Her 15 minutes are up

It would have been such a poignant story. If only it were true.
One Tania Head of New York City has told tales of working in the south tower of the World Trade Center, and surviving the attacks of Sept. 11. Five days after her alleged survival, she said she discovered in a hospital that her fiance Dave had perished in the north tower. And that they'd already been living together in the city with a dog named Elvis. They'd been to Hawaii, she said, and would have married after the attack.
Ms. Head, promoting herself as one of 19 survivors from that day, had become the president of the Survivors' Network. She's not any longer.
Turns out, not many people questioned the details of her story. The schools she said she attended have no record of her. Nor does the employer she named. (Merrill Lynch).
Her lawyer told the New York Times she had no comment.
Read it all here.
To what lengths would you go to for such fame? If any at all?