Some thought he was the men kneeling in the photo. However, Leland's sister Bonnie set the record straight. She explained that the man fans were pointing out was not Duane Lee but a family friend named David. She also confirmed that Duane Lee was not in attendance. The family remains mum about Duane Lee's whereabouts.
In fact, most of his life since leaving the show has been clouded in mystery. There have been no official statements from any of the family members. Women with Will. TV Shows. Inspirational Stories. Advertise with us. Contact us. About us. See you on the other side. The reality star is no stranger to heartbreak and hardship, having faced tragic losses, complicated family strife and various accusations throughout his years in the public eye. Duane dropped out of school at age 13 and lived a rough life as a member of a motorcycle gang, with several arrests for armed robbery and other crimes.
In , when he was 23 years old, Duane was waiting in a car when a friend shot and killed a man during a drug deal gone wrong. Despite the fact that he claimed to be merely an accomplice to the crime, Duane was convicted of first-degree murder. He also later served time in a federal prison related to bounty-hunting charges in Mexico after tracking down Max Factor heir Andrew Luster, who was convicted of multiple sexual assaults.
Duane has been married five times and is a father to 12 children. However, his relationship with some of his children has been strained at times. The reality star's first child, Christopher Michael Hecht, was born after Duane's teenage relationship with a woman named Debbie White.
But Duane didn't know of his son's existence until after White died by suicide, and the father-son pair reconnected when Christopher was an adult. The bounty hunter also lost another son, Zebediah, one of three children he had with his second wife, Anne M.
Zebediah died shortly after his birth in In October , family issues led to public controversy when tapes leaked of Duane having a phone conversation with his son, Tucker, in which he used the n-word in reference to Tucker's girlfriend.
The reality star issued a public apology, but on Nov. Duane also worked alongside two of his sons, Duane Lee and Leland, on the reality show. A judge sided with Dog and threw out the case in , finding that Bihag signed some releases that rendered his claims invalid. In one of the more bizarre celebrity news stories in recent memory, the Dog once stepped in to help out actor Nicolas Cage. Once he got tired of arguing with his wife, Cage reportedly started hitting cars, and when the police arrived, he was said to ask, "Why don't you just arrest me?
Charges against Cage were dropped later that year, but we're still waiting for someone to make a TV series about this burgeoning friendship. Before he became the second most famous bounty hunter ever after beloved Star Wars character Boba Fett, of course , Chapman learned firsthand about seedy, criminal behavior In , year-old Chapman waited in the car outside a house in Pampa, Texas, while his friend ran in real quick to buy some marijuana.
Instead, the friend and the drug dealer got into fight, and Dog's buddy shot the drug dealer dead. Although he wasn't physically present in the room when the killing occurred, Chapman received a five-year prison sentence, ultimately serving 18 months. This tidbit first came to light when Chapman was denied entry into the U. While Dog the Bounty Hunter brought fortune and fame to some members of the Chapman family, it didn't touch everyone.
Dog has been married a few times, and one of those unions links him to a stepdaughter named Nicole Gillespie. Charged with second-degree robbery, Gillespie was 35 and living in a park at the time. Gillespie pleaded no contest and a judge put off sentencing, instead granting supervised release so she could enter a drug rehabilitation facility.
When she skipped out of the treatment center, she was arrested again and cops hit her with another charge, for drug possession.
Ever the public crusader, Chapman ended Dog and Beth: On the Hunt on his own accord after three seasons in The reason: He wanted to use his status as the world's most famous and popular bounty hunter to combat bounty hunter law reform efforts taking place across the U. A lot of that talk and legislative action began after some sad, ugly, and unfortunate incidents involving bounty hunters made the news, such as a man being shot to death by bounty hunters in Idaho. Dog felt that the energy he spent actively bounty hunting would be better spent working behind the scenes on behalf of other bounty hunters of the present and future, such as trying to stop proposed laws that included minimum-age limits for bounty hunters and preventing people who are themselves fugitives from becoming bounty hunters.
Unfortunately, an Idaho bounty hunting reform bill died in the state house in As Dog and Beth: On the Hunt wound down its third and final season, Chapman once again ran into yet another weird and unpredictable situation befitting the life of a professional bounty hunter. But then as Chapman cuffed his absconded criminal, Chapman caught sight of his target's Great Dane, a pound, very good boy named Duke.
Chapman and his lawyer deny all this, of course, but either way, it seems as though Hawkins' family wasn't terribly troubled by whatever actually went down. During the arrest, they actually smiled for pictures with Beth Chapman while Dog arrested and hauled off their dad.
Dog the Bounty Hunter may seem like a blue-collar guy. And he's also developed a nasty distaste for criminals, having dealt with the dregs of society for most of his professional life. Both of those traits often indicate that an individual falls on the conservative side of the political spectrum
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