However, there have been a couple of times — literally two — that he has been wrong. Carbone has been sued twice by Bachelor producers. Reality TV has, in essence, a system of sanctioned spoilers: events that are filmed in public, or information that pops up in tabloids, in unofficial concert with show producers and representatives. What started off a blog and a hobby turned into a full-time job for Carbone, who makes a pretty decent living spoiling the ending of these reality television shows. Home Hill also informed on the three Boston College Basketball players he claimed had participated in the point shaving scheme, and Paul Mazzei. The police discovered the van and lifted fingerprints that matched those of the perpetrators, who had already been under suspicion. Daniel Simone wrote The Lufthansa Heist in the Narrative Non-Fiction genre`, a unique technique of writing non-fiction books in the fashion of a novel. One of the point shaving scheme cohorts, Paul Mazzei, in possession of $180,000 belonging to Burke, Vario, and Hill, was instructed to go to Las Vegas to bet it on the Boston College games. (For Mr. Higgins’s season, he originally posted that the final dates would be in Greece, but quickly corrected himself when information about Jamaica came in.). Despite making a pretty decent living (he gets paid on ad revenue), Carbone still works out of his home office. Follow Steve Carbone's Instagram account to see all 169 of their photos and videos. “I’ve always liked to write, and I’ve always liked to be very sarcastic and very snarky about things. “People ask, ‘Do you like the show?’ And it’s like, no, if it wasn’t my job, I wouldn’t watch it,” Carbone told Jezebel a couple of years ago. This show makes it easier, but if this show wasn’t my job, would I watch it? Hill agreed, and Simone began debriefing him on a daily basis for an exhaustive two-year period. I never sold myself, never sent articles out. The Lufthansa heist was the subject of national headlines for months to follow, and the book suggests that every law enforcement agent wished to assume control of the investigation, in order to take credit for solving the crime. Hill remained in the Witness Protection Program and toured the country lecturing high school students not to lead the lifestyles of outlaws, advocating to assume law abiding lives. Absolutely not. Mr. Carbone estimates that traffic to his site is much lower — about 80 percent to 90 percent lower — during the spoiling period (as the show is taping, from September to November) than during the actual season, when he recaps the show with signature cheek and also hosts a weekly video chat with fans. Sometimes that’s impossible, as with the most recent season of ABC’s “The Bachelorette,” when Kaitlyn Bristowe posted a video of herself with the winner, Shawn Booth, to Snapchat before the finale aired. On December 11, 1978 at 3:00 a.m., the gunmen entered Lufthansa Cargo Building 261 at Kennedy Airport and held hostage the night staff. Desiree — right up until the last minute when it aired, I was telling people she was engaged to somebody else. His work has had consequences for his personal life: He prefers to meet women through the site, and largely avoids dating people who don’t know about his work. But for the last four years, Mr. Carbone has been making a habit of spoiling the season for “The Bachelor” and its spinoffs in their entirety before they even begin airing, making him the foremost authority on one of reality TV’s signature franchises — and also a thorn in the side of its producers and network. [3] To corroborate Hill's account, Simone solicited the cooperation of Steve Carbone and Ed Guevara, the two FBI agents who spearheaded the Lufthansa investigation, and Ed McDonald, the US Attorney who was in charge of the case. Emmy Award winner, Cayman Grant and her company, Titan Steel Productions, optioned The Lufthansa Heist for a full-feature film adaptation for theatres. READ NEXT: Reality Steve Finally Reveals Spoilers for Hannah B.’s Season, Reality Steve, ‘The Bachelorette’ Blogger: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know, Copyright © 2020 Heavy, Inc. All rights reserved. Thus Werner did not have first-hand knowledge as to who had masterminded and carried out the robbery.