John McAfee

Born in the United Kingdom in 1945, John McAfee was raised in Salem, VA and received a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Roanoke College in 1967. McAfee founded the computer anti-virus company McAfee Associates in 1987, which helped propel him to a peak net worth of $100 million in 2007 before his assets declined substantially during the global financial crisis. While living in Belize in 2012, McAfee was a suspect in the murder of American expatriate Gregory Faull, who was found with a single gunshot wound at his home in Ambergris Caye. Faull was a neighbor of McAfee who had filed a complaint with local authorities about McAfee's dogs and other grievances. McAfee fled Belize to seek political asylum in Guatemala, before being denied and sent back to the United States. In 2017, it was announced that Johnny Depp would portray McAfee in an upcoming film called King of the Jungle which focuses on McAfee's life in Belize.

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