{"id":2399001,"date":"2026-05-02T10:54:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T10:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2399001"},"modified":"2026-05-02T10:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T10:54:10","slug":"how-every-infamous-con-artist-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/how-every-infamous-con-artist-died\/","title":{"rendered":"How Every Infamous Con Artist Died"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/q3DAzoPVaN8?autoplay=1&#038;modestbranding=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>How Every Infamous Con Artist Died<\/p>\n<p>Like and subscribe for more videos like this!<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<br \/>\n\u2014 TIMESTAMPS \u2014<br \/>\n00:00 Bernie Madoff (2021)<br \/>\n01:46 Charles Ponzi (1949)<br \/>\n03:18 Kenneth Lay (2006)<br \/>\n04:34 Ivar Kreuger (1932)<br \/>\n06:00 Victor Lustig (1947)<br \/>\n07:36 Gerald Cotten (2018)<br \/>\n09:33 Lou Pearlman (2016)<br \/>\n11:29 Gregor MacGregor (1845)<br \/>\n13:30 Jefferson &#8220;Soapy&#8221; Smith (1898)<br \/>\n15:00 Cassie Chadwick (1907)<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 DISCLAIMER \u2014<br \/>\nThis video is meant to entertain, educate, and spark curiosity! While I do my best to be accurate, some details may be simplified. I encourage you to dive deeper and explore these topics yourself.<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=q3DAzoPVaN8\">Video Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How Every Infamous Con Artist Died Like and subscribe for more videos like this! &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;- \u2014 TIMESTAMPS \u2014 00:00 Bernie Madoff (2021) 01:46 Charles Ponzi (1949) 03:18 Kenneth Lay (2006) 04:34 Ivar Kreuger (1932) 06:00 Victor Lustig (1947) 07:36 Gerald Cotten (2018) 09:33 Lou Pearlman (2016) 11:29 Gregor MacGregor (1845) 13:30 Jefferson &#8220;Soapy&#8221; Smith (1898) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2399002,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25180],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2399001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videos"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1777719248_maxresdefault.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2399001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2399001"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2399001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2399003,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2399001\/revisions\/2399003"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2399002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2399001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2399001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2399001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}