Estopinal and the other promoters bought in the rollup continued to throw parties as SFX worked its way through the courts was taken over by senior creditors and renamed LiveStyle. Sillerman was forced out and after four years or battling old investors, the promoters whose companies he bought and federal regulators, lost his battle with cancer and passed away in November at In December, LiveStyle was exploring the sale of several assets, including React Presents, the Chicago dance promotion company whose partners Jeffery Callahan and Lucas King sold to SFX in and later filed suit against Sillerman, ultimately forcing him into bankruptcy.
Estopinal met with LiveStyle chairman Andrew Axelrod to discuss securing first right of refusal to buy back his company. After four months of negotiation, Estopinal was able to close the sale and now holds full ownership of his company, his events and most importantly his name. That includes being raided by the Drug Enforcement Agency in at the State Palace Theater after months of undercover surveillance.
Convinced that drugs were being sold at his shows, agents pried open speakers looking for contraband but found nothing. Five months later, federal authorities try a different tactic -- charging him with violations of a "crack house" law for staging events where drugs were allegedly sold and used.
The RAVE Act created more fear of the electronic music scene and made venue managers weary about the genre, but the growing popularity of electronic music could not be ignored. Estopinal was also an early partner of Insomniac founder Pasquale Rotella and in partnered with Rotella on Nocturnal Wonderland in Los Angeles, where so many people showed up that riot police used tear gas to disperse a crowd outside the gates.
At the end of the night, 8, people got into the event, with nearly double that stuck outside. The two continued working together and in , Rotella and Estopinal made it official by forming partnership and launching marque events, including Electric Forest and EDC Orlando.
The partnership also produced hundreds of club shows annually in markets across the U. Sillerman; a media entrepreneur with a vision to invest nearly a billion dollars in electronic dance music to bring the world's leading promoters under one roof. After shelving the Something Wicked and Something Wonderful brands, Donnie partnered with a sister company in to bring Chicago's Freaky Deaky to Houston, Texas, selling 50, tickets in its first year.
Ubbi Dubbi is Disco Donnie's newest festival brand which takes us into a world curated by two whimsical imaginary characters known as Ubbi and Dubbi.
The new brand took the EDM world by storm, gathering 45, attendees in its inaugural year. This historic acquisition concludes an epic eight-year journey through being the first company acquired by SFX, surviving SFX's subsequent bankruptcy, becoming a part of LiveStyle, and finally buying his company back and delivering fan refunds in the face of COVID festival cancellations.
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