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Duplicity - A True Story of Crime and Deceit
IMAGINE you discover that your wife was not only in love with another man, but this man was her PIMP, and she was his MADAM and PROSTITUTE. IMAGINE you learn that your wife married you for the sole purpose of stealing your assets, that to her, you were JUST ANOTHER TRICK, one who instead of paying “up front” was expected to pay at the end, when she divorced you. IMAGINE you learned that your beloved wife was running her segment of a multi-state, multi-million dollar prostitution ring, right from your bedroom, ON YOUR WEDDING NIGHT, by calling her pimp, the man she was ACTUALLY in love with, THREE TIMES, after you had fallen asleep. Folks, in my case, NO IMAGINATION WAS NEEDED. As unbelievable as it sounds, this happened to me. - Paul T. Goldman
- GenresTrue CrimeBook Club
326 pages, Kindle Edition
First published September 30, 2009
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January 20, 2023
Not a very good book, but oddly compelling at the same time. When describing it, I was hard-pressed to think of a word other than "boring," but I also got really excited whenever I had time to sit down with it. I guess it's just a fun, stupid trashy novel. The fact that it's trying to parade as a non-fiction just makes it even weirder and more awkward.
April 26, 2014
The Author is an Idiot, But the Story was Good
The story was interesting and I found myself not wanting to put the book down. Unfortunately, Paul is not very smart and I was constantly frustrated with his dumb mistakes.
The story was interesting and I found myself not wanting to put the book down. Unfortunately, Paul is not very smart and I was constantly frustrated with his dumb mistakes.
November 25, 2020
I found the book hard to out down, such a good read for a true story, how many lives that one woman could effect and ruin! However justice was found and the ring broken, however it also highlights how sometimes the inside people are involved in such crimes
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February 2, 2023
Don't waste your money on this adolescent feverdream crap. Author is just a horrible human being. I felt bad for him at first but he deserves no money for this crap. Dont indulge him or support his complete fabrication of reality.
October 2, 2018
Great read and amazing story
Incredible true story about one woman that could potentially destroy so many innocent people. Hard to put the book down!
Incredible true story about one woman that could potentially destroy so many innocent people. Hard to put the book down!
December 4, 2018
This is a ridiculous book
March 3, 2020
Great read
I’m blown away that these men went through so much and cabe together to work as a team to stop it. Great job guys!
I’m blown away that these men went through so much and cabe together to work as a team to stop it. Great job guys!
May 20, 2013
A lonely man looking for love and a family is an easy mark for manipulative women. First, he responds to an ad for Russian brides and travels to Russia to choose a woman to marry. He becomes engaged in less than a week. It doesn't take long to realize his Russian bride, a doctor, married him only to get to the US. However, he gets custody of the son he adores and has a friendly relationship with his ex-wife who is in regular phone contact about the child even though she has moved across the country.
Paul still wants a wife and large family and is eager for his young son to have a mommy, so he seeks a wife through dating services. When he meets Audrey, he immediately falls for her and believes she will be the perfect wife, and her three children from two previous marriages will complete the family he wants so much. Although red flags appear even before they are married, Paul ignores them and goes through with the wedding. The marriage is part-time--Audrey is gone half of every week, explaining that she and her aunt take turns caring for her grandmother in a city a few hours away.
Paul and Audrey spend only 56 days together before the marriage falls apart. From the beginning, Audrey had tried to get Paul to add her name to all his assets, and in the divorce, she claims she owns half of a summer home Paul bought in California. In trying to find evidence to prove that Audrey is a gold-digger, who married him only for his money, Paul finds much more devastating information.
What he discovered led to investigations by the FBI as well as a number of local and state of Florida law enforcement agencies. The criminal activities Paul uncovered put him on a mission--first to bring down Audrey and keep her from victimizing any more men, then to destroy the huge international criminal enterprise that she is part of. Even though he had been weak and passive in the beginning--an easy mark for Audrey, Paul developed the strength and character to fight for what is right. Now, he is on a mission to stop child sex trafficking. This is a cause everyone who cares about children should support.
Paul still wants a wife and large family and is eager for his young son to have a mommy, so he seeks a wife through dating services. When he meets Audrey, he immediately falls for her and believes she will be the perfect wife, and her three children from two previous marriages will complete the family he wants so much. Although red flags appear even before they are married, Paul ignores them and goes through with the wedding. The marriage is part-time--Audrey is gone half of every week, explaining that she and her aunt take turns caring for her grandmother in a city a few hours away.
Paul and Audrey spend only 56 days together before the marriage falls apart. From the beginning, Audrey had tried to get Paul to add her name to all his assets, and in the divorce, she claims she owns half of a summer home Paul bought in California. In trying to find evidence to prove that Audrey is a gold-digger, who married him only for his money, Paul finds much more devastating information.
What he discovered led to investigations by the FBI as well as a number of local and state of Florida law enforcement agencies. The criminal activities Paul uncovered put him on a mission--first to bring down Audrey and keep her from victimizing any more men, then to destroy the huge international criminal enterprise that she is part of. Even though he had been weak and passive in the beginning--an easy mark for Audrey, Paul developed the strength and character to fight for what is right. Now, he is on a mission to stop child sex trafficking. This is a cause everyone who cares about children should support.
January 26, 2015
I don't think I have ever read a true life story quite like this. From page one, Goldman takes the reader along with his pursuit for true love that leads him from one unimaginable scenario to the next--all with his own wife.
Determined to expose his wife for what she is--a prostitute, thief, and a liar of the most unimaginable kind, this is a story that you have to read to believe. "Duplicity" takes readers to a whole new level of how far some will go to make money without any kind of remorse or consideration for the people around them.
True-story crime fans will without a doubt enjoy this book as much as I did, as well as anyone looking for love and wanting to avoid all the wrong turns in doing so.
Determined to expose his wife for what she is--a prostitute, thief, and a liar of the most unimaginable kind, this is a story that you have to read to believe. "Duplicity" takes readers to a whole new level of how far some will go to make money without any kind of remorse or consideration for the people around them.
True-story crime fans will without a doubt enjoy this book as much as I did, as well as anyone looking for love and wanting to avoid all the wrong turns in doing so.
September 3, 2012
I love true crime and true drama. In fact, my DVR is filled with this stuff.
So when I saw this book on Amazon, it was right down my alley and I picked it up right away.
Once I started reading it, I knew this was something that I’d enjoy. In fact, I was reading well into the night and finished a third of it in the first day. Which is very rare for me.
This is a true story of a man being completely f-ed over by a con-artist.
The story is well written, engaging, and you feel like you are experiencing the whole ordeal with him throughout the entire book.
If you enjoy true crime and true drama, this book is something you’ll enjoy.
So when I saw this book on Amazon, it was right down my alley and I picked it up right away.
Once I started reading it, I knew this was something that I’d enjoy. In fact, I was reading well into the night and finished a third of it in the first day. Which is very rare for me.
This is a true story of a man being completely f-ed over by a con-artist.
The story is well written, engaging, and you feel like you are experiencing the whole ordeal with him throughout the entire book.
If you enjoy true crime and true drama, this book is something you’ll enjoy.
October 29, 2014
So hard to write this and keep it short and not tell you what my husband and I walked away thinking of this guy. He did not deserve what happened to him though but wow, how did you not see some of this coming? Compelling story even if you say the word a&%h?!le a few hundred times and get frustrated with some of the repetition verbiage. Some of it was humorous to me, though not intended it just was so bizare¡ Yes, I bought the sequel. Call me a glutton for punishment but there is something once you get into the storyline that pulls you in.
October 11, 2012
Great except the last page!
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