STARLIGHT INTERNATIONAL Review and Profile

STARLIGHT INTERNATIONAL no longer appears to be active as a direct sales company.

Starlight International remains active as a nutritional-supplement brand, but its original multilevel marketing opportunity is no longer publicly offered.

Original Npros business profile for STARLIGHT INTERNATIONAL, preserved below for archival purposes:

Starlight International was established in Monterey, California, in the early 1990s by founder and president Steven M. Goldberg, a former Hollywood producer who had worked in film and television for more than 25 years. Trademark records place the company's commercial use of the Starlight International name in 1993, with dietary-supplement sales beginning by 1994. The business operated as Starlight International, Ltd. LP, a California limited partnership, and built its identity around nutritional supplements, weight-management products and personal-care items.

The company's earlier catalog included NaturalTRIM and NaturalTRIM 3X weight-management supplements, LIFEGuard antioxidant products, Alert! energy supplements, LIFEGuard Joint Formula, FatFree!, Trim Solution nutrition bars, gender-specific WellPak supplements and StarBeauty hair-care products. Starlight promoted its formulas through a product research council that included herbalist David Winston and physician Alan Roberts. The company currently sells a much smaller selection centered on LIFEGuard Advanced Antioxidant Therapy, Alert! Vitalizing Formula and LIFEGuard Joint Formula. Current direct-to-consumer prices include $29.98 for one bottle of LIFEGuard, $33.98 for Alert! and $31.98 for the joint formula, with discounted three- and six-bottle packages.

Starlight's original sales opportunity used a breakaway-style multilevel compensation plan. Distributors advanced through ranks including Director, Producer, Star, Silver Star, Gold Star, Emerald Star and Diamond Star. Compensation included retail profit, rebates on inventory purchases, commissions on product volume generated by personally sponsored and downline distributors, and leadership commissions after developing qualified sales organizations. Company promotional material stated that Starlight had generated more than $800 million in cumulative sales and paid more than $325 million to distributors, although those figures were company-reported and were not accompanied by audited financial statements or a public income disclosure.