EXCLUSIVE: David Peter Bloom was a Wall Street whiz kid convicted of securities fraud for defrauding investors of almost $15M and earlier this summer was arrested on suspicion of 12 counts of grand theft in LA for a scheme run out of Hollywood hipster dive bar Frolic Room that entangled The Hills star Caroline D’Amore.
It’s just the kind of story that you can imagine as a docuseries and a podcast. Enter former Evolution Media boss Alex Baskin and Aliza Rosen’s AYR Media, which are prepping both.
Baskin and Rosen are developing King Con: The Whiz Kid (w/t) to track Bloom’s decades of deceit, shedding light on previously unknown scams and victims, as well as the high-profile ruses that landed Bloom behind bars and in the press.
First up is the podcast, which will be narrated by Caroline D’Amore, who starred in MTV’s The Hills: New Beginnings, who recently revealed her own experience with Bloom, which involved him impersonating the president of a major grocery store franchise as part of his elaborate scheme.
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