Sketchy Things About Steven Seagal That We All Ignored

steven seagal is a bit of an enigma for a lot of martial artists because a lot of people see him as a person who is incapable of telling the truth but at the same time they respect him as someone who has achieved a high level of skill in the martial art of aikido the problem is that if steven seagal the movie star were just stephen siegel who runs a martial arts gym in suburbia midwest usa he would be seen as a predator who would be in one of rob's mcdojo life mcdojo news videos because stephen siegel is an absolute monster who has done nothing his entire career but placed himself in positions to engage in predatory behavior i posted a video last year called the problem with steven seagal and i was surprised to see that a lot of people defending siegel saying that i did poor research or that i've been listening to too many rumors so i decided to actually look into mr seagal and i was shocked because steven segal is worse than i could even imagine what i saw was that steven seagal has four roles that he plays and the common thread among all four of them well besides the constant lying is that each one of them allowed steven siegel to engage in some very abusive behavior that began the minute siegel stepped into his first role as the sensei so that's where we'll start he's a legitimate aikido master like 100 percent absolute legitimate aikido master according to siegel's website steven frederick siegel was born in lansing michigan on april 10 1952. his humble childhood was underscored by a fascination with the martial arts and the blues siegel mastered martial arts at an early age becoming a seventh degree black belt and an aikido master the thing is when siegel first hit the scene he was telling people that he was from brooklyn new york for some reason i guess to make him appear to be the tough guy that he played in his early movies this all stopped when siegel's mother told the truth that the family moved to fullerton california when siegel was five years old he was actually frail due to asthma while living in michigan but he thrived after the move to orange county she said that siegel was in a rock music and not the blues as he claimed later he worked with the japanese men in garden grove and that's how his martial arts journey actually began i talked more about this in my previous video the problem with steven seagal so i'm not going to rehash the stuff from that video but here's where things get interesting during siegel's role as the sensei oh and if you wonder why i keep saying steven's last name is siegel it's because that's the actual proper pronunciation of his name steven saw the chagall exhibit at a museum and he liked the sound of the word so he changed the pronunciation of his last name so after studying okinawa and karate in california segal was convinced to go to japan around the age of 19. things didn't work out and he returned to california where he would eventually meet miyako fujitani who was teaching aikido in california at the time now i should mention that segal at one point was saying that he studied under aikido founder morihei ueshiba who'd already passed away before seagal even made it over to japan cigal fans like to deny that stephen ever made the claim but you can read it for yourself in some of segal's first interviews in black belt magazine from 1988 and 1990. in 1974 seagal returned to japan with his aikido instructor miyako fujitani not defended this move in my last video but since then well i've learned that robert strickland who was working as a cia consultant in japan and robert strickland says that steven seagal married miyako to avoid the draft he believed in marrying a japanese national and moving to japan would make him less likely to be deported and sent back to the us i thought this guy was a patriot now seagull fans love to point out that steven was the first westerner to open a dojo in japan but that's not true when his father-in-law retired from teaching seagal took over the teaching duties but the dojo was owned by his mother-in-law and it was managed by his wife miyako went on to say that steven seagal only earned his black belt because the judge in charge of his grading fell asleep during his presentation he was so embarrassed that when he woke up he awarded seagal with his black belt the stories about segal fighting the yakuza and throwing people out of the dojo are also untrue miyako said that seagal only chased away a few drunks outside the school seagal likes to tell people how the dojo attracted the attention of the cia and other high-ranking military members in japan and many of them went on to become segal's students now if you listen to the cigar height well it's because segal was such a highly accomplished practitioner of aikido but the reality is that these were americans they were obviously joining a dojo where another american was open to teaching americans in english if you've never been in japan there are some businesses to this day that will not allow americans unless they speak and read japanese and i personally experienced this in sasebo when i was in the navy but keep this part in your memory banks about segal teaching people like robert strickland who actually was a cia consultant and other high-ranking military personnel because this is going to come up again later why because steven seagal is an absolute monster but anyway seagal's role as sensei would eventually shift from japan back to america steven told his wife that he wanted to go back to the u.s to get rich in hollywood or to open up restaurants miyako believed in segal's dream so she says she spent years saving money and living on the bare minimum so that she could fund seagal's dreams well sagar returned to the u.s where he opened his first dojo in taos new mexico and he thanked his wife miyako by marrying his second wife actress adrian larussa while he was still married to miyako who was still in japan raising their children so while seagal is busy cheating on his first wife with his new wife the dojo in new mexico was struggling financially seagal was known to leave on these trips where he'd return with cash and nothing was known about his mysterious financial backers but seagal liked to say that he was awake carrying out hits for the mob eventually when larussa filed for annulment she said she was basically paying sagal to stay away from her but she didn't want to say anything else because she was afraid of segal's scary friends well at this point seagal is starting to transition to his next role his biggest role the movie star so while seagal is struggling to keep his dojo open and he's married to two women on two different continents he finally decides to make good on his promise to get rich in hollywood seagal just happens to meet with kelly lebrock's manager who tells him if he wants to break into hollywood he needs to be seen with famous people seagal like anyone else who had seen kelly lebrock in anything in the 80s was completely smitten with her don't hate me because i'm beautiful so he pulls a straight up baller move and takes off to japan to meet her not long after that meeting with her manager so seagal is back in japan where his wife and kids live while his other wife is back in the u.s and he's going to meet kelly lebrock so that he can break into hollywood well he succeeded in meeting her and within two weeks of meeting they were lovers and a year later they were parents so seagal at one point had two wives on separate continents while he's wooing his third wife and why is that because steven seagal is an absolute monster this dude is terrible worse than i could even imagine but back to our story so by this point the taos dojo completely failed segal calls one of his shady friends to steal kelly lebrock's porsche so that he can use the insurance money to fund his dojo so i mean remember what kelly's manager told seagal if you want to make it into hollywood you need to be seen with famous people being married to kelly lebrock wasn't enough seagal had to take a page from bruce lee's playbook and become sensei to the stars and that's exactly what he did in 1987 he opened a dojo in los angeles where he taught bruce lee's former student james coburn sean connery he broke his wrist and the person responsible for launching cigars career michael ovitz michael ovitz arranged for segal to meet with executives at warner brothers where he would demonstrate aikido mark mikita a karate instructor was brought in to serve as segal's uke for the demonstration by the end the warner brothers executives were amazed they'd never seen anything like what segal was doing and one said that he couldn't believe how easily seagal could grab someone and throw them across the room with very little effort the only thing is that the entire thing was staged mark makita said that the only way seagal's techniques would work is if he allowed himself to be thrown for the demonstration but after that demonstration warner brothers dropped 50 000 on a screen test for seagal and the entire thing was a complete disaster segal had no charisma and his whispering voice was terrible on film this is when ovitz stepped in like i said michael ovitz launched segal's movie career ovitz was the casting agent for lee the weapon and when he was called on for lethal weapon 2 he agreed not to take a raise on the sequel if seagal was hired to make a movie now there are questions about if ovitz was actually bribed by the mafia to vouch for seagal and this is something that's going to come up throughout segal's time as the movie star up until he started to make direct video movies at least in 1990 seagal is at the peak of his fame by this time he's done above the law hard to kill marked for death and out for justice making him a bona fide action hero around this time steven seagal started his own production company with julius nasso now this marks an interesting twist in segal's career he'd already had a history of implying that he had some kind of connection with the mob well this julius nassau guy started a pharmaceutical company when he was in college in the 70s where he was selling health supplements but what i heard is that he was selling drugs to sailors and on top of that julius nassel's uncle who had the same name julius nasso on a concrete company that was in some trouble involving anthony salerno the original fat tony basically these guys were connected to the gambino crime family it turns out that nassau loaned seagal a half million dollars at the gambino family's money to do a four picture deal after forming their production company segal was no longer under contract with warner brothers they paid his production company or sometimes his money went directly to julius nassau now on top of that members of the gambino family or their relatives started to appear in segal's movies steven seagal is notorious for hitting stuntmen and hurting people on the set but if you look at some of his early movies there are people in some fight scenes who never get hit and it turns out that those guys were all associates of the gambino family and he was given a piece of every movie that they did money was coming in so when you hear people like sammy the bull gravano telling stories about how segal was crying to the fbi about how he was being distorted by the mafia steven seagal all those karate movies remember them things he's [ __ ] his pants i think twice well now you know why the gambino family went looking for their money after seagal decided that he didn't want to make any more movies and nassau sent them straight to cigar while he was working on exit wounds now on top of dealing with the mob seagal started losing all of those friends that he'd made when he was sensei to the stars seagal managed to get close to all kinds of special forces operators fbi and cia agents along with consultants solely for the purpose of taking their stories and telling them as if they happened to him seagal tried to tell a story about training with the green berets to a group of his students at a seminar everything was going okay until one guy who'd been a former green beret spoke up and said hey bro i told you that story another time seagal was treasure hunting off the coast of barbados with gary goldman and he was bragging about his time when he had been a navy seal now gary goldman was an ex-mercenary who vouched in the press for seagal because they were working on a movie together but after they fell out well goldman were candid on all of that stuff and he said that seagal likes to get close to operators to steal their stories and make it part of his own personal narrative but anyway after segal was done bragging about his time as a seal while they were off treasure hunting well he almost drowned in calm water seagal completely panicked and goldman and the other people there had to push him back onto the boat so he was one of those navy seals that don't swim also remember segal's friend from japan robert strickland seagal asked if strickland could put out a hit on gary goldman after he told the press that seagal was lying about his past seagal also called up his friend robert strickland after a gq article came out exposing him and his lies seagal wanted strickland to have someone help expose the article writer alan rickman as being gay even though rickman wasn't gay now as a matter of fact seagal did an interview on the arsenio hall show for the sole purpose of calling out and shaming alan rickman whenever seagal is called out he likes to flex by going on tv to try to humiliate that person it's kind of like what seagal tried to do in those videos that he did with jesse in camp and if you want to hear the details on the smack talk that happened in that video just let me know in the comments and i'll have to make another video because this one is going to be really long there's a lot of stuff cause steven seagal is a monster but anyway seagal kept trying to get his former cia consultant friend robert strickland to carry out his dirty work whenever he got exposed by somebody well that is until he finally fell out with robert strickland so at the time seagal was making the rounds of nighttime talk shows david letterman arsenio hall and the other guys when he was at the height of his career making movies seagal was asked about being a consultant with the cia did you or did you not work with the cia did i make that up are people just saying that to be funny or did you actually have a job with a central intelligence agency have you ever lived a dangerous life that might be like the lives they live when you're in the cia and he shared a story about something that happened well he told a story that he heard from robert strickland and robert strickland just happened to be watching the interview strickland sued seagal and seagal being the kind of person to run tell that told strickland to back off because he has powerful friends later a friend contacted robert strickland and they told him that he really should back off because seagal did have some powerful people who were heavily invested in his public image and now we know that it was the gambino crime family it's all this stuff about steven seagal literally being hard to kill in real life like he portrayed in his movies well that was all set up by the mob because they were actually invested in the success of this guy's movies and segal he went along with all of it because well steven seagal is an absolute monster well you're about to use to be a police officer oh yeah that's true but i don't care not about the law obviously a person showing signs of possibly being a pathological liar who allegedly gets in bid with a mob to become a movie star has little regard for the law but one segal's movie career was relegated to direct-to-video films he decided to reinvent himself as a dog the bounty hunter knockoff with his steven seagal law man reality series and this started seagal's next role as the lawman according to seagal he'd actually been a cop for 20 years while he was also making movies but the truth is that outside of playing a cop in his movies steven seagal actually has no training as a police officer he claims to have done some training at the lapd's academy but there are no records with the city of los angeles to substantiate that claim the truth is that while filming one of his movies seagal started giving martial arts training to local police officers he's a cop now and he's teaching them how to do karate and all these stupid moves and whatever at the time mafia guys were making fun of him which leads me to believe that it was while filming under siege where robert booth nickels a gambino family associate work closely with seagal joseph john a retired navy captain who helped secure the use of the uss missouri for the film described seagal and nichols as buddies now no idea what that meant but i guess nichols didn't like segal spending so much time with the local law enforcement anyway seagal continued to teach the officers with the jefferson parish sheriff's department by visiting him a few days out of the year and after about a decade or so they just sort of grandfathered him into the department as a deputy sheriff seagal was not actually doing any type of police work other than volunteer ride-alongs he'd absolutely zero training he had not done 40 years of police work as he claimed nor had he done 20 years of police work like he claimed on his reality tv show steven seagal trained as a policeman the same day that he passed the dive motivator to go to buds to do a seal training well steven seagal with absolutely zero training as a peace officer drove a tank through a guy's fence killing his dog in order to assist sheriff joe arpaio and the maricopa county sheriff's department bust a guy for chicken fighting even though the only evidence that the guy was chicken fighting was the fact that he owned a little over a hundred chickens and he had been issued a citation for being at a chicken fighting event a year earlier seagal was allegedly on loan to sheriff joe from the jefferson parish sheriff's department but the thing is seagal was not an officer with jefferson parish at that time he was just a regular civilian driving a tank through this guy's house with the swat team to humiliate this guy who later had all of the charges dropped and it was just so he could show something off on his reality show so the question is well why was segal no longer an officer with jefferson parish after i just told you guys how he got deputized well seagal was no longer a deputy sheriff because steven seagal is an absolute monster see while seagal was filming his dog the bounty hunter knockoff reality show he took out an ad for an executive assistant miss caden nguyen was hired for the job and when she arrived in louisiana segall told her that one of her duties would be to perform a massage for him if she didn't know how to perform the kind of massage that seagal was talking about well he would teach her by giving her a massage i'm an expert in shiatsu massage please let me beside you you know you told me that one and see next thing you know she's having her boobs grabbed on by him well at this point things get very dark and i can't really go into the full details of the legend incident here on youtube i'm just going to say that according to kaiden she was assaulted three times in a five-day period she said that she was held in seagal's home for at least a week and when she finally managed to escape segal chased after her with a weapon that had a flashlight attached to it kaiden also alleged that seagal kept two young russian girls on staff who were available for any extra services in addition to massage at all times of the day nguyen filed a civil suit against steven seagal but her lawsuit was settled out of court now i'm not going to judge her decision to file a civil suit versus going to the police that's her choice for seagal though this was the end of his career as a police officer jefferson parish was going to launch an internal affairs investigation immediately following the outcome of the lawsuit and since settling out of court was neither an admission of guilt or innocence the investigation was going to move forward and i guess seagal could have potentially been facing criminal charges for s trafficking while a uniformed deputy seagal resigned immediately from his position before the investigation and he left the state of louisiana as if seagal isn't already sounding like an absolute monster well it turns out this wasn't even the first time he allegedly tried something like what happened with kaden nguyen in 2004 steven seagal attended ray charles funeral and during the funeral seagal approached ray charles granddaughter blair robinson about working as his executive assistant her father attended the interview with her and she was hired for the job good job when blair flew out to cigar's office in memphis she was informed on the first day on the job that one of her responsibilities would be to give seagal a massage every day if she didn't know how to perform the kind of massage he wanted he would teach her by giving her a massage blair left immediately and hopped on the first flight she could get to los angeles and that was that other people were not so fortunate when seagal was filming on deadly ground about 10 years earlier he invited an 18 year old extra to a wrap party after they wrapped for that day of filming when she arrived at the party well it turns out she was the only person there and when she arrived at the party she was a virgin and when she left well she wasn't and according to her what allegedly happened was non-consensual so i'll let you figure it out and if you haven't well i'm just gonna say that what allegedly took place happened because steven seagal is an absolute monster so after being the sensei to the stars who had three wives the movie star being backed by the mob and the ex-cop facing too many me too allegations to count according to the washington post the only thing left for steven seagal is to pursue enlightenment because if there's anyone who can get people to look the other way when they're accused of multiple sexual offenses and taking money from shady people it's a religious leader i just met with the dalai lama and he in his wisdom decided to make me a deity in 1997 steven seagal was recognized as a reincarnation of chun drag dorje a 17th century buddhist llama by the tibetan leader pinoy rinpoche while pandora rinpoche may have recognized seagal as a toku hollywood recognized that something fishy was happening and from what i can tell it's not been proven that segal made a generous donation of panora rinpoche's monastery and panora rinpoche's organization denied receiving any substantial size donation from steven seagal but you have to wonder what they define as a substantial size donation either way segal took the honor and ran with it and he makes sure to remind people that he was recognized as a toku every chance he gets yeah i am a llama in 1999 seagal wanted to let the world know about his high spiritual accomplishment by going on the compassion in the martial arts lecture tour on the talks seagal was known to come out in full tibetan monk robes announced to everyone that he was a reincarnated llama and then give a dharma talk for an hour on compassion as a spiritual discipline at the end of the talk seagal would open up the floor to questions from the audience and some of these auditoriums were known to hold thousands of people at one talk which was attended by buddhist professor and meditation teacher douglas gentile segal was asked by one audience member if he always dresses in full tibetan monk attire seagal's response was to roll his eyes and then he said next question he was asked multiple times about how he's able to reconcile his spiritual beliefs about compassion and non-violence with the violence that he displays in his action films and his response was to approach each take with a pure heart and hope that it's visible to the audience whatever that means well at this point gentile actually pressed seagal on this point after seagal said something about has movies really about good versus evil and at the end it's all about telling a story about good winning out over evil but see the thing is in buddhism this type of dualistic thinking reinforces this type of thinking that does not lead to one seen true nature so that's why gentile pressed segal about his response it's not in line with buddha's teachings well segal's response to gentile's question was well see i don't want to talk over people's head in the audience because we understood that this was clearly lying and the truth is that seagal had no idea what he was talking about on stage just like seagal says lines in his movies this was just another opportunity for segal to flex on stage and pretend to be some enlightened buddhist monk the moment someone made him deviate from the script well the entire facade he was trying to present fell apart hey steven uh your your ex-wife called you can't bring the kids over this weekend you tell that she doesn't get those so what does any of this have to do with steven seagal and his martial arts accomplishments because for some people none of this stuff diminishes him as a martial artist in their eyes and my question is i mean why doesn't it if someone from my teacher's school had all of these allegations they'd be kicked out of the school and stripped of their rank i guess the idea wu da or martial arts morality doesn't exist in some japanese martial arts circles and this is strange when an art like aikido is supposed to have a spiritual aspect to it but i mean maybe it doesn't matter what you do as long as you keep taking falls and talking like a blissed out hippie my question is i mean how do you even know what cigar's level of skill is his ex-wife said the judge fell asleep during segal's black belt test and it sounds like it may have been awarded as an attempt to save face seagal's stories about fighting yakuza and japan were fake the aikido demonstration that launched his movie career was fake all the stunt men who cigar beat up in his movies it was no different from someone getting hurt taking bumps in professional wrestling the fights are fake the injuries are real i'm just going to say this of all of the internal martial arts people that i know personally some of them have fought and won in combat sports i've never heard any of them say wow man look at steven seagal's movements he's got great internal mechanics so i'm gonna point to my first video on aikido the problem with aikido and i'm gonna say that my understanding of aikido is that it requires the same internal mechanics that make taiji twin work and i've never heard anyone say that steven seagal has it so just like everything else that he's pretended to be for me he's also the great pretender when it comes to martial arts and i know some people are gonna feel some kind of way about what i just said and i mean like look this is just me sharing my opinion based on the things that i have observed about steven seagal the truth is this if steven seagal is completely innocent of all of these allegations none of this mafia stuff is true and his aikido is completely legit how's that going to change your life how will that make you better as a martial artist and i mean if you're mad at me for doing a steven seagal exposed video again how's you getting mad at me going to make you better i mean it's just my opinion that steven seagal is an absolute monster and the only thing that i feel that i can learn from him is how not to be a really bad person but sometimes look man i tried to stick up for seagal like i did in this video where i look into if he lied about fighting bruce lee and he actually mentioned that stuff in the jesse in camp video so i may have to post an update to this video very soon because i know a lot more of the details than i did when i first made that video a year ago and also hey if you want to know something that actually will make you better then you should keep training remember to breathe and come holler at me on the next video

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Published: Sun May 29 2022