Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast
This Rich Influencer is Broke Now? - The RD Whittington story
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.
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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.
'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.
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.
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
How much is your business generating per year? Our business generates anywhere from 70 to 150 million dollars per year.
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