"He bought MGM and it unravelled within weeks. The money just wasn't there." ...

The Man Who Definitely Didn’t Steal Hollywood tells the astonishing story of former waiter turned movie mogul, Giancarlo Parretti, who bought the legendary MGM/UA film studio in 1990 with grand plans ...

Giancarlo Parretti has a great story. The 82-year-old Italian businessman and accused fraudster says he bought MGM – the once ...

Waiter turned movie mogul Giancarlo Parretti bought the classic franchise for $1.3billion in 1990 with grand plans to revamp it. But within weeks of his takeover, cheques to Hollywood stars ...

In 1990 an Italian entrepreneur with little knowledge of film or even English bought MGM. There’s no precise parallel, but ...

If you don’t believe that, watching Bafta-winning director John Dower’s feature-length documentary about a ...

But within weeks of Giancarlo Parretti buying MGM for $1.3billion in 1990, with a vow to “make the lion roar again”, he had run half of Tinseltown into the ground. Film production shuddered to ...

The story of Giancarlo Parretti, the flamboyant Italian waiter-turned-financier who bought MGM in 1990 and was ousted and indicted when his takeover deal for the Hollywood studio collapsed ...

Viewers can watch The Man Who Definitely Didn’t Steal Hollywood online from Friday, October 18, when it will be available to ...

Giancarlo Parretti has a great story. 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 ...

One of the biggest deals in Hollywood history took months to complete as Parretti raised money from multiple foreign ...