Article: Inside Story: The dud De Niro; If you looked so much like a famous movie star you could make a living out if it, would you? One New Yorker did... and much, much more.(Features)

Byline: John Parrish

Robert De Niro was furious. As a world-famous movie star he knew even the smallest snippet of information about his life could make headlines. But the piece in the New York newspaper on 13 July 1999 was blatant fiction. It claimed he'd picked up a woman in a bar in the exclusive Hamptons area and then spent the night with her. But he'd never met her. And he'd been nowhere near the Hamptons.

So, who had the star struck woman slept with? It was Joseph Manuella, a would-be actor, who'd traded on his uncanny resemblance to the star to ...

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