For decades, Italian pharmaceutical heir Maurizio Mian perpetrated an elaborate ruse, claiming to be the caretaker of a fabulously wealthy line of German Shepherds named Gunther.As the tale went, German Countess Karlotta Liebenstein left her $400 million fortune to Gunther III and his descendants when she died in 1992, bereft following the suicide of her son, also named Gunther.Journalists from Miami to Rome were suckered by the story, including Mian's claims over the years that the dog had purchased 's mansion, owned an Italian soccer team, and ran a nightclub in Pisa.
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