Tim Leissner was a wild dude.
In 2014, he married Kimora Lee Simmons, while he was still married to his first wife. Leissner gave Simmons photoshopped documents showing that he was divorced, and created a fake email account in his wife's name, pretending to be her in order to convince Simmons that he was really divorced.
Even as a Partner at Goldman, he once seduced and got engaged to a female CEO in an attempt to win her business, and "converted" to Islam to win a big Indonesian mandate.
But the real mastermind of the 1MDB fraud was Jho Low, a nerdy, fat kid who leveraged his relationship with the Malaysian Prime Minister (who is also now in jail) to pretend to be a hotshot financier.
After stealing $4 billion, he paid out $1 billion in bribes, kicked back $150 million to Leissner, and then spent the rest on real estate, a private jet, a $120 million yacht, a $50 million Basquiat, and a $20 million diamond necklace.
He financed "The Wolf of Wall Street," hosted parties in Vegas and St. Tropez, and paid Britney Spears, Kim Kardashian, and Paris Hilton to show up.
He also gave Miranda Kerr $8 million in jewelry to be his girlfriend, and bought Marlon Brando's Academy Award, which he gave to Leonardo DiCaprio as a birthday gift, along with a Picasso.
He is currently a fugitive on the run in Malaysia.
Great book called Billion Dollar Whale
https://www.amazon.com/Billion-Dollar-Whale-audiobook/dp/B07G9JJ6TB
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Bless his heart for going that extra step. And also that completely erases all his sins.
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