As tensions rose, De Noia and Banerjee dissolved their partnership and the choreographer planned to start his own company - US Male.In the docu-series, a former associate producer at Chippendales who helped De Noia with his new venture says it sent Banerjee "over the edge".Many who knew Banerjee described him as a "paranoid" man for whom success was a zero-sum game. "He felt if others succeeded, that would necessarily take away from his own success," Petrzela says.