Jeff Maysh
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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]
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References
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External links
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