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...'