The Jamaican businessman sought to invest more than a billion dollars to build an amusement park from the American firm in the country.
Max Higgins He called himself the King of Entertainment and promised to invest millions of dollars in Argentina. The Jamaican businessman claimed that he was going to inaugurate a park disney in the country and also did a reality show with Diego Maradona. The billionaire’s life took an unexpected turn and he went from luxury to living on the streets.
The foreigner formed a television program titled World Football Idol together with the Argentine star to find a future local star. This project had three seasons, with the participation of Sergio Goycochea and Gabriel Batistuta. In addition to hiring various musicians for its episodes, among them were Los Nocheros, Miranda, Soledad Pastorutti, Gloria Gaynor and Durán Durán.
Higgins’ project never succeeded on television and the stands at his presentations stood out for the great absence of an audience. All this despite the fact that the Jamaican assured that the prizes for the winner would be a Lamborghini Diablo, 100 dollars and a test in a team in the world that the businessman decided.
The dream of “Argentine Disney”: the scam behind the ambitious project
The businessman, who had a daily life between luxury cars and five-star hotels, had announced in 2007 that he would found a complex of Disneyworld in San Pedro. Higgins detailed that he would invest more than a billion dollars in the complex. Several investors believed his word and the poor presentations even though Disney had made public its warnings about the use of its brand. Subsequently, It was learned that no investor received any money back..
Max Higgins: from ephemeral fame to admission to the Borda Hospital
The true identity of the Jamaican was known after the separation with his ex-Argentine wife, Sandra Zapata. She explained that from one moment to the next they went from living in a boarding house in San Telmo to an apartment in Puerto Madero. This change also occurred in their transportation, since they went from traveling by subway to riding in luxury cars and private planes.
Zapata showed that Higgins had been convicted in the United States and England for bad check scams and fabrication.. The Jamaican had even been behind bars in the North American country and had the same way of making a living in Argentina. This also happened on his television show, where his prize car was lent and he announced sponsors who had never approached his production.
It is suspected that all his money came from a “Ponzi scheme”, a pyramid operation where profits are generated through new investors and not by generating real capital.
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His life on the street made him enter a deplorable state of mind, in which he did not remember who he was or what he had done. The authorities maintain that his condition could generate a certain risk both for himself and for society. Specialists diagnosed him with psychotic decomposition and transferred him to Borda Hospital.. It was learned that: “His hospitalization was involuntary. Despite not resisting, and not understanding what was happening, Higgins was taken away in handcuffs.”
Source: Ambito
