During the June edition of Bryant Gumbel’s Real Sports Show on HBO, Bernard Goldberg performed a propelling piece about the fortunes and misfortunes of Lenny “The Dude” Dykstra’s financial empire.
Goldberg depicted the story of how Dykstra, aka “Nails”, went from an All-Star Major League baseball player to an unlikely yet incredibly successful investor and entrepreneur. He was financially flying high, sometimes literally on his Gulfstream II jet, but he failed to cool his own jets and take the over 20 law suits filed against him seriously.
Since then he filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and can barely afford law guys in suits to represent him in court against the claims of the debts he owes, let alone the $17.5 million home he bought from Wayne Gretzky.
Now “The Dude’s” debt has him grounded with no schedule for departure. He has to get the financial “nails” in the tires of his jet fueled life patched up so his financial empire can get rolling and flying high again.
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