I never followed Draper that much. I caught part of a documentary once in which he mentioned getting shafted pretty bad by the Weider's. What was the story there?
dave still sends out his monthly newsletter and maintains his website where you can still buy his protein known as bomber blend and the super sprectrim vit and mineral line started by dr carlin venus.
draper worked in weider warehouse and on the mags to earn his 200 dollars a week while weider made millions and millions of dollars trading off of draper's beachboy southern california image. draper was heir apparent to larry scott but he like scott didn't have the personality to handle the top spot, which arnold s took over soon after sergio o short run. if you look at the mags in that period every forth page had draper in an article or in an ad for weider products for which he was never compensated. he eventually took weider to court and when he was about to win which would probably be a multi-million dollar settlement. he took weider's offer a paltry 17 k..
Why the hell did he settle for that!?!?That part sounds like it was more his own fault.
it sure was, when they asked him why , he said he just wanted to satisfy his needs.[ whatever that meant]. he was in demand for movies and tv, lord love a duck, don't make waves, the monkees, the beverly hillbillies but he walked away from that too.
Interesting writing style as well.From what I recall even in his darkest days, living as a bit of recluse and hitting the bottle pretty hard he still steadily was pumping the iron as hard as ever.
How does Dave make a living today?
correct dave is really quite the wordsmith esp considering the volume. as well as an excellent wood worker, i imagine arnold still has the bed dave made him.
Really cool pics and info, funk.