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

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

Waiter turned movie mogul Giancarlo Parretti bought the classic franchise for $1.3billion in 1990 with grand plans to revamp ...

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 ...

The Man Who Definitely Didn’t Steal Hollywood tells the astonishing story of former waiter turned movie mogul, Giancarlo ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Also, Bob and Paul are in North Norfolk fishing for sea trout and BBC Two profiles the man who 'definitely didn't steal ...