Brock Pierce

Brock Pierce     ( actor,  entrepreneur)
Born	Brock Jeffrey Pierce November 14, 1980  Minneapolis,  Minnesota,  U.S.
Residence	Puerto Rico
Interests	cryptocurrencies
Former Hollywood child actor now crypto bro operating out of the Caribbean

Brock Jeffrey Pierce is as former a Hollywood child actor now involved with cryptocurrency.

Career

Pierce starred as a child actor in Disney films. He is credited with pioneering the market for digital currency. In 2001 he founded Internet Gaming Entertainment (IGE), a company that pioneered in game currency-selling services. Buying out smaller competitors, it was estimated to account for about 50% of the U.S. market in 2005.

Activities

Made a pledge to the Clinton Global Initiative to lower the carbon footprint of his own activities in 2010.

Pierce spoke at the "Mindshift" conference in early 2011, organized by Jeffrey Epstein and reportedly discussed cryptocurrency with Epstein multiple times.

In 2018 Pierce invited other "cryptocurrency early adopters" to a "Masonic lodge in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico," to "make history" and "help Brock Pierce give away a billion dollars to charity". He bought a 17th-century building there (described as a monastery) turning it into a private club.

Ran as an independent candidate in the 2020 United States presidential election.

He and Peter Thiel invested in "Yung Drung City", a charter city concept by Art Finch, which was planned to be built in Bhutan. The government decided to start the project without them.

Controversies

Digital Entertainment Network

In 2000, three former employees of Digital Entertainment Network filed a lawsuit against the founders Marc Collins-Rector (who already had settled a sexual harassment suit from 1999 ), Chad Shackley and Pierce; with allegations of rape, assault and death threats. One being seduced with the aid of drugs and alcohol after he turned 16. The claims were also that this was a kind child abuse ring, with a number of other Hollywood directors and A-list actors (many of whom were financially tied to DEN) being involved.

The New York Post reported that Pierce fled to Spain with both founders (Chad Shackley and Marc Collins-Rector). All were arrested in Marbella in mid 2002, (Shackley and Pierce released again in June 2002) after a 21-month international hunt. Charges against Pierce were reportedly dismissed in the suit of Michael Egan. The LA Times wrote in February 2001 that: "three former employees of Digital Entertainment Network have won a $4.5-million default judgment against the bankrupt Santa Monica Internet company’s three founders". Wired did an interview with Pierce in 2008 which mentions that "some $4.5 million in judgments were awarded by default" and "according to one of Pierce’s former attorneys, the claims against him were later dismissed". As per Hollywood Reporter: "Egan’s 2000 lawsuit, a joint filing with two other plaintiffs, was ultimately dismissed and/or settled out of court as to Pierce and Shackley". These circumstances led to a number of resignations when Pierce was elected board member of the Bitcoin Foundation in 2014.

Other

A "Jane Doe" filed a defamation suit against Pierce in 2020, alleging that Pierce entered into a campaign of slander after her employment ended and that Pierce told a third party that he had "heard a rumor that Doe was involved with a sex-trafficking ring for minors".

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