Ep. - 1435 - HOLLYWOOD HUSTLER: GLITZ, GLAM, SCAM
Reality Life with Kate Casey
Kate Casey
4.4 • 7K Ratings
🗓️ 21 October 2025
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Rebecca Chaiklin, director and executive producer of Hollywood Hustler: Glitz, Glam, Scam on Prime Video.
From courtside seats to a $5.7 million mansion, aspiring actor Zach Horwitz appeared to have it all, but behind the picture-perfect facade lurked one of Hollywood’s most audacious financial scams. The series reveals the shocking true story of how an Indiana transplant orchestrated a massive Ponzi scheme to finance his dreams of Hollywood stardom.
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| 0:00.0 | Your first great love story is free when you sign up for a free 30-day trial at audible.com. |
| 0:05.5 | U.K.S. Wondery. That's audible.com.com. UK slash Wondery. |
| 0:11.7 | The amazing Kate Casey. |
| 0:15.7 | Welcome back for another episode of Reality Life with Kate Casey. |
| 0:18.9 | Today's episode, I've got a great scammer story for you. |
| 0:22.4 | Now, this is a prime video three-part doc series. It is called Hollywood Hustler, Glitz, |
| 0:27.9 | glam, scam. Now, you know I love a great scammer story, and I truly believe one of the best |
| 0:34.1 | places to live if you were a grifter is in Southern California. |
| 0:38.7 | Because very few people ask the necessary questions that would reveal you to be the liar that you are. |
| 0:46.9 | People sort of just kind of believe your BS. |
| 0:50.2 | And this is certainly one of those stories. |
| 0:52.9 | So Zach Horwitz wasn't a Hollywood insider. He was just a kid from |
| 0:56.3 | Indiana, charming, ambitious, and determined to make it big. Friends from the University of Indiana |
| 1:02.4 | remember him as the guy with big dreams and even bigger confidence. After graduation, he headed |
| 1:08.7 | out west, chasing the same fantasy that's drawn so many hopefuls before him. |
| 1:13.7 | He wanted to become a star. |
| 1:15.4 | In Los Angeles, he reinvented himself as Zach Avery, the actor. |
| 1:20.5 | He appeared in a few small films. |
| 1:22.6 | He worked the red carpets and built a life that looked like success, |
| 1:27.2 | courtside lancard seats, luxury cars, and a $5.7 million |
| 1:32.3 | Beverly Wood mansion. But beneath the surface, it was all smoke and mirrors. Behind the glitz, |
| 1:39.5 | he was running a massive financial con, one that would become one of Hollywood's boldest Ponzi schemes. |
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