Matthew Mellon was successful in business, but he was never able to get his life back together. (Photo: Instagram @matthew_mellon)
The famous saying that money doesn't buy happiness occasionally provides examples to prove this. As in the case of Matthew Mellon, the millionaire who bet on cryptocurrencies and multiplied his fortune five hundred times. Far from enjoying his wealth, he died of addiction at the age of 54.
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Born Matthew Taylor Mellon II on January 28, 1964 in New York, he spent a childhood surrounded by luxury in a wealthy banking family.
However, he was not satisfied with the money from the bank founded by his grandfather and had an extraordinary vision to invest in the cryptocurrency business.
So he acquired the XRP company in a masterstroke that allowed him to multiply his already impressive fortune five hundred times. “I chose to invest in XRP because it works in the traditional banking system. “I realized that this would be very appreciated by the public, and I bet anything,” said the millionaire in an interview for Forbes magazine.
However, not everything that glitters is gold. Mellon had been battling addiction for years. He joined Alcoholics Anonymous in 1998 and met his first wife, Tamara, founder of the exclusive shoe brand Jimmy Choo.
Tamara is considered a fashion guru and had a daughter, Araminta, with Matthew, but separated from him in 2003 due to drugs.
Matthew Mellon with his second wife Nicole at a party in 2014, a year before they divorced due to the addiction hell the tycoon endured. (Photo: Andy Kropa/AP)
“When I overcame my alcohol addiction, I trusted that he too could put his problems behind him, but I was wrong. “He could never get off drugs,” he admitted.
Some time later, Mellon met Nicole Hanley, who would become his second wife. With her he had Force and Olimpia. They hosted a luxurious wedding reception in the Bahamas in 2010 and launched a clothing line.
The family seemed happy and the business was still thriving, but beneath the surface, drugs continued to destroy the tycoon and the marriage became untenable: in 2015, the wife filed for divorce.
Mellon confessed that after being “clean” for four years, a surfing injury caused him to consume a drug prescribed by doctors, causing him to succumb to his worst addiction. “I had to take dozens of tablets a day. “Oxycontin is like legal heroin and destroys lives,” the billionaire said a few months before his death.
From there, he began desperately searching for therapies that would help him leave his addiction behind. “He really wanted to improve himself, eat more and eat healthier,” said Daniella Evangelista, who worked as the millionaire's personal chef at his Los Angeles mansion.
Mellon himself told the press in early 2018 that he was trying to lead “a responsible life.”
Until a friend told him about a “magical” treatment being offered on a trial basis in Mexico. These were herbal therapies with hallucinatory properties that were banned in the United States.
He died of a heart attack after drinking a hallucinogenic drink.
Clear Sky Recovery Clinic specializes in treatment with Ibogaine, an herbal medicine with psychedelic properties. The product is extracted from a West African tree and, after various chemical processes, becomes an anti-addiction drug.
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