An ex-partner of former stem cell surgeon Paolo Macchiarini thought she was living a real-life fairytale until she uncovered his dark web of lies. ‌

Writer and director Benita Alexander eventually went on to co-produce He Lied About Everything, a documentary based on her former lover’s fall from grace. ‌

In 2023, Macchiarini was sentenced to two and a half years in prison by a Swedish court for aggravated assault against patients he treated. ‌

The court found he had acted with criminal intent in his treatment of three patients who received trachea transplants while he was working at the Karolinska Institute.

The Mirror reports that all three patients died after suffering complications from the procedure. The court ruled that Macchiarini knew the surgeries were unlikely to

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