Clark Rockefeller is Christopher Chichester, 13th Baronet

His calling card, embossed with its Latin family motto, boasted the upper-class credentials of a peer: Christopher Chichester, 13th baronet. But all was not as it seemed. Not only was the name of the bespectacled young man with the well-pressed suits and "English" accent bogus, but so, too, were his aristocratic claims. The so-called Chichester (just one of a string of aliases used by the man who also passed himself off as a member of the wealthy Rockefeller oil clan) is in a Boston prison charged with abducting his seven-year-old daughter, Reigh, a London schoolgirl, and embarking on his latest attempt to hide in plain sight, this time in Baltimore under the name Chip Smith.

As he awaits trial, the elaborate labyrinth of lies and devious deceits deployed by the serial imposter has led to his true identity being revealed. "Chichester'' is, in fact, plain Christian Gerhartsreiter, 47, born in an impoverished region of Bavaria.