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Victor Lustig was born near Prague in 1890. He grew up in a middle class family and became one of the most famous criminals in history. In the 1920's he emigrated to the USA.
In 1922 he used his most famous alias, Count Victor Lusting to pay a bank $22.000 for an
old farmhouse. At the same time he asked the bank to lend him $10.000, they
exchanged envelopes but the envelope that Victor handed over did not contain
any money and so he went away with both envelopes.
Three years later Lusting decided to sell the Eiffel Tower!
He got in touch with five company directors who made their offers to buy the Tower.
Lusting chose the highest offer took the money and escape to Austria. Then
Lusting returned to Paris wrote to five more companies and sold the Eiffel
Tower again. This time his victim went
to the police and lusting had to escape to the USA.
After many more crimes he was arrested in 1935 and he spent the next twenty years in the
Alcatraz prison. He died in 1947.

 

 

 

Legenda immagine
1. Prague: viola
2. Usa: fucsia
3. Missouri: azzurro
4. Paris: giallo
5. Austria: arancione
6. Paris: grigio
7. Usa - Alcatraz: verde