LongTermGuy
10-21-2015, 04:05 PM
An informative but sad read.....
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"For generations, Mickey Rooney was one of the biggest and brightest stars in Hollywood. He won a juvenile Oscar in 1939 and was the world’s top box-office draw from that year until 1941, all before his 22nd birthday. Rooney worked for nearly all of his 93 years and yet died last year with just $18,000 to his name. In a shocking story for The Hollywood Reporter (http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/mickey-rooneys-final-years-833325), reporters Gary Baum and Scott Feinberg detail the abuse, betrayal, and isolation one of Hollywood’s biggest stars endured in his final years."
It begins with an interview in 2010 with all three where Jan kicked the then-90-year-old actor for “rambling his answers.”
Just one year later, Rooney would testify before the Senate claiming he’d been stripped “of the ability to make even the most basic decisions” about his life, calling his daily existence “unbearable” and “helpless.” Though, at the time, Rooney did not name names, THR corroborates, through legal documents and testimony of people involved in his later life, that Jan and Chris were his primary tormenters.
Legal documents confirm that, toward the end of his life, Rooney was not even allowed to carry an ID or buy food.
Various witnesses throughout claim to have seen Jan being physically abusive toward her husband of 36 years. A caretaker, Hector Garcia, says he entered a bedroom at the Rooneys’ house after hearing shouting to find Mickey on the floor with Jan standing over him. “Get used to it,” Garcia claims Jan said to him at the time. “I hit him because that’s the only way he learns — by hitting him like a kid.“
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`Jan and Mickey Rooney at the 50th Annual Academy Awards in 1978 `
......As for Rooney’s stepson Chris Aber, Rooney’s conservator Michael Augustine — who was hired after Rooney confided in Disney executive Edward Nowak about the abuse he faced at home — alleges that Aber stole $8.5 million from Rooney. In 2013, Aber agreed to a $2.8 million civil settlement; he has not paid a cent.`
Court documents confirm that Chris, who was in charge of Rooney’s career in the late ‘90s and the early part of this century, owned four homes, two Mercedes, and a Porsche. At the same time, Rooney’s home was refinanced “repeatedly” to withdraw equity....
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Mark Aber, Jan and Mickey Rooney, and Chris Aber in the 1980s
Rooney passed away from natural causes on April 6, 2014, but within hours Jan and Chris were giving interviews. Though he was nearly bankrupt at the time of his death, publicist and manager Roger Neal arranged for Rooney to have a plot at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery, alongside fellow titans of stage and screen.
More:
https://www.yahoo.com/celebrity/the-most-shocking-revelations-from-the-hollywood-193018351.html
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"For generations, Mickey Rooney was one of the biggest and brightest stars in Hollywood. He won a juvenile Oscar in 1939 and was the world’s top box-office draw from that year until 1941, all before his 22nd birthday. Rooney worked for nearly all of his 93 years and yet died last year with just $18,000 to his name. In a shocking story for The Hollywood Reporter (http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/mickey-rooneys-final-years-833325), reporters Gary Baum and Scott Feinberg detail the abuse, betrayal, and isolation one of Hollywood’s biggest stars endured in his final years."
It begins with an interview in 2010 with all three where Jan kicked the then-90-year-old actor for “rambling his answers.”
Just one year later, Rooney would testify before the Senate claiming he’d been stripped “of the ability to make even the most basic decisions” about his life, calling his daily existence “unbearable” and “helpless.” Though, at the time, Rooney did not name names, THR corroborates, through legal documents and testimony of people involved in his later life, that Jan and Chris were his primary tormenters.
Legal documents confirm that, toward the end of his life, Rooney was not even allowed to carry an ID or buy food.
Various witnesses throughout claim to have seen Jan being physically abusive toward her husband of 36 years. A caretaker, Hector Garcia, says he entered a bedroom at the Rooneys’ house after hearing shouting to find Mickey on the floor with Jan standing over him. “Get used to it,” Garcia claims Jan said to him at the time. “I hit him because that’s the only way he learns — by hitting him like a kid.“
https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/haZoiKmn_wYpagpPBbkfWg--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjtzbT0xO3c9ODAwO2lsPXBsYW5l/http://41.media.tumblr.com/2861f36d618b7fe1d6793574e9202c7f/tumblr_inline_nwl426BRcR1twign1_1280.jpg
`Jan and Mickey Rooney at the 50th Annual Academy Awards in 1978 `
......As for Rooney’s stepson Chris Aber, Rooney’s conservator Michael Augustine — who was hired after Rooney confided in Disney executive Edward Nowak about the abuse he faced at home — alleges that Aber stole $8.5 million from Rooney. In 2013, Aber agreed to a $2.8 million civil settlement; he has not paid a cent.`
Court documents confirm that Chris, who was in charge of Rooney’s career in the late ‘90s and the early part of this century, owned four homes, two Mercedes, and a Porsche. At the same time, Rooney’s home was refinanced “repeatedly” to withdraw equity....
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Mark Aber, Jan and Mickey Rooney, and Chris Aber in the 1980s
Rooney passed away from natural causes on April 6, 2014, but within hours Jan and Chris were giving interviews. Though he was nearly bankrupt at the time of his death, publicist and manager Roger Neal arranged for Rooney to have a plot at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery, alongside fellow titans of stage and screen.
More:
https://www.yahoo.com/celebrity/the-most-shocking-revelations-from-the-hollywood-193018351.html