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🗓️ 2 April 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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In 2016 Alanis Morissette discovered that her business manager had embezzled $4.7 million of her money. Jonathan Schwartz was at rehearsals with Beyonce when he realised that his six-year addiction and gambling problem had been discovered. Jonathan is a former wealth manager to the stars who went to prison for his crimes. He is now sober and this is his story back to humility and redemption.
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0:00.0 | I dreamt that you were twisting through seven suns of gold and the gypsy was insisting |
0:10.2 | that story must be told I came two in the morning but I took it as a warning that you might be a treasure. |
0:22.4 | I could touch but never hold. |
0:27.7 | Hey, everybody. |
0:28.9 | Welcome back to the Sober 4 podcast. |
0:31.3 | And I am joined today. |
0:32.2 | I think you guys are going to really find this story interesting by Jonathan Schwartz. |
0:36.0 | Welcome, Jonathan. |
0:37.0 | Thank you for having me. |
0:38.5 | So I'm going to read this introduction because it's going to set the scene of what we're going |
0:44.2 | to talk about today. So Jonathan was once a towering figure in Hollywood's elite financial |
0:50.9 | circles, lived a life that many could only dream of. As a power entertainment |
0:56.0 | business manager at GSO business management, Schwartz was entrusted with managing the wealth |
1:01.7 | of some of the biggest names in the entertainment industry, including Beyonce, Mariah Carey, |
1:06.7 | Alanis Morissette, Lincoln Park, and Gwyneth Peltro. His reputation as one of Hollywood's |
1:12.2 | most trusted financial advisors earned him the moniker Diva whisperer, a reflection of his |
1:17.3 | ability to cater to the unique needs of his high-profile clients. However, beneath the surface |
1:23.8 | of this seemingly perfect life, Schwartz was hiding a dark secret. Consumed by a monstrous |
1:30.0 | drug habit and an uncontrollable gambling addiction, Schwartz began to embezzle millions from his |
1:36.3 | clients to fund his destructive lifestyle. His double life was a carefully constructed house of |
1:41.7 | cards built on lies and deceit, which ultimately came |
1:45.0 | crushing down in 2016 when Alanis Morissette discovered that Schwartz had stolen 4.7 million |
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