1 00:00:00,480 --> 00:00:02,520 Speaker 1: Certain portions of what you're about to hear have been 2 00:00:02,600 --> 00:00:06,040 Speaker 1: dramatized based on real life events, eye witness accounts, and 3 00:00:06,160 --> 00:00:20,720 Speaker 1: court records. I'm a happily married gay man, but here 4 00:00:20,760 --> 00:00:23,000 Speaker 1: I am parked out front of this woman's place at 5 00:00:23,079 --> 00:00:25,799 Speaker 1: five o'clock in the morning, just trying to catch a 6 00:00:25,800 --> 00:00:28,960 Speaker 1: glimpse of her. I need to know she's there. I 7 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:31,760 Speaker 1: haven't seen her in months, and as hard as I try, 8 00:00:32,400 --> 00:00:34,680 Speaker 1: I just can't get her out of my mind. Dude, 9 00:00:34,720 --> 00:00:37,159 Speaker 1: this is crazy already. Man, You've gotta let her go. 10 00:00:37,960 --> 00:00:42,840 Speaker 1: My buddy Evan thinks I'm obsessed. Hold on, all right, whatever, dude, 11 00:00:42,920 --> 00:00:45,200 Speaker 1: she's all you talk about like, this is not normal 12 00:00:45,240 --> 00:00:48,600 Speaker 1: to be outside or place like. I'm worried about you. 13 00:00:48,600 --> 00:00:51,720 Speaker 1: You're letting her dull your shine. Yeah, I know. I've 14 00:00:51,720 --> 00:00:53,239 Speaker 1: been trying to hide it from popular too. You know. 15 00:00:53,520 --> 00:00:55,520 Speaker 1: He sees me in mine and put your pops up 16 00:00:55,520 --> 00:00:57,640 Speaker 1: and you're flying to your rage. She's like, you promise 17 00:00:57,720 --> 00:01:00,800 Speaker 1: me this is over. Well, what are you gonna do? 18 00:01:00,880 --> 00:01:02,680 Speaker 1: You're gonna wake up and go to bed every night 19 00:01:02,720 --> 00:01:11,880 Speaker 1: thinking about fucking Mayor Smith. I just couldn't help it. 20 00:01:12,240 --> 00:01:15,360 Speaker 1: This woman was now threatening my marriage coming between me 21 00:01:15,400 --> 00:01:18,240 Speaker 1: and my husband. How the hell did I get here? 22 00:01:18,840 --> 00:01:21,520 Speaker 1: How the hell did I let this happen? She seems 23 00:01:21,520 --> 00:01:24,960 Speaker 1: so nice when we first met, so kind, so sweet. 24 00:01:25,920 --> 00:01:30,679 Speaker 1: But she's the devil. She's the fucking devil. I regret 25 00:01:30,680 --> 00:01:44,880 Speaker 1: every meeting her. We all do. I'm Jonathan Walton and 26 00:01:44,959 --> 00:01:51,360 Speaker 1: this is Queen of the Con Episode one, The Best Friend. 27 00:01:56,680 --> 00:02:00,320 Speaker 1: I'm a reality TV producer. I've worked on twenty seven 28 00:02:00,360 --> 00:02:03,920 Speaker 1: different series over the past fourteen years. But the most 29 00:02:03,960 --> 00:02:07,480 Speaker 1: spectacular reality show I've ever been a part of had 30 00:02:07,520 --> 00:02:11,440 Speaker 1: no cameras shooting it and no network airing it, and 31 00:02:11,520 --> 00:02:15,919 Speaker 1: no viewers watching it. Just a devious con artist secretly 32 00:02:16,040 --> 00:02:19,880 Speaker 1: plying her craft in the shadows, and dozens of unsuspecting 33 00:02:19,960 --> 00:02:27,240 Speaker 1: victims like myself, quietly falling prey. It started so innocently 34 00:02:27,360 --> 00:02:30,920 Speaker 1: a few years ago. Vampires have to be invited in 35 00:02:31,080 --> 00:02:34,440 Speaker 1: to exert their power over you. She was a vampire, 36 00:02:34,480 --> 00:02:37,680 Speaker 1: all right. She offered to help me, and, not knowing 37 00:02:37,720 --> 00:02:43,920 Speaker 1: any better, I invited her in. I had just finished 38 00:02:43,960 --> 00:02:50,480 Speaker 1: working on season four of Shark Tank in April. Stoplessing 39 00:02:50,480 --> 00:02:54,600 Speaker 1: these guys. I've been producing reality television for about five years. 40 00:02:54,600 --> 00:02:57,040 Speaker 1: At that point, I moved out to Los Angeles in 41 00:02:57,120 --> 00:02:59,800 Speaker 1: two thousand and seven after getting fired from my job 42 00:02:59,840 --> 00:03:02,560 Speaker 1: as a TV news reporter in Houston. My good friend 43 00:03:02,600 --> 00:03:04,959 Speaker 1: and colleague, Jonathan Ralton is here and let's take a 44 00:03:04,960 --> 00:03:06,800 Speaker 1: peek over there. And he's gonna check in with one 45 00:03:06,800 --> 00:03:09,000 Speaker 1: of the donors right now, Jonathan, take it away. I 46 00:03:09,040 --> 00:03:11,959 Speaker 1: am here with a donor. Okay. So I wasn't exactly 47 00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:15,120 Speaker 1: a news reporter. I was the morning news feature reporter, 48 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:20,320 Speaker 1: a welcomed respite of good news sandwich between all the murders, 49 00:03:20,360 --> 00:03:32,280 Speaker 1: Carrex and calamity staple of local news. But the station 50 00:03:32,320 --> 00:03:35,720 Speaker 1: I worked for suddenly had a regime change and I 51 00:03:35,800 --> 00:03:38,320 Speaker 1: got a new boss who didn't think my brand of 52 00:03:38,840 --> 00:03:42,440 Speaker 1: journalism belonged on the morning news. The mission visit for 53 00:03:42,560 --> 00:03:44,760 Speaker 1: the most popular icecream parlors in Houston to see how 54 00:03:44,800 --> 00:03:47,240 Speaker 1: many free samples we can get before they cut us off. 55 00:03:47,520 --> 00:03:51,000 Speaker 1: So I get fired from my TV gig, and strangely enough, 56 00:03:51,400 --> 00:03:55,200 Speaker 1: I'm actually excited about it because soon after getting fired, 57 00:03:55,640 --> 00:04:01,040 Speaker 1: Comedy Central Comedy Freaking Central is interested in a new 58 00:04:01,080 --> 00:04:05,160 Speaker 1: show I pitched them called some Stupid Show. It's like 59 00:04:05,200 --> 00:04:07,720 Speaker 1: a funny version of sixty Minutes done in thirty a 60 00:04:07,760 --> 00:04:10,120 Speaker 1: young Swedish couple gets evicted from their apartment because they 61 00:04:10,160 --> 00:04:14,840 Speaker 1: have sex too loud. That's a five minute piece screaming 62 00:04:14,880 --> 00:04:19,279 Speaker 1: if you watched on some stupid show. So I moved 63 00:04:19,279 --> 00:04:21,640 Speaker 1: out to Los Angeles in late two thousand seven to 64 00:04:21,720 --> 00:04:25,080 Speaker 1: make the Comedy Central thing happen, and then bam, the 65 00:04:25,160 --> 00:04:32,240 Speaker 1: writers strike thing happens instead. That strike put the kai 66 00:04:32,320 --> 00:04:37,960 Speaker 1: bosh on my Comedy Central opportunity, and it also screws 67 00:04:38,160 --> 00:04:41,160 Speaker 1: thousands of other producers and show creators out of their 68 00:04:41,200 --> 00:04:45,039 Speaker 1: deals at networks and production companies. A really shitty time 69 00:04:45,120 --> 00:04:48,000 Speaker 1: for the entertainment industry. But you know the old cliche, 70 00:04:48,160 --> 00:04:51,640 Speaker 1: when one door closes, another one opens. It was goodbye 71 00:04:51,680 --> 00:04:55,719 Speaker 1: some stupid show and hello reality television, which I guess 72 00:04:55,760 --> 00:04:59,360 Speaker 1: some people would say is the same thing I produce 73 00:04:59,440 --> 00:05:03,480 Speaker 1: on shows UFO Hunters for the History Channel, Professional Grade 74 00:05:03,520 --> 00:05:08,520 Speaker 1: for h GTV, American Ninja Warrior for NBC, Shark Channel 75 00:05:08,720 --> 00:05:18,800 Speaker 1: for ABC. I am having a blast until she comes along. Ready. No, 76 00:05:21,240 --> 00:05:24,360 Speaker 1: it's the summer of and it's shaping up to be 77 00:05:24,400 --> 00:05:26,920 Speaker 1: a hot one. Another day, A triple digits on the way. 78 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:31,360 Speaker 1: Current temperature is already downtown. The problem is our downtown 79 00:05:31,400 --> 00:05:34,800 Speaker 1: Los Angeles apartment building has a gigantic club med style 80 00:05:34,880 --> 00:05:39,680 Speaker 1: swimming pool that's suddenly taken away from us because of 81 00:05:39,720 --> 00:05:43,880 Speaker 1: some stupid legal spat with the neighboring condo building. So 82 00:05:44,080 --> 00:05:48,160 Speaker 1: the pool is actually owned by the condo building, and 83 00:05:48,520 --> 00:05:53,400 Speaker 1: the apartments had an easement to use the pool, and 84 00:05:53,480 --> 00:05:56,840 Speaker 1: part of the contract was that the apartments were responsible 85 00:05:56,880 --> 00:06:01,799 Speaker 1: for sixty percent of the cost of maintenance and repairs. 86 00:06:02,120 --> 00:06:06,760 Speaker 1: That brilliant, succinct explanation will demonstrate to anyone listening that 87 00:06:06,839 --> 00:06:11,279 Speaker 1: you are an attorney. I hope so, and yes, yes, 88 00:06:11,320 --> 00:06:14,800 Speaker 1: I've been practicing for almost ten years. Tina Mensch is 89 00:06:14,800 --> 00:06:17,479 Speaker 1: not only a Los Angeles attorney, but she's also a 90 00:06:17,520 --> 00:06:21,240 Speaker 1: neighbor of mine. Back in when our apartment building loses 91 00:06:21,279 --> 00:06:25,240 Speaker 1: access to the pool over a repair dispute, the condos 92 00:06:25,279 --> 00:06:28,760 Speaker 1: had initially said that the cost to the apartments was 93 00:06:28,839 --> 00:06:33,360 Speaker 1: going to be like two thousand dollars or something like that, 94 00:06:33,440 --> 00:06:35,599 Speaker 1: and when the bill actually came it was like two 95 00:06:35,640 --> 00:06:39,600 Speaker 1: hundred and forty thousand dollars, and the apartment said, we're 96 00:06:39,640 --> 00:06:45,320 Speaker 1: not paying this, and then the condos locked us out. Yep, 97 00:06:45,560 --> 00:06:47,760 Speaker 1: we're locked out of our pool. During one of the 98 00:06:47,839 --> 00:06:53,400 Speaker 1: hottest summers in Los Angeles. I know yuppie problem is right, 99 00:06:53,760 --> 00:06:57,120 Speaker 1: but we're not talking about just any pool. It's heated. 100 00:06:57,400 --> 00:06:59,400 Speaker 1: It's heated. Yeah, we could go summing at night. It's warm, 101 00:06:59,400 --> 00:07:01,359 Speaker 1: you see, like the steam car. And it's not a 102 00:07:01,440 --> 00:07:05,159 Speaker 1: chlorine pool. It's a saltwater pool, which makes it so 103 00:07:05,240 --> 00:07:07,800 Speaker 1: much better. Yeah, um, I did not know it was 104 00:07:07,800 --> 00:07:10,520 Speaker 1: a saltwater pool. That just yeah, that makes me miss 105 00:07:10,560 --> 00:07:13,400 Speaker 1: it more. And it has Olympic swimming lanes. Yes, and 106 00:07:13,440 --> 00:07:16,000 Speaker 1: it's shaped like what would you describe that shape? It's 107 00:07:16,040 --> 00:07:18,600 Speaker 1: like a giant circle, but with like nooks and crannies 108 00:07:18,600 --> 00:07:20,240 Speaker 1: on the side so you can hang out with friends. 109 00:07:20,280 --> 00:07:23,480 Speaker 1: And then it's got like this twenty person jacuzzi beside it. Yes, 110 00:07:23,760 --> 00:07:29,720 Speaker 1: it's it's an amazing part of living in this complex. Yeah, 111 00:07:29,960 --> 00:07:33,560 Speaker 1: so losing it was a tragedy, it felt like. And 112 00:07:33,920 --> 00:07:36,920 Speaker 1: the four d plus residents in our building are mad 113 00:07:36,960 --> 00:07:40,120 Speaker 1: as hell. I'm not paying thirty three hundred dollars a 114 00:07:40,200 --> 00:07:42,840 Speaker 1: month for no pool. Why does the other building to 115 00:07:42,840 --> 00:07:45,080 Speaker 1: have access and we don't. We should all stop bang 116 00:07:45,200 --> 00:07:50,440 Speaker 1: rank until we get the pulled back. So I pull 117 00:07:50,480 --> 00:07:55,080 Speaker 1: a normal ray and I start organizing I stick flyers 118 00:07:55,160 --> 00:07:59,640 Speaker 1: up everywhere all around our building that read missed the pool, 119 00:08:00,240 --> 00:08:03,920 Speaker 1: want it back? Email me, let's band together and do 120 00:08:04,080 --> 00:08:06,360 Speaker 1: something about it. I think you might have left it 121 00:08:06,400 --> 00:08:09,320 Speaker 1: on my door. I did. I put in everyone's door 122 00:08:09,480 --> 00:08:13,360 Speaker 1: and four units and that I put it on anyone's door. 123 00:08:13,400 --> 00:08:15,560 Speaker 1: And at the end of the day my legs were 124 00:08:15,680 --> 00:08:18,240 Speaker 1: killing me just from bending down and sticking it under 125 00:08:18,240 --> 00:08:22,480 Speaker 1: people's doors. But it was that's how we organized, then, 126 00:08:22,720 --> 00:08:26,880 Speaker 1: that's how we met. And Tina isn't the only one. 127 00:08:27,040 --> 00:08:29,280 Speaker 1: Did you get a flyer? I think it was a flyer, 128 00:08:29,400 --> 00:08:32,240 Speaker 1: wasn't it. Sherry Cooper is another neighbor of mine during 129 00:08:32,240 --> 00:08:35,400 Speaker 1: our pool ambrolio, I was like, well, I was piste 130 00:08:35,400 --> 00:08:37,080 Speaker 1: off about the pool, so I was like, you know what, 131 00:08:37,160 --> 00:08:39,680 Speaker 1: let's go and contribute. Let's go and see what we 132 00:08:39,720 --> 00:08:45,440 Speaker 1: can do. More than a hundred neighbors respond to my flyers, 133 00:08:45,520 --> 00:08:47,319 Speaker 1: and a bunch of them show up to a wine 134 00:08:47,320 --> 00:08:50,040 Speaker 1: and cheese at my apartment the following Saturday night to 135 00:08:50,120 --> 00:08:52,360 Speaker 1: come up with a plan of action for getting our 136 00:08:52,400 --> 00:08:58,480 Speaker 1: pool back. And out of all the neighbors there that night, 137 00:08:58,800 --> 00:09:02,079 Speaker 1: there's one in particular dealer who quickly stands out from 138 00:09:02,120 --> 00:09:07,959 Speaker 1: the rest. She made quite a splash, didn't she At 139 00:09:07,960 --> 00:09:11,640 Speaker 1: the meeting. She did, and she was sitting there. She 140 00:09:11,720 --> 00:09:14,960 Speaker 1: was in a very expensive dress and expensive shoes, and 141 00:09:15,080 --> 00:09:18,480 Speaker 1: I remember I was drawn to her. She was so 142 00:09:19,160 --> 00:09:26,440 Speaker 1: uh majestic. She was. She was she was royal, and 143 00:09:26,800 --> 00:09:30,200 Speaker 1: I like strong women. She was strong, and she was opinionated, 144 00:09:30,240 --> 00:09:34,920 Speaker 1: and I was immediately drowned to her, like immediately. She 145 00:09:35,080 --> 00:09:39,880 Speaker 1: has shorn jet black hair, alabaster skin, sparkling blue eyes, 146 00:09:40,440 --> 00:09:44,840 Speaker 1: and an exotic accent. Tina notices that right away, I 147 00:09:44,840 --> 00:09:49,760 Speaker 1: mean it sounded Iris, didn't It did sound Iris? Sherry 148 00:09:50,000 --> 00:09:52,560 Speaker 1: think so too. She had an accent. Oh yeah, what 149 00:09:52,559 --> 00:09:56,199 Speaker 1: did it sound like to you? Irish? Sounded Irish? Oh yeah, Gaelic. 150 00:09:58,720 --> 00:10:02,080 Speaker 1: She introduces herself of the crowd as Mayor Smith, a 151 00:10:02,120 --> 00:10:06,880 Speaker 1: recent transplant from the Republic of Ireland. She spent a 152 00:10:06,880 --> 00:10:11,000 Speaker 1: lot of time talking about her boyfriend, who was a lawyer, 153 00:10:11,160 --> 00:10:16,080 Speaker 1: who was a big shot, that he could do anything 154 00:10:16,280 --> 00:10:19,280 Speaker 1: and everything, and all we had to do was ask. 155 00:10:19,559 --> 00:10:22,720 Speaker 1: And he was a politician. Yes, I remember her telling 156 00:10:22,760 --> 00:10:25,800 Speaker 1: the crowd that he had sued this building twice already 157 00:10:25,840 --> 00:10:28,520 Speaker 1: in one big and they're scared of him and shaken 158 00:10:28,520 --> 00:10:31,319 Speaker 1: in their boots. So if they get win that he's involved, 159 00:10:31,360 --> 00:10:34,320 Speaker 1: we'll get the pool back like that. Yes, yes, I 160 00:10:34,320 --> 00:10:39,520 Speaker 1: I remember that. And there's something else something like that. 161 00:10:39,600 --> 00:10:41,160 Speaker 1: All he had to do was send something on his 162 00:10:41,280 --> 00:10:45,760 Speaker 1: letter head with his name on it, and they had cave. Yeah, 163 00:10:45,800 --> 00:10:48,199 Speaker 1: and we were super excited about that. She is very 164 00:10:48,280 --> 00:10:54,920 Speaker 1: charismatic and she knew how to keep everybody's attention on her. 165 00:10:55,280 --> 00:10:58,560 Speaker 1: She was immediately connected and throwing her connections around in 166 00:10:58,640 --> 00:11:01,200 Speaker 1: her confidence made do you believe it? She had just 167 00:11:01,320 --> 00:11:05,480 Speaker 1: such a big sense of confidence. And I remember thinking 168 00:11:05,559 --> 00:11:08,520 Speaker 1: that night, Um, wow, we solve our problem. Mayor is 169 00:11:08,520 --> 00:11:12,640 Speaker 1: going to fix everything. Right. We felt good, Right, we 170 00:11:12,679 --> 00:11:25,760 Speaker 1: accomplished something. Mayor tells us all her politician boyfriend can 171 00:11:25,800 --> 00:11:28,880 Speaker 1: get the pool back, no problem, and the crowd eats 172 00:11:28,920 --> 00:11:32,840 Speaker 1: it up. Admittedly I eat more than most. I fall 173 00:11:32,880 --> 00:11:36,199 Speaker 1: in love with her that night because more than her charisma, 174 00:11:36,520 --> 00:11:40,640 Speaker 1: more than her sparkling conversation and her sophistication and worldliness, 175 00:11:41,200 --> 00:11:45,040 Speaker 1: she was so kind. She was just so kind, and 176 00:11:45,160 --> 00:11:49,120 Speaker 1: her kindness moves me, and it moves Tina too. She 177 00:11:49,240 --> 00:11:51,440 Speaker 1: offered to help you get a job. Yeah, I passed 178 00:11:51,480 --> 00:11:54,920 Speaker 1: the bar in December of two eleven. So I wasn't 179 00:11:54,920 --> 00:11:57,600 Speaker 1: with a firm at that time, and I was just 180 00:11:57,679 --> 00:12:00,199 Speaker 1: starting out. And I remember this because that's one of 181 00:12:00,240 --> 00:12:02,800 Speaker 1: the reasons I liked her so quickly. I saw her 182 00:12:03,200 --> 00:12:05,560 Speaker 1: going around the room offering to help everyone, and I'm like, Wow, 183 00:12:05,559 --> 00:12:07,880 Speaker 1: this woman's like an angel, like just help, help, help, 184 00:12:07,960 --> 00:12:10,640 Speaker 1: Like I love that, like mother Teresa, like she said. 185 00:12:10,880 --> 00:12:12,559 Speaker 1: I remember her saying distinctly to you can send me 186 00:12:12,600 --> 00:12:14,840 Speaker 1: your resume. I'll get it to the politician and his 187 00:12:14,920 --> 00:12:17,160 Speaker 1: firm is hiring, maybe they'll hire you. I can get 188 00:12:17,240 --> 00:12:19,760 Speaker 1: him to hire you. She made a lot of offers. 189 00:12:20,240 --> 00:12:23,360 Speaker 1: She said that her politician boyfriend could get me a 190 00:12:23,480 --> 00:12:26,640 Speaker 1: job at the snap of his fingers, that all I 191 00:12:26,679 --> 00:12:29,520 Speaker 1: had to do was ask. That She really made it 192 00:12:29,559 --> 00:12:31,400 Speaker 1: seem like all you have to do is ask and 193 00:12:31,480 --> 00:12:35,520 Speaker 1: anything can happen. Yeah, it was kind of magical. Mayor 194 00:12:35,600 --> 00:12:39,640 Speaker 1: also offers to help my neighbor Sherry. So, what did 195 00:12:39,679 --> 00:12:43,360 Speaker 1: you do for running nightclubs? I was running multiple nightclubs, 196 00:12:43,360 --> 00:12:47,760 Speaker 1: strip clubs. I remember you talking about your girls, the strippers, 197 00:12:47,760 --> 00:12:49,400 Speaker 1: saying they have, you know, a lot of money and 198 00:12:49,400 --> 00:12:50,679 Speaker 1: they don't know what to do with it. And she 199 00:12:50,800 --> 00:12:52,760 Speaker 1: was saying, well, I can get them a group vacation 200 00:12:52,760 --> 00:12:54,839 Speaker 1: in the Pacific Islands. And she gave you her card, 201 00:12:55,080 --> 00:12:58,480 Speaker 1: have them call me. She was the hook up. Yeah, 202 00:12:58,960 --> 00:13:00,880 Speaker 1: that's what I That's what I love about her. She 203 00:13:00,920 --> 00:13:06,760 Speaker 1: seems so helpful. At that time, Mayor is working for 204 00:13:06,880 --> 00:13:11,280 Speaker 1: a luxury travel agency in Los Angeles called Pacific Islands, 205 00:13:11,320 --> 00:13:17,679 Speaker 1: selling high end vacations to exotic, far flung places like Tahiti, Bora, Bora, 206 00:13:17,760 --> 00:13:21,400 Speaker 1: and Fiji. She claims she's the number one seller of 207 00:13:21,480 --> 00:13:24,559 Speaker 1: vacations to the Pacific Islands in the whole United States, 208 00:13:24,920 --> 00:13:28,760 Speaker 1: and that the President of French Polynesia himself flies her 209 00:13:28,800 --> 00:13:31,560 Speaker 1: out every couple of months to inspect all their five 210 00:13:31,600 --> 00:13:35,880 Speaker 1: star hotels to make sure they're up to snuff. Did 211 00:13:35,880 --> 00:13:38,200 Speaker 1: you get that story? Yes, yes, I got that story. 212 00:13:39,760 --> 00:13:43,040 Speaker 1: Tina Mensch quickly forges a deep friendship with Mayor Smith 213 00:13:43,200 --> 00:13:46,000 Speaker 1: shortly after the wine and cheese at my apartment that night. 214 00:13:46,360 --> 00:13:50,480 Speaker 1: How did you and Mayor become good friends? It was convenient, really, 215 00:13:50,640 --> 00:13:52,920 Speaker 1: I mean, she lived in the building, and she had 216 00:13:52,960 --> 00:13:58,319 Speaker 1: all this free time, and my schedule was fairly flexible, 217 00:13:58,600 --> 00:14:02,360 Speaker 1: and she always wanted to go and have hookah and drinks. 218 00:14:02,440 --> 00:14:06,240 Speaker 1: And she was funny and clever, and she always had 219 00:14:06,280 --> 00:14:09,480 Speaker 1: good stories. And she did have good stories. She did 220 00:14:09,520 --> 00:14:12,320 Speaker 1: have good stories. Did you get the story about her 221 00:14:12,679 --> 00:14:16,040 Speaker 1: Irish grandmother teaching her how to make Molotov cocktails and 222 00:14:16,120 --> 00:14:19,080 Speaker 1: hurl them down on British soldiers. No, I did not 223 00:14:19,280 --> 00:14:21,600 Speaker 1: get that story. But I got the story that her 224 00:14:21,640 --> 00:14:26,960 Speaker 1: family came here from Ireland and got political asylum. Yes, 225 00:14:27,400 --> 00:14:31,160 Speaker 1: I didn't know that the whole Irish political asylum thing. 226 00:14:31,560 --> 00:14:33,760 Speaker 1: Mayor tells that to a lot of people. Here's a 227 00:14:33,840 --> 00:14:37,800 Speaker 1: recording she makes explaining it to someone. I can tell 228 00:14:37,840 --> 00:14:41,360 Speaker 1: you my family came to America in the in the 229 00:14:41,400 --> 00:14:47,880 Speaker 1: eighties under political asylum, and it was overnight, And it 230 00:14:48,000 --> 00:14:50,720 Speaker 1: wasn't overnight, but it was overnight. Does that make sense. 231 00:14:51,240 --> 00:14:54,440 Speaker 1: It's like the death threat started coming to my mom 232 00:14:54,520 --> 00:14:59,520 Speaker 1: and my stepdad, and our family house got burnt where 233 00:14:59,520 --> 00:15:05,720 Speaker 1: we were living, and one of my brothers got beaten, 234 00:15:05,960 --> 00:15:09,160 Speaker 1: one of my uncle's got murdered, my other uncle was 235 00:15:09,200 --> 00:15:12,400 Speaker 1: on the run. It took them four weeks to get 236 00:15:12,440 --> 00:15:15,320 Speaker 1: us a political assignument, but us kids weren't told until 237 00:15:15,320 --> 00:15:17,240 Speaker 1: the night we were told to pack up bag and leave. 238 00:15:18,400 --> 00:15:23,720 Speaker 1: I mean, she talked about Ireland a lot and Tina 239 00:15:23,880 --> 00:15:27,000 Speaker 1: is enthralled. She and Mayor end up having a lot 240 00:15:27,040 --> 00:15:32,000 Speaker 1: of adventures together during their friendship, dangerous downtown Los Angeles adventures. 241 00:15:32,840 --> 00:15:34,720 Speaker 1: So we were we were at a bar and we 242 00:15:34,720 --> 00:15:39,920 Speaker 1: were drinking, and she started talking to people sitting near us, 243 00:15:40,520 --> 00:15:50,560 Speaker 1: and and then I don't remember anything. Well, I woke 244 00:15:50,640 --> 00:15:54,960 Speaker 1: up at home with a giant bruise on my forearm. 245 00:15:55,120 --> 00:15:57,440 Speaker 1: I you don't remember how you got there. I don't 246 00:15:57,480 --> 00:16:01,080 Speaker 1: remember how I got there. All my stuff was into array, 247 00:16:02,760 --> 00:16:04,600 Speaker 1: like like when you say yourself was in disarray, as 248 00:16:04,640 --> 00:16:07,600 Speaker 1: if someone had searched your apartment. No, like like I 249 00:16:07,680 --> 00:16:10,600 Speaker 1: dupped my purse when I came in. I had a 250 00:16:10,680 --> 00:16:13,200 Speaker 1: giant bruise on my forearm. I mean it seemed like 251 00:16:13,240 --> 00:16:18,480 Speaker 1: I had gotten into a fight. I don't remember coming home. 252 00:16:18,960 --> 00:16:22,760 Speaker 1: I didn't remember anything. And the next morning did not 253 00:16:22,880 --> 00:16:28,040 Speaker 1: feel like a hangover. It was awful. So you remember 254 00:16:28,080 --> 00:16:30,440 Speaker 1: being at the bar, drinking, having a good time with Mayor, 255 00:16:30,520 --> 00:16:32,680 Speaker 1: and then the next thing you know, you're in your 256 00:16:32,680 --> 00:16:35,280 Speaker 1: bed in your apartment, You've got bruises on your arm, 257 00:16:35,360 --> 00:16:37,680 Speaker 1: and you don't remember how you got there. And then 258 00:16:37,720 --> 00:16:40,400 Speaker 1: you called Mayor. Yes, and she said that she had 259 00:16:40,440 --> 00:16:48,920 Speaker 1: the exact same thing. Wow, I did file a police report. Um, 260 00:16:48,960 --> 00:16:51,760 Speaker 1: I went to the bar with her. She and I 261 00:16:51,800 --> 00:16:55,240 Speaker 1: went to the bar, and I told him I wanted 262 00:16:55,280 --> 00:16:58,760 Speaker 1: the surveillance video, that there's got to be surveillance video 263 00:16:59,000 --> 00:17:03,920 Speaker 1: that I believed I was drugged, and they refused to 264 00:17:03,920 --> 00:17:07,640 Speaker 1: give us anything, and I filed the police report, and 265 00:17:07,760 --> 00:17:11,679 Speaker 1: I don't think anything ever came of it. I remember 266 00:17:11,720 --> 00:17:15,159 Speaker 1: Mayor saying she saw some guy acting weird and she 267 00:17:15,240 --> 00:17:17,640 Speaker 1: was thinking he did it, Like Mayor kind of led 268 00:17:17,680 --> 00:17:20,760 Speaker 1: you along this path, that you both were drugged by someone, right, 269 00:17:21,359 --> 00:17:23,879 Speaker 1: And she has no memory either, right, And that she 270 00:17:23,960 --> 00:17:28,040 Speaker 1: also felt awful the next day, like not like a hangover. Yeah, 271 00:17:28,119 --> 00:17:31,360 Speaker 1: this just made you closer, friends quicker. Yes, it's a 272 00:17:31,400 --> 00:17:37,120 Speaker 1: trauma bond. At the same time, Mayor is trauma bonding 273 00:17:37,280 --> 00:17:43,480 Speaker 1: with Tina. She's best friend bonding with me. So let's 274 00:17:43,480 --> 00:17:50,399 Speaker 1: get started. Mayor Smith is easily the most fascinating person 275 00:17:50,640 --> 00:17:53,639 Speaker 1: I ever meet. She has a framed copy of the 276 00:17:53,720 --> 00:17:58,520 Speaker 1: Irish Constitution hanging on her wall and says her great 277 00:17:58,520 --> 00:18:01,960 Speaker 1: great uncle is one of Ireland's founders and points to 278 00:18:02,040 --> 00:18:05,800 Speaker 1: his signature at the bottom. I'm blown away here. She 279 00:18:06,000 --> 00:18:08,920 Speaker 1: is an immigrant from the Republic of Ireland with her 280 00:18:08,960 --> 00:18:12,640 Speaker 1: finger on the pulse of Los Angeles politics and crazy 281 00:18:12,680 --> 00:18:17,600 Speaker 1: connections to powerful people everywhere. And then there's her family. 282 00:18:18,520 --> 00:18:21,280 Speaker 1: What did Mayor tell you about her family? So she 283 00:18:21,640 --> 00:18:28,080 Speaker 1: said that she had a huge inheritance coming at some point. 284 00:18:28,560 --> 00:18:30,159 Speaker 1: I think it was like to the tune of like 285 00:18:30,320 --> 00:18:36,359 Speaker 1: five million dollars, but her family in Ireland was trying 286 00:18:36,359 --> 00:18:38,840 Speaker 1: to take it from her and was trying to make 287 00:18:38,880 --> 00:18:43,840 Speaker 1: sure that she never got a penny of it. Every 288 00:18:43,880 --> 00:18:45,960 Speaker 1: time she would go to Ireland, she would stay in 289 00:18:46,080 --> 00:18:51,400 Speaker 1: some castle that they had, like all these properties all 290 00:18:51,480 --> 00:18:56,000 Speaker 1: over the country. The family owned the properties. I mean 291 00:18:56,160 --> 00:18:58,400 Speaker 1: the woman showed me a picture of somebody and said, 292 00:18:58,440 --> 00:19:03,119 Speaker 1: this person is my cousin and live in Ireland. Sherry 293 00:19:03,160 --> 00:19:06,920 Speaker 1: Cooper gets a very similar backstory. What did she tell 294 00:19:06,960 --> 00:19:10,800 Speaker 1: you about her family? That they were royal, that they 295 00:19:10,960 --> 00:19:16,040 Speaker 1: come from her grandfather, was somebody special in Ireland, That 296 00:19:16,240 --> 00:19:20,840 Speaker 1: her dad's inheritance was to come to her, and it 297 00:19:20,960 --> 00:19:23,320 Speaker 1: was a lot of money. I don't remember the exact amount, 298 00:19:23,359 --> 00:19:25,080 Speaker 1: but it was a lot of money was coming to her. 299 00:19:25,720 --> 00:19:28,960 Speaker 1: But that she had basically some evil people that were 300 00:19:29,000 --> 00:19:33,840 Speaker 1: trying to block her from her some Finnegan or Fenton. Yes, 301 00:19:33,960 --> 00:19:36,680 Speaker 1: she was constantly using that name, and that they were 302 00:19:36,720 --> 00:19:39,840 Speaker 1: just trying to really mess her up, and that the 303 00:19:39,920 --> 00:19:49,919 Speaker 1: politician was handling the accounts. Did she ever show you 304 00:19:50,240 --> 00:19:53,920 Speaker 1: any text messages or emails from any members of her family. 305 00:19:54,920 --> 00:19:59,600 Speaker 1: I think there was some crazy email thread with um 306 00:19:59,640 --> 00:20:04,040 Speaker 1: the us in she said his name was Fenton. Yes. 307 00:20:04,560 --> 00:20:07,159 Speaker 1: So at this point, me and my two neighbors, Sherry 308 00:20:07,200 --> 00:20:10,800 Speaker 1: and Tina, know that Mayor Smith is a wealthy Irish 309 00:20:10,840 --> 00:20:14,120 Speaker 1: heiress with millions of dollars in inheritance coming to her, 310 00:20:14,520 --> 00:20:17,440 Speaker 1: but her Irish cousins seem to hate her and don't 311 00:20:17,480 --> 00:20:19,919 Speaker 1: want her to get a dime. And boy, the stuff 312 00:20:19,960 --> 00:20:30,960 Speaker 1: they pulled is just insane. Subtle variations of Mary Smith's 313 00:20:31,000 --> 00:20:35,760 Speaker 1: Irish backstory are quickly spreading around Hollywood. The first story 314 00:20:35,880 --> 00:20:39,080 Speaker 1: ever would be that she was, you know, this royalty 315 00:20:39,160 --> 00:20:42,320 Speaker 1: from from Ireland and she was waiting on her inheritance. 316 00:20:42,560 --> 00:20:45,160 Speaker 1: That was the first thing she would tell everybody. Friend 317 00:20:45,240 --> 00:20:48,639 Speaker 1: Luzano is a Los Angeles filmmaker. She meets Mary Smith 318 00:20:48,720 --> 00:20:54,720 Speaker 1: back in at a dinner party. What did you like 319 00:20:54,800 --> 00:20:58,240 Speaker 1: about her? And I think she was fun to be around, 320 00:20:58,400 --> 00:21:00,720 Speaker 1: you know, for some Patty's. She would gonnaze like a 321 00:21:00,840 --> 00:21:03,840 Speaker 1: fun some patties and hey, we were with an actually 322 00:21:03,840 --> 00:21:09,080 Speaker 1: Irish or so we thought. But that was fun, you know. 323 00:21:09,320 --> 00:21:12,520 Speaker 1: And I love wine. She loves wine, so we would 324 00:21:12,520 --> 00:21:16,159 Speaker 1: go drinking and have a good time. She has been 325 00:21:16,200 --> 00:21:18,960 Speaker 1: around in the sense of traveling. She's been to different places. 326 00:21:19,160 --> 00:21:21,719 Speaker 1: She had nice stories to tell. She was fun, she 327 00:21:21,800 --> 00:21:25,920 Speaker 1: was and she is smart. She's a smart person. Did 328 00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:29,040 Speaker 1: Mayor ever treat you for dinners and things? Mary did 329 00:21:29,080 --> 00:21:31,679 Speaker 1: not treat me for dinners. She did treat me for 330 00:21:31,720 --> 00:21:35,040 Speaker 1: two trips to pump Springs. So yeah, in many ways, 331 00:21:35,040 --> 00:21:37,480 Speaker 1: she was very fun to be with and to spend 332 00:21:37,560 --> 00:21:40,119 Speaker 1: time with her. She she was really pleasant, could do 333 00:21:40,160 --> 00:21:42,919 Speaker 1: a lot of fun things. So the time that she 334 00:21:43,000 --> 00:21:45,800 Speaker 1: took you to that game where you saw Kobe Bryant play, 335 00:21:46,040 --> 00:21:50,199 Speaker 1: I have pictures, you know. What was that like? Did 336 00:21:50,240 --> 00:21:54,000 Speaker 1: she like that's pretty impressive? Like not everyone can see you. 337 00:21:54,240 --> 00:21:59,520 Speaker 1: You were like five feet away from Kobe Bryant. And 338 00:21:59,600 --> 00:22:02,200 Speaker 1: were you impressed? Does she seem like a woman with 339 00:22:02,280 --> 00:22:04,960 Speaker 1: a lot of connections along? Oh? Yeah, she would always 340 00:22:04,960 --> 00:22:11,840 Speaker 1: tell you that. As the months passed, Mayor Smith and 341 00:22:11,840 --> 00:22:16,439 Speaker 1: I get close, really close, and she meets my circle 342 00:22:16,480 --> 00:22:21,359 Speaker 1: of friends. She was very well healed, successful woman. She 343 00:22:21,480 --> 00:22:25,240 Speaker 1: had a wicked sense of humor, kind of borderline inappropriate 344 00:22:25,240 --> 00:22:27,320 Speaker 1: at times, which you know, kind of just made you 345 00:22:27,400 --> 00:22:29,480 Speaker 1: like her. She would kind of say things that maybe 346 00:22:29,560 --> 00:22:32,840 Speaker 1: everyone wouldn't have the balls to say. Evan Goldstein and 347 00:22:32,880 --> 00:22:36,400 Speaker 1: I go back fourteen years. He's also a reality TV 348 00:22:36,520 --> 00:22:39,560 Speaker 1: producer living here in l A. We've produced a bunch 349 00:22:39,600 --> 00:22:42,119 Speaker 1: of shows together over the years. How is it you 350 00:22:42,200 --> 00:22:47,040 Speaker 1: came to be Mayor's neighbor? I was going through separation 351 00:22:47,320 --> 00:22:50,680 Speaker 1: and ultimately a divorce. I was having a really hard time. 352 00:22:50,960 --> 00:22:55,160 Speaker 1: I didn't have anywhere to go, and you said, well, 353 00:22:55,160 --> 00:22:56,919 Speaker 1: why don't you just come here and stay with Pablo 354 00:22:57,000 --> 00:23:02,600 Speaker 1: and not? And how long did I stay with you? Guys? Gosh? Months? Months? 355 00:23:02,640 --> 00:23:04,720 Speaker 1: But it was fun. Yeah, in our guest room. We 356 00:23:04,760 --> 00:23:06,480 Speaker 1: have a guest room and a guest bathroom, so it 357 00:23:06,520 --> 00:23:09,639 Speaker 1: wasn't too much of an imposition. So I'm staying with 358 00:23:09,680 --> 00:23:12,359 Speaker 1: you going through this divorce and it's time I have 359 00:23:12,440 --> 00:23:16,320 Speaker 1: to look for my own place, and you kind of said, well, hey, man, 360 00:23:16,560 --> 00:23:19,199 Speaker 1: why don't you move into the same apartment building? And 361 00:23:19,240 --> 00:23:21,919 Speaker 1: I'm like, great idea. One thing leads to another and 362 00:23:21,960 --> 00:23:24,280 Speaker 1: I'm moving in and Mayor lives a couple floors up 363 00:23:24,320 --> 00:23:27,360 Speaker 1: from me, and so we'd see each other in passing. 364 00:23:27,400 --> 00:23:30,760 Speaker 1: There's like this big courtyard and she just became part 365 00:23:30,840 --> 00:23:34,240 Speaker 1: of my social circle based on proximity and being friends 366 00:23:34,280 --> 00:23:39,040 Speaker 1: with you. And what I found fascinating is, unbeknownst to me, 367 00:23:39,600 --> 00:23:43,080 Speaker 1: she would invite you to her place to drink just 368 00:23:43,240 --> 00:23:47,640 Speaker 1: you and her. She knew I was a fan of whiskey. 369 00:23:47,880 --> 00:23:49,600 Speaker 1: She was like, oh, you know, like I keep getting 370 00:23:49,640 --> 00:23:52,480 Speaker 1: these really expensive bottles of whiskey that I just don't touch. 371 00:23:52,520 --> 00:23:54,000 Speaker 1: I'm not gonna drink it. You want to have some 372 00:23:54,200 --> 00:23:56,880 Speaker 1: try it out? And I'm like, well, you know, little 373 00:23:57,000 --> 00:23:59,960 Speaker 1: Dab will do me. You know, I'll drink your whisky. 374 00:24:03,520 --> 00:24:05,680 Speaker 1: You know. I'd take the elevator, I'd go to apartment 375 00:24:05,920 --> 00:24:08,440 Speaker 1: and I drink whiskey and we just talk about stuff. 376 00:24:08,440 --> 00:24:12,119 Speaker 1: And this was extremely expensive booze. This wasn't just like 377 00:24:12,160 --> 00:24:15,000 Speaker 1: a little bit of Jamison Irish whiskey, the twenty bucks 378 00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:17,280 Speaker 1: of bottle. This was this is like three bottle of 379 00:24:17,480 --> 00:24:21,200 Speaker 1: Irish whiskey. You know. So it's like, yeah, I'd like 380 00:24:21,520 --> 00:24:24,280 Speaker 1: I'd like to experience what you know, what the upper 381 00:24:24,359 --> 00:24:29,840 Speaker 1: crust in Ireland drinks even part of the whiskey stories, 382 00:24:29,920 --> 00:24:31,800 Speaker 1: like oh it's you know, it's Irish. You know, I 383 00:24:31,800 --> 00:24:33,679 Speaker 1: wouldn't have I wouldn't be caught dead with anything but 384 00:24:33,720 --> 00:24:36,480 Speaker 1: Irish whiskey in my place. And and she would show 385 00:24:36,600 --> 00:24:40,000 Speaker 1: she had the copy of the Irish Constitution framed on 386 00:24:40,040 --> 00:24:41,800 Speaker 1: her wall, and she would just you know, just kind 387 00:24:41,800 --> 00:24:44,119 Speaker 1: of off hands, like, you know, that's my grandfather's signature 388 00:24:44,160 --> 00:24:46,359 Speaker 1: down there, or was it grandfather? It was she told 389 00:24:46,359 --> 00:24:49,160 Speaker 1: me her great great uncle something. Yeah, she couldn't told 390 00:24:49,160 --> 00:24:52,120 Speaker 1: you something different. I don't did see thee and this 391 00:24:52,200 --> 00:24:54,960 Speaker 1: was you know, this was part of my family's history. 392 00:24:55,240 --> 00:24:59,119 Speaker 1: Was that man that signature right there is my I 393 00:24:59,160 --> 00:25:01,040 Speaker 1: think she said, great, I don't remember who, but my 394 00:25:01,080 --> 00:25:04,240 Speaker 1: great grandfather whatever. Someone really old my bloodline. One of 395 00:25:04,280 --> 00:25:06,280 Speaker 1: the founders of Ireland. Yeah, this is one of the 396 00:25:06,400 --> 00:25:08,959 Speaker 1: right one of the founders of Ireland. Ireland, you know 397 00:25:09,000 --> 00:25:13,800 Speaker 1: that the Thomas Jefferson of Ireland, who you know here 398 00:25:13,800 --> 00:25:17,520 Speaker 1: he is And that was her identity across the board, 399 00:25:17,560 --> 00:25:22,960 Speaker 1: I think. But what's interesting is May didn't tell me 400 00:25:23,080 --> 00:25:25,679 Speaker 1: she would have those whiskey evenings with you. And you 401 00:25:25,720 --> 00:25:27,920 Speaker 1: didn't tell me, you'd have those whiskey evenings with her, 402 00:25:28,480 --> 00:25:30,960 Speaker 1: so she didn't tell you know, and you didn't tell me. 403 00:25:31,080 --> 00:25:32,919 Speaker 1: Why did you keep this a secret? Because we were 404 00:25:32,960 --> 00:25:38,040 Speaker 1: having a lot of sex. I'm just kidding. Were you 405 00:25:38,080 --> 00:25:40,919 Speaker 1: sexually attracted to her? No, not at all. Not your type, 406 00:25:40,960 --> 00:25:44,119 Speaker 1: not my type. I have a very specific type, and 407 00:25:44,240 --> 00:25:48,440 Speaker 1: so does Mayor, especially when it comes to choosing new BFFs. 408 00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:52,919 Speaker 1: Looking back, it was kind of like love bombing. The 409 00:25:52,960 --> 00:25:56,240 Speaker 1: first year of our friendship, Mayor wines and dines my 410 00:25:56,320 --> 00:25:59,880 Speaker 1: husband and me at l A's fanciest restaurants. Every time 411 00:26:00,119 --> 00:26:04,280 Speaker 1: check comes, she insists on paying. She says she has 412 00:26:04,320 --> 00:26:07,400 Speaker 1: a lot of money, and she says she really really 413 00:26:07,560 --> 00:26:11,119 Speaker 1: loves us. We'd hang out almost every evening in our 414 00:26:11,160 --> 00:26:15,080 Speaker 1: barbecue area, talking till all hours under the cool l 415 00:26:15,160 --> 00:26:19,560 Speaker 1: A sky. She'd bring me Irish tea and pastries. One night, 416 00:26:19,880 --> 00:26:22,680 Speaker 1: I confide in her that part of my family had 417 00:26:22,720 --> 00:26:26,840 Speaker 1: disowned me for being gay. Tears suddenly fill her eyes 418 00:26:27,280 --> 00:26:30,880 Speaker 1: to me more in ghost kind of tears me too, 419 00:26:31,320 --> 00:26:35,840 Speaker 1: she says, me too. All of a sudden, we weren't 420 00:26:35,880 --> 00:26:40,360 Speaker 1: just new friends. We were two discarded souls bonding over 421 00:26:40,400 --> 00:26:45,199 Speaker 1: our painful family circumstances. Mary explains that certain members of 422 00:26:45,200 --> 00:26:49,239 Speaker 1: her family hate her for abandoning Ireland, and that her 423 00:26:49,320 --> 00:26:53,080 Speaker 1: uncle recently died and a million euro inheritance is being 424 00:26:53,080 --> 00:26:56,640 Speaker 1: divided up and her cousin Finton is out to make 425 00:26:56,680 --> 00:27:01,040 Speaker 1: sure she gets nothing. She shows me the most hateful 426 00:27:01,080 --> 00:27:04,520 Speaker 1: text messages from Finton on her phone that went something like, 427 00:27:05,359 --> 00:27:09,560 Speaker 1: you facn count You'll never get a bloody farthing the 428 00:27:09,680 --> 00:27:13,520 Speaker 1: day you left our family, you left our family's money. 429 00:27:14,119 --> 00:27:18,040 Speaker 1: Mayor openly sobs reading these text messages to me. I 430 00:27:18,080 --> 00:27:21,879 Speaker 1: feel so bad for her. And then she tells me 431 00:27:21,960 --> 00:27:27,199 Speaker 1: something really specific and really weird about her inheritance. She 432 00:27:27,280 --> 00:27:30,080 Speaker 1: tells the same thing to Tina too. There's a clause 433 00:27:30,080 --> 00:27:32,880 Speaker 1: in the inheritance that if she's convicted of a felony 434 00:27:33,119 --> 00:27:36,200 Speaker 1: she gets disinherited. Did you heard that story too, Yes, 435 00:27:36,960 --> 00:27:39,360 Speaker 1: that if she's convicted of a felony she doesn't get 436 00:27:39,359 --> 00:27:42,560 Speaker 1: the inheritance. Right. She told me that too. She not 437 00:27:42,680 --> 00:27:46,120 Speaker 1: only told me that, she frantically shows me the email 438 00:27:46,200 --> 00:27:49,880 Speaker 1: from her barristers in Ireland explaining it to her. By 439 00:27:49,920 --> 00:27:52,679 Speaker 1: the way, I have to google what a barrister is. 440 00:27:53,080 --> 00:27:57,119 Speaker 1: It's what they call lawyers over there. The email reads 441 00:27:57,119 --> 00:28:01,199 Speaker 1: something like, dear ms Smith, there's an unusual close in 442 00:28:01,240 --> 00:28:03,919 Speaker 1: your uncle Padrick Clark's will that was brought to my 443 00:28:03,960 --> 00:28:07,680 Speaker 1: attention by your family barristers, stipulating that if any heir 444 00:28:07,840 --> 00:28:10,480 Speaker 1: is ever convicted of a felony of any kind, that 445 00:28:10,520 --> 00:28:14,200 Speaker 1: would be disinherited and henceforth ineligible to ever lay claim 446 00:28:14,240 --> 00:28:17,600 Speaker 1: to any aspect of the Clark estate. As your barrister, 447 00:28:17,800 --> 00:28:20,399 Speaker 1: I felt it incumbent upon myself to inform you of 448 00:28:20,440 --> 00:28:24,480 Speaker 1: this peculiarity. Lacking irrelevance though it may be, there is 449 00:28:24,520 --> 00:28:27,600 Speaker 1: still a considerable amount of paperwork to file in your behalf. 450 00:28:27,600 --> 00:28:30,320 Speaker 1: Your residing state side certainly slows things up a bit 451 00:28:30,520 --> 00:28:33,040 Speaker 1: where we hope to have everything completed by year's end. 452 00:28:35,280 --> 00:28:38,520 Speaker 1: I tell Evan about the email, I'm like, holy shit. 453 00:28:39,280 --> 00:28:42,520 Speaker 1: We're working together producing a History Channel show called Ten 454 00:28:42,560 --> 00:28:46,120 Speaker 1: Things You Don't Know with Henry Rawlins. Behind these massive walls, 455 00:28:46,440 --> 00:28:51,240 Speaker 1: like secrets buried for years, bodies would turn up in Mexico. Wow, 456 00:28:51,840 --> 00:28:54,280 Speaker 1: Henry Rawlins is so cool. Henry Rollins is awesome. Henry 457 00:28:54,360 --> 00:28:57,720 Speaker 1: Rawlins is awesome, but not as interesting as my new 458 00:28:57,800 --> 00:29:02,080 Speaker 1: best friend. I tell Evan every amazing and insane thing 459 00:29:02,200 --> 00:29:05,440 Speaker 1: I'm learning about Mayor. She's Irish Royalty. She's set to 460 00:29:05,600 --> 00:29:10,400 Speaker 1: inherit a lot of money, but she has vindictive family 461 00:29:10,480 --> 00:29:13,560 Speaker 1: that are all fighting for this money, and they're trying 462 00:29:13,560 --> 00:29:16,480 Speaker 1: to screw her over. It felt like I stepped into 463 00:29:16,560 --> 00:29:19,640 Speaker 1: like a soap opera all of a sudden. Yep, it 464 00:29:19,720 --> 00:29:22,480 Speaker 1: really is a soap opera, and the plot twists are 465 00:29:22,560 --> 00:29:26,120 Speaker 1: just beginning. Mayor says early on that she has more 466 00:29:26,160 --> 00:29:28,800 Speaker 1: than enough money to live on comfortably for the rest 467 00:29:28,800 --> 00:29:31,800 Speaker 1: of her days, but she's bored with shopping all day 468 00:29:31,840 --> 00:29:35,160 Speaker 1: and living a life of leisure. And since her cousin Finton, 469 00:29:35,440 --> 00:29:38,520 Speaker 1: is best friends with the owner of Pacific Islands Travel 470 00:29:38,560 --> 00:29:41,640 Speaker 1: in Los Angeles, she tells me that Fenton put in 471 00:29:41,640 --> 00:29:44,720 Speaker 1: a good word and got her a job there. This is, 472 00:29:44,760 --> 00:29:48,360 Speaker 1: of course, long before her uncle died, and long before 473 00:29:48,600 --> 00:29:52,240 Speaker 1: Mayor and Finton have a falling out over inheritance. And 474 00:29:52,360 --> 00:29:55,760 Speaker 1: because I know Finton now hates Mayor and wants to 475 00:29:55,800 --> 00:29:59,120 Speaker 1: prevent her from getting any of her inheritance, and I 476 00:29:59,160 --> 00:30:02,960 Speaker 1: know that Finton his best friends with Mayor's employer, I 477 00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:06,080 Speaker 1: think for sure Finton might have his buddy her employer 478 00:30:06,640 --> 00:30:09,120 Speaker 1: set Mayor up to make it look like she's stealing 479 00:30:09,240 --> 00:30:11,720 Speaker 1: from Pacific Islands so she can get convicted of a 480 00:30:11,720 --> 00:30:16,240 Speaker 1: felony and forfeit millions of dollars in inheritance. Like I 481 00:30:16,320 --> 00:30:18,640 Speaker 1: remember you telling me, like because you even knew like 482 00:30:18,680 --> 00:30:21,360 Speaker 1: the family's names, it's like and they were It struck 483 00:30:21,360 --> 00:30:24,280 Speaker 1: me there all. It's just sounded so irish. It was 484 00:30:24,320 --> 00:30:29,560 Speaker 1: just like Leam McGregor, Schmidt and like what was the 485 00:30:29,560 --> 00:30:32,960 Speaker 1: guy's name, what was it Finton? Yeah, just like who's Tristan? 486 00:30:33,160 --> 00:30:36,680 Speaker 1: And yeah, it's like she watched like Kate and Leopold 487 00:30:36,720 --> 00:30:40,960 Speaker 1: and like just pulled all the names. But it was crazy, 488 00:30:41,040 --> 00:30:45,680 Speaker 1: but it sounded reasonable. It does sound reasonable, especially to me. 489 00:30:46,080 --> 00:30:49,200 Speaker 1: I mean, I have no doubt Mayor's hateful family will 490 00:30:49,280 --> 00:30:51,840 Speaker 1: set her up so they can take her millions for themselves. 491 00:30:52,320 --> 00:30:55,280 Speaker 1: After all, I worked in the news business for ten years, 492 00:30:55,640 --> 00:30:59,360 Speaker 1: where stories about husbands knocking their wives off for million 493 00:30:59,360 --> 00:31:04,000 Speaker 1: dollars in harrance policies happen all the time. Mayor laughs 494 00:31:04,040 --> 00:31:08,520 Speaker 1: at me for suggesting such outlandish things. Don't be silly, Jonathan. 495 00:31:08,760 --> 00:31:15,200 Speaker 1: My family wouldn't set me up. That's just crazy. But 496 00:31:15,840 --> 00:31:19,320 Speaker 1: a couple of weeks After that conversation, my phone rings. 497 00:31:21,320 --> 00:31:24,120 Speaker 1: You have a collect call from the Century Regional Detention 498 00:31:24,160 --> 00:31:30,240 Speaker 1: Facility from Jonathan Is Mayor. Press one to accept. I 499 00:31:30,400 --> 00:31:35,440 Speaker 1: quickly press one. It's Mayor calling me from jail. You 500 00:31:35,520 --> 00:31:39,720 Speaker 1: were right. I was arrested today. My family set me 501 00:31:39,880 --> 00:31:42,240 Speaker 1: up to make it look like I stole two hundred 502 00:31:42,320 --> 00:31:47,520 Speaker 1: thousand dollars from Pacific Islands. They're trying to get me disinherited. 503 00:31:48,480 --> 00:31:51,800 Speaker 1: I told you this would happen, I yelled into the phone. 504 00:31:52,240 --> 00:32:00,320 Speaker 1: I fucking told you. Coming up this season on Queen 505 00:32:00,320 --> 00:32:06,920 Speaker 1: of the Con, one of her big clients was Jennifer Aniston. Wow, 506 00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:09,200 Speaker 1: so what's sugar daddy for me dot com? She had 507 00:32:09,280 --> 00:32:13,440 Speaker 1: multiple men paying her a monthly fee for sex. She 508 00:32:13,520 --> 00:32:15,600 Speaker 1: wanted me to go into the sex toy industry with her, 509 00:32:15,600 --> 00:32:18,640 Speaker 1: and I was like, Dad, No, your mother essentially used 510 00:32:18,680 --> 00:32:21,840 Speaker 1: you as bait in her con. She used me for 511 00:32:21,920 --> 00:32:26,560 Speaker 1: all sorts of things. I used to forge signatures on papers, 512 00:32:26,560 --> 00:32:29,360 Speaker 1: the ship that goes on in Ireland. Here in America, 513 00:32:29,480 --> 00:32:31,880 Speaker 1: you'd go to prison. Back in Ireland, you'd get a 514 00:32:31,920 --> 00:32:34,640 Speaker 1: pat on the back, opened the door, and here's for 515 00:32:35,240 --> 00:32:39,600 Speaker 1: Irish speaking mobsters standing there with automatic assault rifles looking 516 00:32:39,640 --> 00:32:44,000 Speaker 1: for Marianne Mayor practiced witchcraft. Yes, she would tie the 517 00:32:44,080 --> 00:32:46,440 Speaker 1: chicken wings. She would use a lot of dragon's blood. 518 00:32:46,480 --> 00:32:50,920 Speaker 1: You'd portray herself as being certified in psychology. I got 519 00:32:51,000 --> 00:32:53,600 Speaker 1: a call from a detective in Northern Ireland. He'd been 520 00:32:53,600 --> 00:32:55,840 Speaker 1: looking for marian Smith for ten years. She's left a 521 00:32:55,960 --> 00:32:59,480 Speaker 1: trail of devastation in her wik I ruined many nights, 522 00:32:59,480 --> 00:33:02,200 Speaker 1: pretty or she drugged me? And why would she drug 523 00:33:02,280 --> 00:33:05,120 Speaker 1: you so that we could have a bonding experience. He 524 00:33:05,240 --> 00:33:07,920 Speaker 1: was trying to get ahold of his property, both of them. 525 00:33:08,040 --> 00:33:10,800 Speaker 1: It was a notorious mirror. She was very good at 526 00:33:10,800 --> 00:33:14,560 Speaker 1: the smoke and mirrors. She'd keep you spinning and you 527 00:33:14,600 --> 00:33:18,520 Speaker 1: wouldn't know what was coming next to what was going on. 528 00:33:18,920 --> 00:33:21,280 Speaker 1: I have a poker face. If I don't want you 529 00:33:21,320 --> 00:33:23,240 Speaker 1: to see what I'm feeling, you are not going to 530 00:33:23,360 --> 00:33:25,920 Speaker 1: know that a mad or angry, or happy or sad. 531 00:33:25,960 --> 00:33:27,800 Speaker 1: I've been scamming us out of money this whole time. 532 00:33:29,320 --> 00:33:32,360 Speaker 1: You have still having recovered fur to tell the truth. 533 00:33:32,680 --> 00:33:34,680 Speaker 1: I never met a woman that did that to me. 534 00:33:34,840 --> 00:33:37,360 Speaker 1: My future, as you know, ended up getting Miss Marianne 535 00:33:37,400 --> 00:33:43,080 Speaker 1: Smike in custodya to day that's like Risha. She will 536 00:33:43,160 --> 00:33:47,000 Speaker 1: never touch Megan, she will never harm Megan until the 537 00:33:47,080 --> 00:33:49,680 Speaker 1: day I take my last breath, where she does whatever 538 00:33:49,680 --> 00:33:59,360 Speaker 1: happens first Jerry and the Fashion. 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