Accused CEO killer Luigi Mangione is a closeted gay man.
According to Radar Online.com, the 26-year-old suspect, who was arrested on Monday at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania, has had several relationships with other men.
Mangione was a well-known Ivy League alum before allegedly shooting and killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson outside a Manhattan hotel.
He is currently in Altoona jail on a murder charge.
As more information about Mangione’s personal life comes to light, at least two gay men have come forward to say they were in relationships with him.
He told Media Take Out that he and Luigi had been together for almost 5 years. His name was Sean Y and he was black.
“We met at a gay club in Baltimore,” he told the site. He bought me a drink even though he was one of only a few white guys in the club.
Sean said they went home together that night and dated over the phone for a few years, seeing each other every so often.
“When he came to town, he would see me. He was also very kind. He always bought me nice things from Hermes or Louis Vuitton. “I really like those,” Sean said.
Another black man from Philadelphia who was out as gay said he had a similar relationship with Mangione.
Mangione had a type, according to the man who only gave his name as Tommy: “He was big into hip hop and Black culture.” However, they did not seem to spend much time together: “We never really talked politics or anything like that.”
Tom said that Mangione gave him a lot of expensive gifts, just like Sean did.
“I cost a lot to be friends with.” Luigi was aware of this and made sure I was well taken care of.
Mangione could waste his money because he came from a rich family. He is the grandson of a famous doctor and the heir to a hotel business that his grandparents built.
The suspect is from Towson, Maryland, where he lived with his parents in a $1M home. He is anti-capitalist and went to Baltimore’s exclusive $40,000-a-year Gilman School, where he graduated as valedictorian in 2016.
Then he went to the University of Pennsylvania, an Ivy League school, to study software engineering. After he finished school, he worked as a software engineer at TrueCar, an online car market based in Santa Monica, California. Police have confirmed that he also has ties to San Francisco and Honolulu, Hawaii.
Mangione’s family has a lot of experience in medicine because they have given a lot of money to hospitals, nursing homes, and even started their own foundations.
More than $1 million has been given to the Greater Baltimore Medical Centre (GBMC) by the Mangione family over many years.
Mangione was caught by a police officer in a Pennsylvania McDonald’s after a five-day search.
Police searched him and found a fake ID, a “ghost gun” that looked like the one seen in the killing on CCTV, and a manifesto that was very critical of the healthcare industry.
A spiral notebook with detailed to-do lists of tasks that needed to be planned out in order to carry out a brazen killing was also found, a police source said.