Giovanni Vigliotto

Giovanni Vigliotto

Giovanni Vigliotto (c. 1930 – 1991 [http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/1991-02-06/news/the-lover/ News Report on Vigliotto's death] ] ) was a name of a multiple bigamist and fraudster who married 104 women in 14 Fact|date=February 2007 countries between 1949 and 1981 Fact|date=February 2007 and abandoned them.

Vigliotto - whose original name was possibly Fred Jipp Fact|date=February 2007 - was a flea market trader. Fact|date=February 2007 He might have selected a more Mediterranean name to sound more exotic.

Vigliotto concentrated on wooing lonely ladies. Fact|date=February 2007 Vigliotto always said that he was living far away from where she was living and asked her to join him in their new home together. After the wedding, he convinced the women to sell their home, packed all their belongings in a moving truck and drove away, promising to call them later. Soon he was selling their belongings in some flea market. Some of the victims reported the incident but investigators could not find any leads.

However, Vigliotto's 105th victim, Patricia Ann Gardiner, decided to find him herself. She had met Vigliotto in a flea market, so she decided to drive through all the flea markets she could find. Eventually she found Vigliotto in Florida, where he was selling her furniture. She informed the police and Vigliotto was arrested.

The trial against Vigliotto begun in Phoenix, Arizona on March 28 1983. On April 11 he was sentenced to 28 years in prison for fraud and 6 for bigamy and fined $336,000.

References

* "The New York Times" [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D02E6DA1039F93AA15750C0A965948260 Man With 105 Wives Is Sentenced to 34 Years] March 29, 1983


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