John DeLorean, Malignant Narcissist: Rock Star, US Car Tycoon, Netflix 'Myth & Mogul' The Dark Side

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- John DeLorean in 1982. The car mogul's vanity included plastic surgery, immaculate attire and cultivation of a powerful, hip persona based on wealth and image.



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- X- post from Netflix group: article in The Guardian, new *Film Trailer.
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'For John, everything was motivated by money and status.'

Insights into classic NPD, malignant narcissist personality disorder, 'John just didn't feel anything or care about what he'd done,' said his wife, supermodel Cristina Ferrara who left him soon after he was busted and it all came out.
The film is a close up look and expose of the attractive, hip 'rock star' Detroit car magnate/executive, John DeLorean of General Motors who rose to fame in the 1970s and 1980s. His downfall came after being busted for cocaine trafficking and stealing money from the British govt. for his 'DeLorean' car factory in troubled Belfast, Ireland.

- (The Guardian).. 'Others – his family, his personal confidantes, his colleagues, the FBI officials responsible for his eventual arrest – remember the business tycoon as a greedy, flagrantly unethical megalomaniac. The new miniseries Myth & Mogul: John DeLorean triangulates the truth in hiding somewhere between these two characterizations..

'Waddell traces a line from DeLorean to “the Richard Bransons of the world”, in particular the self-styled space cowboys Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk. They’re all “driven by a dream”, he says, “but how far, and at what cost?” In the 80s, DeLorean’s arrogance cost him everything. For today’s billionaires, he’s a cautionary tale.

For the record-keepers of Belfast, he’s a study in contradiction. For everyone else, he’s a schadenfreude-generating illustration of what happens when a person tries to grab too much and gets their hand caught in the jar...'

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1. He would have made a great Republican presidential candidate.

“greedy, flagrantly unethical megalomaniac.”

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2. He would indeed, great observation! Total con

artist, megalomaniac, and suckers bought the act. Never fails..

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3. An improvement on traitortrump - it would seem.

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4. Yep, and that's the scary, sad situation. He

was regarded as very cool, esp. for a businessman by some people I knew in the corporate world at the time. It was the image he perfected that they got sucked into, like many.

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5. I used to see him in the aisles of the local

Kings (upscale) Supermarket.

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6. No joke, when was that, pre or post drug bust?

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7. Town is Bedminster. I moved there in 1990.

He had a weekend house there until 2000.

He had a gentleman’s farm. I lived in the condo development.

The place is predominantly Republican. When the condos were proposed, town residents filed suit against it.

The proposal was for 5,000 units. Story goes that the lawyers representing the opponents were so arrogant, the judge issued permission for 7000 units.

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8. Wild call by the judge. Creepy DeL bio:

(Wiki) In 1999, DeLorean declared personal bankruptcy after fighting some 40 legal cases following the collapse of DeLorean Motor Company. He was forced to sell his 434-acre (176 ha) estate in Bedminster in 2000. Donald Trump bought it and converted it to a golf course. DeLorean moved to a condominium in Morristown, New Jersey where he lived until his death five years later...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_DeLorean

In college, he was caught selling illegal Yellow Pages. A professor got him off- an early sign- likely one of other scams.

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9. The other famous miscreant I had contact with... Andrew Fastow. C.F.O., Enron Corp.

He was a student in New Providence High School, where I was a Social Studies teacher. He was not well liked by the staff.

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10. He probably couldn't wait to get out

of 'boring school' and into the business- real- world. Lol. Mike Bloomberg is likely the richest person I've met, now that I think about it. It was years back and I found him pleasant in conversation.