| Jaap Amesz | |
|---|---|
| Born | September 6, 1982 Netherlands |
| Other names | King Jaap, Terror Jaap |
| Occupation | Television personality |
| Website | |
| http://www.terrorjaap.nl/ | |
Jaap Amesz (born September 6, 1982, Brielle) is a Dutch television personality. He gained fame as the first winner of the Dutch reality television series The Golden Cage, the predecessor to Big Brother. In a final competition of the series presented by Bridget Maasland and Rutger Castricum, he won the amount of €1.35 million euros.
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Before Amesz joined the Golden Cage, he studied human resource management at the Rotterdam School of Management at Erasmus University Rotterdam.[1] Jaap is an enthusiastic chess player and once defeated grandmaster Jan Werle. He presently has a FIDE rating of 2175.[2]
Amesz developed his own Terror Jaap show that was broadcast on RTL 5, for which he sought unusual guests such as pornographic actors and anorexia patients.[3] In March 2010, Amesz used a lie detector during an interview with Joran van der Sloot, a suspect in the Natalee Holloway case.[4] After a brief investigation, the Aruban public prosecutor concluded that his statement was not true because the facts and timelines were inconsistent.[5] On June 4, 2010, Dutch authorities raided the home of Amesz and confiscated evidence at the request of the U.S. Justice Department, who were investigating Van der Sloot on charges of extortion and wire fraud.[6]