Producer Cons Investors with Fake Lupita Nyong'o Play

Lupita Nyong'o earned a Tony nomination earlier this year for her Broadway debut in Eclipsed, but seven investors will never see her star in another Broadway play that they were recently conned into funding. According to Metro, Roland Scahill, who owns Production Company RMS2 Productions, has been indicted for stealing $165K from investors who thought he was producing a new play about opera star Kathleen Battle.

District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance, Jr. told Metro that Scahill told the investors that he: "secured Kathleen Battle's life rights, that Lupita Nyong'o had agreed to star in the production, and that Broadway's historic Booth Theatre had agreed to run the show. Even worse, in an attempt to steal additional money from those he had already victimized, Scahill is alleged to have told the investors that he secured a contract with Netflix to film the play and make it available to its millions of subscribers."

Scahill reportedly used the money for his own personal expenses, including rent, credit card payments, stocks, etc.

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