Daniel Brandon Bilzerian, gimęs 1980 m. gruodžio 7 d. Tampos mieste, Floridoje, yra amerikiečių socialinių tinklų influenceris, žinomas dėl savo prabangaus gyvenimo būdo, vakarėlių ir kontroversiškų pareiškimų. Jo tėvas, Paul Bilzerian, buvo žinomas verslininkas, kuris, pasak pranešimų, užtikrino savo sūnums Dano ir Adamo patikėtinius fondus, leidžiančius jam gyventi turtingą gyvenimą.
Dan Bilzerian, pravarde "Blitz", yra pokerio žaidėjas ir verslininkas, amerikiečių ir armėnų kilmės. Iš pradžių jis išgarsėjo dėl aukštų statymų pokerio žaidimo, kuris prasidėjo apie 2008 metus. Be azartinių lošimų, Danas taip pat bandė jėgas televizijoje kaip aktorius (Risk Takers) ir filmuose (Lone Survivor, The Equalizer, Extraction), vėliau tapo savo animacinio šou "Blitz Real Hollywood Stories" prodiuseriu. Be viso to, Danas taip pat valdo prekės ženklą IGNITE.
Dan Bilzerian's grandparents moved to the US from Armenia when they were young. His father worked as a businessman in New York City. In 1997, according to a bankruptcy judgment, the trust fund set up for Dan Bilzerian and his brother, Adam Bilzerian, was worth around $12 million in Cimetrix stock. By 2001, his father reportedly did not have any money left. In 2001, a judge stated that Paul Bilzerian hid his money by putting it into different companies and trusts, including the trust fund for his sons.
Dan Bilzerian entered the University of Florida for four years to study business and criminology. During his college days, he spent a lot of his time playing different gambling games. Reportedly, once, he turned $750 into $10,000 while playing a gambling game on a boat in St. In November 2011, he was sued by the estate of Bradley Ruderman.
Dan Bilzerian is good friends with B.J. Baldwin, who races off-road trucks. Bilzerian once made a bet with B.J.
Dan Bilzerian owns 100 guns and stated them as his fashion statement.
Nesibaigiantys pinigai, alkoholis, vakarėliai ir pavydėtino grožio merginos - tokia garsaus vyro kasdienybė. Ne paslaptis, kad išskirtinio dėmesio jis sulaukia ir dėl to, kad viską akivaizdžiai demonstruoja savo sekėjams - vyras dalijasi erotiškais merginų kadrais, vakarėlio ištraukomis ar savo laisvalaikio nuotraukomis bei vaizdo įrašais.
Tiesa, tų, kurios nori patekti į Dano vakarėlius, taip pat apstu. Tik čia patenka tikrai ne kiekviena. Merginas atsirenka pats vyras, o tada jo komanda susisiekia su išrinktosiomis, kurios nemokamai gauna skrydžius privačiais lėktuvais, apgyvendinimą ir svaigias akimirkas.
Viena mergina, kuri apsilankė privačiame D. Bilzeriano vakarėlyje, papasakojo, kaip visos linksmybės atrodo iš arčiau. „Vieną dieną su manimi susisiekė jo atstovas, kuris pasakė, kad tapau laimingąja, kurią atrinko atvykti į prabanga alsuojantį Dano vakarėlį. Tuo metu kaip tik buvau išsiskyrusi, todėl nesivaržiau ir nusprendžiau pasiryžti šiai avantiūrai“, - pokalbį pradėjo ji.
Mergina sakė, kad ją nustebino tai, jog tokios prabangos, apie kokią ji tik galėjo pasvajoti, čia nebuvo. „Viskas atrodė lyg aukščiausio lygio klubas, bet tikrai nei aukso, nei deimantų ten nebuvo“, - sakė mergina. Ji atskleidė, kad atmosfera vos tik įžengus į D. Bilzeriano vilą nebuvo pati maloniausia. Pasak merginos, iškart suprato, kad čia kiekviena moteris ar mergina viena į kitą žiūri lyg į didžiausią priešę.
„Vakaro eigoje susipažinau su keliomis merginomis, mes šnekučiavomės. Supratau vieną esminį skirtumą - dalis čia yra atvykusių tik dėl to, kad galėtų būti su bene garsiausiu pasaulio vyru, taip išgarsėtų socialiniuose tinkluose, o kitos - tik dėl pinigų. Danas tikrai moka didelius pinigus, kad jį apsuptų pačios žaviausios damos iš viso pasaulio“, - tęsė ji.
Pasak anonime norėjusios likti merginos, vakarėlyje tikrai netrūksta svaigalų ir narkotikų, čia viskas vyksta be ribų. „Man keista, kaip merginos pačios kariasi jam ant kaklo, nors tikrai supranta, kad jis nei su viena jų gyvenime kartu nebus... Pamačiusi tą tuštybę aš tiesiog norėjau greičiau važiuoti namo. Labai džiaugiuosi, kad ten nepatyriau jokios seksualinės prievartos... Tų, kurios norėjo permiegoti su Danu, buvo užtektinai. Tai buvo tarsi orgija. Nesumeluosiu sakydama, kad per naktį jis pasimylėdavo 15-20 kartų. Partneres jis keičia tikrai dažniau nei kojines“, - skėlė ji.
In 2014, Dan Bilzerian took legal action against the makers of the film Lone Survivor. He claimed that he gave them $1 million to be in the movie for eight minutes with 80 words of dialogue. However, they cut his part to less than one minute and only one line. Later, he dropped the case against the makers of Lone Survivor.
In August 2014, a nightclub in Miami banned Dan Bilzerian after he kicked model Vanessa Castano in the face during a fight. Bilzerian claimed that Castano and another woman attacked his female friend. Two girls were fighting next to me at the table. People started pushing, and I tried to stop them. After that, Castano sued him for her injuries. She reportedly claimed $1 million from him to settle the lawsuit.
In 2014, Dan Bilzerian faced another legal issue when an adult film actress Janice Griffith claimed that during a photoshoot for Hustler magazine, Bilzerian threw her off a house roof into a pool. However, she fell short and broke her foot. Later that year, Griffith sued both Hustler and Bilzerian.
On December 9, 2014, he was arrested at Los Angeles International Airport. The Los Angeles Police Department said Bilzerian was arrested because there was a warrant against him in Nevada. He was taken to the LAPD’s Pacific Division. In 2014, Dan Bilzerian claimed that he won $50 million playing poker in a year. He mentioned that he did not play against professional players anymore. He said that the highest amount he ever lost in one game was $3.6 million. Dan Bilzerian was released from LAPD custody on the same day he got arrested because the charges were dropped.
In December 2015, Dan Bilzerian started supporting former American president Donald Trump. He often states that he became rich because he was good at gambling. However, some professional poker players such as Doug Polk disagree with this claim.
On August 28, 2018, Dan Bilzerian went to Armenia with his brother, Adam, and father, Paul. During the same trip, he went to the Republic of Artsakh. The government of Azerbaijan became upset with this incident as Artsakh’s relations with them were disputed at that time.
In 2019, he visited India and announced that he was teaming up with LivePools, an online fantasy sports platform for cricket and football. Ignite is registered in the stock market, and it started trading stocks in January 2019 with the symbol BILZF. In 2019, Ignite lost more than $50 million. Curtis Heffernan alleged that Ignite paid over $2.4 million in rent and other expenses to Bilzerian in 2019. In July 2020, Curtis Heffernan, who used to be the president of Ignite, filed a case against Dan Bilzerian.
In 2020, he and his family donated $250,000 to the Armenia Fund. Reportedly, Dan Bilzerian’s wealth did not come from his gambling profession, but he inherited it from his father, Paul Bilzerian. Paul was known for taking over companies, but he got in trouble for breaking securities laws in 1989. In 1993, he was told to pay more than $30 million of the money that he made illegally, but he did not pay.
Bilzerian has generated controversy for a series of statements against Jews, Judaism, and Israel as early as 2010. He has gone on record to say that the Jewish people perpetrated the Holodomor in Soviet Ukraine, assassinated John F. Kennedy in 1963 and Muammar Gaddafi in 2011, created the "transgender nonsense", and orchestrated the September 11 attacks and the Iraq War, among other assertions and antisemitic conspiracy theories. In a 2024 interview with Piers Morgan, Bilzerian argued that Judaism "promotes supremacy and rape, and steals from other people as long as they're not Jewish" and that "most of the problems today are caused by Jewish supremacy". He invoked the term "antisemitism" as a misnomer, stating that the Palestinian people "are the real semites".
One thing I do like is that he is kind of raw and unfiltered ... that honestly scares me less than these people that are so politically correct and they're just gonna say whatever they're supposed to say ...
In 2014, Bilzerian was involved in a legal matter with pornographic actress Janice Griffith. Griffith was featured in a photoshoot with Bilzerian for Hustler magazine in April 2014, which involved Bilzerian throwing her off the roof of a house and into a pool. Griffith fell short of the pool, hitting the edge, and broke her foot. The 18-year-old asked Bilzerian for $85,000 for her injuries, which was rejected. In December 2014 she filed a lawsuit against both Hustler and Bilzerian.
In July 2020, former Ignite president Curtis Heffernan sued Bilzerian for wrongful termination.
