Nicholas Alahverdian's Tragic Fall

Providence News Today | 2 Min News | The Daily News Now! · Jun 26, 2026 · 1m

Nicholas Alahverdian, known as Nicholas Rossi, has died at 38 after stopping treatment for a pre-existing condition — a death initially reported in 2020 as cancer-related, but later proven false when he was found alive in Scotland. His adoptive father, David Rossi, always believed he was alive and fought to prove it — a fight that ended when Nicholas, posing as an Irish orphan named Arthur Knight, was extradited and eventually confessed to being the convicted rapist behind two Utah trials. David Rossi, who saw Nicholas as a brilliant but troubled child, now mourns the man he believes…