Paper Heiress

Hotel Larkspur, SoHoSoHo Manhattan neighborhood in New York known for galleries, boutiques and cast-iron buildings., New York, Tuesday, 10 am, 2017. Management has discovered that the wire transfer receipts paying for suite 1104 never reached any bank.

The guest, Saskia Ehrhardt, 26, a "German heiress" who hands out hundred-dollar bills and says she is building an art club in Manhattan, owes the hotel more than $30,000. Three of her checks have bounced, and a neighborhood bank wants back the $100,000 it lent her on the strength of the statements she presented.

The hotel locked the suite and called the police before the guest could pack her bags.

Three people lived in the shadow of that fortune. One of them knows who drew up every piece of paper.

Lobby of a SoHoSoHo Manhattan neighborhood in New York known for galleries, boutiques and cast-iron buildings. boutique hotel, with green velvet armchairs and clipped invoices on the desk.