Best Actor

Maybe the only quicker way to make money than running a casino is running a ponzi scheme. In The New Yorker, the always-excellent Evan Osnos provides the details on one such effort performed by a struggling actor. Master of Make-Believe. “Zach Horwitz was charged with thirteen counts of fraud, in the service of what prosecutors called an ‘intricate illusion’—the largest Ponzi scheme in Hollywood history. He had raised more than six hundred and ninety million dollars by deceiving hundreds of investors, beginning with his closest friends. A woeful actor onscreen turned out to have been an astonishingly convincing performer in life.” Ironically, this story reads like the treatment for a movie or limited series. Maybe they should make it into one and give a piece of the action to all the folks that got ripped off by Zach Horowitz.