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The wild story of the Italian fraudster who bought MGM – and nearly killed James Bond
The 82-year-old Italian businessman and accused fraudster says he bought MGM – the once mighty Hollywood studio known for its roaring lion emblem – after making a bet in a New York restaurant ...
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Who is Giancarlo Parretti and what happened to him? Inside scandal that rocked Hollywood as tycoon 'who nearly killed off Bond' lifts lid on chaotic MGM purchase in new BBC ...
The FBI was called in and Parretti's grasp on MGM, which famously prefaced its movies with a roaring lion, started to slip. He fled to Mexico and then Italy but who really is he and where is he now?
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MGM's history includes 50 films a year, casinos, a bankruptcy and those ruby slippers. Here's how it survived 100 years
Three words in Latin atop a now iconic roaring lion form the motto of one of the longest-running film studios in Hollywood history: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM). When it peaked, it reached for the ...