The Man Who Sold the Eiffel Tower Twice: Victor Lustig
In 1925, a smooth-talking forger named Victor Lustig posed as a French government official and convinced scrap metal dealers that the Eiffel Tower was slated for demolition — pocketing a fortune in bribes before vanishing into thin air. Unbelievably, he then returned to Paris and tried the exact same trick a second time. This is the story of history's most audacious con.
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