Between 1949 and 1981, a man in the US married as many as 105 women without divorcing any of them, making him the distinction of most bigamist spouse.
The wives of Giovanni Vigliotto were strangers to one another and to the husbands they wed, according to the Guinness Book of World Records.
Vigliotto wed more than a hundred ladies in 14 foreign nations and 27 different US states. Each time he wed someone, he assumed a false identity.
Although he had been using that name when he married his previous wife, Giovanni Vigliotto was not his genuine name. On their first date, he would pop the question to his wives, and then leave with their money and belongings.
Vigliotto then sold the items he stole from his wives at flea markets where he would look for his potential new victims.
But, Vigliotto’s situation deteriorated when his final victim, Sharon Clark, made the decision to take matters into her own hands and search for the offender. On December 28, 1981, he was detained.
For marrying Clark while also being married to Patrician Ann Gardiner, the guy was accused of bigamy and fraud.
“The police have this thing all wrong. I don’t recall half a dozen times when I had to ask anyone to marry me. It was always the women who popped the question,” Vigliotto said in an interview.
He also said that he treated the women he married well. “If the rest of the men in the United States don’t treat women that way, then I’m sorry for the women in this country,” he added.
During his 1983 trial, Giovanni Vigliotto alleged that Nikolai Peruskov was his real name. Together with his 105 spouses’ names and addresses, he also revealed 50 identities he used while engaging in fraud.
The defendant received a 34-year prison term and a $336,000 fine. Vigliotto died in 1991 at the age of 61 from a brain hemorrhage after spending the final eight years of his life in an Arizona prison.
