Jess Bond
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Jessica Anne Bond (born Jessica Manafort;[1] June 13, 1982)[2] is an American director, screenwriter and producer known for her 2007 film Remember the Daze.
Career[]
In 2007, Bond directed the film Remember the Daze starring Amber Heard, Brie Larson, and Leighton Meester. The film premiered at the 2007 Los Angeles Film Festival under the title The Beautiful Ordinary.[3] Remember the Daze has a 0% rating on Rotten Tomatoes[4] and Kyle Smith of The New York Post review says "This movie isn’t even sophomoric; it’s freshmanic."
Bond's follow up film Rosy was released via video-on-demand in 2018. Stacy Martin plays an actress and Nat Wolff as a man obsessed with her.[5] The film also starred Tony Shalhoub, Johnny Knoxville, and Sky Ferreira. Jonathan Schwartz and Alex Bach produced. Rotten Tomatoes shows zero reviews for this film.[6]
Personal life[]
Bond is the daughter of American lobbyist and campaign manager Paul Manafort. "Manafort was generous with his family financially—he’d invested millions in Jessica’s film projects, and millions more in her now-ex-husband’s real-estate ventures."[7]
"The indictment of Paul Manafort came with the interesting footnote that President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman operated a high-priced Airbnb in downtown Manhattan. But the Manafort property rental business, which was allegedly used to launder money, extended well beyond a single building, according to a year-old lawsuit: His daughter, Jessica Manafort, and her husband set up a company to sublet several other apartments nearby, in what appears to be the kind of black-market operation Airbnb has come under criticism for enabling. Jessica Manafort and her husband, Jeffrey Yohai, earned about $30,000 a month from subletting at least four other Manhattan apartments, according to a November 2016 lawsuit by their landlord. They generated some of that income by listing multiple units on Airbnb and other short-term property rental websites."[8]
From 2013 to 2017, she was married to real estate developer Jeffrey Yohai.[9] In April 2017, Genesis Capital sued Yohai and Jessica Manafort, alleging that they breached guarantees tied to real estate loans.[10] In 2018, she announced she was changing her last name both professionally and legally from Manafort to her mother's maiden name, Bond, in order to distance herself from her father after his conviction.[11] On November 8, 2019, Yohai was sentenced to more than nine years in prison for a wide-ranging series of fraud schemes.[12] "He was sentenced in Los Angeles to nine years in prison for pulling a series of schemes totaling more than $13 million, including one that bilked $3 million from actor Dustin Hoffman."[13] “The Graduate” star and his actor son Jacob Hoffman invested with Yohai in a Hollywood Hills homesite where he planned to build a modern mansion."[14] Jacob Hoffman and Jessica Manafort both attended New York University at the same time.[15]
During "The prosecutors’ sentencing filing for Yohai says he tried to tamper with the testimony of witnesses against him via “coded” phone calls with his ex-wife last October while he was in a county jail. "Prosecutors say Yohai called Bond (Jessica Manafort) to inform her that one charge he was facing was for pawning expensive musical equipment that belonged to someone else, and that his associates should say that Yohai wound up with the gear in exchange for a security deposit. Bond (Jessica Manafort) called back later to say Yohai’s cohorts were trying to convince the owner of the gear to say that, the FBI’s Ebadi wrote in a court filing. Bond (Jessica Manafort) has not been charged in the case."[16]
Filmography[]
- Remember the Daze (2007) as Jess Bond
- Rosy (2018) (directed)
References[]
- ^ Sabur, Rozina (September 3, 2018). "Paul Manafort's daughter changes her last name to avoid 'public perception'". The Telegraph. Retrieved February 16, 2019.
- ^ Jess Manafort on IMDB. Cited in: McBride, Jessica (August 2, 2018). "Kathleen Manafort, Paul's Wife: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know". Heavy.com. Retrieved August 18, 2018.
- ^ "2007 Festival Lineup". Los Angeles Film Festival. Archived from the original on May 17, 2007. Retrieved May 17, 2007.
- ^ Remember the Daze (2007), retrieved May 26, 2021
- ^ Fleming, Mike (November 17, 2015). "Nat Wolff Set To Star In Indie 'Rosy'". Deadline.
- ^ Rosy (2018), retrieved May 26, 2021
- ^ Foer, Franklin. "Paul Manafort, American Hustler". The Atlantic. ISSN 1072-7825. Retrieved May 26, 2021.
- ^ "The Manaforts Are Exactly Why People Are So Critical of Airbnb". www.bloomberg.com.
- ^ "The Newest Threat to Manafort Comes From Inside His Own Family: What it means for the feds to flip Paul Manafort's former son-in-law and business partner, Jeffrey Yohai". 377Union. May 24, 2018. Retrieved December 7, 2018 – via The Daily Beast.
- ^ Miller, Daniel (July 27, 2017). "Dustin Hoffman scores win in legal fight over $3-million deal with Paul Manafort's son-in-law". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved November 10, 2019.
- ^ Miller, Daniel (July 19, 2018). "Paul Manafort's filmmaker daughter releases new movie 'Rosy' under a pseudonym". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved February 9, 2021.
- ^ Gerstein, Josh (November 8, 2019). "Manafort's former son-in-law gets 9 years for array of scams". Politico. Retrieved February 9, 2021.
- ^ Press, the Associated (November 10, 2019). "Paul Manafort's Former Son-In-Law Sentenced for Scamming Dustin Hoffman, Others". The Hollywood Reporter. Associated Press. Retrieved May 26, 2021.
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(help) - ^ "Dustin Hoffman scores win in legal fight over $3-million deal with Paul Manafort's son-in-law". Los Angeles Times. July 27, 2017. Retrieved May 26, 2021.
- ^ , Wikipedia, May 11, 2021, retrieved May 26, 2021
- ^ Gerstein, Josh (September 16, 2019). "Prosecutors want 15-year sentence for Manafort's former son-in-law". Politico. Retrieved February 9, 2021.
External links[]
- 1982 births
- Living people
- American women film directors
- American women screenwriters
- 21st-century American women