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The Man Who Sold Paris Twice

THE MAN WHO SOLD THE EIFFEL TOWER TWICE - THE PERFECT CON. Imagine being so confident in your con that after successfully selling the Eiffel Tower once, you come back and do it again. That's exactly what Victor Lustig did in 1925. Victor Lustig was the smoothest con artist who ever lived. He spoke five languages, dressed like aristocracy, and had a face people instantly trusted. But his masterpiece was selling the Eiffel Tower—not once, but twice—to two different wealthy businessmen. In 1925, Lustig read that the Eiffel Tower was deteriorating and expensive to maintain. He saw an opportunity. Posing as a Deputy Director-General of the Ministry of Posts and Telegraphs, he invited Paris's top scrap metal dealers to a secret meeting at the luxurious Hotel de Crillon. His pitch was brilliant: The French government was secretly demolishing the Eiffel Tower due to maintenance costs, and they needed a discreet buyer for 7,000 tons of scrap iron. He arranged private tours, showed forged documents, and even hinted at expecting a bribe—which made the whole scheme seem more legitimate. André Poisson, a dealer desperate to prove himself in Paris business circles, took the bait. He paid Lustig a fortune for the "contract" plus a substantial cash bribe. Lustig disappeared to Vienna with the money. Here's the twist: Poisson never reported the crime. He was too humiliated to admit he'd tried to bribe a government official for an illegal deal on a national monument. When Lustig realized no police were looking for him, he made the boldest move of his career: he returned to Paris and sold the Eiffel Tower AGAIN to a different victim using the exact same con. This story covers Lustig's entire criminal career—from his "money box" scam on luxury ocean liners, to selling the Eiffel Tower twice, to even conning Al Capone, and finally his arrest and imprisonment in Alcatraz. It's the story of the perfect con, executed twice, by a man who understood that the bigger the lie, the more people believe it. #VictorLustig #EiffelTower #TrueCrime #ConArtist #TrueStory #Crime #History #Paris #1920s #Scam #Fraud #ConMan #CriminalHistory #TrueCrimeStory #HistoricalCrime #FrenchHistory #ThePerfectCon #Alcatraz #AlCapone #CriminalMasterminds