The legend of Dr. Ronald Dante spans decades. A stage hypnotist and not a real doctor, Dante

got his start playing the smoke-filled nightclubs of 1960s Hollywood, where he'd rub shoulders

with the A list and eventually tie the knot with one of the biggest movie stars in the world.

But it was his career as a con man that's most unbelievable. He made millions on the self-help

craze of the 80s and 90s, ruthlessly took out a hit on arrival and founded one of the largest

fake universities in history. On the upcoming season of Camillean, Dr. Dante, host Sam Mullins,

tracks Dante through yacht clubs, prison cells, trailer parks, and theme parks to uncover the

incredible true story of the greatest con man you've never heard of. Subscribers to The Binge

can hear the entire series ad-free right now, otherwise listen weekly wherever you get your podcasts.

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When you meet a person like Ronald Dante, when you follow him through the decades after his

divorce from Lana Turner, you come away with questions, a lot of them. And probably the biggest

one for me is how did Ronald Dante become Ronald Dante? If you asked the man himself,

he'd tell you that a story begins in the early 1930s in Malaysia.

My father was a civil engineer in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and he had my sister and my mother got

massacred by the insurances they were killed. Killed with five-year-old Dante watching. My mother

and my wife was the torture to me. She died in front of me. Leaving Dante with no one but his older

brother Marshall, nine years his senior. The two of them survived as orphans with nothing.

Somehow the brothers landed at an orphanage in Chicago around 1935.

This is very near the depression days so we couldn't get anybody taking us,

no family would take us. And the people who ran the orphanage. They broke us apart,

they broke our ribs, they broke our face and we had a big everyday for food, for money,

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