Premier Exhibitions

[3] By 2013, more than 25 million people had visited the company's Titanic exhibits in Orlando, Atlanta, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and elsewhere.

[9] Two of the offers for the collection were just under US $20 million, including one by museums in England and Northern Ireland, with assistance by James Cameron.

[10] A decision as to the outcome was to be made by Paul M. Glenn, a United States district court judge in Jacksonville, Florida.

These co-partners led a $6 million expedition to the ship, and recovered artifacts 12,850 feet (3.92 km) beneath the surface of the North Atlantic.

[20] G. Michael Harris opened the first permanent Titanic exhibition on April 10, 1999;[21] in Orlando, though it did not feature artifacts recovered from the wreck.

Harris also found some perfume bottles from the Titanic on August 2, 2000, in the Mir2 Russian submersible along with his Director of Operations, David Walker.

[24] In 1999, investors from SFX Entertainment, along with co-founder G. Michael Harris and Arnie Geller, led a surreptitious takeover, ousting George Tulloch and the company's attorney, the day after Thanksgiving.

In a later complaint filed by the SEC, the judgement found that other insurgent shareholders, including Joslyn, had violated multiple Exchange Act rules, and were ordered to pay civil fines.

[29][30] The abrupt takeover alarmed the governments of the UK, France, Canada, and the U.S., especially when one of the insurgent investors was quoted as saying the new management was intent on cutting into Titanic's hull to recover more treasures and gain increased profits.

[3] Bodies: The Exhibition has generated considerable controversy over its appropriateness and questioning the practice of selling cadavers for public display without family permission.

When Geller refused, a proxy battle erupted with Sellers’ firm nominating its own slate of directors in what amounted to a hostile takeover.

[4] After facing legal challenges and the early closure of its "Saturday Night Live" exhibition, Premier filed for bankruptcy protection in June 2016.

[42][43] Instead, the collection and salvage rights were sold to a consortium of investors led by Apollo Global Management, Alta Fundamental Advisers and PacBridge Capital Partners for $19.5 million.

Titanic Inc, of foul play over the auction of the artifacts, suggesting they declared bankruptcy to get around its commitment to keep the collections together and on public display.

Circuit Court of Appeals in June, contending that any such expedition, which might "physically alter or disturb" the deteriorating wreck, requires authorization from the U.S. Department of Commerce and would breach an agreement with the UK that regulates entry into the hull.