‘Con Queen of Hollywood’ who posed as Rupert Murdoch’s wife

An alleged fraudster dubbed ‘the con Queen of Hollywood’ posed as a film producer in a £1.5m swindle, a court heard. Indonesian Hargobind Tahilramani, 42, allegedly swindled workers in the entertainment industry out of large sums of cash by offering them non-existent work. They received calls offering the opportunity of a lifetime shooting a blockbuster film in Indonesia between 1 January 2013 and 31 August 2020, it was said. Among those aped by the ‘catfish’ were Star Wars producer Kathleen…