“Hollywood Con Queen” recounts one of the last decade’s weirder scams, where one man posed as big-time women producers to pocket millions and lure victims into strange phone sex.
As if being a freelancer weren’t hard enough, try being a freelancer chasing down invoice payments halfway around the world, after already getting conned into shelling out thousands of dollars in pursuit of your biggest Tinseltown dreams.
In reality, all this maneuvering was being done by a single man: Hargobind Tahilramani, aka Harvey, aka Gavin. Tahilramani was hiding in plain sight, as an obnoxious food blogger and influencer who had alienated a good chunk of London restaurants on his insistent personality alone.
The second and third episodes are slightly less persuasive but no less astonishing. Once the series gets into the lascivious murkiness of Tahilramani’s manipulation—which includes brief, graphic phone sex and requests for over-the-phone kisses that will make your stomach churn—it recalls Weinstein’s similarly abhorrent behavior. So, when it’s revealed that Tahilramani once cited Weinstein as an inspiration, the scammer’s motivations take on a frightening new clarity.
While it’s critical to deliver an evenly considered portrait of a scam, devoting so much time to Tahilramani’s meandering tangents about his love of movies, the entertainment industry, and his childhood threatens to make this grifter too sympathetic.
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