Tag: Vince Vaughn

  • True Detective II: “The Vaughn Addendum”

    True Detective II: “The Vaughn Addendum”

    In 2003,  Directors Performance Fund, a hedge fund controlled and run by Sharon Vaughn, mother of actor Vince Vaughn, capitalized a “bank” specializing in providing financing to drug traffickers and snake oil salesmen peddling goat’s blood. The deal received attention  only after Vaughn’s hedge fund went fully rogue two years later,  in a much larger…

  • True Detective: Chicago, El Chapo, & Vince Vaughn’s Mom

    True Detective: Chicago, El Chapo, & Vince Vaughn’s Mom

    Actor Vince Vaughn, in the news for his starring role in HBO’s True Detective and recent controversial statements advocating more guns in schools, now has a new source of notoriety guaranteed to keep him in face time: his family. Vaughn’s mother, Sharon Vaughn, a sparkling and vivacious Chicagoland socialite, and his step-father, Stephen Ferrone, a…