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From the NY Times:

IN the understated town of Cornish, N.H., where it is considered bad form to exhibit your wealth, the man calling himself Clark Rockefeller was driven around in an armored black Cadillac with bulletproof windows. He affected silk ascots and bragged that when it came to acquiring property, he could outbid anyone. He said that Helmut Kohl and Britney Spears were coming to dinner.

The man with the eccentric accent, the tantalizing hints of family fortune and the impressive conversational knowledge of everything from physics to art to the stock market is actually Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, who grew up in Germany, came to the United States as a teenage exchange student and never left, not even contacting his family back home for the last 20 years.

“He made such a show of himself, which is so antithetical to New England,” said Jean Burling, the wife of Mr. Burling, the state senator, recalling a welcome party for the couple. “He started telling me he was collecting art, and asking me, did I know what Abstract Expressionism was? He was instructing me that he knew about Motherwells and Rothkos.”

For a blue blood, he seemed oddly lacking in social skills. “He talked about money,” she said. “He was a name-dropper.”