Don Catalano has been making a living in Los Angeles opening Talent & Casting agencies in various locations all over the city since he was released from a state penitentiary near Buffalo, New York where he did time for counterfeiting and where he was born. He still has family there.
For years his game was that he made his money off of photo packages that he sold to all the hopefuls. You could have the top photographer in the world take them. When you enter whatever premises he currently rents, you will be told by him and/or his sales staff that your photos are substandard simply because you didn't pay him to take them. Then he and his staff will try, (and usually are successful) in selling you new photos that they tell you, their experienced photographer will take. The photographer was his girlfriend until he married her. They are divorced. She was never a photographer.
This man has been warned over and over again but for some reason no one in Los Angeles cares to do anything about him. He has done this for most of his adult life. The only time he was involved in show business legitimately (that I'm sure of) was when he worked at the Lockwood Agency on Beverly Drive. This was a legitimate agency for writers. Since then he has been doing this for a living.
As for his one time book that he published. It was just a collection of bachelors in America. Nothing to write. Just a bunch of head shots with sort blurbs of info on each one. This by no means constitutes a writer. If he was one, his past employer would certainly have represented him all these years.
He has been telling people since the late eighties that he is doing a TV pilot. He uses the same schtick over and over again. Anyone doing a criminal background check on this man can get most of this info.
Now it appears that he has branched out and is including children and apparently an escort service to his resume. Beware of this man!
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