"When Nigel Bellis went to work as a show runner for Bellum Entertainment in 2017, a friend gave him a warning: They have a habit of not paying on time. Bellis spent the next several months in New Orleans, helping churn out more than 50 episodes of a true-crime TV show called Murderous Affairs. Though his payments came late, they always arrived."
"So when the company's owner, Mary Carole McDonnell, offered him a new role in Los Angeles, he took it. Within a month of arriving in his new town, Bellis found himself sucked into his own true-crime story, as McDonnell was revealed as an alleged fraudster who had duped banks into handing her multimillion-dollar loans by posing as a wealthy heiress of the McDonnell Aircraft family."
"McDonnell and her then-lawyer Barry Rothman allegedly presented the bank with fraudulent documents showing that she had an account with $28m sitting at another institution and a trust worth another $80m. (Rothman died in 2018.) But McDonnell told Banc of California she needed a $15m bridge loan while she was waiting for her trust to pay out the next year, according to a civil complaint brought by the bank."
Nigel Bellis worked as a show runner for Bellum Entertainment in 2017 and produced more than fifty episodes of Murderous Affairs in New Orleans while experiencing delayed payments. Company owner Mary Carole McDonnell recruited him to Los Angeles, where he relocated expecting unpaid wages and relocation assistance; the production company later collapsed still owing him money. McDonnell allegedly posed as a McDonnell Aircraft heiress and presented fraudulent documents claiming a $28m account and an $80m trust to obtain loans. Banc of California gave a $15m bridge loan, later discovered the collateral account did not exist, and McDonnell defaulted and faces federal charges.
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