As the Paramount Talent Agency comes crashing down and Dene Broadbelt, alias Harry O’Connor’s, fraudulent activities are revealed, more stories are emerging of the lengths he went to to establish his talent agency and hide his identity.

Broadbelt claimed to have managed Jimmy Barnes, and also claimed to be affiliated with Paramount Recording Studios in the USA and a range of US producers, in his bid to recruit artists to his agency.

Many young musicians believed his claims and signed up to his business, but the web of lies came crashing down when Broadbelt started dealing with a more experienced DJ, known as Variable (left). He was suspicious from the start and asked enough questions to see through the fraudster.

In one exchange of messages, captured by Variable, Broadbelt, going by the name of Harry O’Connor, said he had never been in radio in an attempt to maintain his alter ego. Our earlier stories have established that O’Connor is indeed Broadbelt and that he did work in radio, first in his own computer-generated bedroom station Ridge Radio and later at 2GN Goulburn, where he made his first venture into the music promotions business, which dramatically failed.

We will report more of Variable’s encounter with Broadbelt next week.

Young musicians who signed on to Paramount have told radioinfo they are devastated to find the the agency was a fraud.

radioinfo has also confirmed that a photography studio in Wollongong and a hire car company allege that they are owed more than $8,000 by the Paramount Agency for an all-day photo shoot and car hire.

Our calls and emails to Dene Broadbelt/Harry O’Connor have so far gone unanswered.

We will have more on this story next week. Read our earlier reports here or click the tag cloud below.