"He bought MGM and it unravelled within weeks. The money just wasn't there." ...

Giancarlo Parretti has a great story. The 82-year-old Italian businessman and accused fraudster says he bought MGM – the once ...

The Man Who Definitely Didn’t Steal Hollywood tells the astonishing story of former waiter turned movie mogul, Giancarlo Parretti, who bought the legendary MGM/UA film studio in 1990 with grand plans ...

Waiter turned movie mogul Giancarlo Parretti bought the classic franchise for $1.3billion in 1990 with grand plans to revamp it. But within weeks of his takeover, cheques to Hollywood stars ...

But within weeks of Giancarlo Parretti buying MGM for $1.3billion in 1990, with a vow to “make the lion roar again”, he had run half of Tinseltown into the ground. Film production shuddered to ...

In 1990 an Italian entrepreneur with little knowledge of film or even English bought MGM. There’s no precise parallel, but ...

If you don’t believe that, watching Bafta-winning director John Dower’s feature-length documentary about a ...

When a former waiter called Giancarlo Parretti buys the legendary MGM/UA (the studio behind The Wizard of Oz, Gone with the Wind and the James Bond movies) for $1.3 billion in 1990, everyone hopes ...

HE was the knight in shining armour who rode in to save Hollywood’s most prestigious studio from collapse. But within weeks of Giancarlo Parretti buying MGM for $1.3billion in 1990, with a vow to ...

Giancarlo Parretti has a great story. The 82-year-old Italian businessman and accused fraudster says he bought MGM – the once mighty Hollywood studio known for its roaring lion emblem – after ...

Viewers can watch The Man Who Definitely Didn’t Steal Hollywood online from Friday, October 18, when it will be available to ...

The inside story of a scandal that rocked Hollywood. Show more When a former waiter called Giancarlo Parretti buys Hollywood's legendary MGM/UA studio (responsible for classics like The Wizard of ...