User:SkyBlueCat/Drafts/Luka Magnotta

Early Life

Luka Magnotta was born Eric Clinton Kirk Newman in Scarborough on 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. Magnotta 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 soap factory worker of Lever Brothers who has suffered from schizophrenia since 1994. Magnotta stated that his father is now working as an English teacher at a university with a Russian wife. His mother is a writer who is obsessed with cleanliness and often wears surgical masks. Magnotta stated that both had health and drinking problems. Magnotta and his little brother were homeschooled by their mother while their father was at work for support, until the grandparents insisted they be enrolled in school. The mother sometimes would lock her children out of the car or out of the house and leaves their pet rabbits outside in the winter to freeze to death as she "wanted total control over them." Similarly, Magnotta had fears of his mother having "big red nails" and also described her tying his brother in a chair in his room "when he was bad."

His father was an abusive parent before the separation, but was never abusive to Magnotta. According to Magnotta, he stated that his father was quiet while drinking and loved playing video games with him. However, 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 smoked and slept excessively. His father, at one point, was arrested and fired from his job for drinking at work. The family then had to moved into grandparent's home after their house was lost. Right after, his parents separated when Magnotta was at age 9 or 10. His mother moved on with her children to a new apartment, along with her new abusive boyfriend from Toronto, Leo. 

Magnotta had no relationship with his brother Conrad. According to him, his brother was a "bad alcoholic" who was often arrested for drinking and driving, and he stood up for him when students teased him for looking "like a girl" at elementary, and being homophobic whenever he helped him in situation. Magnotta's sister Melissa later confirmed that Conrad had disclosed Magnotta's homosexuality "without his permission". From there, Magnotta became aware of having a relationship with his brother.

At age 16, Magnotta went to live with his grandmother, Phyllis, who felt "worried about him hearing things, speaking loudly, and feeling scared" most of the time. The reason he is living with his grandmother is to escape from the psychological abuse of his mother's boyfriend. His grandmother took him to a psychiatrist in around 1999 after having concerns about him. Magnotta came to feel that his grandmother was a mother figure to him, as she had raised him correctly. She often dressed him in clothes, going everywhere with him, and slept with him when he was younger.

When asked if he had any sexual abuse in his childhood, Msgnotta was unsure about it. Magnotta allegedly admitted that he had engaged in inappropriate acts with his uncle, but he couldn't remember how old he was at the time. He once remembered his uncle being arrested for molesting boys once. He had also done sexual acts with his brother, where they played each other naked at age 5 or 6 years old. When they turned 12 or 13-years-old. He and his brother would show their micro-dicks and watch each other masturbate.

History of Education

Attending elementary & high school

After graduating from elementary, Magnotta attended I.E. Weldon Secondary School, a high school located a few blocks away from his home.

Magnotta was enrolled in grade 6 at age 10 or 11, and had the ability to read and write at one point. He had a humiliating past at school, including being bullied by his students as they tried to ruin his hair, calling him a baby, and laughing at his clothes (as Magnotta's parents didn't have enough money to buy him clothes at Value Village). Magnotta would try to play nice by giving them a piece of chewing gum to make them stop. But instead, the students would still bully him. The class monitors would even be dismissive of him whenever he got into this situation. Although he was often bullied in school in the past, he somehow managed to communicates with three other students who have a disability. Initially, Magnotta had been placed in the special education classes when he first attended school due to his inability to do math and reading. His mother also wanted to attend, but was dismissed because she was "thought to be intrustive."

After graduating from elementary school, Magnotta went to I.E. Weldon Secondary School, a high school located in Lindsay, Ontario. Magnotta began to lose touch with his brother, and he was never teased by him or the other kids again. However, Magnotta was completely unaware and tried to hide from the library at lunch, believing that everyone still hated him. Magnotta recalled that as he got older, his fear of communicating and being shy diminished. That happened when he started hanging out with troublemaking students. He had lower grades by the time he moved to regular schools and was in for most of the time. Magnotta sometimes would skip high school with his friend because he was not permitted by his mother to socalize a friend after school. He continued his education until he dropped out of grade 11 when he was around 17-years-old, due to his mental health. Magnotta stated that he was not "feeling well mentally. I had poor concentration. I was feeling sick and hearing things." He worked for an temporary agency.

When he was at a library in high school, he became very interested in Marilyn Monroe after discovering a book about her, and he wrote a book report about her. Magnotta had also felt that they were so much in common, including when she was abused and "she was sexual". In terms of Monroe using surgery to change her appearance, Magnotta thought that having a cosmetic surgery would help him "forget the past and incite people like him.". His family would also talk about Monroe, including his grandfather having a picture of her.

He also wrote a book report for school about Ava Gardner and Sharon Stone, the actors of his favorite film, Basic Instinct.

Enrolled at Tyark College and University of Toronto

Mr. Magnotta attended Thompson Internet College when he was about 19 years old, trying to finish his high school degree. He lost interest after about four months. In 2007, he enrolled in an academic bridging program at the University of Toronto but dropped out after two weeks because he couldn't "understand any of it." He attempted to enroll in a real estate agent training program in 2010, but was denied admission because he lacked a grade 12 equivalency, "couldn't do makeup classes," and "couldn't concentrate."

Timeline of Magnotta's carrer

Occupational carrer

Magnotta first worked in the sandwich restaurant, but only lasted for 2 months due to complaints of his sandwich making. His mental illness made it difficult for him to work, including when he often stayed up late the night and the stress led him to quit jobs many times. Magnotta, who was 18 at that time, worked at a grocery store for less than a month before being fired. He worked at a Great Canadian Bagel restaurant until he quit again because he had too much stress for him to continue working. Magnotta also said that he was on "welfare and then began receiving Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) payments" at the age of 18 or 19 due to mental health issues. Magnotta had moved a few cities in his twenties, moving to New York city in 2008 before returning to Toronto in 2010.

Prostitution career

Webcams & Stripping

In his early 20s, Magnotta first began working in the sex trade. From that moment, he believed that he was bisexual at one point. While living at subsidized housing, Magnotta felt motivated and sometimes had "financial difficulties". He also had to steal food at times, but was ashamed of it. Magnotta had been taken to food banks by his social worker because he "could not make ends meet". Magnotta started on webcams where he showed himself taking off clothes on camera, but didn't continue as much because there were too many "crazy people." He then began as a stripper at the Toronto gay club called "Remmington", but was scared to go on stage at first. Magnotta also did a fellatio on the owner of the club and was given drinks and a job in return. At that time, Magnotta did not believe he was good at it, and he compared himself negatively to other strippers who were much more muscular than him. He stopped working at the club after two months, because he was making too much money and had to pay everyone who are in. One of the other strippers at his club suggested that he should start escorting because he felt uncomfortable with the drug addicts in the club, and so he did and moved on.

Escorting & Success

As told by the stripper, Magnotta had been doing escorts privately with guys who he met at clubs, and had been going "five to six clients" per day from the start, continuing until the end of May 2012. At that time, he came into a connection with an escorting agent, who told Magnotta that he was his "best one." Magnotta stated that he did not feel he was abusive to him all the time and that they were even "friends" after all. Magnotta said he had appeared young, having a good stamina, and did all what the agent asked him to.

Magnotta made about "$1000 to $2000" per week and his agent would take a "20% cut of his earnings". He used his earnings as an escort to help his grandmother because she was living on a small pension. He gave her 100 dollars and once gave her 1000 dollars, but she did not want the money and returned it back to him; sometimes she would say that she did need the money and Magnotta would give it to her anyway. Besides his grandmother, Magnotta would also use his earnings to help his family. Magnotta once took his mother with him to the Bahamas in 2005, and it was her first ever vacation. Rich clients would also even offer Magnotta some drugs and alcohol, but he often refused and accepted at some time. Over the course of having this much money, Magnotta felt dirty, took more of prescription pills, felt suicidal, and often had STDs. He also added that he was exposed to dangerous people, and sometimes raped (see below text). His clients took him to vacation so he could feel comfortable.

Magnotta was once raped and threatened by one of his clients. He sought out for help from activists and agencies for sex workers. They helped him with his clients who to call the police if he was raped. Later, The client was then arrested when he contacted the SVU. Magnotta also recalled that he got a little help from a Paris police after he made a complaint about a client who had assaulted and robbed him.

Relationship

Magnotta can't date, as he wasn't sure enough to have his first serious relationship after most of them were "just for sex". His first "serious" relationship was with a man named Ron, due to Magnotta's emotional connections. In the course of his first relationship, Ron would bring him flowers and often talk on the phone together ahead of time. His second relationship was Natter, who he met through his agent at a later date. Natter and Magnotta made calls together for escorting, but Natter had not come out of the closet at that time. Previously, his agent said that Ron had been using him, but although Ron may have loved him some, Magnotta admitted that he loved Ron more than his second relationship. 

Later on, Magnotta had met an escort transgender woman named Barbie through Natter, when he was living at Toronto in 2006. Magnotta and Barbie have done sex together a few times, but he felt uncomfortable for most of the time as she has an addiction to cocaine and go to bars where he had stripped in the past. Barbie would laugh at him when he is unable to erect and would complain if he refused to have sex with her. Magnotta also wooed her to watch Basic Instinct 2, a sequel of his favorite film, where a man gets fatally stabbed with an icepick which later inspires his 2012 murder video 1 Lunatic 2 Icepick. The relationship lasted four months.