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| At age 16, Magnotta when to live on with his grandmother, Phyllis, who felt "worried about him hearing things, speaking loudly and feeling scared" for most of the time and described as a "mother figure" by Magnotta. The reason for him to live with his grandmother is to escape from psychical abuse of his mother's boyfriend. His grandmother took him to psychiatrist in around 1999 after having concerns about him. Magnotta came to felt that his grandmother was a mother figure to him, as she did raised him right. She often dressed him in clothes, going everywhere with him, and slept with him when he was younger. | | At age 16, Magnotta when to live on with his grandmother, Phyllis, who felt "worried about him hearing things, speaking loudly and feeling scared" for most of the time and described as a "mother figure" by Magnotta. The reason for him to live with his grandmother is to escape from psychical abuse of his mother's boyfriend. His grandmother took him to psychiatrist in around 1999 after having concerns about him. Magnotta came to felt that his grandmother was a mother figure to him, as she did raised him right. She often dressed him in clothes, going everywhere with him, and slept with him when he was younger. |
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| He attended I.E. Weldon Secondary School, a high school located in Lindsay, Ontario. He wrote a book report for school about Ava Gardner and Sharon Stone, the actors of his favorite film, Basic Instinct.<ref>https://www.scribd.com/document/246900421/Psychiatric-assessment-of-Magnotta</ref> | | Magnotta was enrolled in grade 6 at age 10 or 11, and having the ability to read and write at one point. He had an humiliting past on the school, including where he was bullied by his students as they tried to ruin his hair, calling him a baby, and laughing at his clothes (as Magnotta's parents don't have enough money to buy him a clothing at Value Village). Magnotta would try to play nice by giving them a chewing gum to make it stop. But instead, the students would still bully him. After graduating from elementary school, Magnotta went to I. E. Weldon Secondary School, a high school located in Lindsay, Ontario. He wrote a book report for school about Ava Gardner and Sharon Stone, the actors of his favorite film, Basic Instinct.<ref>https://www.scribd.com/document/246900421/Psychiatric-assessment-of-Magnotta</ref> |
| ==Early Career==
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| Around 2002 or 2003, Newman begins stripping at Remingtons, a nightclub in Toronto. By 2003, he has appeared in his first two pornography films, both as a straight man turned gay. The following year, he appears in at least two other pornographic films, including one where he appears as Jimmy – a name he would also adopt while working as a male escort. Newman continues to appear in low-level porn films. He also appears in Fab Magazine, a gay bi-weekly in Toronto, on the "Fab Boy" page as "Jimmy." There, he describes himself as a "22-year-old soccer fan" born in Russia and living in Toronto who hopes to become a vice or homicide police officer.
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| Throughout 2007, Magnotta continues his attempts to make a name for himself. In the summer, he auditions for the reality show Cover Guy, telling the judges, "Some people say I am devastatingly good-looking." The judges reject him. In February of 2008, he also tries out for the reality show Plastic Makes Perfect. "I've had my nose done. I've had two hair transplants," he tells them. "And I'm planning on having muscle implants in my pecs and my arms."
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| ==Illegal activities==
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| Newman catches the attention of the Toronto Police after he befriends a 21-year-old woman with the mental capacity of a child eight to 12 years of age, convinces her to apply for credit cards and then racks up $10,000 in unpaid bills. He is charged with fraud. Initially, police allege he sexually assaulted the woman and videotaped it, but the Crown drops the charge before the case goes to trial. Newman's lawyer at the time, Peter Scully, now says that the decision changed the course of Newman's life "immeasurably, with huge ramifications to our society eventually."
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| June 2005: Newman pleads guilty and is convicted of four fraud charges. Before sentencing, Newman's lawyer shows the court a medical report revealing his client has "significant psychiatric issues." In handing down the sentence, Madam Justice Lauren Marshall issues a stern warning: "You have a medical problem and you need to always take medication. If you do not, your life is going to get messed up." Newman is given a nine-month community-service sentence and 12 months of probation.
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| March 2007: Magnotta files for bankruptcy, listing the cause as "illness, lack of employment and insufficient income to pay off debts." He claims that he had to pay $200 each month in expenses relating to an unspecified medical condition. Magnotta continues to try to garner attention online, posting comments about himself to create rumours and then using other profiles to deny them. Twice this year, he loses battles with Wikipedia to keep a page up about himself. He also posts an online escort ad under the alias Jimmy. One client posts an unflattering review describing him as cold and remote.
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| ==Relationship==
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| Early in 2006, Newman meets Barbie, a transgendered woman, and they begin dating. "He said he wanted to be famous one day," Barbie told the fifth estate in a recent interview. She recalls his apartment looking like a shrine dedicated to himself. "He would always beg me to take pictures of him," she says. In April, several months after meeting Newman, Barbie breaks up with him.
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| The Toronto Sun publishes a story by reporter Joe Warmington about how Magnotta had dropped by the newspaper's headquarters to deny online rumours he was dating notorious schoolgirl killer Karla Homolka. The rumours were likely started by Magnotta himself. In later years, a tribute video to Homolka was created by a Luka Magnotta alias account on YouTube; all the videos uploaded/favourited are Magnotta- or Homolka-related.
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| Magnotta meets a 70-year-old man in Toronto who ends up becoming his travel companion. Together, they visit Russia, Italy and France. Henry, a fake name used to protect his identity, told the fifth estate they met at the Pickle Barrel restaurant located near Toronto's Yonge and Eglinton intersection. "He walked as if he was on a stage or as if he was on a ramp for modeling clothes," said Henry.
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| In 2010, Magnotta's online postings get progressively darker. On his Facebook page, he posts a link to a video called, 3 guys 1 hammer that shows a man being viciously beaten to death. The video was not by Magnotta. The myth about Magnotta's relationship with killer Homolka grows. In one posting about Magnotta and Homolka, the user — likely Magnotta — writes, "Luka is unable to live unless there is chaos in his life, it makes him feel as though he matters."
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| :''Further Information: [[1 Boy 2 Kittens]]''
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| Shortly before Christmas, a video called 1 guy – 2 kittens started circulating on discussion boards. Posted on Dec. 21, the video depicts an unidentified man, whose face is concealed, placing two kittens in a sealed bag and then sucking out the air with a vacuum to suffocate them. Though the video is quickly removed from YouTube, animal activists learn of it.
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| Soon after, Ryan Boyle, a former U.S. soldier who uses the online name Save Kitty, forms a Facebook group called "Find the Vacuum Kitten Killer for Great Justice." About 4,000 people sign up. "These were not people who were doing it for money," said Boyle, referring to the online activists. "They all had the same thing in mind: we want to catch this guy." The group believes Magnotta joined the group under an alias, based on certain users' online patterns of behaviour. When the group goes astray in its search for the kitten killer, they believe that Magnotta himself anonymously went on a message board frequented by the group and posted pictures from the video with the face no longer blurred.
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| Rescue Ink, an animal protection group, posts a $5,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the Vacuum Kitten Killer (VKK). "It's a gateway crime, animal abuse," Joe Panz, a founding member of the group, told the fifth estate. "Once somebody starts to open that door, that's when things start to get really dangerous."
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| A year after the original kitten-killing videos appear online, more videos are posted. A man wearing a Santa hat is shown feeding a live kitten to a python. In another, a kitten is duct taped to a broom handle then drowned in a bathtub. "He was basically saying, 'Look, I've done it again. You're not going to catch me,'" said AB Project member John Green.
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| After The Sun in London, U.K., publishes a story about the kitten killer, Magnotta turns up at their office to deny that he had killed a kitten. The paper has not asked about him and reporter Alex West describes the behaviour as "highly suspicious." West wrote, "But behind the denials it seemed he was getting some sort of bizarre pleasure out of the attention." Two days later, threatening emails are sent to the Sun's offices, believed to be from Magnotta. "Next time you hear from me it will be in a movie I am producing that will have some humans in it, not just pussies," the email says. The London police are notified but say it was outside their jurisdiction.
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Early Life
Luka Magnotta is born Eric Clinton Kirk Newman in Scarboroughon July 24, 1982, where he was also raised. He was born to Anna Yourkin and Donald Newman as one of the eldest of three kids; he was named after Clint Eastwood and Kirk Douglas, who are Magnotta's father's favorite actors. Magnotta and the parent's two kids were born in the father's basement, including his brother Conrad and sister Melissa. Magnotta's parents later bought a home in Bethany, Ontario, where they lived and raised their children there.
His mother dropped out of high school at grade 9 and later met Magnotta's father when he was 10th grade. His father is a factory worker who suffers from schizophrenia since 1994 and his mother is a writer who is obsessed with cleanliness and often wear surgical mask. Magnotta stated that both had health and drinking problems. Magnotta and his little brother were homeschooled by his mother while the father is at work for support. The mother sometimes lock her children out of the car or out of the house and leave their pet rabbits outside in the winter to freeze to death as she "wanted to total control over them".
His father was an abusive parent before the seperation, but was never abusive to Magnotta. According to Magnotta, he stated that his father is quiet while drinking and loved playing video games with him. His mother rumored that her father threatened to kill her and would watch her with binoculars, which Magnotta did not want to believe. His father at one point was arrested and fired from his job for drinking at work. The family had then lost their house and moved out to their paternal grandparents' home. His father separated from there on when Magnotta was at age 9 or 10. His mother moved on with her children to a new apartment, along with new boyfriend from Toronto, Leo.
When asked about his brother Conrad, Magnotta had no relationship with his brother. According to him, his brother was a "bad alcohic" who was often arrested for drinking and driving, stick up for him when students teased him for looking "like a girl", and being homophobic whenever he helped him on any situations. Magnotta's sister Melissa later confirmed that Conrad had disclosed Magnotta's homosexuality without his permission. From there, Magnotta had became aware to have a relationship with his brother.
At age 16, Magnotta when to live on with his grandmother, Phyllis, who felt "worried about him hearing things, speaking loudly and feeling scared" for most of the time and described as a "mother figure" by Magnotta. The reason for him to live with his grandmother is to escape from psychical abuse of his mother's boyfriend. His grandmother took him to psychiatrist in around 1999 after having concerns about him. Magnotta came to felt that his grandmother was a mother figure to him, as she did raised him right. She often dressed him in clothes, going everywhere with him, and slept with him when he was younger.
Education history
Magnotta was enrolled in grade 6 at age 10 or 11, and having the ability to read and write at one point. He had an humiliting past on the school, including where he was bullied by his students as they tried to ruin his hair, calling him a baby, and laughing at his clothes (as Magnotta's parents don't have enough money to buy him a clothing at Value Village). Magnotta would try to play nice by giving them a chewing gum to make it stop. But instead, the students would still bully him. After graduating from elementary school, Magnotta went to I. E. Weldon Secondary School, a high school located in Lindsay, Ontario. He wrote a book report for school about Ava Gardner and Sharon Stone, the actors of his favorite film, Basic Instinct.[1]
