Brian Molony

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Brian Molony is a famous former gambler from Toronto. Molony embezzled more than $10 million from his employer (the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce) to feed his gambling habit. A classic compulsive gambler, he has said that from his twelfth birthday until the night of his arrest he had never gone 72 hours without placing a bet. He has not gambled since his arrest, in 1982, and lives with his wife and three children in Canada. He currently works as a financial consultant.

Gary Stephen Ross's best-selling nonfiction book Stung (ISBN 978-0771075322) chronicles Molony's 18 months of increasingly brazen fraud and out-of-control gambling, mostly at Caesar's in Atlantic City.

The movie Owning Mahowny was based on Ross's book. Philip Seymour Hoffman played "Dan Mahowny", the character based on Molony.