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May 26, 2023

Feisty chief of toy company denies stealing designs

MGA Entertainment CEO Isaac Larian says he went “from a dishwasher to a billionaire, and I worked hard. I didn’t hustle,”

MGA Entertainment CEO Isaac Larian, worth $1 billion, has lived the American dream and is proud of it, he testified Thursday during a federal trade dress infringement trial in Santa Ana.

Larian went “from a dishwasher to a billionaire, and I worked hard. I didn’t hustle,” the CEO of the largest privately held toy company in the U.S. told John R. Keville of Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP under cross-examination.

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