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- From: pierres@microsoft.com (Pierre Stromberg)
- Subject: Re: Von Daniken and Berlitz: Where are they today?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.224253.24044@microsoft.com>
- Date: 22 Nov 92 22:42:53 GMT
- Organization: Sausage, SPAM, Baked Beans, and SPAM Incorporated.
- References: <1ejv43INNb78@anthrax.solbourne.com>
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- In article <1ejv43INNb78@anthrax.solbourne.com> kucharsk@solbourne.com (William Kucharski) writes:
- >Does anyone know what has happened to:
- >* Erich Von Daniken, author of _Chariots of the Gods_ and several other
- > _* of the Gods_ books
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- I don't know. He's probably living quite well off of his interest.
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- > I remember it was discovered that he paid to have artifacts constructed
- > for the _Chariots of the Gods_ movie, and I seem to remember he was tossed
- > in jail for a while (anyone know why? Fraud?).
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- According to my cultural anthropology professor, he served time in
- prison before Chariots of the Gods was published for selling false life
- insurance claims. My professor also made the claim that he started
- writing Chariots while he was in jail but I don't know how much
- credibility there is to this claim.
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