In November 2017, Dotcom announced he would marry his fiancée, Elizabeth Donnelly, on 20 January 2018 the anniversary of the raid during which he was arrested. Four days earlier, Mona had left her directorship positions in the Dotcom family's companies. On, Dotcom announced on Twitter that he was separated from his wife Mona and was filing for divorce.
He became the father of twin girls (his fourth and fifth children) when Verga gave birth in Auckland in March 2012, a month after he was released on bail from Mt Eden prison. In 2007, Dotcom met Mona Verga, whom he described as his "soulmate" and the "love of his life", and married her on 10 July 2009. īefore his arrest in New Zealand, he was the world's number-one-ranked Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 player out of more than 15 million online players. He wanted to buy the mansion when the lease expired. He leased a mansion in Coatesville, a rural community near Auckland, owned by entrepreneurs Richard and Ruth Bradley, and considered one of the most expensive homes in the country. While his residency was under consideration, Dotcom was planning a fireworks show in Auckland at a cost of NZ$600,000. He was granted permanent residence in New Zealand on 29 November 2010. During the 2000 Monaco Formula One Grand Prix, Dotcom chartered a 240 ft (73 m) yacht and used it to host parties for guests such as Prince Rainier of Monaco. In 2001, his main source of income was a company called Kimvestor, and he was known for spending his money on expensive cars and boats. Prior to his arrest in New Zealand, he enjoyed a luxurious life. He changed his surname to Dotcom in 2005. His mother was Finnish, from Turku, so he holds a Finnish passport and has siblings in Finland.
The party contested the 2014 New Zealand general election under an electoral alliance with the Mana Movement and contested the 2017 general election independently, but failed to win any seats at either election.ĭotcom was born Kim Schmitz in 1974 in Kiel in the north of Germany in what was then politically West Germany. He also started and funded the Internet Party. In 2013, Dotcom launched another cloud storage service called Mega, although he later severed all ties with the service in 2015. Dotcom appealed to the Supreme Court of New Zealand, which ruled in 2020 that Dotcom could be extradited to the United States, but that he and three co-defendants were entitled to challenge the decision through a judicial review. In 2018, the New Zealand Court of Appeal upheld the lower court's ruling. Dotcom denies any wrongdoing and has accused US authorities of pursuing a vendetta against him on behalf of politically influential Hollywood studios. In 2017, a New Zealand court ruled that Dotcom, as well as co-accused Mathias Ortmann, Bram van der Kolk and Carter Edwards, could be extradited to the US on fraud charges related to Megaupload. Dotcom posted bail and has been going through legal proceedings ever since to avoid extradition to the United States. Dotcom was residing in New Zealand at the time at the request of US authorities, New Zealand police raided his home in 2012 and arrested him. The company was financially successful, but in 2012, the United States Department of Justice seized its website and pressed charges against Dotcom, including criminal copyright infringement, money laundering, racketeering and wire fraud. He first rose to fame in Germany in the 1990s as an Internet entrepreneur and was convicted on charges of computer fraud in 1994.ĭotcom is the founder and former CEO of the now-defunct file hosting service Megaupload (2005–2012). Kim Dotcom (born Kim Schmitz, 21 January 1974), also known as Kimble and Kim Tim Jim Vestor, is a German- Finnish Internet entrepreneur and political activist who resides in Queenstown, New Zealand.
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