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Allied Artists International, Inc.
Company typeCorporation
IndustryEntertainment
HeadquartersLos Angeles, California &
New York City, New York
Key peopleKimball Dean Richards, Chairman and CEO,
ProductsMotion pictures, Television production, Music, Music publishing, Entertainment, Television syndication, Online games, Mobile entertainment, Video on demand, Digital distribution
Websitealliedartists.com

Allied Artists International, Inc. is the new name for Allied Artists Records, notable for its use in the 1980's activities of its owner, Kimball Dean Richardson, currently president and CEO. On April 1, 2001, Allied Artists Records changed its name to Allied Artists International, Inc. and assigned its trademarks to reflect the corporate name change.

History

Allied Artists Records

In 1988, Allied Artists Records claimed recording artists such as Lionel Richie, Lawrence Welk, Bob Seger, and Ted Nugent. In 2000, it was announced that Allied Artists Records would issue a Spanish Language recording by actor David Hasselhoff.

Executives

Kimball Dean Richards is the president and CEO of Allied Artists International. Kimball Dean Richards owned a security guard business in Los Angeles in the late 1970's, and made the news for his methods of resolving employee problems. In 1984, Richards had been installing surveillance devices in government offices, and owned Allied Artist Recording. In 1984, Richards was in a rock group called the Renegades. Kimball Richards formed a partnership with Robert Bernfeld in 1985 called Allied Artists/Riviera Broadcast Leasing. Kim Richards was a rock music promoter and began to receive widespread press coverage in 1987, for his work with Allied Artists Records from 1985 to 1987. Federal officials called Richards' Allied Artists Records entertainment operations between 1985 and 1987 one of the largest of its kind ever in the nation. A federal court judge commented on how outstanding Richards was in his own court. But by 1987, Allied Artists Records was defunct, and Kim Richards had to take a leave of absence from Hollywood in 1989, set to be 15 year long. However, he returned to an Allied Artists early release, and began using the Allied name and conducting entertainment business in 2000, signing a contract for a share in Merit Diversified International, dba Mp3 Enrertainment.com, on 4-27-2000, Inc. The federal government registered a new trademark for Allied Artists Records on Christmas Day, 2001. Kimball Dean Richards is the son of former California Senator Richard Richards.

Music and film executive Robert Fitzpatrick joined Allied Artists in 1999, and died in October 2010. Following Fitzpatrick’s death, Kim Richards took over as president and CEO. In an interview, Richards claimed to be a young television soundtrack engineer in the 1970’s, claimed that he earned a gold record, and claimed that Fitzpatrick helped him.

References

  1. ^ "RECORDING EXECUTIVE, FIVE OTHERS INDICTED FOR FRAUD - A recording company executive and five other people were indicted Wednesday in a $23 million bank fraud that federal officials called one of the largest ever prosecuted nationwide. Kimball Dean Richards, 32, of Santa Fe Springs, and five others participated in a scam to sell leases on non-existent recording equipment to 15 banks and savings and loans between August 1985 and January 1987, according to the indictment.Richards, the son of former state Sen. Richard Richards... firm, Consolidated Allied Companies, operated Allied Artists Records… in Studio City... company claimed... Lionel Richie, Lawrence Welk, Bob Seger, Ted Nugent...", Daily News of Los Angeles, May 12, 1988, Page: N10, KAREN E. KLEIN Daily News Staff Writer, Cite error: The named reference "REFOIF" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
  2. ^ "Rock music promoter Kimball D. Richards, who was convicted in March of defrauding 14 financial institutions out of $23 million in an audio equipment leasing scheme, was sentenced Monday to 15 years in jail, followed by five years probation. Calling Richards 'the biggest liar that ever walked into my courtroom', U.S. District Judge Manuel Real also ordered the 34-year-old Santa Fe Springs man to pay an undetermined amount of restitution for his March 8 conviction on 11 counts of mail and wire fraud and four counts of bank fraud.", Rock Promoter Gets 15 Years in Audio Gear Leasing Scam", JUBE SHIVER Jr., Los Angeles Times, 5-1-1990
  3. ^ Phone ‘Buggings’ Suspect Charged four years ago for Soliciting Murder Contract, “The Mohave County Sheriff’s Office did not conduct a background check on a man who helped investigate the alleged ‘bugging’ of sheriff’s office telephones, and therefore did not discover that the man had been charged with attempting to hire someone to carry out a murder, The Miner has learned… Kimball Dean Richards was charged with solicitation of committing murder, a felony offence for allegedly trying to hire an employee ofAlliedhis Los Angeles security guard business to kill another employee… Richards now owns Allied Artists Records – a recording and promotional company in Los Angeles.”, Mohave Miner, 7-13-1984
  4. "Trademark Assignment Details". United States Patent and Trademark Office. Retrieved 8 September 2010.
  5. "Baywatch" star David Hasselhoff will release his first Spanish- language album later this year on Allied Artists Records”, MORNING REPORT; ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT REPORTS FROM THE TIMES, NEWS SERVICES AND THE NATION'S PRESS; TELEVISION, Los Angeles Times, Aug 26, 2000,
  6. “Jerry S. Miller… and Kim D. Richards, also of Los Angeles, are charged with computer fraud and fraudulent schemes… Richards’ whereabouts are unknown, Doherty said, adding he called Richards Monday and a secretary of Allied Artist Recording in Los Angeles said he was out of town performing with a rock group, the Renegades. Authorities in Western states have been notified of the warrant… Police Chief Carroll Brown said Miller and Richards may have felt confident they could pull off the bugging scam… ‘They never figured we’d call in the FBI and the phone system manuracturer’, Brown said… Doherty said three people, who work in the bugging field in California, also told him they were contacted by Miller and Richards in October and informed that if they wanted to make ‘some money they should come to Mohave County because it was bugged’.” 1 Of 2 'bugging' Suspects Expected To Turn Self In, Mohave Daily Miner - Jun 26, 1984
  7. ^ Defunct Record Company Besieged by Investigations, WILLIAM K. KNOEDELSEDER Jr., Los Angeles Times, 3-30-1987
  8. "Named in a criminal complaint filed in Los Angeles by the FBI were Kimball Dean Richards, 30, president of Consolidated Allied Cos., and Robert Leslie Abernathy, 44, Consolidated Allied's vice president of finance. Abernathy was arrested Thursday morning at Whittier Union High School, where he is employed as a mathematics teacher. Richards later turned himself in at the U.S. Marshal's office in Los Angeles. In February, 30 investigators and a 10-member special weapons team from the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department searched the Whittier home of Richards and seized financial documents and a number of weapons, including four Uzi automatic pistols. Investigators also searched the homes of a number of Consolidated Allied employees-including Abernathy-and several companies that provided Consolidated Allied with lease financing and equipment... , Two Record Firm Executives Charged With Bank Fraud, WILLIAM K. KNOEDELSEDER Jr., Los Angeles Times, 5-15-1987
  9. Stock Purchase and Exchange Agreement, Supplement to SEC filing of Allied Entertainment Group
  10. Allied Artists Records, Inc. a Nevada Corporation, 273 WEST ALLEN AVENUE, SAN DIMAS, CA 91773, United States Patent and Trademark Office Reg. No. 2,522,770, BRETT J. GOLDEN, EXAMINING ATTORNEY
  11. “’I've known Robert since the late 1970s when he helped a young television soundtrack engineer earn his first gold record,’ said Kim Richards, Allied Artists International CEO & chairman. ‘The engineer was me, and I've had the distinct honor and privilege of walking in Robert's wake ever since. Regardless of the heights this company reaches in the future, they will never be the same without Robert Fitzpatrick by my side.’", Music and Film Executive Robert Fitzpatrick Dies, The Hollywood Reporter, 10/27/2010,

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