matt mellon
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">https://www.politico.com/story/2018/04/27/yiannopoulos-business-implodes-after-death-of-crypto-billionaire-557456</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 344.859px 1em 0px; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 1.5em; font-size: 1.125em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Running out of money and down on his luck, right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos laid off the small staff of Milo Entertainment Inc. earlier this month, according to three people familiar with the situation.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 344.859px 1em 0px; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 1.5em; font-size: 1.125em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Yiannopoulos’ company has fallen on hard times ever since his former patrons, Robert and Rebekah Mercer, severed their financial backing last year.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 344.859px 1em 0px; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 1.5em; font-size: 1.125em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">According to the sources, Yiannopoulos had been expecting to instead receive significant financial backing from the banking heir and cryptocurrency billionaire Matthew Mellon. But those hopes were dashed with Mellon’s unexpected death from an <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/20/style/matthew-mellon-dead.html" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.25s ease; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(10, 124, 196);">apparent drug overdose</a> on April 16.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 344.859px 1em 0px; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 1.5em; font-size: 1.125em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">On Monday, Yiannopoulos posted a <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/Bh4ZAp3ADV0/?hl=en&taken-by=milo.yiannopoulos" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.25s ease; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(10, 124, 196);">photo</a> on Instagram of himself with Mellon. “I spent a few days and nights in Miami and LA with the incredible human being Matthew Mellon, the last of them just a day before he passed,” Yiannopoulos wrote in the caption. “He was brilliant, infectious and warm-hearted and I will never forget getting to know this remarkable person. Rest in peace now, MM. You left a giant stamp on the world.”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 344.859px 1em 0px; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 1.5em; font-size: 1.125em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">With Mellon’s unexpected death, Yiannopoulos could no longer afford the staff of Milo Entertainment.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 344.859px 1em 0px; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 1.5em; font-size: 1.125em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“He fired everybody,” said one person familiar with Yiannopoulos’ operation, which had employed a handful of full-time and part-time staffers.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 344.859px 1em 0px; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 1.5em; font-size: 1.125em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Among them was the journalist Chadwick Moore, who was technically terminated several days before learning of his firing, according to two people familiar with the situation...</p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div>