Marc Collins-Rector
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Marc Collins-Rector's mug shot, taken in 2007
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| Born |
Mark Rector October 16, 1959 |
| Residence | Dominican Republic |
| Occupation | Businessman |
| Known for | Founder, Digital Entertainment Network |
Marc John Collins-Rector (born October 16, 1959) is an American businessman, a millionaire and a convicted sex offender, best known for founding Digital Entertainment Network, an online streaming video broadcaster and notable dot-com failure as well as his associations with Hollywood and Media moguls.
He changed his name from Mark John Rector to Marc Collins-Rector in 1998. Today he also uses pseudonyms such as Morgan Von Phoenix.
In the early 1980s Rector founded Telequest, a Florida-based telecommunications company. In 1984, Rector founded World TravelNet, a company that electronically coordinated cruises and tours; its affiliate, World ComNet, was floated on the in 1987. Its valuation briefly peaked at $100 million before increasing competition led to bankruptcy. Rector later founded an early ISP, Concentric Network, in 1991 along with colleague and lover Chad Shackley.
Rector and Shackley sold Concentric in 1995 and, using money raised here and close to $100m of investor and venture capital, formed an early Internet video pioneer, Digital Entertainment Network. Collins-Rector was the co-founder and chairman of DEN, which exhausted its funding following a failed IPO bid and collapsed amid allegations that Collins-Rector had sexually abused children, coercing them with drugs and guns.
Media reports claim that Collins-Rector was a silent partner in the MMORPG service company IGE, which was founded by ex-DEN VP Brock Pierce - who is now chairman of the Bitcoin Foundation. IGE initially used an address in the city of Marbella, Spain, where Collins-Rector, Shackley and Pierce shared a villa until it was raided by Interpol in 2002.
Running DEN out of a Los Angeles mansion, Collins-Rector and his two business partners - his boyfriend at the time, Chad Shackley and Brock Pierce - hosted lavish parties attended by Hollywood’s gay A-list. 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.
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