Roy Radin was an American show business promoter who packaged vaudeville shows and oldies music nostalgia tours in the 1970s and early 1980s.
16 Facts About Roy Radin
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Roy Radin was probably best known for his attempts to help finance the film The Cotton Club, and as the subsequent victim of a murder-for-hire at age 33.
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Roy Radin was the son of Broadway promoter Al Roy Radin, who owned a speakeasy and promoted Broadway shows in the 1920s and 1930s.
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Roy Radin was a high-school dropout who joined the Clyde Beatty Circus at the age of 16 doing publicity work.
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Roy Radin continued to put together vaudeville shows and became a millionaire before the age of 20.
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Comedians had a love-hate relationship with the tours, with Roy Radin routinely becoming the butt of jokes.
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Roy Radin expanded his shows to concentrate not only on comedy revues but musical acts largely consisting of fading 1950s and 1960s performers.
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Roy Radin was charged with menacing Haller, criminal possession of LSD and cocaine, and illegal possession of a handgun.
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Roy Radin pleaded guilty to the weapon possession and the other charges were dropped.
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Roy Radin was fined $1,000 and given three years' probation on the weapons charge.
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Roy Radin was trying to break into the film industry with a movie about the legendary New York nightclub, the Cotton Club.
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Roy Radin offered Greenberger a $50,000 finders fee for her efforts which she found unsatisfactory.
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Roy Radin vanished en route to a scheduled Beverly Hills conference on May 13,1983, and was reported missing days later by his personal assistant.
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Roy Radin's remains were found a few weeks later by a beekeeper and a forest ranger near Gorman, California, about 65 miles north of Los Angeles.
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Roy Radin's involvement was said to be motivated by anger about being cut out of a producer's role and potential profiting in the Cotton Club movie.
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Two witnesses told police that Evans was involved in the murder and when asked under oath if he knew Roy Radin, Evans invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination.