![]() ![]() ![]() A year after the best-selling author was forced to admit that he played loose with the truth in Bringing Down the House and two other books, Mezrich opens Accidental Billionaires with a lengthy disclaimer indicating that he’s “again fudged facts to fit his idea of a good yarn.” Hollywood is already turning Mezrich’s latest into a screenplay, so his methods serve their purpose. “Nonfiction” apparently means something different to Mezrich than it does to the rest of us, said Luke O’Brien in Boston magazine. ![]() By the summer of 2004, he was spotted leaving one party with a Victoria’s Secret model. Success, Mezrich says, brought riches, charges of intellectual theft, even sex with groupies. But one night, stung by a girlfriend’s rejection, the geeky underclassman hacked into the servers of various dorms and created Facemash, a site that displayed paired headshots of other students and urged visitors to vote on which in each pairing was “hotter.” Within a year, Zuckerberg transformed his puckish initial concept into a social-networking site that went viral. Now “the youngest billionaire of all time,” Zuckerberg was a Harvard sophomore of little distinction in 2003. It’s fun to imagine what Mark Zuckerberg’s life has been like since the 25-year-old founded Facebook, says author Ben Mezrich. ![]()
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