New True Crime Documentary has Indiana Roots
A new true-crime docuseries called Hollywood Hustler: Glitz, Glam, Scam is turning heads—not just for the jaw-dropping fraud at its center, but because the man behind the scheme has deep Indiana roots. The series follows Zach Horwitz, a Fort Wayne native who went from small-town Hoosier to Hollywood high-roller… before it all came crashing down in one of the biggest Ponzi schemes in Tinseltown history.
From Fort Wayne to the Hollywood Hills
Horwitz grew up in Fort Wayne, graduating from Carroll High School before attending Indiana University Bloomington, where he studied psychology. Like a lot of Midwestern kids with big dreams, he packed up and headed west.
But instead of making it big in movies, he made it big in fraud. He convinced investors he had lucrative film-distribution deals with big-name streaming services like Netflix and HBO. The truth? Those deals didn’t exist.
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