An American alleged conman who faked his death in 2020 and fled to Britain to evade rape charges , only to insist he was someone else when caught, will finally stand trial in Utah , a judge ruled Thursday.
The saga of 37-year-old Nicholas Rossi , whose real name is Nicholas Alahverdian, has played out over a decade across two continents amid a series of increasingly outlandish claims, a fake obituary, and a laughably poor attempt at an English accent.
Rossi appeared in a Salt Lake City courthouse Thursday, where Judge Barry Lawrence ruled prosecutors put forward enough evidence to merit a jury trial…