Worst (Best?) "Romeo Grifter" Ever Manages to Scam $250,000 From Divorcee While Living at Home With His Parents
We can't help but approve, to some extent, of Andrea Peyser's dark, servicey exclusive today: "a warning to lonely ladies of a certain age." Why? The plight of the single lady, in a nutshell. We believe in learning from the history of our fellow singles. And in the case of Thea Miller, beautiful divorcee, and John Egan, a 32-year-old prematurely gray (but what a nice, full head of hair!), pot-bellied fellow with extensive sadface passing himself as a "globetrotting NLF exec," what we can learn is: NO, NO, NO.
For real, this is the guy. Via the Post/Gregory P. Mango
Clue #1 this was not going to go well:
They met on Match.com
Clues #2-4:
For two years, Egan sent emails and text messages -- but no photos -- to Thea Miller, sometimes also calling her 10 times a day.
Clue #5:
Remember, they met on Match.com.
Clues #6-7:
He promised to take her to Giants football games and charity events. Each time, he'd abruptly cancel their date, claiming his mother was sick or he had a business emergency.
Clue #8-100: He used her credit cards to buy himself tickets to sports games that he did not take her to, as well as $80,000 in sports memorabilia. And pricey meals (that he also didn't take her to, considering they never met?) Oh, and diamond rings. And sapphire earrings.
Adding insult to injury:
All of the items were shipped to his parents' address -- with him often paying an extra $25 for rush shipment.
Asshole.
Even worse: Egan, apparently, got married three or four years ago.
Thankfully for single and not single ladies of New York and the world: He's been busted and is now the subject of a grand-larceny investigation by the Manhattan DA's office.
But, women, please, let this be a lesson to us all. There are such things as clues, and such things as screaming air-raid sirens atop giant, crimson flags.
On a side note, never let your girlfriends put your Match.com profile together for you.
[via New York Post]
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