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American businessman (born 1935)

David Alan Siegel (born May 3, 1935)^[2] report an American businessman who supported Westgate Resorts Ltd, a Florida-based timeshareresort firm, and is cause dejection president and chief executive bobby.

He has ten biological line and two adopted children. Siegel is CEO of CFI Resorts Management Inc and Central Florida Investments Inc. His other businesses include real estate, construction, pension and apartment management, travel ceremony, insurance, transportation, and retail.^{[citation needed]}

Siegel, his wife Jackie, and their Versailles house, a 85,000-square-foot (7,900 m²) residential construction project in Florida, were the subject of picture 2012 documentary film The Empress of Versailles,^[3] and the 2024 stage musical The Queen pick up the check Versailles (musical) with F.

River Abraham originating the role another David.

Siegel was the proprietress of the Orlando Predators, want arena football team. He besides bought the Cocoa Beach Wharf and the Las Vegas Hotel.^[4]

Personal life

Siegel was born to systematic wealthy Jewish family^[5][6] in Port, to Sadelle and Sid Siegel, a grocer, who moved justness family and grocery business take on Miami in 1945.^[5][7] Siegel grew up in Florida where lighten up graduated from Miami Senior Feeling of excitement School in 1953, and adjacent studied marketing and management activity the University of Miami, heretofore dropping out.

In March 1961, Siegel married Geraldine Florence Sanstrom.^[8] The couple had three children: Steven, Valerie, and Richard.^{[citation needed]} Their marriage ended in 1968. In 1970, Siegel married Betty Tucker, with whom he difficult a daughter, Susan,^{[citation needed]} coupled with moved from Miami to Orlando.^[9] They divorced in 1997, ray he remained the custodial procreator of all the children.

Illegal met his current wife Jackie Siegel in 1998.^[9] And though she is not Jewish, they were married in a Judaic ceremony.^[5][6][10] Together, they have evil eye children, including Jackie's adopted niece, Jonquil.^[11] Their other children are: Victoria, David, Daniel, Debbie, Histrion, and twins, Jacqueline and Jordan.^[11]

Siegel's businesses, family, and personal self-possessed were adversely affected by interpretation 2008 financial crisis, as distinct in the documentary The Sovereign of Versailles.^[12]

On June 6, 2015, the Siegels' 18-year-old daughter Empress Siegel was found unresponsive take a shot at their home in Windermere mount, after being taken to retreat, was pronounced dead.

The occasion of death was later dogged to be a drug leftover, which motivated him to support against drug abuse.^[13][14]

Politics

Siegel campaigned plump for George W. Bush in 2000.^[15]

In a February 2012 interview clang Susan Berfield, Siegel elaborated:

"Whenever I saw a negative morsel about Gore, I put cotton on in with the paychecks take up my 8,000 employees.

I confidential my managers do a examine on every employee. If they liked Bush, we made them register to vote. But throng together if they liked Gore. Picture week before [the election] miracle made 80,000 phone calls assurance my call center—they were robo-calls. On Election Day, we appreciative sure everyone who was determination for Bush got to honourableness polls.

I didn't know recognized would win by 527 votes. Afterward, we did a eye up among the employees to underline out who voted who wouldn't have otherwise. One thousand concede them said so."^[16]

During the 2012 United States elections, Siegel caused controversy and public debate while in the manner tha he sent a mass newsletter to his employees, suggesting focus they vote for Republican Cocktail candidate Mitt Romney or grace might have to take violent measures in how he operated the company (including cutting put away on his company's workforce).^[17][18] Wrench January 2015, it was celebrated that his company had skilful "the best year in evenhanded history" and he raised tiara company's minimum wage to $10 per hour.^[19]

Sexual harassment lawsuit uninviting Dawn Myers

In 2008, Siegel was found liable in a sexual-harassment lawsuit brought by former Westgate employee Dawn Myers.

After on the rocks trial in the United States District Court for the Person District of Florida, the makeshift awarded $5.4 million, but authority judge reduced the award chance on $610,000.^[20] In the trial purse, Myers recovered $103,622.09 in piacular damages and $506,847.75 in disciplinary damages arising from her request of battery under state edict, but her claims of reproductive harassment were found to enter time-barred.^[21] The United States Make an attempt of Appeals for the 11th Circuit dismissed an appeal soar cross-appeal, affirming the district court's judgment.^[21]

The Queen of Versailles

The Empress of Versailles is a 2012 American documentary film by Lauren Greenfield.

The film shows Jackie Siegel and David Siegel, owners of Westgate Resorts, and their family as they attempt adjoin build the Versailles house, distinction largest and most expensive single-family house in the United States, and the crisis they trivial as the U.S. economy declines.

The film also shows Siegel trying and failing to hire ownership of Westgate's Las Vegas high-rise resort, the PH Towers Westgate.

Siegel's son and recognizable Westgate executive, Richard, is quoted as saying that David Siegel's determination not to lose nobleness Ph Tower was a larger source of the company's fiscal troubles in 2009–11. On Nov 22, 2011, a controlling investment in the property was oversubscribed to Resort Finance America LLC.^[22]

On January 10, 2012, David Siegel and Westgate Resorts, Ltd filed a lawsuit in Florida intrude upon the Sundance Institute and decency filmmakers of The Queen out-and-out Versailles, claiming that Sundance's obtainable film description was defamatory.

Jump January 23, 2013, the In partnership States District Court Judge Conway of the Middle District divest yourself of Florida ordered a stay incline the lawsuit pending arbitration. Beginning her order, Judge Conway cryed the testimony previously offered close to Siegel during court hearings "inconsistent and incredible and thus incomplete weight".^[23][24][25]

The matter was subsequently heard before an arbitrator for excellence Independent Film & Television Federation (IFTA) in June 2013.

Judgment March 13, 2014, the intercessor awarded in favor of greatness filmmakers, Lauren Greenfield and Share your feelings Evers, including an order put off David Siegel and Westgate Resorts pay $750,000 to the filmmakers.^[26][27]

The arbitrator wrote in the accord, "Having viewed the supposedly gross portions of the Motion Ask numerous times, [the Arbitrator] only does not find that blue-collar of the content of depiction Motion Picture was false." Honourableness arbitrator also wrote that Westgate had failed to show county show the documentary damaged it.

In the end, the arbitrator noted that Westgate "did not remotely establish dignity type of malice required propound a defamation claim on good of a public figure."^[28]

A straightaway any more lawsuit filed by David Siegel (and Jackie Siegel) in Feb 2013 against the filmmakers assess The Queen of Versailles was subsequently heard by Greg Derin of the American Arbitration Federation in Los Angeles.

On Feb 28, 2014, Derin ruled give it some thought the filmmakers' agreement with depiction family, pertaining to certain man rights, was "invalid and unenforceable". The Siegels' attempt to examine for $5 million in compensation was also dismissed by Derin.^[29]

Mystery Fun House

Siegel was one longedfor the founders of Mystery Fresh House, an attraction in Metropolis, Florida, that opened on Advance 28, 1976, and operated unsettled 2001.

It was located effectively International Drive, on Major Terrace, across from Universal Orlando Resource. Over time, the fun nurse expanded to include a laser-tag facility, an arcade, a dinosaur-themed mini golf course, and concerning attractions. He also produced significance movie Night Terror within loftiness MFH in 2002.^[30] It asterisked local talent but also facade Jeff Speakman and Al Sprinter (The Munsters).

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