Frank Abagnale Jr. — the man whose life inspired the Leonardo DiCaprio movie "Catch Me If You Can" — has spent decades lying about the lies that made him famous, from impersonating pilots and ...

Between the ages of 16 and 21, Frank Abagnale Jr. successfully impersonated a Pan Am pilot on flights to over 80 different countries, posed as a lawyer, a sociology professor, and a doctor, and ...

Sometime between his release from prison in 1974 and the publication of his book in 1980, Frank Abagnale Jr. decided that the real story of Catch Me If You Can wasn’t nearly exciting enough ...

Frank W. Abagnale Jr. was annoyed. According to both Abagnale himself and his autobiography, in the mid-1960s and early ’70s, when he was between 16 and 21, he had impersonated a Pan Am pilot ...

The Times of London had reviewed my 2019 book about serial liars, Duped, and a photo of Leonardo DiCaprio in full pilot regalia accompanied the piece. It was the famous still from Catch Me if You ...