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According to The Dailymail, Wind-Up Records founder and part-time poker player Alan Meltzer left a total of $1.5 million to his driver and doorman when he passed away last October.
When music mogul and high-stakes poker player Alan Meltzer passed away this October, he left a hefty $1 million to his chauffeur, and another $500,000 to the doorman of his building. “He was always joking. He never looked down on anybody,” the chauffeur, Jean Laborde, a 54-year-old father of five from Irvington, NJ, told The New York Post. Full Tilt Poker Game #: $25,000 Guarantee (8748380), Table 132 - 60/120 - No Limit Holdem - 23:17:33 ET - 2006/11/23Seat 1: l3cl3c (7,195)Seat 2: joules360.
Jean Laborde, Meltzer’s personal chauffeur, received $1 million and his doorman, Chamil Demirag, received $500,000. Demirag, a Brooklyn, New York resident, said, “He was a generous guy. It’s a surprise. Peace and rest to him.”
Before he founded Wind-Up Records, which includes bands such as Creed, Evanescence, O.A.R., Seether, People in Planes and Five For Fighting, Meltzer was a pretzel vendor on the streets of New York.
In the last few years, Meltzer had frequented the poker tournament circuit and even appeared multiple times on GSN’s High Stakes Poker.
The 67-year-old had no children and recently divorced his wife of 13 years. The cause of his death is still unknown.
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When the 67-year-old died back on Halloween last year, he left behind a 10 million dollar estate. Meltzer formed the label with his wife Diana after purchasing indie label Grass Records. Together, they helped grow the company, signing such bands as Creed and Seether. Wind-Up is now the largest independently owned record label in the world.
Things didn’t work out with Meltzer and his wife. She left him and he retreated to two service workers for kindness and compassion. During the split, Meltzer routinely confided in chauffeur Jean Laborde and doorman Chamil Demiraj. After his death, Meltzer left a million bucks to Laborde and a cool $500,000 to Demiraj.
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“I appreciate it,” Demiraj said recently in a New York Post article about the inheritance. “He was a generous guy. He was a really good friend of mine, and I was a good friend of his. It’s a surprise. Peace and rest to him. That’s all I can say.”
But what about ex Diana? Turns out, the split denied Diana at least a guaranteed 33 percent of the estate. She says she doesn’t care about the money.
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“If he wants to give it to the bums, he can give it to the bums. He could f— a nun. I couldn’t give a s—. He can give his money to whoever he wants. We’re divorced. The man is dead,” the former Mrs. Meltzer said to the New York Post.