loganguzman.info in 2011 to warn others — the original 2011 version is on the Wayback Machine. When the group stopped paying for the domain, he bought it himself and ran it for years as a page impersonating support for an animal charity — burying the warning under feel-good pet imagery. We got it back. The full story is in the section below.
Identity
- Known aliases
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- Logan Guzmán
- Logan Guzman
- Logan Mora Guzmán
- Logan Guzmán Mora
- Logan Mora Guzmán Pinal
- Mora Guzmán Pinal
- Logan Gerardo Mora Guzmán
- Logan Pinal Mora Guzmán
He uses all of these interchangeably, with and without the accent on Guzmán.
- Date of birth
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September 13, 1978.
He has given LAPD alternate DOBs — September 13, 1968 and September 13, 1973 — on booking forms.
- Birthplace
- El Roble Central, Puntarenas, Costa Rica.
- Nationality
- Costa Rican. LASD records also reference a possible Mexican passport.
- Costa Rican national ID
- 6029***48 — Logan Gerardo Mora Guzmán.
- Spanish NIE
- Y4282***5C — issued in connection with his Spanish residency.
- Parents (actual)
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Father: Gerardo Mora Agüero
Mother: Sonia Guzmán Martínez
Not the son of Silvia Pinal or Enrique Guzmán Sr. - Marital status
- Married on March 31, 2015 to Rosmary Carolina Higgins Cariaga, a Spanish citizen aged 31 at the time. The marriage was for the purpose of obtaining Spanish residency documents — under Spanish law, the foreign spouse of a Spanish national can apply for a residence card immediately, and for Spanish nationality after one year of legal residence. Eleven months later, on 23 February 2016, he incorporated his Spanish shell company Goldman Seues DAR SL in Barcelona.
- Last known US address
- 6411 West 5th Street, Los Angeles, California, USA (historical; from 2009-era LA County records).
- Cities of operation
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- Los Angeles, USA
- Mexico City, Mexico
- Paris, France
- Barcelona, Spain
- Zurich, Switzerland
- San José, Costa Rica
- Real family
- Believed sister: Nadia Guzmán (Los Angeles)
How he took over this website
In 2011, people he had scammed built this site to warn others. The original 2011 version is still preserved on the Wayback Machine. It worked — anyone searching his name found the court records, the warrants, the fake employers. He knew it was costing him.
Over time the original victims stopped paying for the domain. Logan Guzmán bought it himself.
He replaced the site with a page pretending to support Freedom Service Dogs of America — a real charity (freedomservicedogs.org) that trains service dogs for veterans and people with disabilities. The charity had no idea. They never endorsed him, never partnered with him, never heard of him.
The page used the charity's own imagery, paragraphs about how much he loves animals, and donation links that looked like they supported Freedom Service Dogs of America. You can see what it looked like on the Wayback Machine.
For years, anyone who searched his name landed on a feel-good dog-charity page instead of the warning. He wasn't a fraud anymore. He was a generous animal lover who, according to his own website, helped disabled veterans.
We got the site back. This is what it says now.
What he does
He opens with a credential. Sometimes it is Universal Music, sometimes Goldman Sachs, sometimes a family name. He drops the right references, wears the right clothes, meets in the right places. He says he is close to decisions that matter — artist signings, investment rounds, deals you have heard of — and that he can bring you in. People believe him because they want to.
Then he asks for money. Sometimes it is a "consulting fee." Sometimes an "investment opportunity." Sometimes he just runs up your card on dinners and flights and disappears.
Who he hurts
He goes after anyone who might have something to gain from knowing a well-connected executive — and those are very different kinds of people.
Artists who hope he can place them at Universal. Small investors who believe he can get them into a Goldman deal. Entrepreneurs looking for a door-opener. Socialites who think his family name makes him worth befriending.
It works across industries because his cover story works across industries. One week he's a music executive, the next a financier, the next a member of the Pinal family. The only constant is that he needs something from you — money, a credit card, a place to stay, an introduction — and he takes it from whoever is in front of him.
Most people lose a few thousand dollars. Some lose much more. Almost everyone also loses months of time and professional credibility: having his name next to yours takes a long time to undo.
We have been collecting these stories since 2009. The people, cities, and industries change. The approach doesn't.
Named victims
In December 2014, Mexican actor Julián Gil publicly accused Logan Guzmán of fraud. Telemundo 47 published the fullest account the following month.
On January 7, 2015, actress Lucía Méndez named him openly on Javier Poza's Radio Fórmula show: "Logan Guzmán Pinal, que así se llama, yo lo digo abiertamente porque puede seguir engañando a la gente." She said he had offered her an L'Oréal Paris contract worth USD $20 million. Her European management firm ran due diligence and found "problemas legales… en Canadá." Her conclusion: "todo era una farsa y era un fraude."
Two days later, Mexican radio journalist Maxine Woodside covered the case in detail on her show Todo para la Mujer at Radio Fórmula, naming a wider list of people he had approached:
- Verónica Castro
- Rebecca Jones
- Lucía Méndez
- Christian Bach
- Aleida Núñez
- Cristian Castro
- Fey
- Belinda
- Julián Gil
- Maribel Guardia
- Bárbara Mori
- Montserrat Oliver
- Mark Tacher
- Aarón Díaz
- Marjorie de Sousa
- Mariana Seoane
The scheme he ran on them was specific. He told them he was an executive at L'Oréal Paris and could make them the face of a major cosmetics campaign. He threw a birthday event for himself on September 14, 2014 that several of them attended. In October 2014, Verónica Castro and Rebecca Jones flew to Paris for the "contract signing." He kept delaying. They came home with nothing. Rebecca Jones lost roughly seven million Mexican pesos, part of it borrowed from a bank. Reported total losses across his targets ran to around 15 million pesos.
Lucía Méndez almost fell for it too. Her son saved her with a line that has since become a small legend in Mexican showbiz circles: "Ni a Julia Roberts le pagan tanto." Her later follow-up: "No me pudo estafar."
Rebecca Jones died in March 2023. The story was re-told that year by journalist Ana María Alvarado and picked up again by Milenio and Infobae.
He took them to court — and lost
Rather than respond to the reporting, Logan Guzmán Pinal sued the journalists and outlets who covered him. Mexican court records are public:
- Civil case D.C. 884/2016, Juzgado Civil 1, Tribunal Superior de Justicia de la Ciudad de México — Logan Guzmán Pinal as plaintiff (actor) against Radio Fórmula S.A., Maxine Woodside, Ana María Alvarado, Julián Elías Gil Beltrán (Julián Gil), Editorial Prosperidad S.A., Diario Basta, and Joel O'Farril, among others. Published in the CDMX Boletín Judicial (14 Jun 2017, 19 Jun 2017).
- Amparo Directo 884/2016, Quinto Tribunal Colegiado en Materia Civil del Primer Circuito — his appeal against the TSJ ruling. Julián Gil listed as interested third party.
- Amparo Directo en Revisión 4382/2017, Supreme Court of Mexico (SCJN), Primera Sala. His appeal of last resort against Radio Fórmula. Dismissed (desechado) on December 5, 2018. Session minutes · Docket.
The courts did not side with him. The articles are still online.
When he can't take a story down in court, he works around it: from time to time he posts older photos of himself with Mexican celebrities — from events long past — without dating them, so a casual reader might assume they are recent and that the fraud coverage must be out of date. Check the dates on the photos. They are not recent.
Beyond the artists
He didn't stop at celebrity victims. According to the same Radio Fórmula reporting, he also defrauded the government of Yucatán of more than two million pesos through false promises of a tourism-promotion documentary and a Verónica Castro concert that never happened. A separate three-million-peso lawsuit was also pending.
That 2015 report described him, at that time, as sought by Interpol, the FBI, and Mexico's PGR (Procuraduría General de la República — the federal prosecutor's office, which was reorganised into the current FGR in 2019). We cannot independently confirm a current Interpol Red Notice. The US warrants are documented further down this page.
The 2009 U2 hoax (Sasha Campbell)
Before the Mexican celebrities in 2014, there was Sasha Campbell.
In February 2009, a press release went out to Costa Rican media claiming that Campbell — a young Costa Rican singer — would open for U2 on 250 concert dates of the 360° Tour starting that June. The release was signed by "Karina McDonald." Campbell's publicist, according to the release, was Logan Guzmán — who claimed he had been "U2's publicist for seventeen years." All three major Costa Rican papers ran the story within days: Al Día on 27 February, La Nación on 28 February, and La República on 3 March (reported by journalist Melissa González).
It was a hoax.
Universal Music Group went on record. Their regional legal advisor Miguel Ángel Sáenz Ugalde told La Nación that Universal had issued no such announcement, no deal existed, and it was not the first time Universal had dealt with him. UMG's official statement to La República went further: "Logan Mora Guzmán nunca ha tenido relación alguna con nuestra compañía, ni como empleado ni como artista." The same statement disclosed that Guzmán had previously attempted to register a business in Costa Rica in 2006 trading on the Universal Music name — and that the registration was blocked. Guzmán had been publicly styling himself "fundador y presidente de Universal Music World Wide" — a company Universal Music does not recognise.
UMG drew a careful line between Campbell and Guzmán in the same statement. Of Campbell the label said, "No dudamos de su excelente voz, la respetamos mucho por su trabajo como cantante," while clarifying that "actualmente no tiene ningún contrato firmado con Universal Music Group." The fault stayed with him, not her.
Confronted by reporters, Guzmán deflected. He told La República the tour was being produced by Live Nation, not UMG, and promised "las pruebas hablarán" — that the evidence would speak for itself. The evidence never came. The pattern of promising imminent proof and then quietly dropping the matter recurs in his later cases (the Paris "contract signing" with Verónica Castro and Rebecca Jones, the Yucatán government documentary, the Goldman Sachs paperwork).
Campbell had moved from Costa Rica to Los Angeles in November 2008 on his promise of the U2 deal. He had set her up with an apartment, a car, designer clothes. She only learned what was happening when reports began coming in of Costa Rican musicians he was not paying. From her later La Nación interview: "Creí que mi mundo se acababa."
He has done this before
The Universal Music story is not his first fake job. After that one he moved on to Goldman Sachs — he told people he was a director there. He was not.
Long before any of this, he said he went to Yale. He did not. He also says he went to Harvard-Westlake School. There is no record of that either.
He keeps layering new claims on top of old ones. All of it sits on top of an actual California criminal record — two convictions and two open arrest warrants (one with bail at $150,000, one no-bail). The details are below.
Verifying the Universal Music claim
The domain he used — universalmusicgroupworldwide.com — was registered to him personally on November 21, 2006. He has since let the registration lapse, so a live WHOIS lookup today returns nothing — the domain is currently unregistered and any person could in principle pick it up tomorrow. Historical WHOIS archives (via paid services like DomainTools) preserve the registration window when he held it.
The same year — 2006 — he also tried to register a Costa Rican shell company called Universal Music LMG (the suffix is his own initials: Logan Mora Guzmán). Universal Music Group's 2009 statement to La República, verbatim: "en 2006 Guzmán intentó inscribir en Costa Rica la sociedad Universal Music LMG, dicha sociedad fue bloqueada e inmovilizada." The same name-engineering trick reappears a decade later in Spain as Goldman Seues DAR SL — different acronym, same play.
The real Universal Music Group owns umusic.com. It has never had anything to do with universalmusicgroupworldwide.com.
He has also publicly styled himself "founder and president of Universal Music World Wide" — a company Universal Music does not recognise. Universal's official 2009 statement, given to La República: "Logan Mora Guzmán nunca ha tenido relación alguna con nuestra compañía, ni como empleado ni como artista." Their regional legal advisor Miguel Ángel Sáenz Ugalde went on the record to La Nación the same week (see the U2 hoax section above).
Any email he sent from @universalmusicgroupworldwide.com came from a private Yahoo-hosted mailbox, not from Universal — if you received a message from that address, you were not talking to Universal.
He also carries printed business cards with the Universal Music logo. Archived copies are preserved online.
The two Universal Music contacts who documented the anomalies in 2009 are confirmed by the same La República reporting: Harold Chávez (financial director) and Miguel Sáenz (legal advisor). Both names also appeared on the original 2011 victims' site. Titles and current roles may have changed since.
Verifying the Goldman Sachs claim
The Goldman Sachs impersonation follows the same pattern as the Universal Music one.
On 23 February 2016 he incorporated a Spanish company in Barcelona called Goldman Seues DAR SL (CIF B66721044, registered office Passeig Sant Joan 136, 5º 1ª, 08037 Barcelona) and registered himself as sole administrator on 3 March 2016. The incorporation was published in the Spanish official gazette as BORME-A-2016-48-08.
The name is engineered to read as Goldman Sachs at a glance. Beyond the founding entries, the shell has no operational footprint: minimum legal capital (€3,000), generic "business consultancy" classification (CNAE 8299), only the two original BORME acts on file, and no annual accounts filed in nearly a decade — a violation of Spanish corporate-law disclosure obligations.
The real Goldman Sachs is a publicly-traded US investment bank. It has no subsidiary, affiliate, or licensing relationship with Goldman Seues DAR SL, and no record of Logan Guzmán as an employee at any point.
Separately, he has run a small network of thin, WHOIS-privacy-shielded websites that exist to plant fake credentials into Google's search index under his name — the kind of infrastructure a person builds (or commissions) to bury real reporting about themselves. Two of them are eliteworldwideprofessionals.com and its sister site worldwidebrandingpr.com. On July 18, 2014 the first published a profile of him as "Director of Legal & Business Affairs for Europe and Southeast Asia at Goldman Sachs". A parallel press-release page on the second pushed the same title. None of it is Goldman Sachs. That title does not exist at the bank.
Family claims
He says he is the son of Silvia Pinal and Enrique Guzmán Sr., and the brother of Alejandra Guzmán. He is not.
His actual parents are Gerardo Mora Agüero (father) and Sonia Guzmán Martínez (mother). He was born in El Roble Central, Puntarenas, Costa Rica, on September 13, 1978. None of the Pinal–Guzmán family's public records list him — not on Wikipedia, not on IMDb, not anywhere else.
The English Wikipedia account Loganguz was created on 7 March 2009 at 20:20 UTC. Over the following ten days it made eleven edits — and only eleven, in its entire existence — all to three Pinal–Guzmán family articles: Silvia Pinal, Alejandra Guzmán, and Sylvia Pasquel (Silvia Pinal's eldest daughter). After 17 March 2009 the account never edited anything again.
Loganguz. Account created 7 March 2009. Eleven edits, all to Pinal–Guzmán family articles, all in March 2009. Verify on en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Loganguz.Every edit was a different rewording of the same claim — that he is Silvia Pinal and Enrique Guzmán's son, brother to Alejandra Guzmán and Sylvia Pasquel, working as a "music celebrity's publicist". Other Wikipedia editors reverted them all. The diffs are public; here is exactly what he tried to insert, in chronological order. Click any timestamp to see the diff on Wikipedia:
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…half-sister of actresses Silvia Pasquel and Viridiana Alatriste (d. 1982). Sister of music celebry publicis '''Logan Guzman''' Niece Stephanie Salas…
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…fathered her daughter and son Logan Guzman celebrity publicist Alejandra Guzmán… divorced when Alejandra and Logan was still a child. (Also altered the decade: "1970s" → "1960s".)
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…and son Logan Guzman a celebrity publicist,Alejandra Guzmán…
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…Sister of music celebrities publicist '''[[Logan Guzman'']]' Niece Stephanie Salas… (Tried to make "Logan Guzman" a working wikilink; broke the markup.)
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…Sister of music celebrities publicist Logan Guzman Niece Stephanie Salas…
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…publicist Logan Guzman, Niece Stephanie Salas…
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— eight-day pause —
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…Sister of the music celebrity's publicist.Logan Guzman, Niece…
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Pasquel's siblings are also famous: her sisters are actresses Viridiana Alatriste and Rocio Banquells, and singer Alejandra Guzman. Her brother,the music celebrity's publicis [[Logan Guzman. Both Alejandra and Logan Guzman were a product of her mother's second marriage, to Mexican teen idol Enrique Guzman.
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…Her brother,the music celebrity's publicis Logan Guzman. Both Alejandra and Logan Guzman…
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…and son [[Logan Guzman]] a music celebrity's publicis and[[Alejandra Guzmán]]…
Two patterns are worth noting. First, the misspellings — celebry, publicis, "Alejandra and Logan was" — repeat across the edits, suggesting a non-native English speaker working in real time, not someone copy-pasting prepared text. Second, in 2009 the cover story was modest: a "celebrity publicist". In the years since it has been rewritten upward — first into a "Universal Music senior executive", then a "Director at Goldman Sachs". The family-membership claim has stayed exactly the same.
His actual sister is believed to be Nadia Guzmán, based in Los Angeles.
Faking Jewish roots (the Kabbalah chapter)
At some point he enrolled in courses at the International Kabbalah Centre — the kind of courses that are open to anyone willing to pay the fee. They were a way in.
He used the classes to meet members of the community, got close to some of them, and once he worked out there was access and money to be had there too, he began claiming Jewish heritage he does not have.
He has used the same approach in other settings: join a community, build a fake credential inside it, then use it.
Active warrants
Los Angeles County
- Warrant 1 — issued Dec 7, 2009 — no bail
- Failure to appear for a 90-day jail sentence following his felony conviction for Grand Theft (CA Penal Code §487(a); threshold at time of offense was $400 — currently $950 post-Proposition 47).
- Warrant 2 — issued Nov 25, 2009 — bail $150,000
- Failure to appear on two felony charges: Grand Theft (§487(a)) and Credit Card Fraud (§484e(d)).
Criminal record
All case files can be pulled from the LA Superior Court's Criminal Case Access portal. If that link stops working, go to lacourt.org → Online services → Criminal case summary.
Cases on file:
- XCNBA288694-01 · LA County
- LAXSA072452-01 · LA County
- SA057399 · LA County
- SA069646 · LA County
- 07-000281-0182-CI-3 · Costa Rica civil (foreclosure vs. Banco HSBC Costa Rica S.A.)
| Date | Charge | Disposition |
|---|---|---|
| 2005-08-18 | §470(d) Forgery | Dismissed |
| 2005-08-18 | §470(d) Forgery | Dismissed |
| 2005-08-18 | §487(a) Grand Theft | Convicted 2009-08-19 |
| 2005-08-24 | §476 Check Fraud / Forgery | Dismissed |
| 2005-08-24 | §459 Burglary | Dismissed |
| 2005-08-24 | §487(a) Grand Theft | Dismissed |
| 2006-05-26 | CVC §20 False statements to DMV / CHP | Dismissed |
| 2008-08-25 | §496(a) Receiving Stolen Property | Convicted 2009-07-27 |
| 2009-10-08 | §487(a) Grand Theft | Bench warrant 2009-11-25 |
| 2009-10-08 | §484e(d) Credit Card Fraud | Bench warrant 2009-11-25 |
Convictions in detail
Felony Grand Theft Case BA 288694-01
Charged on August 18, 2005 with three crimes. A bench warrant was issued the same year. He was arrested in October 2008 on that warrant and released on bail.
Went to trial on one count of Forgery (§470(d)) and one count of Grand Theft (§487(a); threshold at time of offense $400, now $950 post-Prop 47). Convicted of §487(a) on August 10, 2009. Sentenced on November 6, 2009 to 90 days in the Los Angeles County Jail. Ordered to surrender on December 7, 2009. Did not appear. Bench warrant issued. The Forgery count was dismissed.
Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center · 210 W. Temple Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012 · Criminal Records (213) 974-6141 · LASC media proxy (search by case number)
Receiving Stolen Property Case SA 069646-01
On July 27, 2009, Logan Pinal Mora Guzmán was found guilty of one misdemeanor count of Receiving Stolen Property (§496(a)), stemming from an incident on August 25, 2008. Paid a fine, placed on one year of probation.
Beverly Hills Courthouse · 9355 Burton Way, Beverly Hills, CA 90210 · (310) 281-2400 (general). Beverly Hills no longer hears criminal matters — criminal division is now at Airport Courthouse.
Recent arrests
Arrested three times in 2009:
- September 11, 2009 — booking number
2056380 - September 12, 2009 — booking number
2057117 - October 8, 2009 — booking number
2087623
He was scheduled to appear on November 25, 2009 at 8:30 AM, Department 142, LAX Superior Court (11701 S. La Cienega Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90045). He did not appear. The judge issued an arrest warrant and set bail at $150,000. (Department 142 was renumbered in April 2015; the courthouse still handles felony matters.)
Case SA 072452-01 · Airport Courthouse felony intake: (310) 727-6101 · General info: (310) 725-3000
The LA Sheriff's Inmate Information Center lists his date of birth as September 13, 1978 and September 13, 1973. Other public records say September 13, 1968. To look him up: search by name "Logan Guzman", leave all other fields blank.