Think about it. [32], From 1993 Sillerman served as the Chancellor of the Southampton College of Long Island University, replacing Angier Biddle Duke. It runs in the family: Lisa Marie Presley signs autographs for NASCAR fans at Daytona Speedway this past July. As big as Sillermans ambitions, perhaps. Powered and implemented by Interactive Data Managed Solutions. [14] Which suggests that Sillerman is either very confident in his ability to create more value with these two companies, or believes he can sell them to someone who has even more confidence, or both. It comes with five bedrooms and 5 bathrooms. 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. [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. ), Sillerman with Rod Stewart and Dick Grasso at the NYSE.Henny Ray Abrams AFP/Getty Images. Robert F.X. The stock cratered. Offers may be subject to change without notice. He bankrolled Mel BrooksBroadway production of The Producers and was golf partners with NBA legend Michael Jordan. Sillerman announced in early June that he'd be making a return to the live entertainment industry, and today he made his second purchase toward that. The studio of course had a glass wall. unclear if newer events will have the same kind of draw. Improved top-line growth did little to stave off a panic from investors, who were troubled to see the company once again fall short of the profits it had promised. That company was also called SFX. The founder of SFX Entertainment rarely spoke about the impact of his daughters death but his friends say it weighed on him and changed his outlook. When things were going bad, he was looking for ways to try and make it work, Finkel said. The man who bought Elvis is Robert F.X. When Sillerman offered to take SFX private this spring, his board (which included many holdovers from CKX) allowed him to float a bid without having financing or equity partners lined up. Sillerman, the former CEO of Function (x), Inc., with orchestrating an offering fraud and diverting offering proceeds to repay loans he had previously made to the company. But Sillerman was drawn to his fathers business. While Sillermans buying spree made sense to few of the sellers in the later 90s, the dots quickly connected by the time he sold the business. 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. Today about 600,000 visitors make the pilgrimage to Graceland each year (30% from abroad), paying between $22 and $55 apiece. 19 also manages the career of soccer superstar David Beckham and his wife, Victoria (a.k.a. Ethan Miller/Getty Images for Cirque du Soleil; Douglas Elliman, 2023 NYP Holdings, Inc. All Rights Reserved, Inside the Hamptons trailer park thats become a playground for millionaires, Kevin Loves model wife goes house-hunting after Heat deal, See Ashton Kutchers Your Place or Mine building in NYC, Mark Wahlberg finally sells mansion after massive $32M price cut. (Photo: Robin Marchant/Getty Images). That didnt work out, but when we started talking, Insomniacs acquistion price was $10 million, he said. Lisa received $50 million in cash, plus $26 million in CKX common and preferred stock. Sillerman has taken legal action against the company, seeking about $15.8 to cover. How Trust In Institutions Determines COVID Vaccination Rates In The EU, Clubhouses Future Depends On Data - How To Build A TikTok Like Algorithm. Clear Channel would later spin off its concert holdings into Live Nation in 2005 with CEO Michael Rapino at the helm, which grewinto the most dominate company in music, with $15 billion in revenue reported in 2019. [2][3], Sillerman was born to a Jewish family in New York City, and was raised in the Riverdale neighborhood of the Bronx, the son of Estelle (Levande) and Michael McKinley Sillerman. Why? Robert F.X. The companys chief Michael Rapino declined a request for an interview through a spokesperson. 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. The CK stands for content is king, while the X is a reference to one of his middle initials (they are F.X., and he wont tell anyone what they stand for). "Robert F. X. Sillerman," Wikipedia.org. As the genre has grown in popularity, so too has the quantity of reports of drug-induced injuries and deaths at concerts. And I love it. Sillerman is largely responsible for helping create two of the biggest companies in music iHeartRadio and Live Nation through a series of deals he finalized in the late 1990s. 19 did some $92 million in revenues last yearwith about a third coming from the Idol showsand earned $12.6 million. Now that Im a part of CKX, I have the resources to do three or four. Sillerman hopes thats a positive, not a negative. By that time Mr. Sillerman had turned his sights on another industry ripe for consolidation: the nationwide concert circuit, which had long remained a loosely connected network of venues and promoters who operated regional fiefs. This is a BETA experience. Could it be that Sillerman didnt fully understand this--or just how skittish it would make brands? But if you walk down the street, youll be hard-pressed to find somebody who doesnt know what it is. His timing seemed impeccable. Elvis sighting: Owner, icon, and fan in downtown Manhattan. In each case Sillerman assembled a collection of media propertiesall in distributionat low prices and then unloaded the bundle for a higher price. He loves to party. He set up what became his signature company, SFX, which he took public in 1993 at $15 a share. We had to do something right away to make money, and that something was to open up Graceland for tours., On the first day Soden and Elviss ex-wife, Priscilla, opened up the Memphis mansion, 3,024 fans filed in, paying $5 each. Part of that underwhelming reality may have to do with the public relations nightmares that can occur while running EDM festivals. 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. After selling SFX Entertainment, Mr. Sillerman pursued various entertainment projects. Sillerman with Rod Stewart and Dick Grasso at the NYSE. That greatly reduces the number of viewers who DVR it and skip the commercials. In just the past few weeks weve seen a flurry of deals by companies seeking to profit from this tumult: TV networks are offering shows for sale, AOL is selling vintage programs online, and cellphones and iPods can now deliver music, video, and TV. 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. and attractions such as Memphis' Graceland to Robert Sillerman, . He can outlast and outtalk anybody. Says a close colleague: His BlackBerry messages start at 6 A.M. and never stop into the night. EDM Mogul Bob Sillerman Finds a Buyer for His $28 M. Townhouse. Sillermans new frontier was to be EDM, a genre whose live events like Electric Daisy Carnival and Belgiums Tomorrowland were drawing millions of neon-wearing, glow stick-flashing young adults to festival grounds around the world. We bought companies based on what we anticipated that we could bring in incremental sources of revenue.. That lit a fire under the radio business, and Sillerman plunged back in, buying more radio stations, leveraging up his new company, and securing investments from the Bass family and Security Pacific bank, among others. At Fridays price of 91 cents, SFXs shares are down 93% from its IPO price. At the time it was the largest gift ever received by an alumnus to the university. By then Sillerman was already toiling away on his next project, SFX Entertainment, a company that would own concert venues and other media properties. Over a few years in the late 1990s, Mr. Sillerman and his new company, SFX Entertainment, spent more than $2 billion acquiring dozens of promoters and venues, creating the concert worlds first truly national force. Just ask the makers of the smash-hit movie Lilo and Stitch, who used an Elvis soundtrack to great success. All Rights Reserved. He posed for publicity photos in clothes emblazoned with profanities, and after a video of Mr. Sillerman making an obscene gesture circulated on social media, a Wall Street analyst was prompted to question his sanity. But Mr. Sillermans success ran out in recent years when he tried to repeat his concert model with a new version of SFX Entertainment, this time going after electronic dance music, or EDM a bull market in 2012, when Mr. Sillerman opened the company with a $1 billion war chest. I just love it.". His plan was to spend $1 billion to buy EDM-related companies around the world, telling FORBES in 2012: If we do this with the right people this will be bigger than the first SFX.. While attending Brandeis University, he founded Youth Market Consultants, which sold magazine subscriptions to students and in turn advised companies on how to reach that market. In 1989 he sold a group of radio stations to Westinghouse (now Viacom) for $389 million. Sillermans personal take was a reported $219 million. But stars still do get born. In addition to concerts, Robert F.X. It declared bankruptcy in 2016, and many of the assets it had amassed were sold off. Sillerman also bought the business of sports superagent David Falk (he repped Michael Jordan, among others) and other pieces of the sports world, such as figure-skating championships. This is a long-term perspective, [but] a 10% return on equity from our perspective would be insufficient.. Robert F.X. "Robert Sillerman, SFX Entertainment Founder, Dies at 71", "Bio in the 2005 Forbes 400, he was #375", "Robert F X Sillerman purchases WAFL NY-New Jersey Knights for $11 million", "KJOI-FM's $75-Million Price an Industry Record: Station's Sale Key Part of $155-Million Ownership Shuffle That Also Affects KTWV, Westwood One", "Robert F.X. Over half a million tourists from all over the world stream into the shrine called Graceland each year. Raised in the Bronx, New. Some $20 million. By the time Mr. Sillerman began buying radio stations in the late 1970s, he was using a new name: Robert F.X. And they said they would synergize their content. Backstage at The Ed Sullivan Show, 1956: Elvis with the host and manager Parker (left).CBS Photo Archive/Getty Images. Robert Francis Xavier Sillerman (April 12, 1948 November 24, 2019)[1] was an American businessman and media entrepreneur. 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. Robert F.X. Robert F.X. Once Morrow had a beef with the late-night deejay at their Middletown station. The listing brokers are Douglas EllimansCaroline Holl, Michael Russell and Stephen Geller. Mr. Sillerman gained control of the Presley estate. 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. In 2000, the radio chain Clear Channel Communications bought SFX for $4.4 billion. 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. But in making his push for the new version of SFX in 2012, he spoke with boundless optimism about the potential for his new company. 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). He also made money on Broadway as an executive producer for Mel Brooks' musical The Producers. A year later, Sillerman was pushed into bankruptcy over an unpaid $7.4 million promissory note to React Presents during the SFX rollup. [35] For thirteen years, Sillerman served as the Chancellor of Southampton College and is the founder of The Tomorrow Foundation. And there are between 105 and 110 scheduled for next year.. All these ballet dancers from Russia were huge Elvis fans, and [their handlers] were asking for our help to get them out of here and back to rehearsal. I ask Lisa about Sillermans plans. Bear Stearns analyst R. Glen Reid says to also look for a 2,000-seat Elvis theater in Vegas. This year, there are 88 festivals that we anticipate doing, said Sillerman. Clear Channels stock, which hit a high of $95 in 2000, is trading at $32. The company also acquired 80% in Muhammad Ali Enterprises. Whether I will actually select one or more [equity partners] will depend on what the final price is, he said of any future bid. Nearly three years ago, Robert F.X. CKX already carries a load of goodwill, $14 million from the Presley deal, and $111 million from the 19 transaction. Thats $4.3 millionlessthat what Sillerman and his wife Laura had paid for the residence at 151 E. 72nd St. when they bought it for $12 million in 2013. There are so many ways to exploit that level of awareness. I have a million ideas all the time, says Fuller, but before I could only do one a year. And she had a great sense of humor., Here then are the terms of the deal between Sillerman and Lisa Presley: CKX paid $114 million for an 85% interest in Elvis Presley Enterprises; Lisa retains the other 15%. Attracting funds, at least at this point, wont be a limitation. Sillerman, Concert Industry Consolidator, Dies at 71 Roy Trakin November 26, 2019, 6:02 PM Click here to read the full article. Bob went out and taught salespeople; I taught the on-air staff. SFX bought up enough stations to become the nation's seventh largest chain. The company has teased burned investors with an "indication of interest" from an unnamed bidder. 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The results supported theories that Sillerman--who proposed in late May to take the company private at a price of $5.25 per share--didnt have the financial partners or intent to buy his cash-strapped company. The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged New Hampshire resident Robert F.X. Mr. Sillermans plan transformed the concert industry even as it drew complaints, which still linger, about rising ticket prices and the outsize power of a centralized super promoter. Sillerman had bought Elvis Presley Enterprises from Lisa Marie Presley in 2005, but later sold it to a private equity firm. (Photo credit: Jonas Roosens/AFP/Getty Images), Increase Website Performance With Three Metrics, Europe Is Lagging Behind In Developing Large AI Models, Deepfakes - The Danger Of Artificial Intelligence That We Will Learn To Manage Better, Overview Of How To Create Deepfakes - Its Scarily Simple, Ukrainian Startups Showing Resilience In A Time Of War, Worried That Your Phone Is Spying On You? 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