Nicholas Alahverdian gave up the whole lie on Wednesday – the four-year ruse of his fake death, the bogus accent he'd adopted as Irishman Arthur Knight, the years of insistence before television cameras that he was not a Rhode Island con man accused of what he once himself called “despicable acts.”

Nicholas Alahverdian, the man accused of faking his own death and moving to the United Kingdom to avoid rape charges, admitted for the first time in court Wednesday that he changed his name upon leaving the country.