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UPDATED 9:15 PM with more information throughout: After struggling for two days with complex definitions of “defamation” and “tortious interference” and a week of conflicting testimony about a Broadway investor who turned out not to be dead, as initially reported, but non-existent, a Manhattan jury Wednesday afternoon…

Opening arguments were made this morning in a jury trial pitting publicist Marc Thibodeau against producers Ben Sprecher and Louise Florenza, whose unrequited attempts to mount a musical based on the 1938 Daphne du Maurier novel Rebecca have transfixed Broadway since the production fell apart in 2012. At issue in the…

It’s not exactly the unending Jarndyce v. Jarndyce of Dickens’ Bleak House, but the five-years-and-counting saga of the Broadway-bound musical Rebecca saw another court ruling today that appears to send the case to trial, possibly as soon as this fall. The decision was good news for producing partners Ben Sprecher and…

The Broadway production team behind the folded show Rebecca: The Musical today filed a $100 million fraud lawsuit against stockbroker Mark Hotton who earlier this week was arrested at his waterfront home on Long Island. Hotton faces federal charges of wire fraud for allegedly fabricating four investors who were going…

The arrest took place at 6 AM this morning when FBI agents took Mark Hotton into custody at his waterfront home in West Islip, Long Island. According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District Of New York in Manhattan, the 46-year-old stockbroker was supposed to help finance the $12M-$14M Broadway show Reb…