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Con artist-turned-doctor is practicing NJ gynecologist, despite being outed as a catfish in book
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0:59Now PlayingA con artist-turned-doctor is a practicing gynecologist in New Jersey — despite being outed as a chronic catfisher in one of this summer’s hottest beach reads.
The Ethan Schuman described in sociologist Anna Akbari‘s “There is No Ethan” is actually Dr. Emily Marantz, 39, who lives in Livingston, N.J., and works at the Jersey City Medical Center, owned by RWJBarnabas Health.
The non-fiction book, which is also part memoir, recounts how three accomplished, well-educated women — including Akbari, who taught sociology at NYU — banded together to track down and expose the online predator who cruelly toyed with their emotions over several years, using the anonymity of the internet to pull off her perverse scheme.
“There are 10 victims that we know of and this went on for the better part of a decade,” Akbari told The Post.
In 2010, with a profile she’d created on dating site OKCupid, Marantz convinced several women she was an attractive, 6-foot-tall, Columbia and M.I.T.-educated, BMW-driving Jewish economic analyst with a dog named Harvey, living on the Upper West Side.
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