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#HOW AN EX COP MCDONALD’S MONOPOLY GAME AND STOLE MILLI MOVIE#
The sale of the movie rights to Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, and Twentieth Century Fox for $1 Million was reported by The Hollywood Reporter as the highest fee ever paid for a single magazine article. This story of a former police officer who stole $20 million in cash and prizes became the subject of a bidding war in Hollywood. In 2018, Maysh published an 8,900-word article on a major fraud involving the McDonald's Monopoly promotion on The Daily Beast. His 2016 book Handsome Devil is about Victor Lustig, while the following year's The Spy With No Name is about Erwin van Haarlem, a Czechoslovak spy. Both awards recognised his story in Playboy about a Michigan farmer who ran a $4million smuggling operation involving counterfeit Pez dispensers. In 2016, Maysh won 'Best Crime Reporting' and 'Best Feature (over 1,000 words)' at the 58th Annual Southern California Journalism Awards. The story was first published in The Atlantic.
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According to a report in Variety, bidding became 'competitive' among Hollywood studios for the true account of a rural Michigan police department that trapped drug dealers with a fake wedding. In May 2015, Paramount Pictures acquired the movie rights to Maysh's story The Wedding Sting. His story about Steve Davies, a mythical soccer fan who scored a goal for West Ham United, was listed in the notable section of 'Best American Sports Writing 2014', and voted number one in a poll of 'greatest ever soccer stories'.
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His profile of prisoner Vassilis Paleokostas, a Greek bank robber who escaped from the prison in a helicopter, twice, was published on the BBC News Magazine on 25 September 2014. Īs a correspondent for the BBC, Maysh became the first journalist to enter the notorious Korydallos prison, near Athens. He moved to America in 2010 to cover international crime, for publications including The Atlantic. Maysh started his career at the British men's magazine Loaded. Jeff Maysh (born 30 March 1982, Nassau, Bahamas) is a British-American writer, author and journalist based in Hollywood, California.