#Queen of the king pins movie

He told them about how the Phoenix-based trio - Robin Ramirez, then 40, Marilyn Johnson, then 54, and Amiko Fountain, then 42 - had sold fake coupons from 40 manufacturers, including Procter & Gamble and Hershey, to unwitting customers via eBay or via invitation to their own Web site, , at a profit. To write the script, the pair flew to Arizona in 2018 to meet with the detective who worked on the case.

#Queen of the king pins movie

Pullapilly and Gaudet’s new movie “Queenpins,” in theaters Friday, is a very fictionalized version of that story, co-starring Kristen Bell (as Connie, a suburban housewife), Kirby Howell-Baptiste (Bell’s co-star on “The Good Place” who plays JoJo, a coupon vlogger) and Vince Vaughn (as a US Post Office agent hellbent on stopping them). “We instantly saw a story where these women made millions on this counterfeit coupon scam and bought 21 vehicles, 22 guns, a speedboat, a luxury RV,” Gaudet told The Post. When husband-and-wife filmmaking team Gita Pullapilly and Aron Gaudet happened upon a blog post detailing a $40 million counterfeit coupon scam three women had pulled off in 2012, inspiration struck. YouTuber wanted for defrauding $55M from followers Texas woman cons men out of Rolex watches and fancy cars thru ‘romance scam’

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