Dan Bilzerian grew up in Tampa, Florida. The mansion he lived in had eleven bedrooms and that is half the size of Buckingham Palace. He had his own indoor basketball court, batting cage, lake-front views, swimming pool, water slide, and also an “imported volcanic rock mountain”. His dad was a descended from survivors of the Armenian diaspora and owned a robotics company, among other investments.

Bilzerian, however, had a lonely and a very stressful childhood.

“Basically, I didn’t get a ton of attention as a kid,” Bilzerian told, “I guess that’s why I’m such a flashy lunatic.”

When his dad went behind bars, Bilzerian was ridiculed by his classmates. He started showing contempt for authority. Because of this he got expelled from two schools in one year and ended up in a military academy under the care of drill instructors. After that, his family moved more than 2,000 miles northwest to Utah, where Bilzerian, out on parole, bought a new company.

Dan Bilzerian has never denied that there are trust funds in his name.I n fact, while he was still in Seal training, the government had pressured him to put up one-third of one of them to get his dad out of jail – an act of generosity that didn’t go down well at home.