Chase Revel

The founder of Los Angeles-based Entrepreneur magazine was sentenced Friday to three years' probation, fined $5,000 and ordered to perform 500 hours of community service for being an ex-convict in possession of a gun. John Leonard Burke, 50, of Pacific Palisades, also known as Chase Revel, was convicted more than 20 years ago of two bank robberies and three attempted bank robberies in Houston and Las Vegas.

The founder of Los Angeles-based Entrepreneur magazine was sentenced Friday to three years' probation, fined $5,000 and ordered to perform 500 hours of community service for being an ex-convict in possession of a gun. John Leonard Burke, 50, of Pacific Palisades, also known as Chase Revel, was convicted more than 20 years ago of two bank robberies and three attempted bank robberies in Houston and Las Vegas.

Chase Revel, the founder of Entrepreneur magazine, has been charged in a criminal complaint filed by the Los Angeles County district attorney's office with two counts of possessing materials to make pipe bombs and a single count of being an ex-convict in possession of a handgun. Revel was convicted 20 years ago of two bank robberies and three attempted bank robberies under his given name, John Leonard Burke.

Barry Rupp, Peter Shea, and Reinhold Phahler purchased a 60% stake of Los Angeles-based Entrepreneur Group Inc., the parent company of Entrepreneur Magazine, for more than $3.5 million from the company's founder Chase Revel. The three businessmen are owners of Costa Mesa-based Stained Glass Overlay Inc., a company that manufactures a colored film that is pasted on windows to give them the appearance of stained glass.

Three Orange County businessmen purchased nearly 60% of the outstanding shares of Los Angeles-based Entrepreneur Group Inc., the parent company of Entrepreneur Magazine, for more than $3.5 million from company founder Chase Revel. The three businessmen--Barry Rupp, Peter Shea and Reinhold Phahler--are owners of Costa Mesa-based Stained Glass Overlay Inc.

The founder of Los Angeles-based Entrepreneur magazine, Chase Revel, was arrested Thursday for the second time in eight days--this time on suspicion of possessing materials with the intention of making pipe bombs, the district attorney's office said. Revel, 49, was free on $4,000 bail from his arrest last week on suspicion of being a convicted felon in possession of a handgun, forgery and perjury, when authorities raided his Pacific Palisades house Thursday morning.

The founder of Los Angeles-based Entrepreneur magazine, Chase Revel, was arrested Thursday at his Pacific Palisades house on suspicion of being a convicted felon in possession of a handgun, forgery and perjury, the Los Angeles County district attorney's office said. Revel was convicted 20 years ago of two bank robberies and three attempted bank robberies in Houston and Las Vegas under his given name, John Leonard Burke.

A woman who sued celebrity divorce lawyer Marvin Mitchelson, charging that he raped her in his Century City office, on Wednesday lost her lawsuit against him in Santa Monica Superior Court, Mitchelson's attorneys said. Mitchelson, 63, "was very, very pleased with the verdict," his attorney Joe Kibre said after a jury ruled in Mitchelson's favor in a suit brought by Kristen Barrett-Whitney in 1986. Efforts to reach Barrett-Whitney and her attorneys were unsuccessful.

Chase Revel, founder of Los Angeles-based Entrepreneur magazine and author of a number of books on how to start small businesses, took an unusually direct approach to raising capital early in his career. He robbed banks. The story of those early escapades surfaced last month in a palimony lawsuit filed against Revel in Los Angeles Superior Court. The suit was filed by Kristin Barrett-Whitney, who says she lived with Revel out of wedlock for a little more than a year in 1984 and 1985.

A year after purchasing a controlling share of Santa Monica-based Entrepreneur magazine, a three Orange County businessmen have moved the publishing company to Irvine. "This is really the hotbed of entrepreneurship--Orange County," said Barry Rupp, chairman and chief executive officer of Entrepreneur Group Inc., the parent company of the magazine for small businesses. "I think it's a great place to have this kind of magazine."