The FBI task force also interviewed middlemen who serve the world’s most famous people. Read more at straitstimes.com.
In an office on Sunset Boulevard back in April 2018, an FBI special agent, an IRS investigator and three Department of Justice prosecutors started off their interrogation of the movie star with gentle questions, according to an FBI summary of the interview. They spoke about his acting career, his charity work and his production company, Appian Way.
DiCaprio was sure his managers had vetted Low before working with him on The Wolf of Wall Street, but he didn’t recall what the background check had found. Kim Kardashian, for instance, told the FBI in February 2019 how she’d met Low and partied with him in Las Vegas. He’d given her fiance at the time, NBA journeyman Kris Humphries, US$100,000 for fireworks at their 2011 wedding.
Kardashian also recounted an unusual money transfer. According to the FBI summary of her interview, she and others – including Wolf of Wall Street co-producers Riza Aziz and Joey McFarland - were at a casino in Las Vegas with Low. Mr Ralph DeLuca, a memorabilia broker, told the agents how he sold associates of DiCaprio and Low US$10 million in vintage movie posters. Famed jeweller Lorraine Schwartz recalled bringing a diamond to a yacht in Monaco for Low to examine and crafting a necklace worth more than US$20 million allegedly for the wife of former Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak, who was sentenced to prison in connection with the 1MDB scandal.
One celebrity drew more attention from investigators than the others: DiCaprio, whose relationship with Low extended far beyond parties and largesse. DiCaprio connected Low with his friends in the art world, technology and real estate. And the pair traded ideas about a megafund of US$1 billion for more films, a Warner Bros theme park in Asia with rides based on DiCaprio movies and the development of an eco-friendly resort in Belize.
“Need to talk about what I think is the ‘cracking of the code’ structure/deal for you,” Mr Yorn wrote to DiCaprio in December 2013. “Been working on it quietly with a few people and I need to take you through it. Could be a game changer. I’m hesitant to tell Jho about it now but I think I might give him a taste.”
The emails show Mr Yorn saw Low as a potential partner in future deals. He told DiCaprio he “would love to get Jho and the boys” to invest in a Cameron Diaz picture and credited Low with inspiring a US$30 million cash offer from Mr Aziz for DiCaprio to star in two other films, The Brigands of Rattleborge and Papillon. None of those deals worked out.
Later, Mr Yorn wrote DiCaprio: “I texted Jho brother. R u having fun? We should rent that island out… with a bunch of hotties. Haha.”
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