Tom Clancy's anti-hero John Kelly machine a suppressor in his island shop, shortly before doing stuff that required he change his name and fake his death.
David Tepper says he bought and demolished the Hamptons mansion of his former Goldman Sachs boss, John Corzine, for $43.5 million to get revenge for years of humiliation.
“I worked on the high-yield bond desk in the late ’80s. I was considered one of the best. Then I found out Corzine had passed me over for partnership yet again. I was absolutely devastated and humiliated”
“Then came another rejection. And another. I kept thinking, ‘My God, I just can’t break through. It’s always another “no” from the people at the top”
“In 1992, I left and founded Appaloosa. Within ten years, I had become a billionaire. And he was still there”
“In 2010, I bought his old Hamptons mansion from his ex-wife for $43.5 million. I could have just lived in it. I said, No”
“I tore it down completely and built a house twice the size. That was my way of settling the score for all those years of humiliation”