In September, New York-based Sotheby's auction house sued Minor because he had yet to pay for the paintings, and as of press time he still had not paid. That month at the Florida Derby, the horse pulled up lame, finished dead last, missed the Kentucky Derby, and has not raced since.Īlso in March, Minor purchased three paintings at auction for $13 million. In March, Minor paid $3 million for a stallion that some considered a contender to win the Kentucky Derby. However, looking at the rest of his empire, some wonder if it isn't Minor himself who's running out of cash. Now, less than a decade later, at age 43, major are Minor's losing gambles and unpaid bills.Įarlier this month when the loan money temporarily fell through for his Landmark Hotel, Minor claimed it was a bank defaulting amid a worldwide banking crisis. Major was his foresight in March of 2000 when he walked away from CNet with hundreds of millions at the peak of its success, just weeks before the dot-com bubble burst and scores of other young entrepreneurs lost their fortunes. Major was his wealth when CNet became the go-to site for tech industry news and when advertising dollars began to pour into the company.
Major was the ambition when Minor founded news company CNet in 1992 with the intent of becoming the top media mogul of the new medium called the Internet. But if he had, the 19th century author with the penchant for giving characters descriptively accurate monikers might have given Minor a different last name. Halsey Minor is the greatest character Charles Dickens never created. Though now locked in a public dispute over fiinancing, Minor (center) and his Landmark developer Lee Danielson (right) were all smiles with Mayor Dave Norris the day of the Landmark Hotel's groundbreaking.
Halsey Minor, seen here at the March groundbreaking of the Landmark Hotel, has gotten into a public dispute with his developer and his bank over the luxury Downtown Mall property.Īt the time of this interview on PBS' Charlie Rose, Minor had just sold his search engine to NBC for $63 million
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