Milo Yiannopoulos in More Than $2 Million in Debt, Documents Reportedly Show
Former Breitbart columnist and editor Milo Yiannopoulos has accrued over $2 million in debt during his recent personal and professional pursuits, per documents filed in a recent lawsuit that were reviewed by The Guardian.
Among the debts listed are $1.6 million to Milo, Inc, $400,000 to the Mercer family, who previously supported him financially, $150,000 to law firm he hired for a different lawsuit, $75,000 to a former colleague for their work, $52,000 to the Hawaii resort where he threw his wedding, $20,000 on personal security, and $20,000 to Cartier, though a later email suggests he returned the diamond wedding ring to clear the bill.
He also owed money to other collaborators, including alt-right activist and author Vox Day, anti-Islam activist Pamela Geller, and fringe right media fixture David Horowitz.
Yiannopoulos’s financial history was released by his former tour promoters, Ben Spiller and Dan Spiller, who run Australian Events Management. The brothers were hired by Yiannopoulos for a tour in Australia that ultimately fell through due to a host of scheduling conflicts.
In one email sent by Yiannopoulos, he wrote, “I am less financially secure, more panicked and stressed, and more miserable than when we started.” But in another, the Briton beamed about Australia’s political environment compared to the U.S., thus stressing the need for a successful tour as he is “really seriously considering a move to Australia in the next year or two.”
Other emails released in the suit illustrate Yiannopoulos’s financial issues.
“This is to remind that the attached Meister Seeling & Fein invoices, in the total amount of $153,315, remain due and outstanding,” read one bill from Yiannopoulos’s former law firm. “Of course, the majority of these charges relate to the Simon & Schuster case, which I understand from Alex that you unfortunately settled last week on a walk-away basis, with no payment from Simon & Schuster.”
The firm ended the email by stating they reserve “all rights and remedies against you personally” if the tab isn’t picked up.
Yiannopoulos retaliated to the document dump by calling the Spillers “crooks and clowns” and asking his social media followers to contact the firm with complaints. He also told the Guardian that his $2 million in the red are “company debts, not personal,” adding, “I’m doing fine and bringing in $40k US a month.”
“These documents are not court filings,” he added. “They are a dox.”
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