Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast
This Rich Influencer is Broke Now? - The RD Whittington story
Fri, 31 Jan 2025
RD Whittington is an influencer and celebrity car dealer who has his own reality show called Million Dollar Wheels. He's also allegedly having money trouble.
Chapter 1: Who is RD Whittington and what is his story?
So this influencer is super rich. He's also in really big trouble. Allegedly. Now his name is RD and RD is really into cars. He's a partner at a dealership for exotic cars where he sources super expensive rides for his clients. and everyone there loves him. And RD also really likes being in the spotlight. And he often posts pics of his cars on Instagram, you know, trying to flex a little.
And one day he posts a video of this rare six wheeled Mercedes Benz. And yeah, look at it, it's pretty cool. And suddenly he gets a DM from a rapper. And rapper's like, hey, is that Benz you posted for sale? And RD's like, yeah. So the rapper's like, I'll take it. And R.D. 's like, all right. And he ends up selling him the car. So R.D.
Chapter 2: How did RD start selling cars on Instagram?
's looking at his Instagram account and I guess it suddenly hits him like, oh, snap, I can make sales from Instagram? And soon enough, Instagram becomes a big part of his business. Like people will go to his page and they'll see something they like and they'll reach out to him and boom, he'll deliver a brand new exotic car to their door. and he'll collect his money.
And from there, everything takes off. He's hustling, he's making sales, he's on call 24 seven. He ends up hooking Jamie Foxx up with a new ride and soon they become friends and they're like hanging out all the time. Then RD gets a call from a producer who's working on a music video for Taylor Swift. And they're like, We need a Bugatti for a music video.
Chapter 3: Which celebrities has RD worked with?
And so they rent a Bugatti from him and it appears in the video. There it is right there. And this starts to solidify RD as the car dealer to the stars. And just from his Instagram, you can see him with a ton of celebrities. Ryan Seacrest, Floyd Mayweather, Migos, Jimmy Kimmel, Travis Barker, Bad Bunny, Quentin Tarantino, Aesop Rocky, Aaron Paul, Michael Bay. You get the point.
Bro is suddenly rubbing elbows with a ton of famous people. And during all this, R.D. opens a car showroom in Beverly Hills called Wires Only. And things are going really well for him. In fact, they're going so well, he eventually gets his own reality show called Million Dollar Wheels, hosted by him. And it's on HBO Max, you can watch it.
Chapter 4: What is RD's reality show about?
But on the show, he sells exotic cars to celebrities like Kim Kardashian.
oh my god i know it's been a while i love it so good to see you oh my god what do you think oh my god oh my god and when rd's not shooting the show he's still insanely busy sourcing super rare cars and boats and private jets for his clients and his instagram blows up to over a million followers and apparently bro is getting super rich off all this
Chapter 5: How successful is RD's business?
How much is your business generating per year? Our business generates anywhere from 70 to 150 million dollars per year.
Damn. 70 to 150 million dollars a year? Dude is making millions of dollars to drive nice cars and hang out with celebrities. Call me crazy, but I feel like he's got the perfect life. UNTIL. Now you know how they say things on social media aren't always as they seem because you know people on Instagram just be lying.
Well allegedly things aren't going as well for RD as he would want the world to believe. Because apparently bro starts missing payments on some of the cars he's leasing suggesting that he's having money problems.
And like instead of buying exotic cars and then leasing them to his clients, he allegedly leases a lot of the cars and then subleases them to his clients, which you're not supposed to do without proper consent. And people will sue you for that. He also allegedly sells exotic cars that he doesn't have permission to sell. So that's not good.
Also, his dealership is operating in Beverly Hills without a proper license or proper permits. And when he finally does petition the city for the proper permits, the city is like, nah, bro, probably because he had been operating illegally for years. So Beverly Hills denies his permit request and boom, poor R.D. has to close down his exotic car dealership.
And he doesn't flex about that on his Instagram because that's embarrassing. And of course, from here, his checks start bouncing and people definitely start to notice and they're pissed.
And a lot of his clients and his business associates, they start filing lawsuits against him for all sorts of things like breach of contract, civil theft, fraud, deceit, negligent misrepresentation, violation of vehicle code. And before RD knows it, there are a dozen lawsuits against him, probably more at this point.
And they range from people suing him for tens of thousands of dollars all the way to people suing him for millions of dollars. Not only that, one of those bad checks he wrote was allegedly a $13,000 check to MGM Grand Casino in Las Vegas. And casinos in Vegas, they don't around with their money. So they report him to police and the state of Nevada issues a warrant for his arrest.
And eventually police find him in Beverly Hills and bam, they arrest him. And I don't have a mugshot, but here's what he looks like in real life. And he does pay the casino back and those charges are dropped, but he still has a bunch of lawsuits against him. And to make it worse, around this same time, his wife, Samantha, she's sort of an Instagram influencer herself. Here's her page.
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