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Escape From the Billionaire Meme Mogul
Episode 176

Escape From the Billionaire Meme Mogul

Women in multiple countries have been living in fear of Sergey Grishin. Now they’re fighting back.

The Mother Jones Podcast

July 21, 202156m 58sExplicit

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Show Notes

Sergey Grishin is a well-connected, billionaire mogul. Last August, he made headlines when he sold his lavish estate to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. Grishin’s multiple US-based businesses include a social media company in California with more than 300 million Instagram followers, called 421 Media. But what those followers probably don’t know is that they’ve been helping to enrich a man who has been accused in court documents of harassing and abusing women. In fact, women in multiple countries have been living in fear of Grishin, and have documented years of evidence. Now, they’re going public.

This episode is the latest installment of our read-aloud Summer investigation series. It was reported by MoJo’s Samantha Michaels and produced by our partners at Audm.

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