice for their wedding.
I like this documentary but I bet ABC didn't upload the last part they always left you there hanging
So sad! What a demon..
Side note..I hate it when I see amazingly beautiful women, inside and out, like her go so far overboard with plastic surgery and fillers. You don't need it Girl!
Did 'Benita' pay for this commercial?
Where is the end of the story and why don't they post it? sux.
He used her because she was a journalist he thought maybe hooking up with her she could make story line about him and his job so he could win a Nobel prize?
Were is the rest of the story
Dr. Death Season 2 brought me here..
Here from Congratulations
The ending part part six is missing don’t watch this.
Thanks, but too late.
I despise channels that do this.
Don’t bother watching, you’ll never see the ending to part 6. There’s only up to part 5. Took me an hour and I could never find
Just saw Dr. Death mini-series. Gut-wrenching and scary! That surgeon is just a murderer!
She's lucky he didn't harm her daughter. Stop it ladies. No man really wants to father another mans child. Love yourself.
Put God first.
She's lucky he didn't but they're plenty of great step fathers out there I know a few.
thats a lie, and a stupid thing to say
@Angela Hamlett Amen to that. ALWAYS put God first.
You’re hella weird. There are plenty of men who do love other people’s kids as their own and sometimes even better!
Go away with your god bothering comments clearly you are no Christian if you are judging this woman who is actually a victim of a narcissist
Complete lack of professionalism on her part. She watched one too many lifetime movies
The biggest question here is, what the hell happened to her lips??
He lied to KI The most prestigious medical institute in the world. Y’all think she could outsmart him? The only thing I blame her for is he was still married when they took off to Italy.
She should have been with her daughter who just lost her father to brain cancer instead of running all over the world with the guy!!
This multi-part series repeats almost everything to prolong the ending. Type "When Fraudsters Do Science" for the comprehensive summary.
thx
Listen to Dr Death Podcast. They have a whole season on this. I believe the 2nd but double check pls. It's really good
If you’re reading this, have a good day!
tysm
Thanks you are so nice you deserve the best in life
What about night?
Stop harassing meh🙀🌋
@4:50 no it look like she was trynna hold hold her self Only