Lawyers seek info on Tony Hsieh’s dealings with 2 Hollywood actors

The time aft Tony Hsieh died, Joseph Gordon-Levitt posted a solemn video astir the precocious Zappos boss.

They met aft Hsieh work the movie star’s publication “The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories,” made done Gordon-Levitt’s task HitRecord. Hsieh ended up being a “huge mentor,” a protagonist and an capitalist successful the online originative forum, Gordon-Levitt said successful the video dated Nov. 28, 2020.

Now, attorneys for Hsieh’s main creditor are looking for accusation connected the tech mogul’s dealings with Gordon-Levitt and others successful Hollywood, including David Arquette and a documentary task astir Bozo the Clown.

David Chesnoff and Richard Schonfeld, lawyers for Hsieh’s erstwhile longtime person and subordinate Jennifer “Mimi” Pham, connected Nov. 21 filed notices of intent to service subpoenas connected Gordon-Levitt and his institution HitRecord.org LLC, arsenic good arsenic connected Arquette and his entity Bozo the Clown Documentary LLC, tribunal records show.

Among different things, the lawyers are seeking communications oregon documentation of Hsieh’s planned oregon executed concern successful HitRecord, a “documentary task based connected Bozo the Clown” and of the 2 actors’ concerns for Hsieh’s “mental wellness and oregon perceived cause addiction.”

For Arquette, they besides are seeking documentation of “any fiscal oregon monetary benefit” for introducing Hsieh to the heads of a documentary-movie streaming service.

The notices, filed successful Clark County District Court, travel tribunal filings connected Nov. 15 showing Pham’s attorneys submitted subpoenas seeking, among different things, monthly fiscal statements for the Documentary+ streaming service.

Future of Hsieh’s fortune

The tribunal actions people the latest twist successful the multipronged ineligible conflict implicit Hsieh’s estate — a bid of lawsuits and creditors’ claims that diagnostic large sums of money, elaborate accounts of Hsieh’s cause usage and bizarre behaviour successful his last twelvemonth alive, and allegations that radical adjacent to Hsieh took vantage of him financially arsenic his wellness spiraled downward.

Multiple attempts to scope Gordon-Levitt, whose movie credits see “Inception” and “Snowden,” and Arquette, whose credits see the “Scream” franchise and “3000 Miles to Graceland,” for remark were unsuccessful Monday.

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— Joseph Gordon-Levitt (@hitRECordJoe) November 28, 2020

Chesnoff and Schonfeld did not respond to a petition for comment, nor did attorneys for Hsieh’s family, who are overseeing his property done his probate case, oregon Hsieh’s spouse successful Documentary+, workplace XTR.

Hsieh, the erstwhile CEO of online retailer Zappos and look of downtown Las Vegas’ revival, died astatine property 46 connected Nov. 27, 2020, from injuries sustained successful a Connecticut location fire.

He was unmarried with nary volition and near a monolithic portfolio of existent property holdings, having go one of downtown’s biggest spot owners done his broadside task primitively called Downtown Project.

Pham, who was described successful tribunal filings by her lawyers arsenic Hsieh’s assistant, right-hand idiosyncratic and person for 17 years, filed much than $130 cardinal successful creditors claims done the probate lawsuit arsenic of past Monday.

Her largest claim, astatine $75 million, is the “anticipated profit” from Hsieh’s task successful the documentary-movie streaming work Documentary+ that launched this past January.

As seen connected its website, XTR’s films see “You Cannot Kill David Arquette,” a documentary astir the actor’s forays into WWE-style wrestling.

Arquette besides acquired the rights to the Bozo the Clown character, according to quality reports past month.

The Review-Journal antecedently reported that Arquette was friends with Hsieh, who successful January 2018 posted a quality coating connected Instagram with the question: “Is it weird to accidental that David Arquette taught maine however to overgarment this past night?”

‘Mathematical algorithm for satellite peace’

Hsieh, who sold Zappos to e-commerce elephantine Amazon successful a $1 billion-plus woody successful 2009, moved the institution to the erstwhile Las Vegas City Hall successful 2013. After the coronavirus pandemic abruptly ended his interactions, events and bully times successful Las Vegas, Hsieh emerged successful Park City, Utah, buying respective houses determination past twelvemonth arsenic portion of a then-mysterious undertaking.

He besides was replaced arsenic CEO of Zappos successful summertime 2020 without a ceremonial announcement from the institution helium had led for 2 decades.

After his death, his darker broadside was soon successful the spotlight arsenic quality groups reported that Hsieh had been utilizing drugs and displaying erratic behavior.

According to tribunal filings by his ain household this year, Hsieh was “perpetually nether the power of Ketamine” for a period, thought helium could alteration into animals oregon objects, believed helium had “discovered the mathematical algorithm for satellite peace,” and was taking an “excessive” magnitude of nitrous oxide.

Contact Eli Segall astatine esegall@reviewjournal.com oregon 702-383-0342. Follow @eli_segall connected Twitter.