26, Report:
#425204
Posted Date:
Feb 14 2012
Kim Flowers - John Robert Powers breach of contract, refuses to refund Las Vegas Nevada
We signed a three-year contract with Kim Flowers when she was doing business as a John Robert Powers franchise in Reno, NV. The contract cost us thousands of dollars and was paid in full. She abruptly closed her doors a year ago with the false promise that those of us with contrac...
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Kim Flowers - John Robert Powers
Categories: Modeling Schools
27, Report:
#821283
Posted Date:
Jan 11 2012
Advance LA Vance Peyton Partnered with John Robert Powers to steal $2100 class tuitions from students and then ran Hollywood, California
I first met Vance in Reno Nevada at a John Robert Powers agency. They said that he had flown in to Reno for auditions to be signed at his talent agency in Hollywood. He asked my son to sign with his agency and told him that he needed to take a class at the John Robert Powers studio ...
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Advance LA
Categories: Modeling & Talent Agencies
28, Report:
#448529
Posted Date:
Jan 10 2012
John Robert Powers Chicago Acting And Modeling School Colleen Collins LLC Scam bait and switch Chicago Illinois
This is a biographical true story of a Talent Director (salesman) who was hired by this traveling irish crew of scam artists and I have the real story. This is a three part story. I was hired on a strict 100% commision as a talent director. all we did in a call center is call you...
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John Robert Powers Chicago Acting And Modeling School Colleen Collins LLC
Categories: Modeling Schools
29, Report:
#795627
Posted Date:
Nov 07 2011
Kim Flowers John Robert Powers, Kim Flowers John Robert Powers Reno NV SCAM!! Las Vegas, Nevada
To all those affected by the Kim Flowers John Robert Powers in Reno NV scam!!
I attended the Kim Flowers JRP Modeling and Acting school in Reno, NV in 2007-2008. To start out with I paid $2900 to those people for modeling and acting classes. Now there were some kids their who paid ...
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Kim Flowers John Robert Powers
Categories: Modeling & Talent Agencies
30, Report:
#782401
Posted Date:
Sep 28 2011
IPOP John Robert Powers Modeling Agency IPOP JRP John Robert Powers Modeling Calls Recorded Message Chicago, Illinois
At work, we continue to receive several calls per day from IPOP. It is an automated message that says, Thanks for calling us! Which we did not do. If we wait on the line to speak to someone, the line eventually just disconnects itself. We can count on a call someti...
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IPOP
Categories: Questionable Activities
31, Report:
#775036
Posted Date:
Sep 10 2011
John Robert Powers SCAM. SCAM. SCAM Internet
I was one of the people that saw a ad for John Robert Powers on tv It showed a girl jumping up and down saying I got the part, I got the part. Then a number pops up on the bottom of the screen and tells you to call this number. I was told to travel to Charlot...
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John Robert Powers
Categories: Modeling & Talent Agencies
32, Report:
#773613
Posted Date:
Sep 07 2011
John Robert Powers, Inc. sleazy and a scam Los Angelas, California
They are a complete scam. They want you to shell out ten thousand dollars to START the program! Oh and you have two days to make the decision. They pressure you into making a HUGE decision and treat you very badly if you don't do it.
I didn't go to the call back on Sunday and Je...
Entity
John Robert Powers, Inc.
Categories: Talent Scouts
33, Report:
#272567
Posted Date:
Aug 10 2011
IPOPiPOP John Robert Powers iPOP is a JRP cash cow.The agents and directors are paid to appear that is why you are charged so much if you are chosen. West Hollywood California
Dear people.
Plase do not encourage iPOP/JRP by giving them money. iPOP is just the latest way that they have of reaching into your pockets. The people who you are performing for are either the parents of the other participants or they are being paid to play th role of agent. SO...
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IPOP John Robert Powers
Categories: Trade Schools
34, Report:
#688227
Posted Date:
Aug 01 2011
John Robert Powers Chicago Preying on Dreams Chicago, Illinois
Somehow when I was 17, about 4 years ago now, my parents got a phone call from John Robert Powers saying they thought I could be a model and to come in for an audition. I am very tall and finally my parents convinced me to go. We went. Sat down and listened and listened to all these...
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John Robert Powers Chicago
Categories: Modeling & Talent Agencies
35, Report:
#741145
Posted Date:
Jun 15 2011
John Robert Powers Micheal And Shannon They do not pay their employees, please help find any information on them!! Internet
So I worked at John Robert Powers for 3 days (I eventually left because they were liars and hired me under a false occupation). Well of course those scam artists never paid me so now I'm in a civil war with getting the money I should be paid. I wanted to know if anyone knows about t...
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John Robert Powers
Categories: Modeling Schools
36, Report:
#446292
Posted Date:
Jun 03 2011
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Michael W Fox, Vault Model & Artist Management Llc Total Misrepresentation, Control Freak, Liar Portland Oregon
Two friends of mine and I went to see Michael W. Fox about model representation, one went alone.
I had an agent contact him to see how he operates. He is into how he is big in the modeling community but I found out that he was sent out of John Robert Powers, where he claimed to b...
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Michael W Fox, Vault Model & Artist Management Llc
Categories: Modeling & Talent Agencies
37, Report:
#711616
Posted Date:
Mar 29 2011
John Robert Powers Why do People Fall for This? Santa Barbara, California
My wife fell into the Robert Powers trap with people out of Santa Barbara a few years back. Why do people still fall for the, I can make your child a star, all you have to do is pay us $$$$$ for classes and representation?
If you think or know your child has tla...
Entity
John Robert Powers
Categories: Talent Scouts
38, Report:
#617212
Posted Date:
Jan 29 2011
IPOP! ,International Presentation Of Performers, And JRP john robert powers radio scam 888-271-5362 , Internet
888-271-5362 Radio scam to been seen by over 100 agents and managers. They are running this phone number all over the US, misleading children and parents by luring them to auditions in hotels promising fame and fortune. Only to find out that you have to spend $$$ thousands of ...
Entity
IPOP! (International Presentation Of Performers) And JRP
Categories: Modeling & Talent Agencies
39, Report:
#677206
Posted Date:
Dec 31 2010
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Jennifer Gibson Universal Academy of Acting are not a real good place to start Toronto, Ontario
Jennifer Gibson and the Academy she teaches at are all part of the J R Powers same rip off stuff. I don't know if they are working together but they are all hiring the same circle of people.
Jennifer Gibson works for Mann Casting and Gloria Mann does work for John Robert Po...
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Jennifer Gibson
Categories: Miscellaneous Companies
40, Report:
#328792
Posted Date:
Dec 27 2010
Hollywood Group, Carlos Becerra, Kids Talent Network, Alex Simon $1800 Kids Modeling-Acting Scam-Rip-Off-Fraud-in Los Angeles-Las Vegas-Same Owners Los Angeles, Las Vegas California
Did you get a card in your local mall?
THROW IT OUT! IT'S A SCAM!
Don't waste your time going to Kids Talent Network in Vegas or The Hollywood Group in Las Angeles. They both owned by Alex Simon and Carlos Becerra.
The both prey on nieve parents trying to make their kids st...
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Hollywood Group, Carlos Becerra, Kids Talent Network, The Hollywood Group, Alex Simon
Categories: Modeling Agencies
41, Report:
#674142
Posted Date:
Dec 27 2010
John Robert Powers JRP Natasha Russian Lady, you do not make dreams come true, you create nightmares! Pacific Grove, California
Peggy was the one who first signed up my daughter. She seemed real authoritive. They kept calling me over and over and over. The telephone number she called from was from San Francisco, then she had a private number. Peggy is some old washed out hag. She claims she was an actress an...
Entity
John Robert Powers
Categories: Modeling & Talent Agencies
42, Report:
#589353
Posted Date:
Dec 27 2010
John Robert Powers NY JOHN ROBERT POWERS IS NOT A SCAM!!!!!! Internet
Please do not listen to anybody when they say John Robert Powers is a scam, because i guarantee you that it isnt. I am currently going there and they do not promise that you become a star. They promise they will give you the tools and connections to become one. The only way u become...
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John Robert Powers NY
Categories: Modeling & Talent Agencies
43, Report:
#592788
Posted Date:
Dec 23 2010
John Robert Powers acting and modeling school Reno, Nevada
My name is Katie and I attended the John Robert Powers school of acting and modeling in 2008. When I had my first audition with them they told me all this great stuff like how I was too talented for words, the next rising star, how they were going to make me so successful. And after...
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John Robert Powers
Categories: Modeling & Talent Agencies
44, Report:
#670739
Posted Date:
Dec 12 2010
Mrs. Jill Wachter Jill Wachter Photography If you want a fashion photographer - stay away from this one New York, New York
My daughter is in a modeling school with John Robert Powers in Baltimore. They regularly invite photographers from New York to help us with fashion photography. It so happened that my daughter has scheduled to be photographed by Mrs. Jill Wachter a photographer from New York.
I d...
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Mrs. Jill Wachter
Categories: Festivals & Event Services
45, Report:
#670571
Posted Date:
Dec 11 2010
Sarah G Stay away from this photographer Internet
Jill Wachter took pictures of my daughter this year at a John Robert Powers center in Baltimore Maryland.
Let me start by saying that anybody with a phone camera can do a better job. Secondly, Jill Wachter has no idea of composition as all pictures she took were not framed correct...
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Sarah G
Categories: Video Stores
46, Report:
#666030
Posted Date:
Nov 28 2010
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John Robert Powers The, ACT, Rise to Fame RIP OFF ACTING SCAM Wilmington, Delaware
All I have to say about this organization is The is a known scam. I called the Disney Studios, and they said it was a scam as well, and yet they STILL allow them to hold a convention at one of their resorts, ONLY BECAUSE of the money it brings Disney World every year. They should te...
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John Robert Powers
Categories: News Media
47, Report:
#328184
Posted Date:
Nov 12 2010
John Casablancas Modeling School They will TAKE YOUR MONEY and not honor their word, they don't care about their clients being seen by legitimate SAG Franchised Agnents, the whole reason people pay all that money to go! Beverly Hills California
STAY AWAY....STAY FAR AWAY FROM THIS COMPANY!!! THEY WILL WASTE YOUR MONEY, AND NO LEGITIMATE AGENCY WILL TAKE YOU/YOUR CHILD SERIOUSLY WITH THIS COMPANY ON YOUR/YOUR CHILD'S RESUME!!!
I signed up my young daughter for classes (as they would take anyone at any age) because she re...
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John Casablancas Modeling School
Categories: Modeling Agencies
48, Report:
#587613
Posted Date:
Nov 07 2010
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In The Moment Acting Studio Top Priority Group (Managment Name) Acting Class/Photography/Managment/Agency Fraud! Ontario, California
In The Moment Acting Studio is a complete SCAM! The guy who runs In The Moment Acting Studio, come from JRP (John Robert Powers) and does the exact same thing JRP does, but only on a smaller scale. The person who runs the studio, just so happens to provide actors with...
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In The Moment Acting Studio
Categories: Modeling & Talent Agencies
49, Report:
#589093
Posted Date:
Oct 28 2010
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In The Moment Acting studio is a total scam Ontario, California
Should have followed my first instincts...any talent/acting company that claims to do it all is a total scam. In The Moment Acting Studio is one of those one stop shops that runs on the dreams and fears of hopeful actors. the owner of this company was an employee of John...
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In The Moment Acting studio
Categories: Modeling & Talent Agencies
50, Report:
#619484
Posted Date:
Oct 22 2010
Dreams Model and Talent, Dreams Model & Talent Dreams Models, Dreams Acting, www.dreamsmodelandtalent.com Modeling-Acting Scam in Las Vegas! Don't pay them a DIME! RUN! READ! Internet
I have been with Dreams Model & Talent for almost 6 months. I was already skeptical of them, they seem very amateur and they're very expensive. Then, to add to my fears, I found this on line posted by another angry parent. Here's what I've now learned:
1) Dreams is actually own...
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Dreams Model and Talent, Dreams Model & Talent
Categories: Modeling Agencies