Adam Aron.Photo:PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty
PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty
AMC Entertainment CEO Adam Aron has revealed that he was a victim of a criminal extortion attempt last year.
On Thursday, Aron, 69,posted a lengthy message on X(formerly known as Twitter), explaining how “a third party who was unknown” to him made “false allegations” about his life.
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The businessman added that the “extortionist” ended up “being arrested, convicted of a felony, and spending nearly a year in jail,” after a “vigorous federal criminal investigation” was conducted.
In 2022,Sakoya Blackwood, then 34, was charged in a Manhattan federal court on allegations that she attempted to extort an unnamed high-profile CEO out of $300,000, according to court documents.
Blackwood pleaded guilty in March to cyberstalking in a plea deal under which two other counts she faced were dropped.
Adam Aron.Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty
Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty
Once the case was over, he informed “AMC’s Board of Directors which thoroughly reviewed these events with independent outside counsel.” He described the case as “entirely a personal matter.”
Prior to Aron’s Thursday post on X,Semaforreported that Aron had been the unnamed CEO who’d been the victim of an extortion plot.
source: people.com
