Sold overpriced esoteric skincare to wealthy nobles
Count Alessandro Cagliostro ran highly exclusive lodges across Europe, promising absolute physical perfection. Behind closed doors, his grand operation mostly consisted of aggressively upselling completely useless, massively overpriced facial serums and bizarre beauty creams to incredibly gullible French aristocrats who just wanted to fix their wrinkles.

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