David Bloom, New York Fraudster Recently Arrested For Hollywood Scam, To Be Subject Of Docuseries & Podcast From Alex Baskin & AYR Media

02.12.2022 - 20:19 / deadline.com

EXCLUSIVE: David Peter Bloom was a Wall Street whiz kid convicted of securities fraud for defrauding investors of almost $15M and earlier this summer was arrested on suspicion of 12 counts of grand theft in LA for a scheme run out of Hollywood hipster dive bar Frolic Room that entangled The Hills star Caroline D’Amore.

It’s just the kind of story that you can imagine as a docuseries and a podcast.

Enter former Evolution Media boss Alex Baskin and Aliza Rosen’s AYR Media, which are prepping both.

Baskin and Rosen are developing King Con: The Whiz Kid (w/t) to track Bloom’s decades of deceit, shedding light on previously unknown scams and victims, as well as the high-profile ruses that landed Bloom behind bars and in the press. 

First up is the podcast, which will be narrated by Caroline D’Amore, who starred in MTV’s The Hills: New Beginnings, who recently revealed her own experience with Bloom, which involved him impersonating the president of a major grocery store franchise as part of his elaborate scheme.

The childhood friend of Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian, who founded pasta sauce company Pizza Girl, revealed the details of her dealings with Bloom on Instagram earlier this month.

D’Amore will serve as a producer on the podcast, while Rosen and Baskin will executive produce alongside veteran “con hunter” Johnathan Walton, host and exec producer of AYR’s Queen of the Con.

Rosen and Baskin are also developing the project as a non-fiction television series.

Baskin has exec produced series such as The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills and Vanderpump Rules and previously ran MGM’s Evolution Media, before leaving in the summer.

“When it comes to con men, David Bloom is in a league of his own,” said Rosen. “With Alex and