Those companies promised two things. Think of how we can continue to expand the show, says Fuller. He also carried heavy personal pain after the suicide of his 18-year-old daughter Mackinley in 2012, losing his only child in the home he shared with his wife Laura Baudo Sillerman. [9] Revenues at the company that manages his affairs, Elvis Presley Enterprises, have been flat at $40 million for five years. He also carried heavy personal pain after the suicide of his 18-year-old daughter Mackinley in 2012, losing his only child in the home he shared with his wife Laura Baudo Sillerman. As big as Sillermans ambitions, perhaps. Sillerman was born on April 12, 1948 in Manhattan, New York, USA. In her ruling, McMahon said the buyout offer was likely made to distract attention from the companys poor quarterly financial reports, which showed that SFX was bleeding money and attendance at its events dropping. They wanted to marry content with distribution, where CKX will not be in the traditional distribution business. We cured him. By 1985 the pair had accumulated some 70 stations, which they sold for some $50 million. His brother, Michael, confirmed his death but gave no other details. [7] The company was merged at the end of 1989 with a unit of Westinghouse Broadcasting in a then record-setting transaction worth $727 million. It had earlier been trading on the NASDAQ exchange. SFX CEO Entertainment Robert F.X. Fullers company doesnt get a direct share of ad revenues from Fox; rather, it receives a $1.2 million fee per episode. Sillermans actions signaled to the market that he saw significant value in SFX. Elviss 37-year-old daughter and heir, Lisa Marie, has been unhappy that the business has been going nowhere: We were doing good, but you cant stay the same, she says. Sillerman, a triathlete who loves vigorous games of volleyball and basketball, has recovered and now sports a yellow Livestrong bracelet. Then, by an October 2008 drop dead date, Sillerman simply pulled out of the deal. Meet the Women in Music Honoree Who Escaped the IronCurtain, Manson Accusers Recantation Cant Be Used for Now in Case Against Evan Rachel Wood, JudgeSays, Fadia Kader Joins Venice Music as EVP &GM. He sold the company in 1972 to the Boston ad firm, Ingalls. Mr. Sillerman largely withdrew in recent years, moving to New Hampshire and dealing with the fallout from the collapse of several businesses. 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. Robert F.X. (The balance is transaction costs.). During its public run, the company also sold $295 million debt to finance additional acquisitions and fund operating losses. 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. In 2001, Britains ITV put Fullers baby, Pop Idol, on the air. At the time, Sillerman said he expected to deliver equity and debt financing on the billion-dollar deal when a 60-day sale process was completed. Entertainment mogul Robert Sillerman is facing foreclosure on his $16 million Upper East Side town house for defaulting on a $12.5 million loan since 2015, a new lawsuit claims. In 2011, he tried to replicate his past success by capitalizing on the dance music craze, consolidating the EDM business into what he hoped would be a Live Nation-style powerhouse. Sillerman, the entertainment. 1 hit in more than two dozen countries, including the U.S.) And Elvis impersonators are still fixtures in everything from movies to corporate events. These are Sillermans strengths: identifying trends in the media business before others, then gathering and deploying capital to make the strategy work. Robert F.X. Contestants on the new Fox hit So You Think You Can Dance.Jason Merritt FilmMagic/Getty Images, So why did Sillerman buy Fullers company? Why? Working with Steve Hicksbrother of Tom Hicks, the head of Texas buyout firm Hicks MuseSillerman embarked on a dizzying run of acquisitions, creating one of the largest radio station companies in the country. They acquired additional radio and TV stations, including WALL and WKGL (Middletown, New York); WJJB; (Hyde Park, New York); WHMP (Northampton, Massachusetts); WLOM (Orleans, Massachusetts); WRAN (Randolph, New Jersey); WPLR (New Haven, Connecticut) and the television station WATL (Atlanta). Robert F.X. With reporting from Sue Radlauer and Zack O'Malley Greenburg in Jersey City, N.J. The house, formerly owned by Robert Sillerman, includes a 12,000. 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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. We have to be careful to not deprecate Elviss legacy or to damage our authorized and official Elvis shows.. Lately Sillerman has become more guarded, though. Capstar applied for and received permission to operate more than one class of radio station in the same market. And the King is content! I ask Lisa about Sillermans plans. They said music doesnt work on TV in America. Sillerman stood stone-faced on the cover of Billboard magazine. FORBES first started charting DJ earnings in 2012; a year later, the collective income of the top ten acts had doubled. At the time of the companys formation, Sillerman boasted of his ability to go toe-to-toe with Live Nation Entertainment, the live events behemoth which was formed out of the firm he sold to Clear Channel for $4.4 billion in 2000. 2023 Billboard Media, LLC. Synergy is not important. [15][16] As of the end of 2013 Viggle had about 3.7 million users. Lawsuits increasingly became a common part of his life, including a suit from a luxury real estate firm for breach of contract after he allegedly cut the firm out of a $114 million real estate deal withoutpaying their commissions. How big will CKX become? And I haven't a fucking clue what they do or what they're talking about. This isnt the first time Sillerman has failed to live up to his word when trying to buy back a company he listed on the public markets. I know nothing about EDM, Sillerman told Billboard in Sept. 2012. 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. 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. Hes been known to sneak up on people and scare them. "Robert F. X. Sillerman," Wikipedia.org. Another $25 million from CKX went to pay off EPE debt. (Photo credit: Jonas Roosens/AFP/Getty Images). Once Morrow had a beef with the late-night deejay at their Middletown station. He sold the company SFX Entertainment to Clear Channel for $4.4 billion in 2000. What we wanted to do was to take this to another level. Lisa says that she, her mother, and Soden had spoken for years about bringing in outside investors and/or management, but nothing clicked. But for years he had maintained a golden touch in building media franchises and extracting maximum value from them. Sillerman, an investor and media executive who built and sold radio empires, controlled the Elvis Presley estate and consolidated the American concert industry, died on Sunday. Several managers and big-name acts from Ozzy Osborne to Shania Twain reportedly bristled over having to negotiate with such a corporate gorilla. Think about it. 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. They had a per diem, and they were missing meals and saving money so they could buy more stuff at the shop. Soden has escorted everyone from William F. Buckley to I.M. And thats just part of the American Idol money train. It was a very good, good combination, says Morrow. PHOTOGRAPH BY GREG MILLER. After selling SFX Entertainment, Mr. Sillerman pursued various entertainment projects. Young Sillerman graduated magna cum laude from Brandeis in 1969 after becoming immersed in counterculture politics and rock & roll. Thats not the way I view the entertainment businessI view it as an art not as a science.". We were misinformed by an SFX spokesman. The company controlled the rights to booking the venue but did not own it. Robert F.X. Before Bob, the whole scene was a giant Ponzi scheme.. 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. Robert FX Sillerman (born 1949) is an American businessman and media entrepreneur. 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. 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. Yes, Elviss core fans are aging, but young people still are drawn to the man with the oversized Q-rating. (Photo: Robin Marchant/Getty Images). Sillerman, the New York entertainment businessman who consolidated a series of companies and helped form the modern concert industry, died Sunday of a respiratory illness, Billboard. Connecting the show to phones, through the Internet, through merchandising, and ways I cant talk about yet.. 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. 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