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Apr 4, 2013 · Before Pain & Gain hits cinemas across the country, New Times tracked down the characters who made the true story so unforgettable. Here is what's become of them two decades after the Sun Gym...
- The Search For Danny Lugo
- Marc Schiller's Harrowing Ordeal
- The Next Victims
- Seeking Justice
"This case was all over the news," retired homicide detective Felix Jimenez told Troy Roberts. "Miami was riveted as to this attractive Hungarian couple ... you know, this yellow Lamborghini found in the Everglades and that they're missing and they continue to be missing." But detectives had lost their lead suspect, Danny Lugo. "Lugo's gone, we hav...
Having forced him to sign over his assets, the Sun Gym gang, led by Danny Lugo, was partying in Marc Schiller's house. In the Hollywood feature, "Pain and Gain", Mark Wahlberg's character depicts the depravity. "They were living in the house. In my house," Schiller told Troy Roberts. Despite his cooperation, Schiller still remained chained like an ...
By May of 1995, five months after his harrowing escape, the Sun Gym gang had burned through all of Marc Schiller's money. "They'd been partying and going to strip clubs, and dropping thousands of dollars on strippers and it was all his money," said Judge Alex Ferrer. With Schiller's fortune spent, the gang targeted their next victims: Frank Griga a...
In February 1998, almost three years after the gruesome murders of Frank Griga and Krisztina Furton, Danny Lugo and Adrian Doorbal were set to go on trial. The case would be career defining for prosecutor Gail Levine. "It was so encompassing ... from the day I got the call, from the day I started investigating it, from the day I met the victim's fa...
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Aug 7, 2013 · We pit the Pain & Gain true story vs. the Michael Bay movie. Meet the real Paul Doyle and Daniel Lugo, portrayed by Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson and Mark Wahlberg.
Apr 26, 2013 · At the opening of Pain & Gain, the new Michael Bay movie starring Mark Wahlberg, we are told that, “unfortunately,” what follows is a true story. It’s meant as a joke, of course, but it calls...
Pain & Gain is a 2013 American action comedy film directed by Michael Bay and written by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, loosely based on a 1999 series of Miami New Times articles by Pete Collins about the activities of the Sun Gym gang, a group of bodybuilding ex-convicts convicted of kidnapping, extortion, torture, and murder in Miami ...
Nov 7, 2023 · In the true story that inspired Pain & Gain, Daniel Lugo and the Sun Gym gang botched multiple kidnapping plots, accidentally killed several of their extortion targets, and brutally disfigured their victims' corpses in a failed attempt to cover up their crimes.
Feb 7, 2022 · Paramount Pictures. Daniel Lugo (Mark Wahlberg) gets a job at Sun Gym in Miami, despite his questionable background. He quickly improves the fortunes of the gym's owner, John Mese (Rob Corddry),...
