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   From: dds@sdsu.edu   
      
   The Brooklyn man said he was conned into paying for a time   
   machine, a reincarnation portal and a golden bridge to trap a   
   spirit.   
      
   A lovelorn New Yorker was allegedly fleeced out of more than   
   $718,000 (£470,000) over 20 months by a fortune teller.   
      
   The 32-year-old marketing executive went to the psychic for   
   spiritual advice about his unrequited love for a woman.   
      
   The Brooklyn man said he was duped into paying for a time   
   machine, a reincarnation portal and a bridge of gold to trap an   
   evil spirit.   
      
   Bob Nygaard, the private investigator who handled the case, told   
   Sky News: "This victim was going through a difficult time in his   
   life.   
      
   "This self-proclaimed psychic preyed upon his vulnerability."   
      
   Priscilla Kelly Delmaro, 26, who operated from a Times Square   
   storefront, is accused of grand larceny, the New York Times   
   reports.   
      
   According to the man's written statement to Mr Nygaard,   
   submitted to police, he first visited the psychic in August 2013.   
      
   Delmaro allegedly convinced him ill spirits were keeping him   
   from his love interest.   
      
   He initially paid her $2,500 and then $9,000 after a second   
   visit.   
      
   Delmaro allegedly told the man she needed diamonds to safeguard   
   his energy.   
      
   The mystic also convinced him she needed $56,000 to rid him of   
   an evil spirit, says Mr Nygaard.   
      
   He paid another $40,000 for a fake funeral ritual to deceive the   
   spirit into thinking the man was dead.   
      
   Delmaro then persuaded the man to buy her a $30,000 Rolex, which   
   she would use as a time machine to cleanse his past.   
      
   He said he also paid $80,000 for Delmaro to lure the spirit over   
   a golden bridge so it would become trapped in another realm.   
      
   The fortune teller then told him she needed $90,000 for a   
   second, longer bridge for Michelle's spirit, according to his   
   written statement.   
      
   Delmaro promised to return most of the money once her work was   
   done, but Mr Nygaard said she did not do so.   
      
   In February 2014, the man learned from Facebook that Michelle   
   had died, possibly of a drug overdose.   
      
   It is alleged that Delmaro said evil spirits had killed her, but   
   she would reincarnate Michelle in another woman.   
      
   The man said he paid more than $40,000 for a ring from Tiffany's   
   and gave it to Delmaro.   
      
   She allegedly said she would keep the jewellery until he would   
   one day use it as an engagement ring for the reincarnated   
   Michelle.   
      
   The man said he ended up selling his car, losing his apartment   
   and borrowing thousands of dollars from friends and relatives in   
   the case.   
      
   Delmaro allegedly told the man the new Michelle was in Los   
   Angeles and he must move there to find her.   
      
   The psychic later told him a woman he met in California was the   
   new Michelle.   
      
   He said in his written statement: "This caused me to start   
   thinking that Delmaro wasn't everything she was purporting to   
   be."   
      
   Delmaro and her companion, Bobby Evans, 27, were arrested on 26   
   May in a Manhattan steakhouse, Mr Nygaard said.   
      
   http://news.sky.com/story/1497493/lovelorn-dupe-paid-718000-to-   
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