Episode 3: Mr. Goldman, Mr. Sex

Hot Money: Agent of Chaos

Pushkin Industries & Financial Times

Technology, Health & Fitness, Sexuality, Business, Society & Culture

4.6 • 619 Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

When Fabian Thylmann ran into trouble with the law, a former Goldman Sachs banker swooped in to buy his porn sites. But nobody knew who he was. He managed to keep his identity a secret for years --- until Patricia rumbled his game.

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0:00.0	Pushkin.
0:08.8	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:15.4	Not every episode in this series will contain explicit sex talk.
0:19.6	This one doesn't.
0:23.0	This one is about the kinky finance.
0:26.6	Last time on Hot Money,
0:28.7	a guy named Fabian Tillman borrowed hundreds of millions of dollars
0:30.6	from Wall Street bankers to buy up porn sites
0:33.3	around the world.
0:34.8	He called his global porn empire Manwen.
0:40.1	That's all you need to remember for today's show.
0:52.5	This episode begins in December 2012. Think of a rainy day in Brussels, which is about any day in Brussels. Fabian Tillman is about to walk out of his
0:55.6	mansion in a leafy suburb. A Learjet is waiting to take him to London, where he's meeting
1:00.8	some bankers, the kind of people who helped him become the undisputed king of world porn.
1:06.0	But just as Fabian is about to leave, he gets a visit, one that pretty much ends his porn career.
1:14.1	The police knock on his door.
1:17.8	Fabian never makes it to London.
1:20.2	Instead, he's arrested for suspected tax evasion and taken into custody.
1:26.1	How long were here in the prison? Not long.
1:28.3	18 days, I think.
1:29.3	18 days?
1:30.3	Yeah.
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