One thing, I've noticed about DM is that he seemed to attract people who viewed him as an ATM. Being friends/lovers with DM meant free vacations, meals, jetskis, spa days, a Vera Wang wedding dress (which went unused) and even an $800,000 house for one lucky recipient.
What's interesting too is that the only people who have had anything positive to say about DM are those who financially benefited from their relationship to him.
Now, some might say, this is just the cost (no pun intended) of being rich, but there are plenty of wealthy people out there who manage to cultivate ordinary relationships without money in the middle of everything.
The fact that money figured so prominently in DM's friendships and relationships suggests this was the way he arranged it. Doling out the dollars to those lining up at the trough put him in control.
I've always thought there was a lot of artifice in the humble Costco shopper image cultivated by DM and his lawyer.
We've all heard about Wayne's beat up pick up trucks, but -- little known fact -- he also had a Hummer. A little out of character for an environmentally conscious, animal rights-advocating family -- isn't it?