Linda Sohus

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Eric McCormack has lined up two TV projects. At Lifetime, the "Will & Grace" Emmy winner will star in an original movie about the con artist known as Clark Rockefeller. Additionally, McCormack is attached to star in a comedy expected to be taken out to the networks shortly. The Rockefeller tale begins with German con artist Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter (McCormack) coming to the U.S. in 1979 as a foreign exchange student. He used a series of aliases, impersonating a talk show host and a Pentagon adviser, among others. Gerhartsreiter soon became a fixture in Boston high society for more ... Read Full Story

Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, who calls himself Clark Rockefeller, enters the courtroom to hear the jury's guilty verdict in Suffolk Superior Court in Boston Friday, June 12, 2009. Gerhartsreiter, originally from Germany, was convicted of kidnapping his daughter during supervised visit in Boston last year. (AP Photo/CJ Gunther, Pool) BOSTON (AP) — A German man who called himself Clark Rockefeller and spun fantastic stories about himself during three decades in the United States was convicted Friday of kidnapping his 7-year-old daughter and sentenced to four to five years in prison. Rockefeller, whose real name is Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, snatched the girl on a Boston street ... Read Full Story

Con man or crackpot? A jury will have to decide whether a man who calls himself Clark Rockefeller was legally insane when he ran off with his 7-year-old daughter during a supervised visit or whether he is a consummate schemer who used aliases to insinuate himself into highbrow circles in Boston, New York and Los Angeles, culminating in a well-orchestrated kidnapping. His trial is set to begin Tuesday in Suffolk Superior Court. Rockefeller's real name is Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter. In July, he grabbed his daughter, Reigh, during a supervised visit in Boston, pushed a social worker who was watching them and fled in a ... Read Full Story

A German man who fooled friends and family into believing that he was a member of the illustrious Rockefeller clan went on trial Tuesday for the alleged abduction of his daughter. The man that US authorities now say is Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, from Bergen, Germany, got away with his adopted persona for years, even persuading his wife to file a single person's tax return, so as not to reveal his true identity. His carefully constructed fiction collapsed last July, seven months after a bitter divorce, when he allegedly snatched his then seven-year-old daughter Reigh, nicknamed Snooks, during a supervised visit in Boston. A six-day ... Read Full Story

A German man who fooled friends and family into believing that he was a member of the illustrious Rockefeller clan went on trial Tuesday for the alleged abduction of his daughter. The man that US authorities now say is Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, from Bergen, Germany, got away with his adopted persona for years, even persuading his wife to file a single person's tax return, so as not to reveal his true identity. His carefully constructed fiction collapsed last July, seven months after a bitter divorce, when he allegedly snatched his then seven-year-old daughter Reigh, nicknamed Snooks, during a supervised visit in Boston. A six-day ... Read Full Story