Former Oppenheimer Broker Likely Fabricated Investor
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Paul Abrams, a purported investor whose sudden death helped scuttle the $12 million Broadway musical “Rebecca,” seems to have been invented by former Oppenheimer & Co. broker Mark Christopher Hotton, according to a lawyer for the show’s producer.
“Based on everything I know and who Mark Hotton is, it appears Paul Abrams is a fiction,” said Ron Russo, a lawyer and former federal prosecutor who represents the lead producer of “Rebecca.”