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Jun 26, 2013 · Federal prosecutors charged Zuriff, 43, a wealthy wannabe Hollywood player and executive producer on Ray Donovan, with being part of a bookmaking operation linked to an alleged international...
May 31, 2022 · Bryan Zuriff, an acclaimed executive producer on shows and miniseries like Ray Donovan and Escape at Dannemora, co-created this recurring spectacle that’s since taken on a life of its own as one of the most successful made-for-TV sporting events of its generation.
Zuriff, who early on took a more hands-on role, independently had the money lined up, but the deal fell apart in the 11th hour, and his backers exited.
Nov 19, 2013 · U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, in a memorandum to U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman, wrote that Zuriff’s high stakes sports book catered to high net worth and celebrity clients, and he used...
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The game started out in the Los Angeles at the home of Tobey Maguireand the players were A-List to say the least. Leonardo DiCaprio made appearances at the tables, Ben Affleck and Matt Damon joined, and Home Alone icon Macaulay Culkindropped in now and again, too. Affleck was quite a good player at the time as in 2004 he won the California State Po...
There were players in this game, however, who wouldn’t lose a minute of sleep over $300,000. They are the likes of Alec Gores and Andy Beal. Israel-born Gores owns about 80 different companies and his net worth is estimated at $2bn. On the Forbes list of the wealthiest people in America, he's #273. Several times Gores and Maguire were invited to bo...
Beal made an everlasting impression in the poker world when he challenged a group of top poker pros in Las Vegas for a series of heads-up matches in Limit Hold’em in the 1980s. The group included players like Phil Ivey, Chip Reese, Barry Greenstein, Gus Hansen, Ted Forrest, Jen Harman, Doyle Brunson and Lyle Berman. Aware that he didn’t have the qu...
Nick Cassavetes, the director of several drama and comedy movies and participant at GSN’s High Stakes Poker came in, as did its commentator Gabe Kaplan, poker playboy Dan Bilzerian, record label owner Cody Leibel, Las Vegas entrepreneur Andrew Sasson and Rick Salomon, whose main claim to fame is an infamous sex tape with Paris Hilton. Lesser known,...
Of course, some players took things a little too far. One of the participants, who wants to remain anonymous, is quoted: “It was known to a handful of us that one player would keep two hookers down the hall of the hotel in another room … He would disappear for 30 minutes at a time, leaving the main players in the game frustrated.” With the game bei...
Things were going downhill, though. The stakes were lower than in the original game and playing became increasingly dangerous because the FBI was investigating many of the participants. After the FBI had found enough evidence they raided numerous places in New York and arrested dozens of players and organizers. At the end of the day 34 people were ...
And Bloom? Just like the Hollywood celebrities she was able to avoid jail time and was released on probation. She’s been lying low for a while but last year HarperCollins announced the upcoming release of the book Molly’s Game, “an insider’s story of excess and danger, glamour and greed.” Bloom has done what many Americans do when they're subsumed ...
Nov 19, 2013 · Bryan Zuriff, who pleaded guilty, is facing a sentence of six to 12 months; the prosecution wants him to serve prison time, but his attorneys are seeking home confinement.
Bryan Zuriff is the executive producer of the hit Showtime series Ray Donovan. He also recently executive produced the Amazon / NBCUniversal series Hysteria starring Mena Suvari.
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