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Alkiviades " Alki" David (born May 1968; pronounced ) is a Cypriot-British businessman. By 2008, he was the majority shareholder of Leventis-David Group, which owns Coca-Cola Hellenic bottling plants in 28 countries. He founded the Internet-based television provider FilmOn, streaming-video site BattleCam.com, among other Internet companies. He is said to be and has claimed to be a billionaire.
Since 2019, multiple cases of sexual misconduct, including workplace sexual harassment, sexual battery, and rape, have been brought against David.
David attended high school in Switzerland and studied film at the Royal College of Art.
In 2006, David partnered with veteran film producer Elliott Kastner to launch 111 Pictures Ltd., a UK-based independent production and international sales company. Also that year, David started FilmOn, an online streaming site.
He has appeared in films, including a 2008 motion picture, The Bank Job, in which David played a tunneling expert hired by Jason Statham to help with a bank heist.
In 2015, David began working with rapper Chief Keef, who signed a record contract with David and FilmOn. The rapper was let go in the same year due to disputes with Keef's management.
According to The Sunday Times Rich List in 2020 his net worth, combined with the Leventis family, was estimated at £2.35 billion. However, various news reports in 2021 quoted David as noting billionaire claims were his own fabrications, and following multi-million-dollar judgements against him claimed he was "exhausted" of any funds. Disgraced ‘Billionaire’ Says He Faked His Way Onto the Rich Lists, by Noah Kirsh, The Daily Beast, 19 October 2021.
In 2024, David was ranked, together with the Leventis family, as the 60th richest person in the UK, and 2nd richest Cypriot. This is despite David's own claims that his image as a wealthy billionaire was a fabrication.
In a 2021 interview with The Daily Beast about an $80 million judgement against him for sexual battery, David claimed to be "completely exhausted" of cash resources, and added prior claims he was a billionaire were "complete fiction" he had manufactured. Following judgements levied against him in multiple suits, David alleged the California court system was part of a corrupt conspiracy and publicly refused to comply with court ordered payments. Coca-Cola bottling heir demands judge recuse herself, citing bizarre conspiracy theory, by Hillel Aron, Courthouse News Service, 15 February 2022.
In 2022, after failing to appear at multiple court-ordered appearances, David's lawyer reported there were discussions underway to place him into conservatorship as his client was suffering from "downward spiraling mental health" issues. Coke bottling heir’s mental health in ‘downward spiral,’ lawyer says, by Hillel Aron, Courthouse News Service, 10 February 2022.
In 2019 the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filed complaints claiming David "engaged in a fraudulent scheme to induce the investing public to buy securities of Hologram and its subsidiary in unlawfully unregistered offerings, through materially false and misleading representations" in violation of the Securities Act of 1933. David was ordered to pay $100,000 in fines and was enjoined from being an officer in publicly held companies for a period of five years. SEC Obtains Final Judgments Against Hologram USA Networks Inc. and CEO in Offering Fraud Scheme, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, 20 March 2020.
In 2019, David was arrested at the airport in St Kitts and Nevis for possession of over EC$1.3 million worth of cannabis after a search of his private jet."Arrested billionaire investor wanted to start cannabis business in Dominica,"
In October 2019, David was ordered to pay $4.35 million in punitive damages after a jury found him liable for sexual battery and sexual harassment. A former employee accused David of putting his hands on her throat, dropping his pants in front of her and attempting to simulate oral sex, and telling her he needed supplies for his "rape room".
In December 2019, a jury found David liable for battery, sexual battery, and harassment against a former female employee, and he was ordered to pay $50 million to the former employee. The employee accused David of groping her incessantly, simulating oral sex with her, among other incidents of harassment. The Los Angeles Times reported that during the trial, David "remained belligerent, defiant and disruptive ... He frequently erupted in profanity-laced outbursts while mocking his accusers and their attorneys, earning him nearly $10,000 in sanctions; he was ejected from the courtroom on several occasions."
In December 2023, David was ordered to pay $8.3 million against a former employee for sexual assault, battery, and harassment.
As of 2023, David and his businesses have lost a total of $70 million after losing multiple cases of sexual misconduct made against him.
In 2024, a woman was awarded $900 million in damages in her sexual assault case against David, in what was described as "one of the largest sexual assault verdicts in history". In an interview with The Daily Beast, David said that he was not going to pay the judgement, stating, “These people haven’t received a penny and never will. Over my dead fucking body.”
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Sexual assault lawsuits
In April 2019 a jury decided David should pay $11 million in damages to a woman who accused him of sexual assault, including $8 million in punitive damages and $3 million in compensatory damages. The woman accused David of firing her after she turned down his sexual advances and alleged he Groping her in the workplace. Her complaint also accused him of showing lewd photos to employees and hiring a stripper in the workplace.
Filmography
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