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Jessica Anne Bond (born Jessica Manafort;[1] June 13, 1982)[2] is an American director, screenwriter, and producer known for her 2007 film Remember the Daze.

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Career

In 2007, Bond directed the film Remember the Daze starring Amber Heard, Brie Larson, and Leighton Meester. The film premiered at the 2007 Los Angeles Film Festival under the title The Beautiful Ordinary.[3] Remember the Daze has a 0% rating on Rotten Tomatoes[4] and Kyle Smith of The New York Post review says "This movie isn’t even sophomoric; it’s freshmanic."

Bond's follow up film Rosy was released via video-on-demand in 2018. Stacy Martin plays an actress and Nat Wolff as a man obsessed with her.[5] The film also starred Tony Shalhoub, Johnny Knoxville, and Sky Ferreira. Jonathan Schwartz and Alex Bach produced. Rotten Tomatoes shows zero reviews for this film.[6]

Personal life

Bond is the daughter of American lobbyist and campaign manager Paul Manafort. From 2013 to 2017, she was married to real estate developer Jeffrey Yohai.[7] In 2018, Bond announced she was changing her last name both professionally and legally from Manafort to her mother's maiden name, Bond, in order to distance herself from her father after his conviction.[8]

Financial and Legal Controversies

Bond's father, Paul Manafort, invested millions of dollars in Bond’s film projects and her now-ex-husband’s real-estate ventures.[9]

When Bond's father, Paul Manafort, was indicted, it was revealed that together he, Bond, and others operated a high-priced Airbnb in downtown Manhattan. The Manafort property rental business was allegedly used to launder money and included multiple units. It is alleged that Jess Bond and her husband, Jeffrey Yohai, set up a company to sublet several apartments nearby without their owners' knowledge, which is a type of black-market home sharing practice that Airbnb has come under criticism for enabling. Bond and Yohai earned approximately $30,000 a month by listing and subletting at least four Manhattan apartments via Airbnb and other short-term property rental websites, according to a November 2016 lawsuit by their landlord.[10]

In April 2017, Genesis Capital sued Bond and Yohai, claiming that they breached guarantees tied to real estate loans.[11] On November 8, 2019, Yohai was sentenced to more than nine years in prison for a wide-ranging series of fraud schemes.[12] The series of schemes generated more than $13 million, and included one that cheated $3 million from actor Dustin Hoffman.[13] Hoffman and his son, actor Jacob Hoffman, invested with Yohai in a Hollywood Hills property where he planned to build a modern mansion."[14] Jake Hoffman and Jess Bond both attended New York University at the same time.[15]

In a sentencing filing for Yohai, prosecutors revealed that he and Bond tried to tamper with the testimony of witnesses against him via “coded” phone calls while Yohai was in a county jail. Prosecutors alleged Yohai called Bond to inform her that he was facing additional charges for pawning stolen musical equipment but that she should claim that Yohai wound up with the gear in exchange for a security deposit. Bond agreed to the plan in a later phone conversation but was never charged in the case."[16]

Filmography

• Remember the Daze (2007) as Jess Bond
• Rosy (2018) (directed)

References

External links

• Jess Bond at IMDb 

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