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Rodger’s father, a photographer and film director, was deeply in debt, and his mother made just $40,000 a year as a research assistant for a film company,
Rodger’s mother and father had rich friends in Los Angeles, which allowed him to sometimes enjoy the benefits of money, such as tickets to a private Katy Perry concert in 2012.
“I tried to pretend as if I was part of a wealthy family,” he wrote about that night. “I should be. That was the life I was meant to live. I WOULD BE!”
His father also failed him, he wrote. “If only my failure of a father had made better decisions with his directing career instead wasting his money on that stupid documentary.” The documentary – a film about celebrities’ view of God titled “Oh My God” – plunged his father into debt when Rodger was a teenager and caused him to stop paying child support,
It was his working mother’s generosity to her adult son, including paying his rent and the gift of a used BMW 328i, that allowed Rodger to live in the college community of Isla Vista.
He became obsessed with gaining wealth as the “only way I could lose my virginity, the only way I could have the beautiful girlfriend I know I deserve.”
“Without the prospect of becoming wealthy at a young age, I had nothing to live for now,” Rodger wrote.
Rodger’s mother and father had rich friends in Los Angeles, which allowed him to sometimes enjoy the benefits of money, such as tickets to a private Katy Perry concert in 2012.
“I tried to pretend as if I was part of a wealthy family,” he wrote about that night. “I should be. That was the life I was meant to live. I WOULD BE!”
His father also failed him, he wrote. “If only my failure of a father had made better decisions with his directing career instead wasting his money on that stupid documentary.” The documentary – a film about celebrities’ view of God titled “Oh My God” – plunged his father into debt when Rodger was a teenager and caused him to stop paying child support,
It was his working mother’s generosity to her adult son, including paying his rent and the gift of a used BMW 328i, that allowed Rodger to live in the college community of Isla Vista.
He became obsessed with gaining wealth as the “only way I could lose my virginity, the only way I could have the beautiful girlfriend I know I deserve.”
“Without the prospect of becoming wealthy at a young age, I had nothing to live for now,” Rodger wrote.
California killer's family struggled with money, court documents show | CNN
Despite his designer clothes and BMW, Isla Vista shooting suspect Elliot Rodger was not from a wealthy family.
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