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@kasnq2 That’s basically what the senator said in the video. Everyone working there that night was in on it.

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El Chapo was once on Forbes’ list of the world’s richest people. In 2015 he escaped a maximum security prison through a hole in his shower, and the guards took 37 minutes to notice.

Joaquín Guzmán ran the Sinaloa cartel. In 2009 Forbes estimated his fortune at $1 billion.

He had already escaped from a Mexican prison once, in 2001. In 2014 they caught him again and put him in Altiplano, the most secure prison in the country.

His cell had cameras on him around the clock. Except for one spot. The shower, behind a small wall.

On the night of July 11, 2015, the camera shows him pacing, sitting on his bed, adjusting his shoes.

In the video below you can hear what was happening under the floor. Loud hammering. He turns up the TV.

At 8:52 p.m. he walks into the shower, bends down behind the wall and disappears.

Under it was a hole leading down about three stories into a tunnel almost a mile long, around 1.5 km. Inside: lights, a generator, oxygen tanks and a motorbike on rails.

At 9:18 a guard finally calls out his name. Nobody answers.

At 9:29, 37 minutes after he vanished, guards enter the cell and find the hole.

Nobody in the control room seemed to react to the noise. A Mexican senator said it was obvious the staff were in on it.

The US put a $5 million reward on him. Six months later, in January 2016, Mexican marines caught him after a shootout in Sinaloa.

This time Mexico sent him to the United States. In 2019 a New York jury convicted him on all counts. Life plus 30 years, and $12 billion to forfeit.

Today he sits in ADX Florence in Colorado, in solitary. No shower is going to help him there.

If a prison can’t hold a man with a billion dollars, is it really maximum security?

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El Chapo was once on Forbes’ list of the world’s richest people. In 2015 he escaped a maximum security prison through a hole in his shower, and the guards took 37 minutes to notice.

Joaquín Guzmán ran the Sinaloa cartel. In 2009 Forbes estimated his fortune at $1 billion.

He had already escaped from a Mexican prison once, in 2001. In 2014 they caught him again and put him in Altiplano, the most secure prison in the country.

His cell had cameras on him around the clock. Except for one spot. The shower, behind a small wall.

On the night of July 11, 2015, the camera shows him pacing, sitting on his bed, adjusting his shoes.

In the video below you can hear what was happening under the floor. Loud hammering. He turns up the TV.

At 8:52 p.m. he walks into the shower, bends down behind the wall and disappears.

Under it was a hole leading down about three stories into a tunnel almost a mile long, around 1.5 km. Inside: lights, a generator, oxygen tanks and a motorbike on rails.

At 9:18 a guard finally calls out his name. Nobody answers.

At 9:29, 37 minutes after he vanished, guards enter the cell and find the hole.

Nobody in the control room seemed to react to the noise. A Mexican senator said it was obvious the staff were in on it.

The US put a $5 million reward on him. Six months later, in January 2016, Mexican marines caught him after a shootout in Sinaloa.

This time Mexico sent him to the United States. In 2019 a New York jury convicted him on all counts. Life plus 30 years, and $12 billion to forfeit.

Today he sits in ADX Florence in Colorado, in solitary. No shower is going to help him there.

If a prison can’t hold a man with a billion dollars, is it really maximum security?

Follow me for more stories like this.

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@kasnq2 $81K a year and you’re 25? Get a job.

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50 Cent says he was giving his son’s mother half a million dollars a year. Then child support came out to $6,700 a month, and his son said it wasn’t enough.

This is 50’s side of it, in his own words.

His son Marquise was born in 1996, years before 50 became a superstar.

When the money came, so did the fight.

In 2009, a judge threw out a lawsuit from Marquise’s mother. She wanted half of everything and claimed he had promised to support her for life.

50 says she still wanted more than the half million. So he went to child support himself.

The number came out to $6,700 a month.

In 2022, Marquise went live: “$6,700 a month in New York City, you do the math.” He called $81,000 a year “not a substantial amount of money.”

A week later, he posted: “Someone tell my pops I will pay him $6,700 for just 24hr of his time.”

50 answered with a clip from Power, where his character kills his own son.

Then he went on The Breakfast Club: “If you mail someone a million dollars and they have zero respect for you, how much you think you got to give them?”

The son says it was never enough. The father says it was never about the money.

Is Marquise a son who wanted a father, or a son who wanted a check?

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@kasnq2 That was his exact message to Congress. Only about 1 in 6 cases of elder abuse even gets reported.

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Mickey Rooney married eight times. The son of his eighth wife is the one who took control of his money.

The man in the clip is Mickey Rooney.

He started acting as a toddler. By 1939, he was the No. 1 box office star in America, ahead of Clark Gable. He made hundreds of films over nine decades and received two honorary Oscars. Younger viewers know him as the old guard in Night at the Museum.

Then came the last chapter.

In 2011, Rooney went to court against his stepson. The filing said he had “taken control of Mickey’s personal and financial affairs.”

He said they took his ID so he couldn’t travel.

He said they even took his Oscar and his Emmy.

The stepson denied it all.

Weeks later, Rooney sat in front of the U.S. Senate, wiping away tears.

In 2013, the stepson and his wife were hit with a $2.8 million judgment.

When Rooney died in 2014, his estate was worth about $18,000.

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Money doesn’t protect you from the people you let closest. It only gives them more to take.
In the clip, a 90-year-old Hollywood legend says the one thing he needed people to believe: “Everything you heard me say today was real.”

Would you have spoken up as he did, or kept quiet to protect your family?

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Mickey Rooney married eight times. The son of his eighth wife is the one who took control of his money.

The man in the clip is Mickey Rooney.

He started acting as a toddler. By 1939, he was the No. 1 box office star in America, ahead of Clark Gable. He made hundreds of films over nine decades and received two honorary Oscars. Younger viewers know him as the old guard in Night at the Museum.

Then came the last chapter.

In 2011, Rooney went to court against his stepson. The filing said he had “taken control of Mickey’s personal and financial affairs.”

He said they took his ID so he couldn’t travel.

He said they even took his Oscar and his Emmy.

The stepson denied it all.

Weeks later, Rooney sat in front of the U.S. Senate, wiping away tears.

In 2013, the stepson and his wife were hit with a $2.8 million judgment.

When Rooney died in 2014, his estate was worth about $18,000.

Keep this part.
Money doesn’t protect you from the people you let closest. It only gives them more to take.
In the clip, a 90-year-old Hollywood legend says the one thing he needed people to believe: “Everything you heard me say today was real.”

Would you have spoken up as he did, or kept quiet to protect your family?

Follow me for more stories of famous names who lost everything to the people closest to them.

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@kasnq2 This is exactly why the Coogan Law exists. Too bad it had no real teeth when Corey was a kid.

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Corey Feldman was 15 when he took his parents to court. The kid from The Goonies had earned over $1 million. They left him $40,000.

The man in the clip is Corey Feldman.

He started working at three. To prove a toddler could perform, his parents locked him in a room with a record player and told him not to come out until he knew the song “backwards and forwards.”

It worked.

By the mid-80s, he was one of the most famous kids in America. The Goonies. Stand by Me. The Lost Boys.

By 1987, he had earned a little more than $1 million.

Then he looked at the money.

About $40,000.

In his memoir, he wrote that his dad traded in his old car for a Mercedes. His mom bought herself a Cadillac. They hired a full-time maid.

So he asked a judge to free him from his parents. The judge agreed. According to Feldman, his father asked for about $40,000 to sign.

“I was 15 years old, and—just like that—completely on my own, not to mention flat broke.”

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A kid can earn the money and never own it. Whoever holds the account owns it. Fame made Corey rich. His family made him broke.
In the clip, he uses two words for what he was in that house: “a slave child.”

Should parents ever touch the money their kids earn, or should every dollar be locked away until they turn 18?

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@kasnq2 That’s the part people skip. He had nothing to gain by defending him and a lot to lose.

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Michael Jackson paid $15.3 million to make one accusation disappear. The boy who actually slept in his bedroom went on CNN and defended him.

In the video below, Macaulay Culkin explains the friendship nobody could understand.

It started after Home Alone. The phone rang out of nowhere. “Hi, it’s Michael.”

Culkin says it worked because he wasn’t a fan.

“I talked to him like he was a normal human being.”

He slept over. Everyone asked about the bedroom.

“Michael Jackson’s bedroom is two stories, like three bathrooms,” he told Larry King in 2004. “Nothing happened.”

Then King asked about 1993, when Jackson settled with an accuser’s family out of court.

“If someone had done something like that to my kid, I wouldn’t just settle for some money.”

Three weeks later, the settlement leaked. A $15.3 million trust for the boy. $1.5 million to each parent. Jackson denied any wrongdoing.

In May 2005, Culkin testified at Jackson’s trial. Asked if Jackson had ever abused him, he said: “Not at all.”

A month later, Jackson was acquitted on all counts.

One boy got a phone call. Another family got $15.3 million.

Was Culkin the one person who saw the real Michael, or was he too close to see anything at all?

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Michael Jackson paid $15.3 million to make one accusation disappear. The boy who actually slept in his bedroom went on CNN and defended him.

In the video below, Macaulay Culkin explains the friendship nobody could understand.

It started after Home Alone. The phone rang out of nowhere. “Hi, it’s Michael.”

Culkin says it worked because he wasn’t a fan.

“I talked to him like he was a normal human being.”

He slept over. Everyone asked about the bedroom.

“Michael Jackson’s bedroom is two stories, like three bathrooms,” he told Larry King in 2004. “Nothing happened.”

Then King asked about 1993, when Jackson settled with an accuser’s family out of court.

“If someone had done something like that to my kid, I wouldn’t just settle for some money.”

Three weeks later, the settlement leaked. A $15.3 million trust for the boy. $1.5 million to each parent. Jackson denied any wrongdoing.

In May 2005, Culkin testified at Jackson’s trial. Asked if Jackson had ever abused him, he said: “Not at all.”

A month later, Jackson was acquitted on all counts.

One boy got a phone call. Another family got $15.3 million.

Was Culkin the one person who saw the real Michael, or was he too close to see anything at all?

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@kasnq2 Diana’s money paying for her son to escape the same people who chased her. Hard to read.

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Before Prince Harry left the royal family, someone warned him about the British press: “They will destroy you.” Then his family cut him off, and he paid his way out with his mother’s money.

The man in the clip is Prince Harry, telling Oprah Winfrey in 2021 who gave him that warning and what he thinks it meant.

Princess Diana died in 1997. Harry was 12. Most of her £13 million fortune went to her two sons.

In January 2020 Harry and Meghan stepped back as senior royals.

In the first months of that year, Harry says, his family “literally cut me off financially.”

“I had three conversations with my grandmother and two conversations with my father, before he stopped taking my calls.”

All he wanted, he said, was enough money to pay for security to keep his family safe.

So he used his mother’s. “I’ve got what my mum left me. And without that, we would not have been able to do this.” He added: “I think she saw it coming.”

His father’s office later told a different story. The royal accounts showed Charles had kept paying for Harry and Meghan until the summer of 2020.

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Money can’t keep a family together. Sometimes it is the last thing a parent can still give you. Diana spent her last years hunted by the same press her son talks about in this clip, and 23 years later, her money paid for his way out.

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Steve Jobs named an Apple computer after his daughter. At the same time, he told Time magazine that 28% of American men could be her father.

The woman in the clip is Lisa Brennan-Jobs, Steve Jobs’s daughter. She remembers the day her mother read that article.

Lisa was born in 1978. Jobs was 23 and already building Apple. He said she was not his.

Her mother raised her on welfare. A DNA test showed Jobs was the father. He kept denying it.

In January 1983 he told Time that “28% of the male population of the United States could be the father.” Lisa was 3 or 4. “We had no money,” she says.

The court ordered him to pay $385 a month and pay back the welfare her mother had received. After Apple went public, he raised it to $500.

That same year Apple released a computer called the Lisa. For years he said the name stood for something else. Decades later he admitted it: “Obviously, it was named for my daughter.”

Over time he let her back into his life. Before he died in 2011, she went to see him. He cried and apologized all weekend. “I owe you one,” he kept saying. He left her millions.

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Money can pay child support. It cannot pay back the years a child spends waiting to be claimed. Steve Jobs put her name on a machine long before he would put it next to his own.

“I owe you one,” he told her at the end. It was the one debt he never paid in money.

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Steve Jobs named an Apple computer after his daughter. At the same time, he told Time magazine that 28% of American men could be her father.

The woman in the clip is Lisa Brennan-Jobs, Steve Jobs’s daughter. She remembers the day her mother read that article.

Lisa was born in 1978. Jobs was 23 and already building Apple. He said she was not his.

Her mother raised her on welfare. A DNA test showed Jobs was the father. He kept denying it.

In January 1983 he told Time that “28% of the male population of the United States could be the father.” Lisa was 3 or 4. “We had no money,” she says.

The court ordered him to pay $385 a month and pay back the welfare her mother had received. After Apple went public, he raised it to $500.

That same year Apple released a computer called the Lisa. For years he said the name stood for something else. Decades later he admitted it: “Obviously, it was named for my daughter.”

Over time he let her back into his life. Before he died in 2011, she went to see him. He cried and apologized all weekend. “I owe you one,” he kept saying. He left her millions.

Keep this part.

Money can pay child support. It cannot pay back the years a child spends waiting to be claimed. Steve Jobs put her name on a machine long before he would put it next to his own.

“I owe you one,” he told her at the end. It was the one debt he never paid in money.

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@kasnq2 And nobody forced it. The heirs sold their shares themselves. No will meant nobody could stop them.

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Prince died with $156 million and no will. His six brothers and sisters spent the next 6 years fighting in court over it.

The man in the clip is Prince, in 1999, telling Larry King he would have to re-record his own songs just to own them.

In the 1990s he went to war with Warner Bros. over who owned his work. The fight was “basically about ownership,” he says. He changed his name to a symbol and performed with “slave” written on his cheek.

He died in 2016 at 57. He had no wife and no children. Under Minnesota law, everything went to his siblings.

Then came the fight over what it was worth. The bank running the estate said $82.3 million. The IRS said $163.2 million. In 2022 they agreed on $156.4 million.

Lawyers and consultants were paid tens of millions of dollars. Two of his siblings died before it was over.

Along the way, some of the heirs sold their shares to a music company, Primary Wave. When the estate was finally split in 2022, half went to Primary Wave. The other half went to the remaining three siblings and their families.

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You can spend your whole life fighting for what’s yours. Without a will, you don’t get the last word. Prince fought a record label so his music would belong to him, then left it to whoever the court said.

“Do you know that I don’t own Purple Rain?” he asks in the clip. In the end, he didn’t get to decide who would.

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Prince died with $156 million and no will. His six brothers and sisters spent the next 6 years fighting in court over it.

The man in the clip is Prince, in 1999, telling Larry King he would have to re-record his own songs just to own them.

In the 1990s he went to war with Warner Bros. over who owned his work. The fight was “basically about ownership,” he says. He changed his name to a symbol and performed with “slave” written on his cheek.

He died in 2016 at 57. He had no wife and no children. Under Minnesota law, everything went to his siblings.

Then came the fight over what it was worth. The bank running the estate said $82.3 million. The IRS said $163.2 million. In 2022 they agreed on $156.4 million.

Lawyers and consultants were paid tens of millions of dollars. Two of his siblings died before it was over.

Along the way, some of the heirs sold their shares to a music company, Primary Wave. When the estate was finally split in 2022, half went to Primary Wave. The other half went to the remaining three siblings and their families.

Keep this part.

You can spend your whole life fighting for what’s yours. Without a will, you don’t get the last word. Prince fought a record label so his music would belong to him, then left it to whoever the court said.

“Do you know that I don’t own Purple Rain?” he asks in the clip. In the end, he didn’t get to decide who would.