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Francesco Caprio claims to be everything from a photographer, writer, filmmaker, & cosmologist. It has been reported that he is also a con artist and sexual predator.

As a photographer, Caprio claims to have worked with a long list of celebrities, four presidents, and acclaimed dancers. His work has been featured in publication such as The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, TIME, NEWSWEEK, Forbes, Harpers Bazaar (UK), and LIFE Magazine, as well as one-artist exhibitions in New York City, Miami, Baltimore, and Washington, DC. In Miami Beach he was presented with the Key to the City for outstanding photography.

Caprio is currently producing a documentary film, which promotes coexistence and global nonviolence. Most recently, however, he has been discovered to be a fraud, a con artist, and a sexual predator whose main victim preference is that of young women 30-40 years his junior. Reports have been filed against him. Many reports, which were found on ripoffreport.com, state theft, lying, manipulating, and sexual harassment. Francesco caprio also seems to go by another name- Frank Caprio- a name in which under has been found multiple reports stating fraud. Old clients believe he pursued life in the west coast to continue scamming people. Francesco has failed to come forward to speak about all these accusations, often setting up fake accounts on the internet, masking himself as "women" who supposedly worked with him to debunk real people who he's scammed. He's reported to have interns from UCLA but some of his clients have stated that no interns were around st the time of shooting. He is said to have sociopathic and narcissistic personalities. Francesco Caprio has removed his photography website and has not been active on the social network for some time since his last accusations in 2016.

Photography
Caprio’s subjects span a long list, which include the likes of Steven Spielberg, the Dalai Lama, President Reagan , President Carter , The Queen of Thailand, David Bowie , Halle Berry , Sarah Jessica Parker , Bruce Willis , Stevie Nicks , David Letterman , Tony Bennett , Justin Bieber, Cindy Crawford, Sophia Loren, Richard Dreyfuss , Betty White , Muhammad Ali , and astronaut Neil Armstrong.

Dance
Caprio has photographed ballerinas and modern dancers from many of the world’s leading dance companies for 20 years. His dance work is now a permanent collection that travels America for exhibit.

Motion picture/TV photography
For 7 years Caprio worked as a Special Unit Photographer on TV and film sets that included NBC, Universal Studios, and PBS.

Other
For two years, in his hometown of Washington, DC, Caprio was a member

of the U.S. Senate Gallery of Photographers. During that time he photographed First Lady Barbara Bush at The White House.

Cosmology
Caprio has three decades of self-taught theoretical physics knowledge, and has been interviewed and published by various space and technical publications such as Robot Magazine. A decade ago Caprio called for civil rights legislation for future sentient robots, stating, “It’s the right thing to do, and it could help avert a robot revolution and promote coexistence.”

Occasionally Caprio lectures on the following subjects: a grand tour of the solar system, a permanent human settlement on Mars, space tourism, and near-future sentient robots (robots that will have thought and feeling). His friends and photo subjects have included Carl Sagan, Isaac Asmiov, Ray Bradbury, Douglas Adams, and for over 20 years one of his best friends was astronaut Neil Armstrong.

Awards

 * Award of Merit for Photography – the highest award given by the Alexandria Art League (Virginia)
 * The Good Neighbor Award – for televised appearances encouraging  people to adopt pets (Washington, DC)
 * The Key to the City of Miami Beach – for outstanding photography for the television series “Miami Vice”.

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