In the years following that tragic 2012 event, he was often treated as a cartoon villain in the media, trying for a third, fourth and even fifth act in business, and some say the death of his daughter hardened him to any criticism. Even more worrying, SFXs cash reserves dwindled to $38.6 million. Sillerman paid $196 million to buy 19 Entertainment. Connecting the show to phones, through the Internet, through merchandising, and ways I cant talk about yet.. Even when he was being sued in the end and was broke, hacking and wheezing with a hole in his throat and eating through a feeding tube, he was cracking blowjob jokes and talking about how he was going to f this guy and how this other guy was a scumbag.. He is from USA. Sillerman already has 18 acres on the Strip through MJX, a real estate company he controls. By then Sillerman was already toiling away on his next project, SFX Entertainment, a company that would own concert venues and other media properties. He seems to have a knack for selling just when markets are at their peak, which has given some buyers severe indigestion. After selling SFX Entertainment, Mr. Sillerman pursued various entertainment projects. Beyond the lawsuit, questions have also been raised about the fundamentals of a business that some analysts said relied on what they deemed a cultural fad. That didnt work out, but when we started talking, Insomniacs acquistion price was $10 million, he said. But Sillerman was drawn to his fathers business. Robert Sillerman stepped down as CEO of SFX Entertainment in February, but the story between them continues. The stock cratered. A brash figure in the financial pages, he bought and sold lucrative radio and concert businesses and controlled the Elvis Presley estate. But where did it go wrong for SFX? Correction: In The Man Who Bought Elvis (Dec. 12), we wrote that SFX Entertainment once owned New York Citys Roseland Ballroom. Early rewards included gift cards to retail establishments. In a July 2009 interview with the New York Post Sillerman admitted failure, stating with reference to the Flag project: "I'm not very knowledgeable about real estate. He declined to comment for this story via email. Why? The truth is, for all of Elviss transcendent mystique, EPE has never been much of a business. Clear Channel would later spin off its concert holdings into Live Nation in 2005 with CEO Michael Rapino at the helm, which grewinto the most dominate company in music, with $15 billion in revenue reported in 2019. In 2010, he re-emerged with a second strings-attached take-private bid, but CKXs board chose to sell the company to Apollo Global for $5.50 a share, a bruising result for investors. Sitting kitty-corner from Graceland across Elvis Presley Boulevard, it is a 128-room boutique property with a small pool and a tiny bar, perennially packed to the gills with Elvis fans. Then, Lisa says, the failure of the Elvis Presleys Memphis restaurant on Beale Street in 2003 made matters urgent. Sillerman was eventually pushed out of the company by creditors and it re-emerged as LiveStyle in 2017 with entertainment veteran Randy Phillips at the helm. Sillerman in the gift shop at Graceland, Elvis Presleys home in Memphis. Robert F.X. A limestone mansion once owned by the late entertainment mogul Robert F.X. What would be the ultimate winning scenario for Sillerman? That means $125 million out of the $306 million paid for these two companies exceeds any tangible assets, including the value of trademarks. Industrial Media. Revenues at the company that manages his affairs, Elvis Presley Enterprises, have been flat at $40 million for five years. I have never had one single boring day., CKX has a 90-year lease on Elviss home.Richard Berkowitz Getty Images, Soden, who will continue running EPE in the new company, enhanced the Elvis business by expanding into merchandising and licensing. I suppose if you were a psychiatrist you could say I wanted to do well, where my father had had a lack of success, Sillerman says. The duos tactics could be unorthodox. SFX Broadcasting sold its 71 radio stations for $2.1 billion in 1998. The suit alleges that Sillerman in emails promised a joint partnership in which the plaintiffs would receive 2.5 million "founders shares" of SFX, which never materialized. Mr. Sillerman was the founder, a major shareholder and served as Executive Chairman of SFX Entertainment from its inception in 1997 until its sale to Clear Channel Communications in August 2000. Fuller is signed up to head 19 Entertainment in a five-year contract. Because American Idol is whats known as event programming, meaning that because its a contest, you almost have to watch it live. In some ways, thats good news for Sillerman and SFX: the cost of talent is no longer skyrocketing. Starting in the late 1970s, Mr. Sillerman built a portfolio of radio and television stations worth nearly $1 billion. Some $20 million. Sillerman had no intention of consolidating the EDM industry before he met Paolo Moreno in January 2012, said Steven Feldman, a Hueston Hennigan LLP attorney representing Moreno and two other plaintiffs. You may find him a bit quirky. His net worth has been growing significantly in 2021-2022. He sold the company SFX Entertainment to Clear Channel for $4.4 billion in 2000. Well, its a little early to ask that question. Really? (Per capita, Canadian Idol is much bigger than its U.S. Later, the private equity firm Apollo Global Management acquired CKX in 2011. unclear if newer events will have the same kind of draw. We have estimated Robert F.X. Only Mike Darnell [at Fox] got it straight away., Man in the middle: Simon Fuller (in back) with Idol stars Kelly Clarkson, Ruben Studdard, and Fantasia Barrino.Ray Mickshaw WireImage/Getty Images. Now when we dont need it, were flooded with it, Sillerman says. Sillerman became one of the most intriguing and wealthiest men in the media business but died in bankruptcy, pursued by the government and suffering the painful complications of a decade. Sillerman insists that cancer hasnt impeded his business or his social life, which can be a bit wild and woolly. [35] For thirteen years, Sillerman served as the Chancellor of Southampton College and is the founder of The Tomorrow Foundation. The house, formerly owned by Robert Sillerman, includes a 12,000. [15][16] As of the end of 2013 Viggle had about 3.7 million users. In 1989 he sold a group of radio stations to Westinghouse (now Viacom) for $389 million. When Mr. Sillerman tried to corner the fractious world of dance music festivals in the early 2010s, for example, he played the part of a devil-may-care rebel to a sometimes puzzling extent. In 1993 he founded SFX Broadcasting with a partner, R. Steven Hicks. Robert Francis Xavier Sillerman (April 12, 1948 November 24, 2019)[1] was an American businessman and media entrepreneur. Sillerman with Rod Stewart and Dick Grasso at the NYSE. He wa It didnt scale and this round was young promoters that werent as established as the promoters from the first round of buyouts in the 1990s. Obviously the market had spoken loud and clear that it believed the five-and-a-quarter deal was never coming, said Sillerman in one of his first interviews since announcing the privatization plan. It declared bankruptcy in 2016, and many of the assets it had amassed were sold off. But instead of a billion-dollar acquistion, Sillerman wiped out hundreds of millions in investor money and eventually had to file for bankruptcy. We bought companies based on what we anticipated that we could bring in incremental sources of revenue.. The payment will no doubt make it easier for Sillerman to call Priscilla up and ask her to come to a ribbon cutting of a new Elvis property, for instance. The company controlled the rights to booking the venue but did not own it. Robert F.X. 2023 Fortune Media IP Limited. Sillerman was born on April 12, 1948 in Manhattan, New York, USA. That suit, led by dance promoter Paolo Moreno, alleges that Sillerman, who was completely unfamiliar with dance music, took the idea to acquire and combine global EDM companies from him and his associates after they had agreed to work with the businessman and Finkel. In 1985 Sillerman entered into a partnership with radio/television industry executive Carl E. Hirsch (known as Legacy Broadcasting) to acquire KJOI-FM, Los Angeles for a then record-setting $44 million, as well as other stations in Denver, Detroit, Minneapolis, Washington D.C., Houston, Philadelphia, Los Angeles and New York City. You either have to grow or go down. In other words, Elvis is a classic buying opportunity: The underlying fundamentals are sound, but current management has been unable to take the business to the next level. 19 is the brainchild of Simon Fuller, whom Sillerman describes as a cherubic bundle of nonstop creative energy. Fuller started out as a talent scout in the 1980shis company is named after a hit song by an artist he manageddiscovering and working with British rock groups like Spandau Ballet, Billy Idol, and Ultravox. [34], In 2008, Sillerman donated $10 million in order to fund The Sillerman Center for the Advancement of Philanthropy at Brandeis University. In other words, distribution companies are falling all over each other to reach customers through new, competing outlets. But the companys performance was weak, and its stock price eventually plunged by more than 95 percent. That is, if SFX is still around in a year to run those events. A serial media-industry entrepreneur, Sillerman was best-known at the time for buying up concert promoters under the rubric of SFX Entertainment and, in 2000, selling them to the radio giant. His father Michael created Keystone Radio Network and syndicated the popular show Lassie, but went bankrupt in 1961 and passed away in 1980, according to the book. And I haven't a fucking clue what they do or what they're talking about. [10], Leading CKX, Inc., Sillerman bought majority rights to Graceland, the Elvis Presley estate;[11] as well as the assets of Simon Fuller's 19 Entertainment, whose assets include TV hit American Idol and managed clients including football player David Beckham. Today about 600,000 visitors make the pilgrimage to Graceland each year (30% from abroad), paying between $22 and $55 apiece. SFX grew into the nations seventh-largest chain and sold its 71 radio stations for $2.1 billion in 1998. (Hicks Muse agreed to spin this business off to SFX shareholders.) 19 is currently renegotiating the fee for next season, and some think the ante could be upped to $2 million per episode (though a reported flap over American Idol judge Simon Cowells compensation could be complicating matters). His brother, Michael, confirmed his death but gave no other details. Its easy to say that in hindsight, Sillerman told Billboard in a June 9, 2016article. The company also held a stake in Morra, Brezner, Steinberg & Tenenbaum Entertainment, the management company for Woody Allen, Robin Williams and Billy Crystal. Robert F.X. 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Robert Francis Xavier Sillerman was born on April 12, 1948, in the Bronx neighborhood of Riverdale in a very typical, liberal, educated Jewish household, according to the 2011 book Ticket Masters: The Rise of the Concert Industry and How the Public Got Scalpedby Dean Budnick and Josh Baron, which secured an interview with Sillerman. SFX bought up enough stations to become the nation's seventh largest chain. Investor and media executive Robert F.X. Sillerman was known for pushing the envelope. Im not very knowledgeable about real estate, he reportedly told the New York Post at the time. Mr. Sillermans plan transformed the concert industry even as it drew complaints, which still linger, about rising ticket prices and the outsize power of a centralized super promoter. Anyone can read what you share. But when I took it to America, almost everyone rejected it, Fuller recalls. During its public run, the company also sold $295 million debt to finance additional acquisitions and fund operating losses. Powered and implemented by Interactive Data Managed Solutions. Former employees also interviewed by Billboard felt that the company did not do enough to leverage its scale, and that the company did not engage in centralization, leading to a lack of coordination between its collection of subsidiaries. Sillerman became one of the most intriguingand wealthiestmen in music by twice betting on his vision for the future of mass media. Todays star- making machinery is half-a-century and light years away from that process. When SFX began bursting at the seams, in no small part because of his mismanagement, Sillerman again reneged. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy | CA Notice at Collection and Privacy Notice| Do Not Sell/Share My Personal Information| Ad Choices [22][23][24], On October 9, 2013, SFX went public on the Nasdaq. Investor Robert Sillerman, who bought Elvis Presley Enterprises, photographed with Elvis impersonators, 2005. Its different, Sillerman says. Robert F.X. CKX Inc. has been flying under the radar despite owning stakes in some of the biggest pop culture icons of our time, including "American Idol," Elvis Presley . When the King died in 1977, his estate was a mess. He doesnt want to mess with anything. [38] The dispute was settled out of court for an undisclosed amount. Robert F.X. An entrance foyer leads to a chefskitchen, while a double-wide staircase leads upstairs to the first floors entertainment spaces: a living room, wood-paneled library, formal dining room, serving kitchen with a dumbwaiter and three of seven woodburning fireplaces. He followed the 1998 sale with a Feb. 29, 2000, deal that Playbill called a quantum leap on the first Leap Day of the century, selling his concert and theatrical production firm SFX Entertainment to Clear Channel for $3.2billion. Sillerman had bought Elvis Presley Enterprises from Lisa Marie Presley in 2005, but later sold it to a private equity firm. Some people loved Bob and some people hated him, there was no middle ground, said James Disco Donnie Estopinal, a New Orleansdance promoter now living in Puerto Ricowho served as Sillermans deal maker and helped bring in the dance promoters that would come to form the new SFX Entertainment. (Photo: Robin Marchant/Getty Images). And dont even think about asking him what his middle initials, F.X., stand for. That business was built from a spree of acquisitions from 1997 to 2000 when Sillerman bought up Houston outfit Pace Concerts, New York promoter Delsener/Slater enterprises, Boston big man Don Laws Blackstone Entertainment, Los AngelesAvalon Attractions, Jack Boyles Cellar Door International, Bill Graham Presents in Northern California and Jimmy Koplicks 4,800-seat Oakdale Theater in Wallingford, Connecticut. But the flattening rates for top acts may be symptomatic of demand, a signal that EDM more broadly is approaching a saturation pointand that pouring more money into creating more festivals, Sillermans plan all along, is not a viable strategy anymore. Thats the whole game., Robert F.X. [19][20] In July 2015, Viggle had more than 9.5 million registered users across all properties, up from 5.4 million registered users at the end of 2014. And there are a couple of Sillerman stories that involve nudity. Sillerman, the entertainment entrepreneur who helped. On the subject of corporate partnerships, Sillerman said he underestimated the time it would take to sign up sponsors for SFXs events. In just the past few weeks weve seen a flurry of deals by companies seeking to profit from this tumult: TV networks are offering shows for sale, AOL is selling vintage programs online, and cellphones and iPods can now deliver music, video, and TV. Just ask the makers of the smash-hit movie Lilo and Stitch, who used an Elvis soundtrack to great success. Profanity was part of a larger schtick punctuated with sexist, racist and generally inappropriate language that was softened by Sillermans own self-deprecating jokes with his Jewish heritage being the punchline. So he offered investors a lower price, $12 a share, and the sale was extended even longer. Which suggests that Sillerman is either very confident in his ability to create more value with these two companies, or believes he can sell them to someone who has even more confidence, or both. In 2011, he sold that company for $512 million and tried his hand at commercial real estate with decidely less luck, defaulting on a loan from Credit Suisse equalling $21.4 million. Their daughter, Mackinley, died in 2012. In December 2016, former SFX board member Mitch Slater sued Sillerman for an unpaid $2.5 million loan from 2015. In 2017, he almost lost the home after defaulting on a $12.5 million. ), Sillerman, who had extensive exposure to the rock & roll business as a radio executive and concert promoter, realized that owning the rights to a rock act could be a great business. Sillerman intends to buy more high-profile properties like these (think athletes and rock groups, for instanceSillerman is tightlipped about possible deals), find new ways to distribute them, and increase their value. Sillerman was also a major shareholder of CKX Inc. You and I buy a couple loaves of bread, Bob buys the bakery, Morrow told Budnick and Baron of Sillermans sales abilities, which by 1988, netted nearly $1 billion value in broadcast assets. Sillerman, Concert Industry Consolidator, Dies at 71", "American Idol Sillerman Dealt Elvis Default Heartbreak in Vegas", "Will Viggle, the 'Loyalty Program for TV' From Robert F.X. Sillerman is largely responsible for helping create two of the biggest companies in music iHeartRadio and Live Nation through a series of deals he finalized in the late 1990s. Elvis, a poor boy from Tupelo, Miss., comes up to Memphis, manages to get himself into Sun Records, and lays down the track to Thats All Right (Mama). A local radio station airs it, the calls come streaming in, and Elvis is on the way to glory. Its main app NextGuide and Digit Reminder Button was integrated into Viggle software. And they said they would synergize their content. Michael Sillerman died in 1980, just when his sons career was taking off. The app will also display the social media activity for other shows at the same time, along with what rewards are available for changing the channel to competing programs. In February 2016, SFX filed for bankruptcy, brought down in a cash crunch that Estopinal now partially blames on overpaying for the assets that came to make up SFX. He bankrolled Mel BrooksBroadway production of The Producers and was golf partners with NBA legend Michael Jordan. Impersonator shows can, if properly done, extend the brand, Sillerman says. Robert F.X. Robert F.X. By the time Mr. Sillerman began buying radio stations in the late 1970s, he was using a new name: Robert F.X. It runs in the family: Lisa Marie Presley signs autographs for NASCAR fans at Daytona Speedway this past July.Jeff Gross Getty Images, Sillermans latest publicly traded corporate incarnation is called CKX. Five years later, Clear Channel spun off those concert assets into a separate company, Live Nation, which in 2010 merged with Ticketmaster to become Live Nation Entertainment, the biggest concert promoter in the world. Billboard is a part of Penske Media Corporation. 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Robert F.X. Clear Channel, which had already purchased many of Sillermans radio stations from Hicks Muse, agreed to buy SFX Entertainment for a reported $3 billion. Sillerman Dies at 71; Built Entertainment Empires, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/28/arts/music/robert-fx-sillerman-dead.html. He made billions of dollars in two huge sales, but died in bankruptcy, pursued by the government and suffering the painful complications of a decade of throat cancer, eating out of a feeding tube and findingit increasingly difficult tobreathe. This is a long-term perspective, [but] a 10% return on equity from our perspective would be insufficient.. Robert Sillerman, born April 12, 1948 in the Riverdale section of the Bronx, early on had a strong entrepreneurial bent starting a greeting card in high school and a youth marketing company while at Brandeis University. Think of how we can continue to expand the show, says Fuller. But when the so-called "go shop" ended, Sillerman didnt have the financing to cover his bid. Says a top Wall Street banker: Hes a very smart guy, but I dont think you want to be sitting on the other side of the negotiating table from him.. Robert, who grew up in the Riverdale section of the Bronx, was born on the third anniversary of the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt, and his original middle name was a tribute to the former president. Another show with legs? A crucial part of his strategy was using the nationwide audience at SFXs shows to lure sponsorship deals by big consumer brands like Smirnoff and Levis. AI Is Creeping Into the 'Functional' Music Market What H Meet the Women in Music Honoree Who Escaped the Iron Curtain, Bright Eyes Return to the Road With Eight-Date U.S.Tour, Brandi Carlile, Trey Anastasio & Stick Figure To Headline 2023 LevitateFestival, British Indie Rockers Lovejoy Announce 20-City U.S.Tour, It Takes a Lot of People to Create All This AIMusic. [29] In December, the company went private and was renamed LiveStyle, with Sillerman exiting the company in favor of former AEG Live executive Randy Phillips as CEO. Robert F.X. Mr. Sillerman, right, at the New York Stock Exchange in 1999 with its chairman, Richard Grasso, and the singer Rod Stewart shortly after stock in Mr. Sillermans company, SFX Entertainment, began being traded on the exchange. But in making his push for the new version of SFX in 2012, he spoke with boundless optimism about the potential for his new company. And $6.5 million went to Priscilla Presley for use of the family nameeven though Sillerman wasnt legally obligated to pay her anything, since Priscilla and Elvis were divorced, and Elviss estate went to Lisa Marie. DJ Afrojack (left) and Sillerman at the NASDAQ MarketSite in New York in 2013. S&P Index data is the property of Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. and its licensors. A costly restaurant venture in Memphis went bust. 19 also manages the career of soccer superstar David Beckham and his wife, Victoria (a.k.a. Viggle registers the television show a person is watching, and engages the users with a loyalty program for viewing particular programs. It comes with five bedrooms and 5 bathrooms. Thats not part of our strategy.. It was a smash right off the bat. F Former SFX Entertainment founder Robert Sillerman has agreed to pay a $179,000 fine after the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission charged the businessman with fraud for illegally. Last month, the company reported a second quarter net loss of $48 million on revenue of $121 million, up 48% from the same period last year. As for spinoffs, did we mention that another smash hit on Fox, So You Think You Can Dance, is produced by Fuller too? The founder of SFX Entertainment rarely spoke about the impact of his daughter's death but his friends say it weighed on him and changed his outlook. "Robert F. X. Sillerman," Wikipedia.org. Sillerman denied this when talking to FORBES, noting that he never founded the company with Moreno and stopped working with him after learning of past legal run-ins, a conclusion that Feldman also disputes. Recognizing the environment she was raised in, I thought she was astounding. Read the original story on The New York . Robert F.X. He has unbounded energy when it comes to business. The company that emerged would become Clear Channel, which is now known as iHeartRadio. 2023 Billboard Media, LLC. Robert F.X. In characteristic form, Sillerman wont give investors any firm commitments. According to Billboard, Sillerman died of a. The New York entrepreneur is most notably known for consolidating a number of U.S.. With reporting from Sue Radlauer and Zack O'Malley Greenburg in Jersey City, N.J. He sold the company in 1972 to the Boston ad firm, Ingalls. [30][31], In an interview with Billboard, Sillerman admitted that there were "no easy answers" surrounding why the company collapsed, but added that he didn't "begrudge the disappointment and anger" of his staff because he was just as disappointed over the company's performance. (A hip-hop-style remix of A Little Less Conversation was a No. All these ballet dancers from Russia were huge Elvis fans, and [their handlers] were asking for our help to get them out of here and back to rehearsal. There was no retirement plan. [21], In 2012, Sillerman rebooted SFX Entertainment, this time with a focus on the electronic dance music industry. At least so says a Wall Street entrepreneur who is hoping to make Elvis the centerpiece of his burgeoning media companynot only extending the Kings reign but also taking advantage of technological and demographic changes rocking the media and entertainment industries. Sillerman announced in early June that he'd be making a return to the live entertainment industry, and today he made his second purchase toward that. At Fridays price of 91 cents, SFXs shares are down 93% from its IPO price. Robert FX Sillerman (born 1949) is an American businessman and media entrepreneur. At the time it was the largest gift ever received by an alumnus to the university. You may opt-out by, 2013, the day his company went public. His timing seemed impeccable. Investor Robert Sillerman is combining the King, American Idol, and other entertainment assets to build his next media conglomerate. We had to do something right away to make money, and that something was to open up Graceland for tours., On the first day Soden and Elviss ex-wife, Priscilla, opened up the Memphis mansion, 3,024 fans filed in, paying $5 each. NEW YORK CITY, NY - SEPTEMBER 18: (L-R) Jody Morrow, Bruce "Cousin Brucie" Morrow, Laura Baudo Sillerman and Robert Sillerman attend NEW YORKERS FOR CHILDREN 2007 Fall Gala at 583 Park Avenue on September 18, 2007 in New York City. I dont know whether its directed at a specific individual, or a type of individual, or more as my interpretation of Albert Einsteins fabulous quote: No problem can ever be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it. And thats what Ive done my whole life. Over half a million tourists from all over the world stream into the shrine called Graceland each year. Robert Franklin Sillerman was born in Manhattan on April 12, 1948, to Michael McKinley Sillerman, a radio and television executive, and Estelle (Levande) Sillerman. How big will CKX become? 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