1. Dan Bilzerian gained notability for his extravagant lifestyle and photo ops with scantily dressed female models on social media.
20 Facts About Dan Bilzerian
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Dan Bilzerian is the eldest son of businessman Paul Alec Bilzerian and the brother of poker player and writer Adam J Bilzerian.
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Daniel Brandon Bilzerian was born on December 7,1980, in Tampa, Florida, the son of corporate takeover specialist Paul Bilzerian and Terri Steffen.
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Dan Bilzerian is the brother of fellow poker player Adam Bilzerian, and is of half Armenian descent through his father, who was a corporate raider on Wall Street and provided both of his sons with trust funds.
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Dan Bilzerian played in the 2008 World Series of Poker Main Event, finishing in 180th place.
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In November 2011, Dan Bilzerian was one of those sued by the estate of Bradley Ruderman over winnings from poker games, which were alleged to have been paid with funds from an illegal Ponzi scheme.
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Dan Bilzerian reportedly lost over $50 million in 2019, mostly on marketing and office rental expenses.
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Dan Bilzerian has explored other avenues; he appeared in such films as The Equalizer, Cat Run 2, and Extraction, and authored the autobiography The Setup, which recounts his controversial life and lifestyle.
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Dan Bilzerian moved to the Los Angeles neighborhood of Bel Air in 2018.
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In June 2015, Dan Bilzerian announced his bid to run in the 2016 United States presidential election.
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Dan Bilzerian has generated controversy for a series of statements against Jews and Judaism as early as 2010.
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Dan Bilzerian has gone on record to say that the Jewish people perpetrated the Holodomor in Soviet Ukraine, assassinated John F Kennedy in 1963 and Muammar Gaddafi in 2011, created the "transgender nonsense," and orchestrated the September 11 attacks and the Iraq War, among other assertions and antisemitic conspiracy theories.
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Dan Bilzerian stated that Nazi Germany "flourished" when "Hitler removed Jews from the banking system" and that Spain's golden age began because it expelled the Jews at the end of the Reconquista in 1492.
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In 2014, Dan Bilzerian sued the producers of the film Lone Survivor.
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Dan Bilzerian's lawsuit stated that he invested $1 million in the film in exchange for at least eight minutes of screen time and 80 words of dialogue, but his role was later reduced to less than one minute and just one line.
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The lawsuit was later dropped, and Dan Bilzerian reportedly generated $1.5 million in revenue due to the film's commercial success.
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Dan Bilzerian stated that Castano and another woman attacked Dan Bilzerian's female companion.
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In 2014, Dan Bilzerian was involved in a legal matter with pornographic actress Janice Griffith.
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On December 9,2014, Dan Bilzerian was arrested at Los Angeles International Airport on unrelated bomb-making charges.
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In February 2015, Dan Bilzerian pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor charge of "negligently failing to extinguish a fire in the open" and was fined $17,231.50.