News about Sidney Kimmel

On Monday, Eldridge Bennett, 66, was sentenced to four years in jail for assisting an inmate, Arthur Cofield, in a string of scams. Sidney Kimmel, a Californian billionaire film producer who was behind Crazy Rich Asians and Moneyball, was among the cofield victims. Since being born in a rough neighborhood of Atlanta, Cofield has been in prison since 2007. When he was 16 years old, he was given a 14-year prison term for robbing a bank. He was charged with arranging for a hitman to shoot dead a woman in a relationship with a woman in the summer of 2018 and has pleaded not guilty: the lawsuit is still underway and remains in jail. Eliayah Bennett, Bennett's daughter, had married Cofield online in July 2019. In January, she will be sentenced to prison for her involvement in the fraud. Her father apologised for her "poor decision" on Monday and said he never knew he was involved in money laundering. "One of the dumbest things I've ever done."

A Georgia gang prisoner convicted of 14 years in jail for an armed robbery allegedly impersonated a billionaire while being jailed in a maximum-security jail and looot $11 million to buy a mansion in Atlanta. Arthur Lee Cofield Jr. is accused of obtaining the accounts of Sidney Kimmel, whose entertainment company is behind films including 'Crazy Rich Asians' and 'Moneyball', from inside a Georgia jail with the assistance of contraband cell phones. Prosecutors also said documents showed Cofield stole $2.25 million from an account belonging to Nicole Wertheim, the wife of Florida billionaire Herbert Wertheim, at a recent bond hearing.