The tv producer turned vigilante after he was scammed by con artist Marianne Smyth, the so-called ‘Queen of Con’.

Over several years he had handed his supposed best friend Smyth, who claimed to be an Irish heiress, over $100,000.

But Walton was not her first victim. His lengthy investigations revealed she had scammed scores of people since childhood.

She used a range of strategies, lies and aliases – posing as Jennifer Anniston, becoming a satanic priestess, claiming to be on the IRA’s army council, pretending to have cancer.

Smyth was sentenced in September to 4 years in jail at Downpatrick Crown Court as it was revealed that she had scammed over £100,000 from people in Northern Ireland.

Johnathan Walton has written a book on his experience with the fraudster. It’s called ‘ Anatomy o

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