He was the toast of
Nollywood and everyone wanted to be his friend. Some actresses even became his
lovers.
For film-maker and
producer, Olajide Kareem, aka Seun Egbegbe, who was Ebony films CEO, life was
at its best and he enjoyed it to the peak.
A former lover of actress,
Toyin Abraham, Seun Egbegbe was a big spender and every actor who mattered ate
from his palms.
His last birthday party in
2016 held on Sunday June 5, 2016. It was much talked-about and everyone
scampered for the Aso Ebi. Present at the shindig were actresses which included
Liz Dasilva; Adediwura Adesegha; Regina Chukwu; Nkechi Sunday; Iyabo Ojo,
producer/actor Saheed Balogun; Bimbo Success and a host of others. Who wouldn’t
want to be on the guest-list when Egbegbe bankrolled most of the movies churned
out that year?
In fact, when he clocked
another year in July 2019, none sent a birthday shout-out on social media.
Every of his ‘beneficiary’ in Nollywood kept mum and ignored his handle on Instagram.
But then, an actor, Leye
Kuti, took to Instagram and wrote, “It’s so funny how people forgot the good
you did to them, we were never close but I can pick point you helped a lot of
people in that industry and they can not even celebrate you on your birthday
it’s so sad… me n u be fighting mate but bcos I know u get good mind I will
celebrate you today Hbd @seunegbegbe… I know after they see dis 1 now them go
gossip as usual… I pray freedom visit you soon and God will use u for good amen
🙏 am not celebrating is wrong part trust me👌 but I think he can
learn more now and change to be a better person… ( he never do anything for me
before I no chop him money ooo) God will touch and make you win souls for God…
we have heard about some pastors from bad act to men of God.” (sic)
The 43-year-old, whose wife
had a baby while he is still in prison, had been arrested for allegedly
obtaining money by false pretences from no fewer than 40 bureau de change
operators in different parts of Lagos from 2015 to 2017.
Egbegbe allegedly swindled
the BDC operators out of the money by claiming that he had naira to change into
foreign currencies and vice versa.
The erstwhile Lagos
socialite, whose affair with Toyin Abraham ended with a messy drama which went
viral online, had been arraigned by the police for a series of fraud involving
N39,098,100, $90,000 and £12,550.
Egbegbe and one Oyekan
Ayomide were first arraigned on February 10, 2017, before Justice Oluremi
Oguntoyinbo, on 36 counts bordering on advance fee fraud.
On February 24, 2017
Justice Oguntoyinbo granted each of them N5m bail with two sureties in like
sum.
Already, Egbegbe has spent
over 30 months (two years and nine months) in prison after he failed to meet
the N5m bail granted him by the Federal High Court in Lagos.
Source: Opera News
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