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Billion Dollar Whale provides an inside account of Malaysia's 1MDB money-laundering scandal and a nexus of elite wealth, banking, Hollywood and ... × Skiptomaincontent By EtanVlessing PlusIcon EtanVlessing CanadaBureauChief MoreStoriesbyEtan NaomiAckie,ToniCollette,MarkRuffaloJoinRobertPattinsoninBongJoonHo’sSci-FiMovie CoreyHawkins’‘TheLastVoyageoftheDemeter’LandsSummer2023Release HowHollywood’sStreamingBoomDrivesOntario’sProductionJuggernaut:“We’reIncrediblyBusy” ViewAll September27,201810:57am SharethisarticleonFacebook SharethisarticleonTwitter SharethisarticleonEmail Showadditionalshareoptions SharethisarticleonPrint SharethisarticleonComment SharethisarticleonWhatsapp SharethisarticleonLinkedin SharethisarticleonReddit SharethisarticleonPinit SharethisarticleonTumblr HachetteBooks SharethisarticleonFacebook SharethisarticleonTwitter SharethisarticleonEmail Showadditionalshareoptions SharethisarticleonPrint SharethisarticleonComment SharethisarticleonWhatsapp SharethisarticleonLinkedin SharethisarticleonReddit SharethisarticleonPinit SharethisarticleonTumblr SKGlobal,freshfromitsbox-officehitwithCrazyRichAsians,hasnabbedthefilmrightstotheexposéBillionDollarWhale:TheManWhoFooledWallStreet,HollywoodandtheWorld. Thebook,writtenbyWallStreetJournalreportersTomWrightandBradleyHope,recountsamassiveU.S.fraudcasethatensnaredHollywoodstarLeonardoDiCaprioafterawannabeinfiltratedhisinnercircle.BillionDollarWhale providesaninsideaccountofMalaysia’s1MDBmoney-launderingscandalandanexusofelitewealth,banking,Hollywoodandpolitics. NowunderinvestigationbyauthoritiesinMalaysia,Singapore,Luxembourg,Switzerland,andtheU.S.DepartmentofJustice,thetheft—estimatedat$5billion—ranksamongthebiggestcasesoffraudinhistory.ThebookcentersonJhoLow,theheist’sallegedmastermind,whoremainsaninternationalfugitive. DiCaprio’sconnectiontothe1MDBscandaldatesbacktoOctober2009andhisrelationshipwithLow. “TomandBradleyhavecraftedathoroughlycompellingtellingofthisunbelievablestory.Whilecertainlyadaringworkofinvestigativejournalism,thenarrativethreadandeclecticcharactersthattheysodiligentlychroniclemakethebookreadlikeathrillingandengrossingnovel,”SKGlobalpresidentJohnPenottisaidinastatement. “Weareveryproudtobeassociatedwiththisprojectandanticipatemovingforwardveryquicklytoproduction,”headded.SKGlobal’sIvanhoelabelco-financedandco-producedtheWarnerBros.filmCrazyRichAsians.IvanhoealsopremiereditsMandarin-languagefilmCitiesofLastThingsattheTorontoFilmFestival. Itssistercompany,SidneyKimmelEntertainment,alsoproducedandfinancedGreta,anewthrillerfromdirectorNeilJordan,starringIsabelleHuppert,ChloeGraceMoretzandMaikaMonroe. 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