Search results for Stefan+Eriksson (58 results)
Ex-Gizmondo exec arrested, faces grand theft charges
Former Gizmondo executive officer Stefan Eriksson has been arrested on grand theft charges and is being held without bail. Authorities allege that Eriksson doesn't own the Ferrari that was totaled in February and two other exotic cars, including the ...
Ex-Gizmondo exec's bail set at $7.5M, considered flight risk
Last week, former Gizmondo executive officer Stefan Eriksson was jailed and held without bail. According to Deputy DA Tamara Hall, bail has now been set at $7.5 million. In other words, Eriksson ain't goin' nowhere. A judge has scheduled a bail revie...
Gizmondo exec's life continues to spiral into infamy
Former Gizmondo executive officer Stefan Eriksson has lost his second exotic car, a $400,000 2005 Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren. Last month, Eriksson's $1 million Ferrari Enzo was totaled in a shady crash on Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu. This past Sun...
Eriksson was driver in stolen car crash, says detective
Detective Zack Conner testified that ex-Gizmondo exec Bo Stefan Eriksson was indeed the (intoxicated) driver during the now infamous Ferrari crash this past February in Malibu, ruling out claims that "Dietrich" — Eriksson's imaginary ...
Gizmondo man goes back to jail, does not pass go (again), does not collect $200 (again)
After serving three years in the US prison system for, among a litany of other things, totally disrespecting a $1 million Ferrari Enzo, Gizmondo's ex-CEO Stefan Eriksson is heading right back to jail. Last Friday, the District Court of Uppsala, Swe...
Former Gizmondo exec. involved in Ferrari Enzo crash
Stefan Eriksson, the former executive officer of the now bankrupt Gizmondo Europe, who resigned from the company after it emerged that he was convicted of financial fraud in the mid-90s, was involved in a high speed car crash which totalled a $1 mil...
Former Gizmondo exec goes directly to jail
Former Gizmondo executive, Bo Stefan Eriksson, plead guilty yesterday to embezzlement and drunk driving charges. He will serve 3 1/2 years in prison, have his California mansion seized to pay debts and be deported from the U.S. after his prison sente...
Former Gizmondo executive, two others linked to Swedish mafia
Too bizarre for fiction: last week a senior executive at Gizmondo Stefan Eriksson resigned, and now its been discovered that he was once involved with the Swedish mafia, having been convicted in 1993 of "financial fraud related to counterfeit money...
Gizmondo exec's Ferrari, before and after
Eurogamer managed to dig up some pics of Gizmondo exec Stefan Eriksson's Ferrari Enzo before it got split in half. Well, we should clarify that sentence. They managed to dig up pictures of the Ferrari that got totaled in addition to some pics of his ...
Wired reports on Gizmondo's high-speed crash-up
In the tradition of upstanding journalism, Wired's Randall Sullivan follows the rise and fall of Gizmondo, framing the entire tale with company exec Stefan Eriksson's infamous crash of a rare Ferrari Enzo, which brought his company's financial indisc...
Gizmondo CEO: rumors of mafia connection were 'manipulation'
The Gizmondo story was already insane enough on its own – the out-of-nowhere launch, the lavish spending on events and a retail location, Momma Can I Mow the Lawn. An in-depth article at Eurogamer adds even more insane details than we knew. Fo...
Ex-Gizmondo exec trial: day one
Los Angeles Times paints a vivid portrait of a courtroom scene seemingly cast to ease the transition into primetime TV drama. The star of course, Bo Stefan Eriksson, the now infamous ex-Gizmondo exec, is squeezed into a tight blue suit. He's accompan...
Today in Joystiq: May 1, 2006
10 days until E3: let the countdown begin! The GameCube prepares for a price drop, Xbox Live prepares for an update, and ex-Gizmondo exec Stefan Eriksson prepares for his day in court. While we watch as more and more "art" pops up on the 'n...
'Gizmondo' site teases a 2008 rebirth
Gizmondo is back! Sort of, anyways. Or not. A teaser for the device's phoenix-like return has been posted online, boasting "the legend is reborn," "exciting psychic worlds" and "we will democratize gaming." Also mentioned is open source gaming ("cre...
Today in Joystiq: April 10, 2006
Make a quick buck by selling your pixelated "services" on the world wide web, use that cash to buy another copy of Oblivion (as if it hasn't sold enough, already) and one of those very nice Xbox 360 Quick Charge Kits. While we wait for Stef...
