Kevin trudeau estate sale

[JAM]

KT did have several homes...more than two (Chicago suburbs and Ojai CA). I don't know if the judge has figured that out yet, but I'm betting he will find more property and possessions/cash that KT has hidden, before it's all over. KT is still behind bars as of now. FTR, I agree with JB, that KT did have some good intentions, but it was still profit driven. He had some good ideas, but tried to go too big, too fast and floundered.

Scott Lee
http://poolknowledge.com

Well, I think it is normal for anyone who invests multiple millions of dollars in something to desire a profit.

I believe some on this forum think Kevin Trudeau should not have profited and not have wanted to profit.

Of course, he looks ofrward to a profit. To date, NOBODY has invested as much money as Kevin Trudeau in pool, yet he's a bad guy in the eyes of the majority of this forum.

Ask some of the IPT players how they feel about Kevin Trudeau and the IPT. You might get a different opinion. I know some of the IPT players I have spoken to feel this was the best pool competition they had ever experienced in their life. Players came out of the woodwork and had a renewed sense of enthusiasm for pool, i.e., Pete Fusco, Dave Matlock, Scotty Townsend, John Kuchero, James Walden, and even Snooker Champion Ronnie O'Sullivan, just to name a few.

The IPT gave the aspiring pros, existing pros, and retired pros hope for a future. I, for one, feel bad that it did not flourish. I cannot fault Kevn or Mike Sigel for trying to make something happen.

July 2006 IPT event in Vegas, won by Thorsten Hohmann, here's Shane, Keith, and John Kuchero.

 

[Blue Hog ridr]

John's tie is too short. Must have been a last minute pick up at the Sears Bargain Center.

 

[JCIN]

Trudeau is a POS.

Just go ahead and get that out of the way.

I know it has to be legal but how does it work out that of you dont tell a judge what he wants to hear you stay in jail till he changes his mind? I've seen the tv cliche where a reporter won't give up his source and spends time in the klink but never heard of something like this where the attorney the .gov hired to sell his shit can tell a judge "Hes not helping us" and the guy is locked up. Sounds pretty North Korea to me though I have no doubt its the law of the land somehow.

And the most awesome thing about this whole thing is that the firm hired by the .gov to find and liquidate his assets have found 2.5 mill which will supposedly go to the people who bought his weight loss book. AFTER the law firm takes their fee which is currently at $680,000. I want to get in the business of taking other peoples shit, selling it and keeping 27% for my trouble.

Sounds like Trudeau got out crooked by professionals.

 

[JAM]

John's tie is too short. Must have been a last minute pick up at the Sears Bargain Center.

It might have been one of those clip-on ties. They sure are easier to work with, especially if one does not know how to tie a tie. :grin-square:

The video footage of the IPT events was some of the best I have ever seen in my life, first class quality all the way. I wonder who has that video footage of the matches now or who owns the rights to it.

The IPT website has shut down and is no more, which is a shame, because it was a good resource for people like me looking for spellings, dates, names, et cetera.

Not everybody likes Kevin Trudeau, and that's fine. I understand his impact on vendors who never got paid and qualifier players when the IPT folded was a tragedy for some good pool peeps, but there are some good pool peeps who appreciate his contributions to the pool world and won't ever forget it.

Thanks for the dance, Kevin!

 

[nick serdula]

Shitbag

Should rot in hell.
Too good for him?
Nick

 

[TX Poolnut]

His Chicago home and all of it's contents will be auctioned off this spring. Maybe more pool stuff too. :smile:

 

[JAM]

Wonder what happened to his Ukranian wife, Natalya Babenko.

 

[Dave Nelson]

Has he done anything worse than almost any congress person?

 

[kvinbrwr]

Trudeau is a POS.

Just go ahead and get that out of the way.

I know it has to be legal but how does it work out that of you dont tell a judge what he wants to hear you stay in jail till he changes his mind? I've seen the tv cliche where a reporter won't give up his source and spends time in the klink but never heard of something like this where the attorney the .gov hired to sell his shit can tell a judge "Hes not helping us" and the guy is locked up. Sounds pretty North Korea to me though I have no doubt its the law of the land somehow.

And the most awesome thing about this whole thing is that the firm hired by the .gov to find and liquidate his assets have found 2.5 mill which will supposedly go to the people who bought his weight loss book. AFTER the law firm takes their fee which is currently at $680,000. I want to get in the business of taking other peoples shit, selling it and keeping 27% for my trouble.

Sounds like Trudeau got out crooked by professionals.

Any kind of "class action" only benefits the attorneys. The people in the "class" each end up with $.87. There oughta be a law, wait, it IS the law. Trudeau actually went through the house with the guy who ended up handing the sale, before he got thrown in jail, looking to hire him to do what the courts ended up having him do. Trudeau was looking to to get some money to try to (or look like he was trying to) satisfy some of the judgment. Then, by coincidence, the court hired the same guy (short list of people capable).

And please, the gov't and courts take organized crime to the ultimate level of accomplishment.

Kevin

 

[kvinbrwr]

Wonder what happened to his Ukranian wife, Natalya Babenko.

I believe she is offshore sitting on a big pile of cash in that touching native outfit.

Kevin

 

[JAM]

Has he done anything worse than almost any congress person?

Well, I can think of a few pool personalities who would fall into the same category as far as gaining wealth by deceiving the public. Those who made money on people with poor credit, no credit, and the misinformed public during the mortgage debacle comes to mind, as well.

The only difference is that the Kevin Trudeau pissed off the Feds more, resulting in the FTC expending resources to fire in the hole at anything and everything related to Trudeau.

 

[kvinbrwr]

fire in the hole.

Boyd !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[JAM]

I believe she is offshore sitting on a big pile of cash in that touching native outfit.

Kevin

I tried to google her, and not one peep about her on the Internet in recent times. Interesting.

I did read, however, that they decided to get married at City Hall here in the States rather than a lavish wedding in her home country because they decided they wanted at "U.S. marriage."

I can't help but wonder what the legal advantage is of the American marriage.

 

[kvinbrwr]

I tried to google her, and not one peep about her on the Internet in recent times. Interesting.

I did read, however, that they decided to get married at City Hall here in the States rather than a lavish wedding in her home country because they decided they wanted at "U.S. marriage."

I can't help but wonder what the legal advantage is of the American marriage.

Or maybe it was true love? She's a cutie for sure. I think i read somewhere where Trudeau (while explaining to the judge he had no dough) told him she was back home visiting family.

My wife told me she was bringing me a picture from a famous pool players dedicated to "Kevin" and I figured it was the one from Keith. Turns out we ended up with one from Capt Hook. Just so you guys know, of all the PMs I've gotten from folks wanting to buy some of this stuff, the Keith autograph pic (which i don't have) is on the top of the list.

Kevin

 

[JAM]

Or maybe it was true love? She's a cutie for sure. I think i read somewhere where Trudeau (while explaining to the judge he had no dough) told him she was back home visiting family.

My wife told me she was bringing me a picture from a famous pool players dedicated to "Kevin" and I figured it was the one from Keith. Turns out we ended up with one from Capt Hook. Just so you guys know, of all the PMs I've gotten from folks wanting to buy some of this stuff, the Keith autograph pic (which i don't have) is on the top of the list.

Kevin

Gosh, that is nice to hear.

The one he signed for Kevin, though it is difficult to read Keith's handwriting, was personalized to Kevin. The frame itself is worth the 20 bucks. I am going to call them today and see if I can buy it!

 

[kvinbrwr]

Gosh, that is nice to hear.

The one he signed for Kevin, though it is difficult to read Keith's handwriting, was personalized to Kevin. The frame itself is worth the 20 bucks. I am going to call them today and see if I can buy it!

Yeah Keith may not be the most famous pool player of all time, but he is either the most popular star by today's fans or darn close to it.

I must admit I was a little disappointed when I saw it was Capt Hook we got (although that goes best with our swag). I don't know if Keith's is still there or not.

Kevin

 

[Kickin' Chicken]

JoeyA calls it gaudy

pinklady says flamboyant

I say this place and its furnishings reek of someone who has found big wealth and was so bent on showing it off that everything in site had to look Midasized.

gilded everything. (I just looked but couldn't find the barf emoticon)

you can't buy taste or class - KT apparently has neither.

as I was perusing the artwork pics I was thinking to myself, these mostly look like oils you can get most weekebds at the Marriot Hotel's starving artist sales. kvinbrwr, who knows real art, has confirmed my suspicion. Nothing says "I'm a big deal" quite like a $49 painting in a sickeningly ornate gilded wooden frame. Always the con man.

the pool table, also gaudy looking happens to be a high quality table. I started a thread about them here on az some time ago. The brand is renaissance.

Back in 78, I was just out of the army and had just bought a house in FL. I was looking for what to do with my life and saw an ad in our local newspaper from a man in santa ana CA who was looking to franchise his pool table building biz. He had a great thing going, they built a good looking full size table with queen ann style legs (nice touch) and Italian slate with good cloth and rubbers and their heavily advertised radio spot said "we will build and bring you a fine pool table, set it up in your home and even play a game with you on it and if you love it, just give us $600 and it's yours. If not, we will remove it with a smile."

The guy was busier than the proverbial one legged man in the ass . . . wait, that wasn't a proverb... well, anywhoo, I went there and witnessed it all for myself.

In this santa ana commercial park, the guy I was learning pool table building & marketing from was in one big space and just to the left of him was an even more incredible tenant, Unser Racing (holy crap the race engine noise coming from that place) and to the right of him was none other than Renaissance Pool Tables. :thumbup:

The pool tables we were building were really nice looking and playing tables.

The ones being built by renaissance were un-freaking-believable.

the weather was nice and of course lighting was perfect outside so there were a team of old-school Italian wood carvers performing absolute magic on those tables. They catered to the Socal rich and famous for sure.

Despite all of the exquisite carved wood tables there, I found myself most enthralled with the one they had just completed for The Playboy Mansion.

It was clear Lucite and glass everywhere including the see thru subway system with the only color on the table being the lavender cloth. loved it! :thumbup:

anyone wanna bet KT's lawn furniture has gold cherubs.

best,
brian kc

 

[kvinbrwr]

JoeyA calls it gaudy

pinklady says flamboyant

I say this place and its furnishings reek of someone who has found big wealth and is so bent on showing it off that everything in site has to look Midasized.

gilded everything. (I just looked but couldn't find the barf emoticon)

you can't buy taste or class - KT apparently has neither.

as I was perusing the artwork pics I was thinking to myself, these mostly look like oils you can get most weekebds at the Marriot Hotel's starving artist sales. kvinbrwr has confirmed that suspicion. Nothing says "I'm a big deal" quite like a $49 painting in a sickeningly ornate gilded wooden frame. Always the con man.

the pool table, also gaudy looking happens to be a high quality table. I started a thread about them here on az some time ago. The brand is renaissance.

Back in 78, I was just out of the army and had just bought a house in FL. I was looking for what to do with my life and saw an ad in our local newspaper from a man in santa ana CA who was looking to franchise his pool table building biz. He had a great thing going, they built a good looking full size table with queen ann style legs (nice touch) and Italian slate with good cloth and rubbers and their heavily advertised radio spot said "we will bring you a fine pool table, set it up in your home and even play a game with you on it and if you love it, just give us $600 and it's yours. If not, we will remove it with a smile."

The guy was busier than the proverbial one legged man in the ass . . . wait, that wasn't a proverb... well, anywhoo, I went there and witnessed it all for myself.

In this commercial park in santa ana, the guy I was learning pool tale building from was in one big space and just to the left of him was an even more incredible tenant, Unser Racing (holy crap the race engine noise coming from that place) and to the right of him was none other than Renaissance Pool Tables. :thumbup:

The pool tables we were building were really nice looking and playing tables.

The ones being built by renaissance were un-freaking-believable.

the weather was nice and of course lighting was perfect outside so there were a team of old-school Italian wood carvers performing absolute magic on those tables. They catered to the Socal rich and famous for sure.

Despite all of the exquisite carved wood tables there, I found myself most enthralled with the one they had just completed for The Playboy Mansion.

It was clear Lucite and glass everywhere including the see thru subway system with the only color on the table was the lavender cloth. loved it! :thumbup:

anyone wanna bet KT's lawn furniture has gold cherubs.

best,
brian kc

Brian

The estate sale guy told me that Renaissance were the tables he most often found when he handled real high-end estates and that they were a pretty easy sell (for pool stuff anyway).

You don't like that look? Take a look inside 90% of the homes in Beverly Hills nowadays.

Kevin

 

[Kickin' Chicken]

Brian

The estate sale guy told me that Renaissance were the tables he most often found when he handled real high-end estates and that they were a pretty easy sell (for pool stuff anyway).

You don't like that look? Take a look inside 90% of the homes in Beverly Hills nowadays.

Kevin

here are 4 examples of renaissance pool tables.

meticulously hand-carved, very high quality tables.

and maybe a little gaudy.

best,
brian kc

 

[kvinbrwr]

here are 4 examples of renaissance pool tables.

meticulously hand-carved, very high quality tables.

and maybe a little gaudy.

best,
brian kc

Brian

Gimme a Kling (with a RKC set-up)

Kevin