Episode 3: Mr. Goldman, Mr. Sex

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06/14/22 • 32 min

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When Fabian Thylmann ran into trouble with the law, a former Goldman Sachs banker swooped in to buy his porn sites. But nobody knew who he was. He managed to keep his identity a secret for years --- until Patricia rumbled his game.

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Episode 2: The Darth Vader of Porn

A decade ago, a computer programmer named Fabian Thylmann began to build one of the biggest porn empires in the world.

How did Fabian do it? He was good with money in a business that was starved of finance. He convinced Wall Street to bankroll his vision to take control of the industry.

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Episode 4: Playboy vs. Rusty and Edie

How is it legal for porn sites to host millions of videos uploaded by users? The answer is in the story of an Ohio family in the early 1990s.

In this episode: a family IT business, an FBI raid and a court case that set the precedent for porn – and for tech giants like Facebook and Twitter.

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Hot Money: The New Narcos - Episode 3: Mr. Goldman, Mr. Sex

Transcript

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Pushkin. Not every episode in this series will contain explicit sex talk. This one doesn't. This one is about the kinky finance. Last time on Hot Money, a guy named Fabian Tilman borrowed hundreds of millions of dollars from Wall Street bankers to buy up porn sites around the world. He called his global porn empire Man Win. That's all you need to remember for today's show. This episode begins in December twenty twelve. Think of a rainy day in Bru