Kim Dotcom
Sign in to saveAlso known as Kim Schmitz, Kimble, Kim Tim Jim Vestor, Kim Dot Com
German-Finnish Internet entrepreneur
Key facts
- Born
- Kim Schmitz , ( 1974-01-21 ) 21 January 1974 (age 52) , Kiel , West Germany
- Other names
- Kimble, Kim Tim Jim Vestor
- Citizenship
- Germany Finland
- Education
- Middle school
- Occupation
- Entrepreneur
- Years active
- 2005–present
- Known for
- Founder and CEO of Megaupload , Mega and K.im
- Height
- 2 m (6 ft 7 in)
- Political party
- Internet Party (2014–2018)
- Criminal charges
- Computer fraud, data espionage, embezzlement
- Criminal penalty
- Two-year suspended sentence, Five months served and twenty months' suspended sentence
- Spouses
- Mona Verga ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2009 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 2014 ) Elizabeth Donnelly, ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2018 )
- Website
- kim .com
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Kim
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Germany
- Place of birth
- Kiel
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- German
- Official website
- kim.com
- Image
- Kim Dotcom-2.jpg
- Residence
- Queenstown
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- Commons category
- Kim Schmitz
- date of birth
- 1974-01-21
- name in kana
- キム・ドットコム
- topic's main category
- Category:Kim Dotcom
- owner of
- Megaupload
- start of work period
- 2005-00-00
- social media followers
- 1296305
- pseudonym
- Kim Tim Jim Vestor
- name in native language
- Kim Dotcom
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Encyclopedic overview
Kim Dotcom (né Schmitz; born 21 January 1974), also known as Kimble and Kim Tim Jim Vestor, is a German-Finnish Internet entrepreneur and political activist who lives in Glenorchy, New Zealand.
Dotcom rose to fame in Germany in the 1990s as a hacker and an Internet entrepreneur. He was arrested in 1994 for trafficking in stolen phone calling card numbers. He was convicted on eleven charges of computer fraud, ten charges of data espionage, and various other charges in 1998 for which he served a two-year suspended sentence. In 2003, he was deported from Thailand to Germany, where he pleaded guilty to embezzlement in November 2003 and after five months in jail awaiting trial he received another 20 months suspended sentence.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kim Dotcom” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.