Swiss gigolo Helg Sgarbi, a 44-year-old former investment banker, received a 6 year prison term after pleading guilty to fraud, attempted fraud and attempted blackmail. Until his arrest, he had exhorted $12.5 million from four women, including BMW heiress and the richest woman in Germany, Susanne Klatten who eventually went to the authorities after having paid Sgarbi $8.8 million.
In her witness statement to prosecutors, Ms. Klattten said that Mr. Sgarbi, whom she had met in July 2007 at an Austrian spa resort, was “charming, attentive, and at the same time he seemed very sad.”
“That stirred a feeling in me that we had something in common,” she said, according to the B.B.C. account. Mr. Sgarbi told her and the other women he was a “special Swiss representative in crisis zones,” to which he attributed his frequent, sudden absences.
And by crisis zones he meant old, lonely, rich women's jj's. Hi-ho!