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Ardley and Maureen Hanemann of New Orleans were not very surprised last December when they heard about the fits their old friend Spiro Pavlovich III was giving all those people up at Harvard. Sure, he was charged with twice bluffing his way into the Law School, but then, "Spiro always did want to see how much he could get away with," Ardley Hanemann says...
...about that time that Spiro and Monette Pavlovich celebrated their first wedding anniversary...
...expensive formal, and tried to pass off an unknown nightclub singer as Aretha Franklin. The fraud was exposed, but when Hanemann saw Spiro after he transferred to Tulane, there were signs in Spiro's car promoting another Aretha dance. "Spiro, what are these signs?" asked Hanemann. "No, no," Pavlovich assured him, "this time she really is coming...
...Pavlovich Goes to Cambridge...
George H. Lanier '66 of the King and Spaulding law firm in Louisiana, is proud to have been the first to trip Spiro up. Besides the now-famous lies about turning down the Law Review and writing a thesis on Einstein, Lanier says Pavlovich made other, equally outrageous claims. Spiro said he was the great grand-nephew of Czar Nicholas of Russia, the nephew of a man who "owned most of lower Louisiana," and the godson of Leander Perez, a notoriously powerful and corrupt Plaquemines parish politician. Lanier began to get suspicious, but it was Spiro's statement that...