{"id":55196,"date":"2023-12-02T22:22:37","date_gmt":"2023-12-02T22:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wegotthiscovered.com\/?p=1633488"},"modified":"2023-12-02T22:22:37","modified_gmt":"2023-12-02T22:22:37","slug":"bad-surgeon-who-is-paolo-macchiarinis-wife-emanuela-pecchia-and-where-is-she-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gamefootballmobileanimeiphone.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/02\/bad-surgeon-who-is-paolo-macchiarinis-wife-emanuela-pecchia-and-where-is-she-now\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Bad Surgeon\u2019: Who is Paolo Macchiarini\u2019s wife Emanuela Pecchia, and where is she now?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In 2013, Benita Alexander produced an NBC documentary on Paolo Macchiarini<\/a><\/strong> \u2014 a medical superstar credited with using plastic tracheas to treat throat conditions. While doing so, Alexander and Macchiarini grew close and fell in love. Macchiarini, however, was already married, and when Alexander found out, the surgeon’s complex web of lies<\/a> fell apart.<\/p>\n

At that time, Macchiarini was hailed as a visionary, and there was no reason for Alexander, or anyone else, to think otherwise. The Swiss-born surgeon \u2014 the subject of the three-part, 2023 Netflix documentary true crime<\/a> series Bad Surgeon: Love Under the Knife<\/em> \u2014 belonged to the international medical elite, and his purported innovations, like plastic organs, were seen as groundbreaking innovations. <\/p>\n

Based on that acclaim, Alexander’s NBC Macchiarini documentary, A Leap of Faith<\/em>, was produced in 2013 and broadcast a year later, according to Esquire<\/a><\/em>. By that point, Alexander and Macchiarini \u2014 who told Alexander he was divorced \u2014 were engaged to be married. The date was set for 2015, with Pope Francis set to officiate their marriage, according to Macchiarini. <\/p>\n

But Macchiarini was already married with two children<\/h2>\n
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