11 Facts About Steven Kunes

Steven Kunes was born on 1956 and is an American conman and screenwriter.

Steven Kunes has been convicted of felony commercial burglary and grand theft by false pretenses.

Steven Kunes sold the screenplay First Comes Love for $1.2 million in 1992, though no film was made.

Steven Kunes is a member of the Writers Guild of America, West, the Authors Guild, the Dramatists Guild, and PEN America.

In 1982, Steven Kunes attempted to sell to People magazine an interview with reclusive author JD Salinger, whom he claimed he had met.

Steven Kunes later succeeded in selling a fake interview with Jimmy Buffett to the Santa Barbara Daily Sound.

Steven Kunes was arrested on March 17,2011, for purportedly swindling his friend, former Cafe Buenos Aires owner Wally Ronchietto, out of $2,000 for a nonexistent movie deal.

At court, Steven Kunes pleaded guilty and admitted to forging checks.

Steven Kunes had been serving his five-year sentence and had been approved for electronic monitoring on August 1,2012.

Steven Kunes removed the device on August 22,2012, and mailed the device back to the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Office.

Steven Kunes was released from prison in June 2015 but arrested again for violating the terms of his probation after falsely telling the Bucks County Courier Times that he was producing a Netflix series called Over My Dead Body.