Rockefeller told many of his friends conflicting stories, so that when they were called and asked about his whereabouts by the FBI, they send the authorities in dozens of different directions. From there Gerhartsreiter had a plan to catch a boat to take Reigh to Long Island. The man obliged, while the court-appointed social worker clung to the door of the car, trying to rescue Reigh. When the limo pulled up, Gerhartsreiter opened the car door, threw his daughter inside, slid into the backseat and commanded the limo driver to go as quickly as possible. He had warned the limo driver that he was being followed by a clingy friend, and may ask the driver to speed off without the hanger-on. Gerhartsreiter had spent $3,000 to hire a limo, which he asked to meet him to pick up himself and his daughter outside their home. This morning was one of those visits, and Gerhartsreiter had made a plan. After his wife divorced him and took away his multi-million dollar home in Beacon Hill, Gerhartsreiter was left with little more than his name and three yearly eight hour supervised visits with his daughter. Gerhartsreiter, known to everyone in his neighborhood and to his own daughter as Clark Rockefeller, was carrying his daughter, Reigh, in his arms. The kidnapping took place on a sunny day in July. The kidnapping, though initially a separate incident, eventually brought to light the string of lies that had come to define Gerhartsreiter's life.
The book follows the story of Gerhartsreiter, otherwise known as Clark Rockefeller, and the story of his elaborate cons which eventually lead to his arrest after he kidnapped his own seven-year-old daughter near his home in Boston's Beacon Hill neighborhood.
The book follows Gerhartsreiter from the age of seventeen, when he arrived in America, until he was arrested for kidnapping his seven-year-old daughter, revealing decades of progressively more complicated cons. The Man in the Rockefeller Suit: The Astonishing Rise and Spectacular Fall of a Serial Imposter is a book of investigative non-fiction by journalist Mark Seal about the life of a German immigrant named Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, who spent his life taking on a series of false identities until he finally managed to convince his wife, friends, and a number of elite social clubs on both coasts that he was Clark Rockefeller, of the notoriously wealthy Rockefeller family.
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