{"id":2477544,"date":"2026-06-26T21:23:50","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T21:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2477544"},"modified":"2026-06-26T21:23:50","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T21:23:50","slug":"man-who-faked-death-to-evade-rape-charges-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/man-who-faked-death-to-evade-rape-charges-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Who Faked Death To Evade Rape Charges Dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<div class=\"cli cli-embed cli-embed--full-width js-no-inject\">\n<div class=\"js-react-hydrator\" style=\"display:contents\" data-component-name=\"YouTube\" data-component-id=\"8250\" data-component-props=\"{&quot;itemType&quot;:&quot;video&quot;,&quot;isLiveblogEmbed&quot;:false,&quot;index&quot;:0,&quot;contentIndexByType&quot;:1,&quot;contentListType&quot;:&quot;embed&quot;,&quot;code&quot;:&quot;&lt;div style=\\&quot;left: 0; width: 100%; height: 0; position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%;\\&quot;&gt;&lt;iframe src=\\&quot;https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5wp0ON7XEoc?rel=0&amp;enablejsapi=1\\&quot; style=\\&quot;top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; position: absolute; border: 0;\\&quot; allowfullscreen scrolling=\\&quot;no\\&quot; allow=\\&quot;accelerometer *; clipboard-write *; encrypted-media *; gyroscope *; picture-in-picture *; web-share *;\\&quot; referrerpolicy=\\&quot;strict-origin\\&quot; id=\\&quot;youtube-embed-5wp0ON7XEoc-9440\\&quot;&gt;&lt;\/iframe&gt;&lt;\/div&gt;&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;video&quot;,&quot;meta&quot;:{&quot;author&quot;:&quot;NBC News&quot;,&quot;author_url&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCeY0bbntWzzVIaj2z3QigXg&quot;,&quot;cache_age&quot;:86400,&quot;description&quot;:&quot;U.S fugitive Nicholas Rossi is fighting extradition in Scotland by claiming that he is an Irish orphan that goes by another name. 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But during court appearances, he had appeared in a wheelchair and used oxygen.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>Rossi, also known as Nicholas Alahverdian, was extradited to Utah from Scotland in 2024.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>Utah authorities had been searching for him when he was identified in 2018 through a decade-old DNA rape kit.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>Months after he was charged in that case, an online obituary claimed Rossi died on Feb. 29, 2020, of non-Hodgkin lymphoma. But police in his home state of Rhode Island, along with his former lawyer and a former foster family, cast doubt on whether he was dead.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>He was <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/coronavirus-pandemic-health-utah-child-welfare-scotland-a437db026265164e050d8eb1154c77de\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-external-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"arrested in Scotland\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"6a3eb408e4b07281419e1a18\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/coronavirus-pandemic-health-utah-child-welfare-scotland-a437db026265164e050d8eb1154c77de\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"url\" data-vars-type=\"web_external_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"2\">arrested in Scotland<\/a> the following year while receiving treatment for COVID-19. Hospital staff recognized his distinctive tattoos, including the crest of Brown University inked on his shoulder, although he never attended.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>Rossi insisted he was an Irish orphan named Arthur Knight who was being framed. Investigators say they identified at least a dozen aliases Rossi used over the years to evade capture.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"cli cli-related-articles js-cet-subunit\"\/><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man who was accused of faking his own death and fleeing to Europe to evade rape charges in the U.S. has died after he was taken to a hospital from a Utah prison, authorities said Friday. 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