Pertti Ylermi Lindgren

Pertti Ylermi Lindgren (born 13 April 1936 in Turku, Finland, died 19 February 2015 in Stockholm, Sweden) was a Finnish confidence trickster, actor and entertainer.

[1][2] Lindgren claimed to have been engaged to be married 76 times, and spent three and a half years in jail for associated embezzlement.

He posed as a member of the Swedish aristocracy, using the names Tage Efraim Melin, Bernhard af Creutz, Toni Peter William Axel Alexander Oscar Oxenstierna and Gunnar af Heidenstam, as well as a priest, an archaeologist and an Italian bank manager.

[2] He claimed he was able to adopt a convincingly aristocratic manner from living with the Swedish Tegelund family as a wartime evacuee.

[3] He portrayed himself in an autobiographical film, Kreivi, 1971, directed by Peter von Bagh.