When reading a 316-page legal filing, sometimes a first pass isn\u2019t enough!\u00a0<\/p>\n
So with fresh eyes, Page Six Hollywood dove back into Tuesday\u2019s amended complaint in the\u00a0RJ Cipriani\u00a0v.\u00a0Jeff Shell\u00a0et al. legal morass, and one sentence in particular caught our eye \u2014 perhaps the best one of all.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
In a footnote, Cipriani\u2019s lawyers write: \u201cPlaintiff is informed and believes and thereon alleges that\u00a0Lawrence Ellison, among certain of his close friends, is known by the nickname \u2018Bad Doggy.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
Professional gambler RJ Cipriani seen on a busy Las Vegas street. Instagram\/ robinhoodvegas<\/p>\n
Bad Doggy!?!<\/p>\n
But exactly what does that mean? Which close friends? A Paramount Skydance spokesperson declined comment. Cipriani\u2019s attorney \u2014 who\u2019s been quick with a spicy quote up until now \u2014 didn\u2019t respond to our request for comment. Perhaps he has been muzzled, pun intended?<\/p>\n
Ellison is of course the Oracle founder who on any given day can be among the top five richest people in the world. A Google search shows that Ellison has been nicknamed \u201cThe Shark\u201d in some obscure corners of the Internet for his aggressive investment style, but there seems to be no public documentation \u2014 until now \u2014 that he\u2019s been known as \u201cBad Doggy.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBad Doggy\u201d isn\u2019t the first strange moniker to emerge in this sordid legal mess that began when Cipriani filed suit against Shell on March 9 and then added a list of the town\u2019s powerbrokers as co-defendants on March 17.\u00a0<\/p>\n
We previously reported that a litigation hold letter sent to WME, and obtained by us, referenced a mysterious man named \u201cTango,\u201d who, by all accounts, isn\u2019t a Hollywood powerbroker.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Larry Ellison and David Ellison at the \u201cStar Trek Into Darkness\u201d premiere. Getty Images<\/p>\n
Jeff Shell during the UFC 324 event at T-Mobile Arena on January 24, 2026. Zuffa LLC<\/p>\n
The otherwise standard letter notified\u00a0Ari Emanuel\u00a0to retain all correspondence with seemingly relevant parties like Paramount and the UFC. (Cipriani\u2019s original lawsuit included What\u2019s App exchanges between him and Shell discussing a $7 billion-plus deal Paramount was negotiating, allegedly before it was public, and Emanuel is mentioned.) But the same letter also demanded that Emanuel save all correspondence with\u00a0Angelo DiMascio, a Rhode Island business owner with a long rap sheet and filmography.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Given that \u201cTango\u201d stood out in the letter, we started sleuthing, and, according to public records, Emanuel and DiMascio lived at the same mid-Wilshire address in the mid-1990s.<\/p>\n
Then, of course, there\u2019s the man at the center of the drama: Cipriani. Naturally, the high-stakes gambler goes by the nickname Robin Hood 702. Cipriani apparently staked out that handle because 702 is the area code for Vegas and, in his own words, he plans to give away any settlement in his $150 million lawsuit to \u201chelp the less fortunate people around the globe.\u201d Get it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When reading a 316-page legal filing, sometimes a first pass isn\u2019t enough!\u00a0 So with fresh eyes, Page Six…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3812,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[167],"tags":[544,813,4532,2679,696],"class_list":{"0":"post-3811","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-larry-ellison","8":"tag-california","9":"tag-larry-ellison","10":"tag-los-angeles-society","11":"tag-page-six-hollywood","12":"tag-society"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/116334153227271490","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}