American Greed: Season 13
Season 13 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of American Greed Season 12.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 13 Progress Shield
The College Admissions Scandal
Aug 12, 2019 · 43 min
College admissions coach Rick Singer accepts money from parents to have their kids admitted to elite colleges.
The Fyre Festival
Aug 19, 2019 · 43 min
Disgraced Fyre Festival founder Billy McFarland uses fraud to launch his brand and a luxury music festival in the Bahamas.
Paul Manafort
Aug 26, 2019 · 43 min
From luxury properties to an ostrich coat, the hard charging political insider uses his influence to fuel a multimillion-dollar mortgage and tax fraud.
Prophets of Greed
Sep 2, 2019 · 43 min
Leaders of a polygamous religious sect demand “Perfect Obedience” from followers, luring them into welfare fraud.
Black Market Dirty Gold
Sep 9, 2019 · 43 min
Three Miami salesmen with gold fever import billions of dollars’ worth of the precious metal from South America.
The House Flipping Reality Star Fraudster
Sep 16, 2019 · 43 min
Trash-talking reality star Scott Menaged ("Property Wars") buys up hundreds of foreclosures in Phoenix, then his money lender discovers that Menaged is a fraud, and the consequence
The Fake Prince's Royal Scam
Jan 6, 2020 · 43 min
An outlandish con artist poses as a Saudi royal to cheat investors out of millions, promising them access to Arabian oil stock.
Diagnosis: Temptress Health Scam
Jan 13, 2020 · 43 min
Entrepreneur Keisha Williams is really a high-rolling shopaholic with a taste for strip clubs and exotic travel; she takes investors for millions of dollars with a can't miss bid t
The Fast and the Fraudulent
Jan 20, 2020 · 43 min
Payday loan scam mastermind, Scott Tucker, swindles millions of cash-strapped borrowers with his convenient online loan business and uses the profits to fuel his race car team drea
Painful Greed Turns Deadly
Jan 27, 2020 · 43 min
Healing turns harmful when pharmacist Barry Cadden chooses profits over safety while running a drug compounding center where mold and bacteria thrive.
Starstruck Studio Swindle
Feb 3, 2020 · 43 min
Carissa Carpenter is an aspiring movie mogul who plans to construct a major movie studio in Northern California. But the feds say that investors end up bankrolling her big-budget l
The Luxury Curse Scam
Feb 10, 2020 · 43 min
From penthouse apartments to a $10 million stadium luxury box, financial advisor Dawn Bennett orchestrates a $20-million-scheme and conjures spells to silence investigators.
Mike “the Situation” Sorrentino
Feb 17, 2020 · 43 min
Mike The Situation Sorrentino flaunts washboard abs and a party boy image, but when it comes to paying his taxes, he’d rather play than pay.
Fake Heiress Cons High Society
Feb 24, 2020 · 43 min
An artsy German heiress Anna Delvey makes a splash in Downtown New York's social scene, but she's really a Russian-born con artist who's trying to swindle $23 million from banks wh
All-Star Sports Scam
Mar 2, 2020 · 43 min
Well-heeled financial advisor Peggy Ann Fulford builds a cache of all-star clients and a personal fortune by convincing A-list players like Dennis Rodman that she’s in their corner
Judgment of Terror
Mar 9, 2020 · 43 min
When a judge in Texas is shot four times, a tip leads investigators to Chimene Onyeri, an aspiring Houston rap artist facing prison after his crooked plots are exposed.