SAMANTHA AZZOPARDI [FT408:20]
Serial orphan impersonator and fantasist Samantha Azzopardi was back in the news in August. Having racked up an impressive array of charges around the world under the names of Emily Peet, Lindsay Coughlin, Dakota Johnson, Georgia McAuliffe, Harper Hernandez, Harper Hart and many others while pretending to be, variously, a kidnapped Swedish royal, a nanny, a Russian gymnast who was the sole survivor of a murder-suicide incident in France, and a variety of other lost early teen girls, she landed in court for the 100th time in her native Australia.
Despite now being 33, the slight and waif-like Azzopardi had approached the care charity JewishCare with the story that she was a 14-year-old who had recently arrived in Australia to stay with a foster family
