The mysterious death of the teenager who posed as a Russian billionaire – podcast

The journalist Patrick Radden Keefe on trying to unravel the double life and tragic death of 19-year-old Zac Brettler – and what it tells us about London’s dark underbelly For decades, London has been a magnet for global wealth, a flashy playground for the super-rich. To one teenage boy, it contained an elite scene he desperately wanted to be part of: the oligarch class. Not just rich, but powerfully connected billionaires who amassed such huge fortunes with so few questions asked that they h...

By Presented by Nosheen Iqbal with Patrick Radden Keefe; produced by Guy Szafman, Alex Atack and Brian McNamara; executive producer Homa Khaleeli