Published on December 15, 2024 at 7:29 p.m. / Modified on December 15, 2024 at 7:29 p.m.
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Joan Hannington is a star of the 1980s. But don’t look for her among Dolly Partons and other Whitney Houstons: nicknamed “The Godmother”, this Londoner became, in her twenties, the most famous jewel thief in England. His technique? Swallow the diamonds to steal them.
Forty years after his first blow, a series, produced by the British channel ITV and offered on our screens by OCS, takes control of his destiny. Not a surprise, television nourishing a certain fascination for crooks, of which it has served us a skewer in recent years,Inventing Anna (2022) to The Dropout (2022). So here is Joanadapted from the autobiography of the real scammer – she now resides peacefully in the south of the country with her two dogs.
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