Disco Donnie is finally getting his name back. “When I first met Bob [Sillerman] he told me the first SFX did so well that he let one of the promoters have their name back,” says longtime dance music promoter and pioneer “Disco” Donnie Estopinal.
After launching the publicly traded dance music company SFX Entertainment with Sillerman and Shelly Finkelin 2012, and it eventually falling into bankruptcy in 2015, that idea of regaining ownership over the company he founded 26 years ago suddenly felt much more realistic.
And earlier this month it became a reality when he closed the purchase of Disco Donnie Presents from LiveStyle, the company that rose out of the ashes of the SFX's bankruptcy.