Interesting facts: World’s biggest bigamist had married more than 100 women

Could you guess the largest number of wives a man could have? The world’s biggest bigamist married around 104 or 105 women in between the year 1949 and 1981 without ever getting divorcing any of them.

The Guinness World Records recently posted a video on Twitter narrating the story of the story of the world’s biggest bigamist Giovanni Vigliotto. It is often believed that Giovanni Vigliotto was just a fake name but which he used when while marrying his last wife Sharon Clark. She is actually a flea market manager from Indiana who successfully tracked him down to Florida, and he got arrested on December 28, 1981.

Actually Viglioto met most of his future wives at flea markets. He habitually proposed them at the very first date. Then he lie his wives about leaving far away and asked them to pack up their stuff to join him in his place. Then the man used to flea with all of the money and possessions of his new wife in a moving truck.

After selling everything in the flea market he used to search for a new victim. The scammer used a new name and identity to trap each victim. Notably the scammer married women across 27 different US states and 14 other countries and none of his wives were aware of one another. He was finally caught at the age of 53.

He claimed to be born in Siracusa, Sicily and mentioned April 3, 1929 as his birthday. As per him his real name was Nikolai Peruskov. However a prosecutor revealed that his true identity was Fred Jipp. He actually took birth on 1936 in the city of New York. He always managed to flee from the authorities who received numerous complaints against him.

He was sentenced a punishment of 34 years in prison; 28 for fraud and six for bigamy in his trail that began in 1983. He was also fined a sum of around $3, 36,000. Before passing away in 1991 at the age of 61, due to a brain haemorrhage, he spent the remaining eight years of his life in Arizona State Prison. The GWR website said “Up until his death, he maintained that his only crime was being a hopeless romantic with a weakness for women”.