A self-proclaimed money manager who admitted to stealing millions from celebrity athletes including Dennis Rodman has her sights set on becoming the next Anna Delvey by selling her story - DailyMail.com can exclusively reveal.
Peggy Ann Fulford, 65, claimed she was a Harvard graduate who had amassed a small fortune on Wall Street when pitching her services to sports stars including Rodman and NFL legend Ricky Williams.
She never went to Harvard or made money on Wall Street, with authorities soon discovering that she was actually skimming millions from her A-list clients by taking control of their bank accounts and moving money around to enrich herself.
The blonde conwoman used the stolen funds to create a life of luxury for herself - which included owning a fleet of luxury cars, homes in multiple states, and shopping sprees at Victoria's Secret.
Fulford was eventually busted by the FBI and handed a 10-year prison sentence in 2018, but she was released early last November.
Fraudster Peggy Ann Fulford (pictured), who stole millions from A-list athletes, is hoping to sell her story and make it in Hollywood after being released early from prison
Fulford's victims included NBA superstar Dennis Rodman (left) and NFL legend Ricky Williams (right)
The self-proclaimed money manager claimed she was a Harvard graduate who had amassed a small fortune on Wall Street when pitching her services to sports stars including Rodman
Now DailyMail.com can reveal that the fraudster is trying to cash in on her crimes by shopping a book or television deal based on her 13-year grift.
While Fulford's story is being told in season five of the hit true crime podcast Queen of the Con: The Athlete Whisperer, the 65-year-old has been trying to sell her story herself for years - dating back to her time in prison.
Dailymail.com spoke to multiple sources who confirmed that Fulford, with the help of family members, has been trying to land a lucrative deal since at least 2021.
There's also reportedly been interest from Halle Berry on playing Fulford - which has no doubt delighted the genetically-blessed jailbird.
Fulford's Hollywood dreams are outlined in detail in an upcoming episode of the Queen of the Con podcast.
'She's planning a big comeback. She wants a book, she wants a movie, she wants an Anna Delvey-type comeback. She wants HBO and other streamers to back the truck up and pay her for her life story,' host Johnathan Walton said.
TV producer Andrena Hale, who produced a BET documentary on Fulford's crimes called American Gangster: Trap Queens in 2019, also confirmed that Fulford's son Elkin moved to Hollywood with the purpose of selling his mother's story.
'She wanted to be in Hollywood and I think that's why Elkin came to Los Angeles. I don't know if he's still here, but that was his thing - to push that whole Peggy narrative,' she claimed on Queen of the Con.
'Because he always said, "When my mother gets out of prison, we're going to be rich again".'
Halle Berry (pictured) has reportedly been interested in playing Peggy in a film or TV series
Fulford, with the help of family members, has been trying to land a lucrative deal to sell her story since at least 2021
Fulford's outrageous story is being told in season five of the hit true crime podcast Queen of the Con: The Athlete Whisperer
There are existing 'Son of Sam Laws' designed to keep criminals from profiting financially from the publicity created by their crimes.
However, there are various workarounds to the law that still make it possible to potentially profit from misdeeds.
Before her arrest, Fulford had pitched her very own reality series in 2011 called The Peggy Show, which would follow her as a high-flying money manager to the stars.
She filmed a sizzle reel for the project and eventually got a deal with the BET network for a pilot, but the show never made it to air.
While Fulford's crimes have been the subject of multiple documentaries in the past, Queen of the Con: The Athlete Whisperer features brand new information about her schemes, quest for fame, and sordid personal life - including her five marriages.
Queen of the Con also reveals the shocking details of how Fulford was able to get an early release from prison despite being handed a 10-year sentence.
Before being locked up in late 2018, Fulford lived a life of luxury that most people could only ever dream of - and it was all off the backs of the celebrity clients she scammed.
In addition to Dennis Rodman and Ricky Williams, her other victims included NBA guard Travis Best and NFL running back Lex Hilliard.
'The two Bentleys and the Maserati in her Fort Lauderdale driveway were purchased with stolen funds, not to mention four Benzes, three Range Rovers, a Porsche and a Rolls-Royce Ghost,' Sports Illustrated reported in 2019.
'There was jewelry and clothing. Rent on a condo at Trump Towers in Miami, along with hefty mortgage installments for homes in multiple states, private school tuition, international flights and nearly $2 million in American Express bills—all of it creating the smokescreen of someone who'd worked hard and earned big.'
Before her arrest, Fulford had pitched her very own reality series in 2011 called The Peggy Show, which would follow her as a high-flying money manager to the stars
Before being locked up in late 2018, Fulford lived a life of luxury that most people could only ever dream of - which included a waterfront mansion in Fort Lauderdale (pictured)
The scammer also rented a luxury apartment in the Trump Towers in Miami
That smokescreen was blown wide open when Fulford's clients found themselves unable to afford groceries or pay taxes, and in some cases having their homes and cars threatened with repossession despite their multimillion-dollar contracts.
Even that took some time too however, with these men unable to accept that the woman they called 'Mama' would steal everything they had worked so hard to build.
Fulford was able to move around without notice for so long thanks in part to her multiple aliases, having been married five times in the past.
Her pitch began with her falsely telling her celebrity victims that she graduated from Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School.
She then offered to work for free because she had made millions on Wall Street 'by buying and selling hospitals,' according to federal prosecutors.
Fulford also said that she made a tidy profit on real estate in the Bahamas.
'She never requested a fee because she told the victims she already had millions of dollars and just wanted to protect them from losing their money. However, she used most of their money, or intended to use most of their money, for her own personal purposes,' stated federal prosecutors at the time of her indictment.
'Fulford communicated with victims in person, by phone and by email, inducing them to open or give her access to bank accounts which she raided and used for personal expenses such as luxury cars, real estate, jewelry and airline tickets.'
Court papers filed by Rodman show just how frequently she moved money around, with the amount of money in one of his accounts varying by tens of thousands of dollars on any given day.
'She offered to manage their expenses for them and use their money exclusively to pay their bills, including their income tax payments and/or to make retirement investments for them,' said federal prosecutors.
'Instead, Fulford diverted millions of victim funds that she laundered through dozens of bank accounts to pay for her own personal expenses.'
She was sentenced to 10 years in prison in November 2018 after agreeing to plead guilty to one of the charges against her in court.
Fulford became a mother figure for Rodman and scammed him out of $1.24million
She was able to squeeze more than $3million out of NFL star Ricky Williams
The glamorous con artist was sentenced to a decade behind bars, but was able to get out early
Rodman says his losses were over $2million, while Williams lost $6million as a result of Fulford's scams.
She was able to put off her clients each time questions were raised, and quickly shift around funds, while also neglecting to pay things like their mortgages and taxes.
In Rodman's case, she stopped making support payments to the mother of his child.
She was also ordered to pay $5,794,870 in restitution to the victims.
Despite getting sentenced to 10 years behind bars -the maximum sentence- Fulford was released last year after serving just half of her time.
According to The Guardian, the 65-year-old is now living in a private residence or halfway house and will remain there until April, 2026.
Halfway house residents are requires to gain employment, may also have access to a cell phone or car, and can apply for four-hour recreational weekend passes.
Court records show that Fulford requested compassionate leave in 2020, citing her age, her desire to care for her ailing father, and her good behavior and work ethic behind bars.
Her scandalous story was most notably told in CNBC’s American Greed, BET’s American Gangster: Trap Queens, and now on Queen of the Con with never-before-heard details.
Dailymail.com has contacted Fulford and Halle Berry for comment.
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