How Leonardo DiCaprio inspired Michael J. Martin Scorsese’s new western gets nine-minute standing ovation at Cannes Film Festivalĩ/11 lawyer swindled in ‘Ponzi scheme’ by ‘art adviser to stars’: suit Now updated with a new afterword, Bantam are publishing 'Catch Me If You Can' for the first time in Australia because of the renewed interest in this amazing tale.Leo brings young model out to dinner with his mom Steven Spielberg's DreamWorks Entertainment have picked up the book and production begins later this year - the film will star Wes Bentley (from 'American Beauty') and Leonardo DiCaprio. Most recently he was here presenting seminars for Australia Post and Star City Casino on how to avoid embezzlement and fraud. He is now one of the world's foremost experts in secure documents and fraud prevention and travels to Australia at least twice a year in his role as consultant for Leigh-Mardon Australia, the company responsible for design and production of all Australia's secure documents including passports, banknotes, bank cheques, personal cheques, credit cards, drivers licences etc. Stylish, charming and not one to skimp on luxury, Abagnale lived a luxurious life on the lam until his 'retirement' at 21.Īfter conning his way around the world, Frank was jailed and released five years later, only after he agreed to work, unpaid, for the US government sharing his knowledge of fraud with them in order to help them prevent it. This amazing true story of how one man fooled multi-national corporations, banks, universities, hospitals, and law enforcement organisations around the world is utterly riveting, and astounding even today, and contains all the ingredients of the most wildly imaginative fiction (except that all of Abagnale's exploits actually happened). 'Catch Me If You Can' is the hilarious, now-classic story of Abagnale's stranger-than-fiction international escapades, and his ingenious escapes - including one from an airplane. The Amazing True Story of the Most Extraordinary Liar in the History of Fun and Profit!įrank Abagnale wrote US$2.5 million in bad cheques, practised law without a licence, practised medicine with no medical training, co-piloted a Pan-Am jet with a fake licence, taught at a college though he was actually a high school drop-out, and managed to outwit and outrage the police of 26 foreign countries and every US state, before he turned 21.

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