Milo Yiannopoulos 'more than $2m in debt', Australian promoters' documents show

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

Milo Yiannopoulos 'more than $2m in debt', Australian promoters' documents show

Cache details deterioration in relationship between far right activist and his former Gold Coast-based promoters

Jason Wilson
Mon 3 Dec 2018 09.06 GMT Last modified on Mon 3 Dec 2018 09.07 GMT

The far right activist Milo Yiannopoulos was more than $2m in debt during 2018, according to a collection of documents assembled by his former Australian tour promoters and seen by Guardian Australia. Creditors listed in the documents include employees of his company, a wedding venue and his former sponsors, the billionaire Mercer family.

The documents indicate that as of April 2018, Yiannopoulos owed $1.6m to his own company, $400,000 to the Mercers, $153,215 to his former lawyers, $76,574 to former collaborator and Breitbart writer Allum Bokhari, and $20,000 to the luxury jewellery brand Cartier.

As of 2 October, Yiannopoulos owed sums of several thousand dollars to far right writers including Ian Miles Cheong, anti-Islamic ideologue Pamela Geller and science fiction writer Theodore Beale, aka Vox Day, the documents indicate, amongst others.

They were published on the website of an Australian far right figure and United Patriots Front member, Neil Erikson, infamous for subjecting the former senator Sam Dastyari to a torrent of racial abuse in a Sydney pub.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/dec/03/milo-yiannopoulos-more-than-2m-in-debt-australian-promoters-documents-show

[MountCleaners]

1. Of course!

I knew this was coming. He carries expensive handbags and it's part of his branding that he has some fabulous lifestyle....but who pays him? The man is a train wreck. Watch him have a nervous breakdown or go into rehab for opiate addiction, then try to stage a comeback where he's all sorry. Please. I'd feel sorry for him, but he's been awful.

[Initech]

2. I really don't care. Do U?

I'm personally loving watching Trump's most famous supporters like Gavin McInnes and Milo crash and burn.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

11. is there a chart of trump-tastrophes?

[Gothmog]

3. Boo Hoo

[Downtown Hound]

4. Hey Milo! Get a job you bum!

[jmowreader]

9. Ask yourself: Would you hire Milo?

He seems like the kind of person who would stir up discord in my company just because it was Tuesday and he had nothing better to do. Even discounting his political stances, he's not the kind of person I would exchange money for labor with.

[Downtown Hound]

13. I would hire him to clean

Port-a-potties at public parks. Seems a good fit.

[jmowreader]

14. I wouldn't even hire him for that

[unc70]

5. Almost all is owed to himself or the Mercers

Loans between closely held companies and their owners are quite common. The debts to the others are a different matter.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

6. I get it now. This dickhead doesn't want any other

immigrants in the US, UK, Australia, etc. So he can be the only one. Therefore making his scamming/grifting so much easier.

[octoberlib]

7. He's missing that Mercer money.

[TygrBright]

8. Womp womp...

Couldn't happen to a nicer shithead.

The far right is just one big grift.

amusedly,
Bright

[UTUSN]

10. As Tricky Dick said, raising a million ain't nothing!1

[canetoad]

12. And there's this too...

Milo Yiannopoulos tour organiser won't pay $50k Victoria Police bill after violent protests

(*from Dec. 2017)

The promoter of controversial alt-right mouthpiece Milo Yiannopoulos' 'Troll Academy' tour says he will not foot the bill for extra police resources at his Melbourne event.

Promoter Damien Costas, who publishes Penthouse magazine and bankrolled the speaking tour, said Police Minister Lisa Neville's claim his team would be billed at least $50,000 for the cost of the hundreds of police officers required to handle violent protests outside the shows was "political grandstanding".

"We held a perfectly legitimate event," Mr Costas said. "The people that attended, 3000 of our people, we have three hours worth of footage where you actually see them lining up very peacefully.

"The people causing all the trouble and being violent were people not attending the event. If you want to take it further, sue me and I will call every single one of those 3000 people as witnesses."
Police in riot gear prepare to deal with violent clashes between protesters outside the Milo Yiannopoulos event in Kensington on Monday.

https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/milo-yiannopoulos-tour-organiser-wont-pay-50k-victoria-police-bill-after-violent-protests-20171207-h00fvr.html