‘Scamanda’: Where Is Amanda Riley Now?

If you’re a true crime fan, past the upcoming ABC bid Scamanda volition soon beryllium your newest obsession.

And if you listened to the podcast connected which the amusement is based, you mightiness already beryllium wondering what became of its infamous con artist, Amanda Riley.

Well, we person the answers you’re looking for!

A promotional representation for the ABC existent transgression bid ‘Scamanda.’ (ABC)

Obviously, the remainder of this nonfiction volition incorporate spoilers galore, truthful if you privation to beryllium amazed by the ending of Scamanda, work nary further!

Who Is ‘Scamanda’ Star Amanda Riley?

For the uninitiated, Amanda Riley was a California woman and parent who gained viral fame erstwhile she went nationalist with her conflict with Stage 3 humor cancer.

Along with the fame came buckets of cash, arsenic thousands of fans offered donations to assistance Amanda and her household successful their courageous battle.

Amanda Riley is the con creator astatine the halfway of ABC’s ‘Scamanda.” (ABC)

But arsenic Amanda’s assemblage grew, truthful did the suspicions astir her claims.

Amanda Riley’s Downfall

When investigative shaper Nancy Mosciatello received a extremity that Amanda mightiness beryllium lying to her fans, she embarked connected a five-year investigation.

The result? Eventually, constabulary and the IRS began conducting investigations of their own.

In 2022, Amanda pleaded blameworthy to defrauding her donors for implicit $100,000 implicit the 8 years that she pretended to beryllium terminally ill.

Now, Amanda is serving a five-year condemnation successful national prison. And according to a caller study from the San Francisco Chronicle, she has yet to springiness up the con.

Prison sources assertion that Amanda is inactive faking the symptoms of her illness.

Amanda Riley is the ‘star’ of ABC’s ‘Scamanda.’ She’s presently down bars. (ABC (YouTube screenshot))

Of course, that’s astir apt portion of her appeals process.

Amanda’s lawyers argued successful tribunal that she suffered from Munchausen syndrome, a information that compels radical to feign unwellness successful bid to person sympathy.

That mightiness beryllium why, according to VICE, Amanda is inactive complaining of thorax pains, caput trauma, and different symptoms, 18 months into her sentence.

Amanda Riley successful happier times. She’s presently serving a five-year situation sentence. (ABC (YouTube screenshot))

The Whole Story

Obviously, we’re getting up of ourselves here. Amanda’s afloat communicative volition soon unfold implicit 4 episodes, opening contiguous connected ABC. Episodes volition beryllium disposable the adjacent time connected Hulu.

Her backstory volition beryllium covered successful the archetypal installment, “Stage 1: Who’s Afraid of Amanda Riley?”

Obviously, that’s not an casual question to answer. Even the radical closest to Amanda didn’t cognize the information astir her situation.

Amanda Riley connected abrogation with her household during a happier clip successful her life. (ABC (YouTube screenshot))

And determination are inactive questions arsenic to however overmuch her husband, Corey Riley, knew astir her scam.

The irony, of course, is that Amanda’s scam was based connected creating a sanction for himself.

Now, she’s astir to go much celebrated than she ever imagined. But not successful the mode that she wanted.