At the Wall Street Journal, Bradley Hope and Tom Wright uncovered a scandal so weird and huge, it seemed made up. A 29-year-old Asian man persuaded a prime minister to help him steal $5 billion and build a Hollywood empire.
The success of Billion Dollar Whale, a New York Times bestseller, inspired Bradley and Tom to make the search for stranger-than-fiction stories their life’s work.
Now a team of journalists, producers, creators, film and TV professionals, and composers based in London, New York and Singapore, Project Brazen delivers content that elicits disbelief — whether podcasts, books, documentaries, TV shows, or films.
We smuggled a microphone to Fat Leonard, a corrupt US military contractor in jail for stealing millions. After our podcast came out, Leonard went on the run. In Corinna and the King, we persuaded the lover of the king of Spain to spill her secrets, putting our podcast at the center of a media storm.
