The fake playboy, love cheat and predator | M6 | 66 minutes

Right in the middle of Nice, on the Promenade des Anglais, a sixty-year-old has dreams of copying the exploits of Christian in 50 Shades of Gray”. It’s just that his characteristic balding head, his wrinkles and potbelly are not working in his favor. So he sets up a Machiavellian scenario: he decides to steal the identity of an American male model and hide behind the person of a certain “Anthony Laroche”. On various dating sites he passes himself off as the 37 year-old playboy and invites his prey to come and share his bed. Pushing his vice to the limit, he makes them put on blindfolds. Although most of them suspect nothing, at the end of their sexual encounters some finally unmask the fraud. And even though it’s claimed that between 2009 and 2015 the predator was in contact with 352 young women all over France, only a few dozen of them came to meet him on the Côte d’Azur. And only three victims brought charges for “surreptitious, or date rape”. The others are still consumed with shame. However, the light shed from the early investigations appears to show that our fake playboy was no novice at this game. He’s said to have begun enticing women under the name of Anthony Laroche in 2002, in the Paris area. So his victims may be more numerous. Who is this love cheat really? How did his MO succeed in duping so many women? An investigation into a predatory seducer.”