The Stavisky Affair – Sasha the Sauve Scammer
Posted on October 8, 2011
by Kathy Warnes
The Staviksy Affair included a murdered judge, a beautiful ex model wife and two innocent children, and the embezzler who committed suicide under suspicious circumstances. The scandal forced French Premier camille Chautamps to resign.
Serge Alexandre Stavisky or “handsome Sasha,” was born in 1888 in Kiev, Ukraine, to Russian Jewish parents. After serving jail time and being involved in several illegal money making activities, Sasha settled in Paris shortly before World War I. In the 1920s, he ran a medical clinic where he promised women an accurate diagnosis of pregnancy, using a bogus examining device that he called a “matrascope.”
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