For Producers, Studios & Agents
The Crown meets Fargo. Real, and darker. A seventeen-year-old heiress vanishes from Washington twenty-six days before inheriting a $10 million estate, roughly $150 million today, and resurfaces in Caracas married and holding a newborn. Sixty years of court fights, four languages of press, and a family that kept every document. Developed as a six-to-eight-episode limited series.
The Package
Underlying IP
Completed memoir manuscript in final edit, written by the granddaughter of the heiress. Sole author, sole rights holder.
Primary Archive
About 144 original documents, 1965 to 1966: The Washington Post, The Evening Star, BILD, BLICK, El Mundo, the Caracas press, court papers, letters, photographs.
Life Rights
One signature. Life rights, the memoir and the archive come from a single point of contact. No estate committee, no split chain of title.
Settings
Washington, Caracas, Zurich, 1965. Convent schools and coffee fortunes, oil-boom Venezuela, Swiss banks. Built for international co-production.
The Hook
The Washington Post covered the disappearance on its front page. Per the family records, the Post journalist who later asked to write the book was one of the two reporters who broke Watergate.
Why Now
The sixtieth anniversary of the disappearance. The story has never been told; the woman at the center of it never spoke. Her granddaughter is telling it first.
What Happens Next
Request the pitch materials: logline, series treatment territory, sample pages from the memoir, and supervised access to the archive. Materials go out within one business day.
Elisabeth Hitz · author & rights holder · Barcelona / remote · works in EN ES DE FR IT