Jeff Maysh Explained

Jeff Maysh
Birth Date:1982 3, df=yes
Birth Place:Nassau, Bahamas
Nationality:British-American

Jeff Maysh (born 30 March 1982, Nassau, Bahamas) is a British-American writer, author and journalist based in Hollywood, California.

Journalism

Maysh started his career at the British men's magazine Loaded.[1] He moved to America in 2010 to cover international crime,[2] for publications including The Atlantic.[3]

As a correspondent for the BBC, Maysh became the first journalist to enter the notorious Korydallos prison, near Athens.[4] His profile of prisoner Vassilis Paleokostas, a Greek bank robber who escaped from the prison in a helicopter, twice, was published on the BBC News Magazine on 25 September 2014.[5] [6]

His story about Steve Davies, a mythical soccer fan who scored a goal for West Ham United,[7] was listed in the notable section of 'Best American Sports Writing 2014', and voted number one in a poll of 'greatest ever soccer stories'.[8]

In May 2015, Paramount Pictures acquired the movie rights to Maysh's story 'The Wedding Sting'. According to a report in Variety,[9] bidding became 'competitive' among Hollywood studios for the true account of a rural Michigan police department that trapped drug dealers with a fake wedding. The story was first published in The Atlantic.[10]

In 2016, Maysh won 'Best Crime Reporting' and 'Best Feature (over 1,000 words)' at the 58th Annual Southern California Journalism Awards.[11] Both awards recognised his story in Playboy about a Michigan farmer who ran a $4 million smuggling operation involving counterfeit Pez dispensers.[12] [13]

His 2016 book Handsome Devil is about Victor Lustig,[14] while the following year's The Spy With No Name is about Erwin van Haarlem, a Czechoslovak spy.[15]

In 2018, Maysh published an 8,900-word article on a major fraud involving the McDonald's Monopoly promotion on The Daily Beast.[16] This story of a former police officer who stole $20 million in cash and prizes became the subject of a bidding war in Hollywood.[17] The sale of the movie rights to Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, and Twentieth Century Fox for $1 million was reported by The Hollywood Reporter as the highest fee ever paid for a single magazine article.[18]

Bibliography

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Talking About Writing: Jeff Maysh, author of 'Handsome Devil' — The Queue UK — Medium. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20160822182800/https://medium.com/the-queue-uk/talking-about-writing-jeff-maysh-author-of-handsome-devil-735b20bb24a0. 2016-08-22.
  2. News: Talking About Writing: Jeff Maysh. The Queue. 12 March 2016. 1 August 2016.
  3. Web site: Jeff Maysh . The Atlantic . 20 July 2019.
  4. News: Exclusive: Hollywood Calls For Paleokostas?. Greek Reporter. 14 September 2014. 1 August 2016.
  5. News: The Uncatchable . BBC News . 19 July 2019 . 25 September 2014.
  6. News: Readers spent 2.3 million minutes on The Uncatchable @BBCNewsMagazine. Twitter. 26 September 2014.
  7. News: The day Harry Redknapp brought a fan on to play for West Ham. 5 September 2013. The Guardian. 6 March 2017.
  8. News: Readers' Poll: These Are Your Five Favorite Ever Soccer Articles. Longform.org. 2 October 2014. 1 August 2016.
  9. News: Paramount lands Atlantic Article on Flint Wedding Sting. Variety. 12 May 2015. 1 August 2016.
  10. Web site: The Wedding Sting. The Atlantic. 12 May 2015.
  11. News: Winners: Southern California Journalism Awards 2015. Los Angeles Press Club. 12 July 2016. 1 August 2016. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20160705153940/http://www.lapressclub.org/resources/Documents/WINNERS58SoCalforOnline.pdf. 5 July 2016. dmy-all.
  12. News: The Pez Outlaw. Playboy. 12 March 2015. 1 August 2016.
  13. News: Quest for the Pez Holy Grail: International Smuggling Meets Father-Son Bonding. Collectors Weekly. 20 March 2015. 1 August 2016.
  14. News: The Man Who Sold the Eiffel Tower. Twice. . 12 March 2019 . Smithsonian . en.
  15. News: The spy with no name . 12 March 2019 . 4 January 2017.
  16. News: Maysh . Jeff . How an Ex-Cop Rigged McDonald's Monopoly Game and Stole Millions . 20 July 2019 . 29 July 2018 . en.
  17. News: Lee . Chris . Behind Hollywood's A-List Bidding War for a McDonald's Monopoly Article . 20 July 2019 . www.vulture.com.
  18. News: Abramovitch . Seth . Ben Affleck and Matt Damon Paid $1 Million for McDonald's Monopoly Scam Story . 20 July 2019 . The Hollywood Reporter . en.

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