{"id":598995,"date":"2026-04-11T00:58:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T00:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/598995\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T00:58:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T00:58:19","slug":"today-in-history-april-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/598995\/","title":{"rendered":"Today in History &#8211; April 11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A US man was jailed for an outrageous string of fraud and bigamy charges on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/today-in-history\" title=\"April 11, 1983\" target=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">April 11, 1983<\/a>.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/world\/today-in-history-april-11-what-happened-on-this-day\/0e89d99c-28c4-4e28-aa03-a8af368cb27e#2\" title=\"Giovanni Vigliotto\" target=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Giovanni Vigliotto<\/a> would marry a woman, then pack up her belongings in a moving truck, organising to meet her at his home.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/1bd5eccb-70c2-4d64-a072-d3f957c83d97.jpeg\"   alt=\"\"\/>Giovanni Vigliotto married 105 women  (Nine Archives)<\/p>\n<p>When she would arrive at the address, he was not there.<\/p>\n<p>Instead he would disappear and sell her things at markets.<\/p>\n<p>Vigliotto did this successfully to 104 victims.<\/p>\n<p>But the 105th drove to every market she could find, eventually tracking him down in Florida.<\/p>\n<p>The determined wife, Sharon Clark, was ripped off of $US49,000 and left at a Canadian motel.<\/p>\n<p>He was put on trial, during which many of his wives testified against him.<\/p>\n<p>One jilted bride told the court her &#8220;prince had turned into a frog&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>He had proposed to her the day after they met, borrowed $US1600 in cash from her, then disappeared with tens of thousands worth of inventory from her clothing shop.<\/p>\n<p>He was sentenced to 28 years in prison, and died behind bars at Arizona State Prison eight years later.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t think they fell for him,&#8221; jilted bride Patricia Ann Gardiner said of Vigliotto&#8217;s other wives.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/bf2fe414-c7b0-4b89-893c-f58f080b7aa4.jpeg\"   alt=\"\"\/>He died in jail. (AP)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A US man was jailed for an outrageous string of fraud and bigamy charges on April 11, 1983.Giovanni&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":598996,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-598995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/598996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}