Ilya Shapiro Pendulum PR Ilya Shapiro of Pendulum PR Con Artist Los Angeles, CA Internet

Two words: Compulsive liar.

Two more: Completely unprofessional. (I could go on)

He completely botched a campaign and lied about placements and premieres. When the premieres and features did not come to fruition he made excuses saying that they are just delayed but still will happen. This happened repeatedly so finally we found the contacts he was alledgedly speaking to and they each told us categorically they had never heard from or of this guy and had no knowledge of the project.

In short he made us numerous promises and didnt deliver on any of them but he went a few steps further and told us he had confirmation when in fact he had not even been in touch with the blogs/publications he had spoken of. Get this... he sent us 15 questions claiming it was an interview from The Huffington Post. When I reached out to the writer who apparently was conducting the interview he told us that these questions did not come from him and it was all made up. Again, he had no knowledge of this project. Ilya Shapiro wrote out a fake interview and claimed it was written by Huffington Post.

The guy is psychotic to make all this up at the cost of damaging an up and coming artist's career. When confronted he kept denying and said that all three writers we spoke to were lying. Obviously there is such thing as coincidence but this is beyond unlikely in this case. He befriends you, makes out like he is the nicest guy but he is likely a sociopath who believes in his own long winded lies and stories. Stay as far away from him as you can. We certainly will.