The family of late entrepreneur John McAfee is still trying to get his body released from a Spanish prison more than seven months after his death, according to a MarketWatch report. After speaking to several people involved in the case, senior reporter Jon Swartz wrote on Wednesday that McAfee’s body …
Read More »How John McAfee ‘blew’ $100 million: Widow says Belize, 49 children, lawsuits, and 2008 crash all played a part
McAfee’s net worth was estimated at $100 million in 1994, when he left the antivirus company he founded. What was left of it following the 2008 financial crisis perished after the government of Belize seized his assets in 2012, his widow Janice said in a tweet on Monday. “When I …
Read More »‘Sounds like one of John’s tweets’: McAfee’s doubtful widow shares PHOTO of his alleged suicide note
“This note does not sound anything like someone who has no hope and is contemplating ending their life. This note sounds like one of John’s tweets,” she said on Tuesday. Much of the text on the handwritten sheet is crossed out, leaving phrases like “phantom parasite” and “control my own …
Read More »John McAfee’s wife suggests Spanish authorities trying to ‘cover up’ husband’s death in prison
McAfee was found dead in Barcelona’s Sant Esteve Sesrovires prison last month, and a preliminary autopsy found that he died by hanging himself. His extradition to the US, where he faced charges of tax evasion and other financial crimes, had been approved by Spanish authorities hours before his death. Janice …
Read More »Death of John McAfee, bitcoin evangelist and digital outlaw, ruled suicide as family demands second investigation
McAfee was cleared to be extradited to the US on Wednesday after spending eight months imprisoned in Spain. According to the preliminary autopsy, he hanged himself in his cell. He was allegedly found by prison workers in the pretrial detention area. READ MORE: John McAfee tried to kill himself in …
Read More »John McAfee tried to kill himself in prison once already, Spanish newspaper claims
McAfee was found dead in his prison cell in Barcelona earlier this week, hours after a Spanish court approved his extradition to the US to face charges of tax evasion and other financial crimes. McAfee was reportedly found hanging, and Spain’s Ministry of Justice is treating his death as a …
Read More »John McAfee’s widow insists husband was not suicidal, blames US government for death
“His last words to me were ‘I love you and I will call you in the evening,’” Janice McAfee told the press outside the penitentiary in Barcelona where her husband was incarcerated before he was found deceased this week. Officials pointed to suicide as a likely cause of death, but …
Read More »Farewell to anti-virus guru John McAfee, the wild, high-living, paranoid, millionaire genius I was glad to call my neighbour
The death of McAfee is the final chapter in the mad, bad life of a man who became my neighbour 13 years ago. We were both living on Ambergris Caye, a tropical island 16 miles off the Caribbean coast of Belize in Central America. He’d picked up what had been …
Read More »John McAfee’s lawyer says anti-virus tycoon showed no indication he would take his own life
Javier Villalba told Reuters on Thursday that he “had constant telephone contact” with McAfee and “at no point had he shown any special worry or clue that could let us think this could have happened.” Villalba added that McAfee’s death was particularly painful “because it was not justified under any …
Read More »‘If I suicide myself, I didn’t’: Supporters dredge up old McAfee tweets to cry foul over death as his Instagram page posts ‘Q’
McAfee was found dead in his prison cell in Barcelona only hours after a Spanish court approved his extradition to the US, where he was facing charges of tax evasion and other financial crimes. A statement from Spain’s Ministry of Justice has indicated the cause of death for McAfee could …
Read More »