27-year-old Luigi Mangione, the Ivy League-educated son of privilege, accused of gunning down UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, was reportedly beaten up by seven transgender “ladyboys” during wild nights in Thailand, months before the assassination.
Mangione, a University of Pennsylvania graduate and former data scientist in Hawaii, embarked on an extended solo trip through Asia in early 2024 following spinal surgery that had improved his chronic back pain.
His travels took him from Bangkok’s nightlife to Japan’s Mount Omine, a sacred site known for spiritual pilgrimages.
The Gateway Pundit previously reported that Mangione spent six months in 2022 living at Surfbreak, a co-living community near Honolulu’s Ala Moana Beach Park.
R.J. Martin, the founder of Surfbreak, described him as an articulate and engaged community member who started a book club for residents in an interview with Honolulu Civil Beat.
However, Martin noted that Mangione was plagued by debilitating back pain stemming from a misaligned vertebrae that pinched his spinal cord. The injury reportedly halted his surfing activities and strained his romantic life.
According to a New York Times account cited by the New York Post, Mangione bragged to friends over WhatsApp about his chaotic backpacking benders across Asia, complete with bar fights, self-pity, and anti-American tirades.
He allegedly told his friends that he had been beaten up by seven “ladyboys” and shared an image of his bruised arm.
He reportedly ranted about how “effed up” the U.S. healthcare system was, just months before allegedly turning that resentment into bloodshed.
The Times reported:
One of the men, Christian Sacchini, who had grown up in Texas and moved to Thailand to play professional soccer, said he had settled down at the pub with another friend when he spotted a man about his own age two seats over. The man piped up when he heard them speaking English, introducing himself as Luigi and telling them about his Maryland roots and his current living situation in Hawaii. Eventually, he was showing them pictures of himself near a volcano and discussing Pokémon and video games, Mr. Sacchini said.
The three men chatted for two or three hours over several rounds of beers. When Mr. Sacchini said that he believed his soccer-playing days were numbered and that he was interested in pursuing computer science, Mr. Mangione urged him to specialize in artificial intelligence, which he said was “going to change the world.”
Mr. Sacchini recalled that they also talked about the high cost of health care in the United States and how “effed up” the system was back home. Mr. Mangione was shocked by how little an M.R.I. scan cost in Thailand, he said.
“He couldn’t believe it,” Mr. Sacchini said.
Later, in Japan, he reportedly became withdrawn, spending several days in the mountain village of Tenkawa, where locals recalled him as quiet and disciplined, writing in a journal and keeping to himself.
Journal entries recovered by prosecutors show that after returning to the U.S. in mid-2024, Mangione became preoccupied with what he viewed as systemic injustices in the American healthcare industry.
In an August 2024 entry, he wrote, “The target is insurance. It checks every box.” He allegedly detailed plans to attack Thompson at UnitedHealthcare’s annual investor conference in New York that December.
Thompson was shot and killed on Dec. 4, 2024, outside a Midtown hotel. Police later found shell casings inscribed with words such as “delay” and “deny.”
Mangione was arrested five days later in Pennsylvania, where authorities discovered a manifesto and journal outlining his motivations.
Mangione was indicted on 11 criminal counts, including first-degree murder in furtherance of terrorism, for the ambush killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg previously outlined the charges in a statement, revealing that the New York State Supreme Court indictment includes:
- Murder in the First Degree, a class A-I felony, one count
- Murder in the Second Degree, a class A-I felony, two counts
- Criminal Possession of a Weapon in the Second Degree, as class C felony, two counts
- Criminal Possession of a Weapon in the Third Degree, a class D felony, four counts
- Criminal Possession of a Weapon in the Fourth Degree, a class E felony, one count
- Criminal Possession of a Forged Instrument in the Second Degree, a class D felony, one count
The judge dismissed two terrorism charges last month, citing a lack of sufficient evidence.
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