Ari Olivier, better known as ‘Lord Olivier’, gained a certain reputation in the 1980s as an unparalleled charmer who seemed to have mainly targeted the wealth of wealthy widows. Together with a female Amsterdam civil-law notary who had also succumbed to him, he cheated off mortgage banks’ assets and sold for several tens of millions of pipelines that turned out not to exist at all.
As a TV presenter at Veronica, he took the viewer into his world. His already controversial program came to an end after three episodes when he was arrested by the German police. That case went off without a hitch. When he ended up in the Bijlmerbajes earlier, it was revealed that some guards had also been killed and gave him all kinds of privileges.
In recent years it has been quiet around Lord Olivier. He suffered from cancer for a year and a half. His life came to an end last week when he died in front of his last wife.