{"id":60853,"date":"2025-09-13T03:28:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T03:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/60853\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T03:28:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T03:28:09","slug":"marianne-smyth-the-life-and-crimes-of-the-us-conwoman-convicted-in-ni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/60853\/","title":{"rendered":"Marianne Smyth: The life and crimes of the US conwoman convicted in NI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom4 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Smyth claimed to be on the IRA\u2019s Army Council, a satanic priestess and Jennifer AnnistonThe American was convicted of swindling more than \u00a3115,000 from four victims, including Derry GAA star Dermot McNichollSmyth even had her pet dogs put down before doing a runner.\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"American conwoman, Marianne Smyth, found guilty in a Co Down court of swindling four people out of \u00a3115,000 before fleeing back to the US, constantly reinvented herself, lying to and stealing from her friends, neighbours and even a Hollywood producer\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/podcast.png\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">American conwoman, Marianne Smyth, found guilty in a Co Down court of swindling four people out of \u00a3115,000 before fleeing back to the US, constantly reinvented herself, lying to and stealing from her friends, neighbours and even a Hollywood producer<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Smyth claimed to be on the IRA\u2019s Army Council, a satanic priestess and Jennifer Anniston<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The American was convicted of swindling more than \u00a3115,000 from four victims, including Derry GAA star Dermot McNicholl<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Smyth claimed to be on the IRA\u2019s Army Council, a satanic priestess and Jennifer AnnistonThe American was convicted&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60854,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,11795,13,14,6,9619,26214,11,12,15,16,5,43385,7,8,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-60853","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-derry-gaa","11":"tag-featured-news","12":"tag-featurednews","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-ira","15":"tag-kurtis-reid","16":"tag-latest-news","17":"tag-latestnews","18":"tag-main-news","19":"tag-mainnews","20":"tag-news","21":"tag-olivia-peden","22":"tag-top-stories","23":"tag-topstories","24":"tag-world","25":"tag-world-news","26":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}