17 Reasons Why! Productions

Kidnapped by The Mob is a web series launched 02-14-16. Its a docudrama built around old 16mm home movies taken at my grandparents residence in Palm Springs, CA in the summer of 1936.
There are many celebrities who came to visit them as well as people from the business side of the industry. This series covers the convergence of the Mob and the entertainment industry, from the 1920's to the 1960's Las Vegas. John "Jake the Barber" Factor and his son , Jerome were both kidnapped in 1933. Jake was a family friend as well as sometimes client of my step-grandfather, Al Epstein, an entertainment attorney working at MCA. Jerome Factor was a friend of my Dad, Charles at Northwestern Univ. in the early 1930's.