NYC Man Somehow Spends His Entire Wealth on Psychic in Quest for Love

Love don't cost a thing -- unless a psychic tells you otherwise.

A New York man went through great lengths -- including actually doling out $170,000 to purchase two bridges -- to make Michelle, the woman he loved, love him back, but in doing so, he lost everything at the hands of a Manhattan psychic.

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The psychic, Priscilla Kelly Delmaro, is accused in a police report of scamming the lovesick man out of his entire wealth over the course of 20 months.

According to the New York Times, the unnamed man started to spend thousands of dollars on visits to the psychic, who reassured him that the woman he was after did, in fact, love him back. She claimed that there were "evil spirits" after Michelle, and so the man began to bring gifts to Delmaro to ward off those spirits.

For almost two years, Delmaro demanded -- and received -- money for rent, a $40,000 Tiffany's engagement ring, and a $30,000 rose gold Rolex watch in lieu of the time machine she originally asked for.

The man also paid Delmaro $80,000 supposedly for an 80-mile bridge, and then another $90,000 for a separate bridge.

"I thought to myself, ‘I have the money just sitting in the bank,’" the man said.

Overall, the man lost $713,975 and Michelle in the process. The woman died in 2014 of an apparent drug overdose.

The psychic promised to reincarnate Michelle's spirit into another woman's body. Once the man met the new woman, he was disappointed that she did not appear to be at all like Michelle so he decided to turn to law enforcement.

“This caused me to start thinking that Delmaro wasn’t everything she was purporting to be," he said.

(H/T New York Times)