Sylvia Browne, MD

Hilarious. But also sad because this kind of shameless confidence is what her entire con ran on. She scammed so many, I've read some horror stories on Reddit about elderly parents stopping all medical care and just watching her shows and buying her CDs constantly.

We've had great threads about her on DL as well over the years. She's cold reading Hogan down in hell as I type, no doubt.

Her son wrote a book; My Life with Sylvia Browne

That son looks like family.

There were scandals involving Browne:

Banks suffered losses from loans to her businesses.

Browne and her husband sold gold-mining securities under false pretenses.

Parents of missing/abducted children sought her insight. Browne's accuracy about missing children was absolutely zilch.

From Wiki:

Browne made many public pronouncements which were subsequently proven false. Among the more notable incidents were the following:

In 2002, Browne informed the parents of 11-year-old Shawn Hornbeck, who had disappeared earlier that year, that he had been kidnapped by a dark-skinned Hispanic man with dreadlocks and was now deceased.[21][22] Hornbeck was found alive in 2007; his kidnapper was Caucasian and short-haired.[23] In June 2008, the UK television network ITV2 was sanctioned by Ofcom for re-airing the episode of The Montel Williams Show featuring Browne's original prediction.[24][25]

In November 2004, Browne told the mother of kidnapping victim Amanda Berry, who had disappeared nineteen months earlier: "She's not alive, honey." Browne also said that Berry was "in water", and that she had had a vision of Berry's jacket in the garbage with "DNA on it".[26] Berry's mother died two years later believing her daughter had been killed. Berry was found alive in May 2013.[27][28]

On Larry King Live in 2003, Browne predicted that she would die at age 88. She died in 2013, at age 77.[29][30]

[quote]She's cold reading Hogan down in hell as I type, no doubt.

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