The character played by Dwayne Johnson is a composite, based primarily on Carl Weekes, with shades of Jorge Delgado (bottom left in the photo above) and Mario Sanchez (top left). Weekes by, (R) Still from “Pain and Gain”/© 2012 - Paramount Pictures
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As in the movie, she divorced Doorbal during the trial and testified against him. Cindy helped Doorbal clean up the blood in his townhouse after the Griga murder, though she apparently did not know exactly what had transpired at the time. Doorbal and his wife did not have a whirlwind romance: She turned down his first proposal of marriage, and he began dating a stripper later he and Cindy got back together and married at a courthouse.
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The movie depicts Doorbal as fairly timid, but, according the gang’s first target, “Doorbal just loved violence,” and seemed like “the kind of guy you’d imagine had fun killing cats and dogs as a kid.” It was Doorbal, not Lugo, who murdered Frank Griga, the gang’s second target. (She did recommend the doctor, though.) The need to fund those injections did not motivate Doorbal’s crimes he was reportedly in good shape financially, because Lugo had given him a cut of profits from the Medicare scam. He saw a doctor for hormone injections to fix that problem, but he did not meet his future wife, Cindy Eldridge (called Robin Peck in the movie), at those appointments. All Rights Reserved.ĭoorbal (Anthony Mackie), whose given first name was Noel, was a handsome bodybuilder whose steroid use had indeed rendered him impotent. (L) Adrian Doorbal by Metro Dade Corrections, (R) Photo courtesy of © 2013 Paramount Pictures. The victim of his first kidnapping recognized him by the sound of his voice.
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If he ever wore vanilla-scented cologne, Pete Collins doesn’t mention it. “He wasn’t some brute street guy.” He did not, as far as I can tell, attend any self-help seminars, nor have I found instances in which he cited Rocky or Michael Corleone as role models. He “was a smart-ass criminal,” according to the P.I.
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Most notably, unlike Wahlberg’s character, the real Lugo was not stupid. Both his wife and his ex-wife played tangential roles in the gang’s crimes, as did Lugo’s girlfriend (about whom more below). Movie-Lugo appears to be single the real Lugo was married-twice.
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His criminal activities were more various than the movie depicts: In addition to his prior fraud conviction, he was running a lucrative Medicare scam, in which he bought information about Medicare recipients and bilked the government for bogus medical services. The then 30-year-old from New York, played by Wahlberg, rose quickly up the management chain at Sun Gym, got the gang together-which, in real life, included several bit players-and spearheaded their violent schemes.