Joan Dangerfield, the widow of comedian Rodney Dangerfield, alleges she was swindled out of a $3.9 million investment in a hologram company.
Dangerfield filed suit Friday in Los Angeles Superior Court, claiming she was “duped by two cut-throat men,” Steve Fox and Peter McMillan III. Dangerfield invested in Rockdome, which she says she believed represented the future of live performance.
“Protected with four issued patents, it would build the world’s first 360-degree virtual theatre immersing a collective audience within a ‘holodeck’ arena where Artists perform in an unparalleled live show/film hybrid, instantly transformable for multiple uses, including eSports and convertible nightclubs, providing the revenue of five venues for the cost of one,” the lawsuit states.
Dangerfield alleges that Fox, the CEO, induced her to invest over and over to pay his “bloated salary and expenses.” She alleges that Fox and McMillan, the founding partner of Willowbrook Capital Group, conspired...
Dangerfield filed suit Friday in Los Angeles Superior Court, claiming she was “duped by two cut-throat men,” Steve Fox and Peter McMillan III. Dangerfield invested in Rockdome, which she says she believed represented the future of live performance.
“Protected with four issued patents, it would build the world’s first 360-degree virtual theatre immersing a collective audience within a ‘holodeck’ arena where Artists perform in an unparalleled live show/film hybrid, instantly transformable for multiple uses, including eSports and convertible nightclubs, providing the revenue of five venues for the cost of one,” the lawsuit states.
Dangerfield alleges that Fox, the CEO, induced her to invest over and over to pay his “bloated salary and expenses.” She alleges that Fox and McMillan, the founding partner of Willowbrook Capital Group, conspired...
- 6/16/2018
- by Gene Maddaus
- Variety Film + TV
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