Toy Billionaire Deletes Post About Black Lives Matter Group
- MGA Entertainment CEO called group ‘anti-Semitic’ on LinkedIn
- Isaac Larian runs company behind LOL Surprise! dolls and Bratz
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Isaac Larian, the billionaire head of the company behind LOL Surprise! dolls, has deleted his Twitter account and a post on LinkedIn after calling a freelance artist a “disgrace to Black people” and saying the Black Lives Matter organization is discriminatory toward Jewish people.
The LinkedIn post, made one week ago, was deleted Tuesday after a question from Bloomberg News about a separate social-media controversy. On Thursday, Larian tweeted at Amina Mucciolo, a Black freelance artist, saying she was a “#LIAR and #Extortionist” and disgraced Black people and the Black Lives Matter movement. Mucciolo had accused Larian’s company, MGA Entertainment Inc., of copying her likeness in one of its dolls.