NYCs hipster grifter couldnt escape her past so she wrote a tell-all book about it
A 37-year-old Brooklyn woman is coming clean about her shocking past after realizing she couldn’t run from the crimes she’d committed in her early 20s and the internet notoriety it brought her.Kari Ferrell rose to fame in the late aughts as “the hipster grifter” after she swindled dozens of unsuspecting friends, boyfriends and one-night-stands out of hundreds, sometimes thousands, of dollars. She was ultimately arrested for forgery and identity fraud, plead guilty and spent nearly a year in prison.But, as she writes in new memoir, “You’ll Never Believe Me: A Life of Lies, Second Tries, and Things I Should Only Tell My Therapist” (St.
Martin’s Press), even after serving time, she couldn’t escape her past.“I never anticipated that I would be writing a book,” Ferrell told The Post over coffee in Bed-Stuy, where she lives now with her husband of 13 years, Elliot Ensor, and their rescue dog, Gertie. “I wanted to disappear into obscurity, just be a quote-unquote normal person who had a quote-unquote normal life.”In her telling, she started living a life of duplicity at a young age, growing up in the Mormon faith.Ferrell was born in South Korea in 1987 and adopted by a white family who eventually moved to Salt Lake City, Utah.She struggled to fit in.
“I faked being white, faked being a good Mormon girl, faked being straight,” she writes in the book, adding that the Mormon church gave her a “masterclass in the art of manipulation.”“I saw just how gullible people are, and how they will believe anything and everything,” she told The Post.She shoplifted as an adolescent, but when she was 19 or 20, she took her crimes to another level. One day, she told a boyfriend that she was locked out of her bank account due to suspicious activity on her card.She asked if he would cash a check for her for $500.
When the check bounced a couple days later, she feigned disbelief and promised she would get him the money back as soon as she figured out...