What Happened?

By the end of the 19th century, she’d begun her most high-profile hoax in which she posed as the illegitimate daughter of a steel magnate, Andrew Carnegie. His net worth today be  $310 Billion.

Source: WorkAndMoney

Cassie was so good at her lying about her elite parentage, that banks and other institutions fought over each other to do business with Chadwick. Of course, after accumulating nearly $18.5 million in today’s dollars of debt, in 1905 she was found guilty of conspiracy to defraud a national bank and sentenced to 10 years in prison.