Who is Melbourne’s casanova conman?

He left a trail of lies and deception alongside a string of deserted women and cheated businesses, posing as a Maserati-driving rich property developer. How did a tradie dad from the suburbs deceive so many? READ THE INCREDIBLE STORY

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He knew everything and everyone, but they didn’t know the real him. Romantic, charismatic and affectionately attentive to the point of obsessive, a sly swindler from Melbourne emptied wallets and broke hearts across the state before fleeing the country to prey on his next victim.

The Herald Sun exposes how a suburban Melbourne dad became a global conman, tricking women into relationships they claim cost millions.

Read every twist in the story as Melbourne’s Casanova Conman and his tangled web of lies is revealed.

PART 1: MELBOURNE’S CHEATING CASANOVA CONMAN EXPOSED

A Lothario liar from Westmeadows posing as a rich Maserati-driving developer has dudded a long list of women including the daughter of a multi-millionaire, in a Dirty John-style saga spanning two continents.

PART 2: HEIRESS VICTIM OF TOXIC $2M MARRIAGE CON

The daughter of multi-millionaire Parklea property boss Andrew Facey was among the victims of cheating conman Paul Carter, with claims he tricked her into buying him Maseratis and luxury homes.

PART 3: CONMAN’S TRAIL OF BROKEN HEARTS, EMPTY WALLETS

Katherine thought she’d met her ‘forever’ love being showered with diamonds and cars by single, wealthy, and devoted ‘perfect gentleman’ Paul Carter. But the serial Melbourne love rat was none of those things.

PART 4: ‘THAT’S BULLS**T! I DIDN’T TAKE ANYONE’S MONEY’

When the Herald Sun caught up with lying love rat Paul Carter at his modest townhouse in a sprawling, middle-class suburb in upstate New York he didn’t mince his words.

PART 5: HEARTBREAKER CONMAN RIPPED OFF OWN MUM

He duped two wives and a fiancee out of millions with his elaborate scams, but lying Lothario Paul Carter would stoop lower still. His own mother says she will never forgive him after he left her homeless and destitute.

PART 6: CONMAN ALLEGEDLY CASHED IN ON STRUGGLING CHARITY

He duped two wives and a fiancee out of millions with his elaborate scams, but in a new twist, lying Lothario Paul Carter allegedly pocketed huge sums of cash from a major Melbourne charity group, as well as allegedly dudding a Melbourne developer out of $800k.

PART 7: GUN-LOVING CONMAN’S TERRIFYING RAMPAGE: EX-WIFE

The heiress ex-wife of Paul Carter has revealed the Casanova conman’s penchant for guns and his obsession with a shooting sport outlawed in Australia. It comes amid claims Carter smashed through her home, “traumatising” their son at the end of the toxic marriage.

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