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Pierce is active in the Bitcoin/Blockchain ecosystem, with numerous speaking engagements, conference activities, and community involvement. In May 2014, Pierce was elected Director of the Bitcoin Foundation.[5] Pierce is founder and managing partner at Blockchain Capital,[6] a venture capital firm that is amongst the most active venture capital firms in Fintech.[7]
Pierce supports non-profit and advocacy efforts, and is a member of the Clinton Global Initiative.[8] He has been a guest lecturer at the Milken Global Conference,[9] Singularity University,[10] Stanford, USC, Caltech,[11] and UCLA.
In 2000 three young actors filed a civil lawsuit claiming Pierce sexually abused them, also naming fellow Digital Entertainment Network executives Chad Shackley and Marc Collins-Rector.[1]
Running DEN out of a Los Angeles mansion, Collins-Rector and his two business partners - his boyfriend at the time, Chad Shackley and Pierce - hosted lavish parties attended by Hollywood’s gay A-list.[11] It was at those parties that Collins-Rector and others allegedly sexually assaulted half a dozen teenage boys, according to two sets of civil lawsuits, the first filed in 2000 and the second in 2014.[12][13]
First set of lawsuits Edit
In 2000, three DEN employees filed lawsuits against Collins-Rector, Shackley and Pierce. The plaintiffs Michael Egan, Alexander Burton (who played Pyro in the film X-Men) and Mark Ryan complained that the three defendants sexually assaulted and abused them severely. Collins-Rector did not respond to the suit, and the plaintiffs were awarded a multimillion-dollar default judgement, according to court records. Others who were plaintiffs in lawsuits accusing Collins-Rector of sexual abuse
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DevilintheDetails ago
Sorry! I could have linked Wikipedia info but was lazy! Here you go:
Pierce is active in the Bitcoin/Blockchain ecosystem, with numerous speaking engagements, conference activities, and community involvement. In May 2014, Pierce was elected Director of the Bitcoin Foundation.[5] Pierce is founder and managing partner at Blockchain Capital,[6] a venture capital firm that is amongst the most active venture capital firms in Fintech.[7]
Pierce supports non-profit and advocacy efforts, and is a member of the Clinton Global Initiative.[8] He has been a guest lecturer at the Milken Global Conference,[9] Singularity University,[10] Stanford, USC, Caltech,[11] and UCLA.
In 2000 three young actors filed a civil lawsuit claiming Pierce sexually abused them, also naming fellow Digital Entertainment Network executives Chad Shackley and Marc Collins-Rector.[1]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brock_Pierce
DevilintheDetails ago
Running DEN out of a Los Angeles mansion, Collins-Rector and his two business partners - his boyfriend at the time, Chad Shackley and Pierce - hosted lavish parties attended by Hollywood’s gay A-list.[11] It was at those parties that Collins-Rector and others allegedly sexually assaulted half a dozen teenage boys, according to two sets of civil lawsuits, the first filed in 2000 and the second in 2014.[12][13]
First set of lawsuits Edit In 2000, three DEN employees filed lawsuits against Collins-Rector, Shackley and Pierce. The plaintiffs Michael Egan, Alexander Burton (who played Pyro in the film X-Men) and Mark Ryan complained that the three defendants sexually assaulted and abused them severely. Collins-Rector did not respond to the suit, and the plaintiffs were awarded a multimillion-dollar default judgement, according to court records. Others who were plaintiffs in lawsuits accusing Collins-Rector of sexual abuse
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Collins-Rector
Michael Egan filed a complaint against singer:
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1202887-egan-vs-singer-complaint.html