Arnold Schwarzenegger woke up from heart surgery and heard: “We made a mistake.”
In 2018, he went in for what was supposed to be a routine, non-invasive procedure. He expected to wake up and go home.
Instead, doctors told him they had punctured his heart wall. There was internal bleeding, and they had to open him up immediately to save his life.
Arnold said he woke with a breathing tube in his throat. He couldn’t speak. The doctors standing over him didn’t look relieved.
He was supposed to start filming Terminator: Dark Fate just months later. First, he had to get out of the hospital. At the beginning, even walking down the hallway felt like work.
He made it back in time to film.
In the video, Arnold tells the story himself. The moment he woke up is hard to forget.
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Dennis Hopper was dying of cancer and weighed barely 100 pounds when a judge ordered him to pay his wife $12,000 a month.
He had filed for divorce months earlier, racing to stop her from collecting 25% of everything he owned. If he died still married to her, she would get it all, and he knew he did not have much time left.
She refused to move out.
Their prenup was brutal. He kept his houses, his land and an art collection worth over $2.5 million. She kept two computers, two bookcases, a 1973 Karmann Ghia and her grandmother's furniture.
But one clause changed everything. If they were still married and living together on the day he died, she got 25% of his estate. About $6.25 million.
So in January 2010, with months to live, Hopper filed.
His family said she changed the locks. He said she carried a Banksy and a Warhol portrait of him out of the house while he was "extremely ill." She said they were hers.
A judge ordered her to stay 10 feet away from him. Then the next judge let her keep living on his property and made the dying man keep paying her. His accountant said he was nearly broke.
He never got his divorce. Hopper died on May 29, 2010, still legally married to her.
She sued his estate and froze part of his art auction. It took two more years to settle.
In the video below, two months before he died, a frail Hopper gets his star on the Walk of Fame and says: "Everyone here today that I've invited, and obviously some that I haven't invited, have enriched my life tremendously."
The case for Dennis: she signed the prenup, and a dying man should choose who stands next to him at the end.
The case for Victoria: 14 years of marriage, a young daughter, and she was being pushed out while the clock decided her share.
Did she earn her 25%, or was he right to take it back on his deathbed?
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Kurt Cobain’s widow Courtney Love sued his 2 bandmates in 2001. She paid her lawyers over $1 000 000 million. The fight earned her at least $9 000 000.
Three years after Kurt died, she, Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic formed Nirvana L.L.C. and split every dollar 3 ways. When a 45-track box set was planned, Love got a court order keeping “You Know You’re Right,” the last song Kurt recorded with Nirvana, off it. Her filing called Grohl the “sixth drummer.”
In the video below, from a 1993 MuchMusic interview, Kurt is asked if money buys happiness: “You can’t buy happiness.” Then he’s asked if it feels weird to suddenly have lawyers. He says the band has to “spend a lot of money just to protect ourselves.” When did they realize they needed them? “Too late!” He also says they’re “not as rich as everyone thinks.”
The case for Love: Kurt was Nirvana, and she says he once threw away a draft making the three equal partners.
The case for Grohl and Novoselic: she signed the equal split, and they wanted to release the band’s best songs.
Do the math.
$9 million earned. More than $1 million paid to lawyers. In 2007 her own lawyers sued her for another $341,000.
It settled in 2002. Kurt’s lawyers protected Nirvana from the outside. After he died, lawyers fought over it from the inside.
Was Courtney Love protecting Kurt’s legacy, or grabbing control of it?
NBA star Dennis Rodman says Madonna offered him $20 million for a baby.
The call reached him at a Vegas dice table.
It was 1994. Rodman was rebounding for the San Antonio Spurs and dating the queen of pop, who wanted a child with him.
He told the radio show The Breakfast Club about one night of that romance. Someone at the casino yelled that Madonna was on the phone from New York:
"Dennis, you know what? I'm ovulating."
He promised to be there in five hours, put the dice down and gave one order:
"Hold the table."
The rest of the night, in his words:
"So anyway, she sent a plane for me, G5. I went to the airport. Came here, flew here. Went over to that thing, over to her house. Did my thing. Went back on the plane. Got back. Held the table. Started playing dice again."
Later in the same interview Rodman named the price. It was $20 million, he says, with one condition:
"That's if the baby was born."
Madonna put $20 million on a baby. Rodman flew back to finish his dice game.
Which of them treated that night like a business deal?
“Most older, successful people will tell you that their life was best when they lived it unapologetically, on their own terms.”
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