Marc Collins-Rector

Collins-Rector and his associates in what would become one of the largest Hollywood sex abuse scandals of the 1990s. In 2000, while under criminal investigation, Collins-Rector fled the country. He was captured at a beach resort in Spain and returned in 2003 to the United States, where he pleaded guilty to transporting minors across state lines to engage in criminal sexual activity but disputed the civil judgment against him. He left the country again in 2007 and has not been seen publicly in years. Collins-Rector had moved some of his assets offshore to one of the world’s most notorious tax havens. In 2011, a California court renewed the an outstanding judgment against Collins-Rector, whom a media report last placed in Europe. Collins-Rector set up a trust in the Central American country of Belize through a financial and corporate services firm that grew into a one-stop shop for American clients, including at least a dozen who sheltered assets while facing criminal investigations or costly lawsuits. Collins-Rector and other Americans relied on the services of companies owned by Glenn Godfrey, a former attorney general who helped write the country’s modern-day trust laws. Godfrey’s enterprises include a law office and the corporate services company known as CILTrust International Inc., formerly CitiTrust International Inc., which he owns with his wife.