Christian Gerhartsreiter

Christian Gerhartsreiter

Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter (born February 21, 1961) is a German man who moved to the United States as a teenager to study, and thereafter assumed many aliases. Using the false name Clark Rockefeller, he married a Harvard Business School graduate student named Sandra Boss. The couple had homes in Boston and New Hampshire, and lived a prosperous lifestyle solely on Boss's high income as a business consultant. Boss eventually determined her husband had lied to her extensively, and sought a divorce. After their estrangement, Gerhartsreiter kidnapped their daughter, Reigh Storrow Mills Boss, in July 2008 and was arrested six days later. Investigations determined that Gerhartsreiter had wildly embellished his background to give the impression that he was born into great wealth, as a member of the Rockefeller family. He was later convicted and imprisoned on the kidnapping charge, which is presently under appeal. A book about Gerhartsreiter, The Man in the Rockefeller Suit, was published in 2011 by journalist Mark Seal.

In March 2011, Gerhartsreiter was charged with a 1985 murder in Los Angeles County, California, where he had lived at that time, and on April 10, 2013 he was convicted by a jury of first-degree murder.