Entrepreneur Ajay Thakore tried to dock his yacht in a private area – and when he was stopped by staff he threatened to kill them and exposed himself
A philanthropist and social media figure allegedly threatened to kill a dock worker during a heated argument from his multimillion-dollar yacht, before dropping his pants and giving several threatening gestures to the employee after he was told he could not dock where he wanted to.
Ajay Thakore, who goes by the handle Ace Rogers online, is a local entrepreneur in the San Diego, California area. He attempted to dock his Lamborghini yacht at the private Marriot Marquis Marina to pick up one of his employees but was stopped by worker Joseph Holt on Sunday.
“I told him respectfully that he couldn’t be there, and I honestly was hoping to have a conversation with him about his cool boat,” Holt told CBS8. “But yeah, it completely went the other way.”
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Thakore was aboard his rare $4.5 million Tecnomar for Lamborghini 63 yacht at the time of the daytime dispute which came as quite a surprise to staff. “It escalated immediately. It was 0 to 100 immediately,” 21-year-old Holt explained.
Thakore, the CEO of medical advertising firm Doctor Multimedia, allegedly began to make worrying threats to Holt’s life as the luxury speedboat began to leave the docks. “I will kill you, you know I will kill you, I will kill,” Thakore repeatedly yells according to a clip posted to YouTube.
Besides allegedly threatening to take Holt’s life, Thakore also allegedly claimed to have the power to get the dock worker fired, mocking his job and status.
“I’m a minimum wage worker, he was commenting on that, on my status just because of my job,” Holt said. “He was saying I’m nobody, I’m nothing, I work a silly job.”
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“He said that he knows people, he has connections, he can change my life and ruin it,” he added. Perhaps most absurdly, Thakore stripped nude and showed himself off.
“He had dropped his pants and started to make gestures to everybody watching and me. You can’t act that way in public. It’s just not OK. Especially threatening my life, at the very least. There were women and children there. That’s the most important part,” Holt said.
Thakore claims his outburst started because of a misunderstanding and was sorry for the people who saw it, but during the row, Thakore allegedly pulled out his wallet and began throwing $100 bills at Holt and into the water.
“I really didn’t know how to process it. I really was trying to restrain myself from getting fired from my job or stepping out of line. The only thing I did was give him the bird,” Holt said.