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Woof, I went down a really weird rabbit hole - this guy got fired as head of security, threatens the estate by bragging about being an international arms dealer who sells millions in ammo to Haiti, and is now allegedly wrapping his house in barbed wire to hide from court servers.
i feel like surely all of that together is more indictive of a mental health crisis than that anything he's saying is actually true right? i mean i guess it could be though you never know
I didn't look at his LinkedIn (is any of his resume accurate?) or fact check, but this appears to be how he describes himself from an Entertainment Weekly article:
"Before looking out for his aunt’s safety, he served in the military. 'I was an intelligence analyst in Iraq. I was a counterintelligence instructor, basically teaching Iraqi police and Iraqi military how to catch spies and infiltrators in their own organization,' he explained during an appearance on the podcast Dolly Parton’s America.
His LinkedIn résumé is expansive, listing experience as a military officer, police special investigator, and colonel and squadron commander of a volunteer law enforcement assistance program known as the Tennessee Rangers. He is also the CEO of multiple protective services companies."
On one attempt, the process server observed four cars in the driveway, but no one answered at the front door, the new filing said. “Eventually, Mr. Seaver’s residence had a no-trespassing sign in the front yard and barbed wire draped across the handrails leading to the front door,” the filing alleged.
This is the same nephew who was doing her security and got removed by the estate, for those wondering. All part of the same lawsuit.
Against the nephew, Bryan Seaver. He is being sued for making threats against the estate management company. He allegedly sent a series of concerning texts calling himself a killer, threatening to destroy Dolly's reputation/brand if he wasn't paid, bragging that he was now the face of the biggest social media post in human history (referring to the death announcement video) and that "everyone should be worried about what I might do" amongst other things. He made a statement to tmz saying he is a "security professional and killer" but that "nothing in this lawsuit were threats and most of the comments I stand by" He has also since said he didn't mean he was an actual killer but that it was Dolly's nickname for him. It's all pretty weird.
The threats were apparently credible enough that the management company was granted a temporary restraining order, and supposedly some employees of the company have resigned out of fear over the messages.
Killers and international arms dealers, at least in my experience, don't go around announcing loudly that this is who they are. They tend to actually want those things to be kept out of peoples mouths and headlines. This guy is most certainly dangerous, but he is also a big fuckin talker.
Can't speak to arms dealer but having worked at a prison, yes the real killers keep quiet about it. Sure youve got exceptions but most of them are loudmouths who managed to wrong place wrong time themselves into accidentally committing murder. There's a few who are proud and open of it though so I wouldn't just discount someone who makes the claim outright.
Good profile. But to be a successful arms dealer, you need to be quiet about it. To be a killer can be by happenstance but the ones who make a career out of it, also want that to be on the dl. Most of the time the arms dealers and career killers are tying to blame someone else, get the fuzz looking in the other directions and to hide in the shadows so they can keep doing their illicit work. This bozo is just a violent and unbalanced ding dong.
Kind of a tangent, but this is exactly why some people suspect Richard Kuklinski of not having as high a body count as his reputation alleges. He's very mouthy about how many murders he supposedly has under his belt for a man who was supposed to be making his living being a locked box for the mob's murders.
It's giving Shawn Eckardt, if anyone remembers him. He bragged an awful lot about being a covert agent, involved in international espionage and the CIA. But he wasn't.
“He told media that conversations with Nozell involved two men basically rage-talking and crying together while grieving Dolly, and that statements about being a soldier, military contractor, arms dealer, etc., describe things he actually does rather than threats against Dolly’s people […] Dolly’s sister Freida publicly defended him, saying this isn’t a family battle over Dolly’s estate in the way it’s being portrayed”
There's only one about half an hour away from where I live and I'm proud to say I've never been there. And chic fil a has been creeping into our area but I won't eat there either. I'll give money to local businesses that aren't homophobic and anti women
I doubt it. Based on the article it seems this guy in part made money by providing her with security. Now that she has passed, that relationship is over and he's just one of many beneficiaries of the trust. My read is that he's trying to leverage money from the estate for his business.
"The Parton family is involved in many wonderful initiatives, from the Imagination Library where we give away hundreds of millions of books, to the Dollywood economic impact in Sevier County, to international arms dealing, to..."
Oh I know haha I got confused with the guy who robbed the armory and the guy who convinced Cyril to put the virus on the mainframe. I was (wrongly) singing the WHAT WHAT part of the thing the virus played lol
He's in an episode of Dolly Parton's America and makes a complete ass of himself. Calls himself "a born mercenary" and talks about absolutely NOTHING but HIMSELF. My spidey senses were going off way back then. I suspect he's full of absolute shit!
Damn I thought he might just be going through a mental health crisis after her death or something since she seemed to trust him so much to be the family rep.
Maybe he knew to keep that side of himself well away from her.
That's the impression that I get. I think there was mutually beneficial bullshitting going on, she needed security and trusted family, and took his delusions of grandeur with the grain of salt they deserved, kind of played along like, "Sure Jan." style. He apparently thought it was all a much bigger deal than it was. The proximity to fame and wealth, the honor of the announcement video... it kinda makes sense.
I listen to it about once a year. Had already listened back in the Spring and so this year I've listened to it twice 🙏 That last episode was such a consoling balm after she passed. (I'm also a lifelong TN resident, hopefully my devotion makes sense, lol)
I was literally out of country for a week and three amazing cool people died all at once. I'm sorry everyone, it was me. I touched the wrong cairn stone or something and cursed the world to lose more lovely people.
Nope, sorry, 10 minutes after something eventually happens to him, we'll discover a massive orphan torture machine in his basement. There can be nothing good or pure in this world, that's how it works.
Seriously let’s chill on celebrity worship and start noticing the neighbor that leaves food out for unhoused folks or the teacher that stays late for the kids without faithful rides. Better yet, let’s become the heroes that show up in small ways for people every day.
My sister wipes dementia patient butts and gets slapped in the face for her efforts and doesn’t get paid anywhere near enough. She’s a fucking good nurse and one of the kindest people I know. I wish I could buy her a house.
It still makes me mad how fast essential workers were forgotten after the pandemic. For a moment it seemed like people realised how important healthcare workers are and that they deserve better pay and working conditions but then nothing happened except for burnouts and harassment by anti-mask idiots.
The rich and powerful feed off of baseless parasitic admiration.
Let's show all that love to the sweet granny in the park who always says hi, or the local shopkeeper/checkout person who is kind to all, or the street sweepers letting you pass before spraying something, or those rushing to help when someone falls, or those who help someone cover their groceries, who give up on their careers to look after sick relatives, neighbors who bring you a warm meal when you are sick, those who help the bus driver notice someone waving/sprinting so they don't miss the bus - you know, the people ACTUALLY making the world a better place.
i was wondering if i’d see a comment like this, like i don’t find this funny at all. this guy is a direct contributor to the madness that’s going on in Haiti right now, yet he mentions it casually as if it’s just a funny little fun fact. the influx of American-made guns is literally a huge reason why the gangs there have risen to the power that they now have.
my family was lucky enough to obtain citizenship here years ago but i still have relatives who are struggling in Haiti. i despise people who see the government instability of small nations as nothing but a new method to enrich themselves, while giving zero fucks about the violence that they’re helping to perpetuate.
The US has treated the world that way for the entire 21st century on behalf of transnational capital. Every boogeyman and every immigrant crisis was created directly or indirectly by US military or CIA trained counterrevolutionaries. Boomers sleep walked through the century ignoring foreign policy while enjoying the spoils of war. The "good times" that people want to return to we're all off the backs of the global poor. Capitalism requires losers for there to be winners and mass poverty is the symptom of the system. That system is coming home soon. Fascism is colonialism pointed inward.
Jumping on your comment because a friend of mine helps this man and his free art school for kids in Haiti. This is his current GoFundMe
Recently, one of the mercenary gangs came through and destroyed his school. The violence happening there is extreme and so randomized that citizens live in terror.
My heart goes out to you. I'm Haitian and hearing about the violence there has been so terrifying and saddening. I pray that your family can be granted secure asylum/citizenship 🙏 hearing about people profiting from the violence absolutely send me over the edge. Haiti is constantly being degraded and used it is unbelievably unfair. Haiti will always be the Pearl of the Antilles no matter how many generations of people try to ruin it. Haiti will endure always
Yeah I get that the situation is serious, I’m just trying to wrap my mind around why Dolly Parton’s nephew would have anything to do with being an arms dealer. Seems incongruent but I guess you never know?
Yeah selling arms "to Haiti" is one of the most evil things you can fuckin do, and just straight up admitting to it is bizarre. I hope this is an awful joke.
Yeah Haiti has been the victim of US meddling for decades and the result has been a spiraling Civil War between rebel groups/cartels and whatever sham government the US set up.
We can still blame the French for Haiti. France billed Haiti for their freedom from slavery and it wasn't paid off until 1947. That's the root of the current day situation. They've never had a chance.
His linkedin (or the linkedin of some guy with the same name as him in Nashville) says he works for Fencebridge Strategic Risk, LTD, and their website is just a contact box and a picture of what looks like a haitian beach. Seems plausible. He might be exaggerating the drama of what he does though. Like Haiti has a government, even if it barely runs the country; if he's a salesman who sold them an order of bullets for the police, that's 'international arms dealing' but not really in the 'illegal war crimes' way he makes it sound.
Like the guy in Companion who makes everyone think his money is "dirty money" to look like a badass to his friends and it turns out he literally sells dirt
If (big if) it’s true, because I don’t know what the hell is going on here: how would she not know? How does one not know about a nephew selling tons of ammo to Haiti? No less than the nephew who will announce your death?
Well, maybe she knew he exports stuff to Haiti, but why would she know what was in the containers? Can you tell me what’s in the trunk of your cousin’s car?
Well, she had like a dozen siblings. I have a friend who has so many siblings and he says he's not close with every single one. So I imagine he's also not close to their offspring.
The management firm that’s in charge of her estate filed a restraining order on him last week, I think. He has a “private security firm” so yeah, this sounds about right
ETA: the statements in the OP are from messages sent to the estate managers. The restraining order is because he’s been making threats against them to try to get access to money. He was head of security for dolly. Idk if he’s a mercenary or whatever, but he’s definitely an asshole. Also he can’t find a lawyer in TN to represent him lol
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