These rich Karens paid the price for their bad behavior. Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we’re looking at infamous moments when wealthy people showcased their horrendous, entitled, and rude behavior, only to receive some much-deserved consequences.
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00:00 "Who would need to be scared? I did not get paid enough for this!"
00:05 Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're looking at infamous moments when wealthy people showcase
00:10 their horrendous, entitled, and rude behavior, only to receive some much-deserved consequences.
00:17 "It is so upsetting to know that today we still have this overt racism that's going on."
00:27 Malibu Baddie In 2020, Natasha Lawson,
00:31 a security guard for Pavilion Supermarket in West Hollywood, California, went to break up an
00:35 argument between apparent wealthy Malibu resident Kashmir Duran and her father in the parking lot.
00:41 Instead of Lawson sorting it out with no issue, Duran turned her wrath towards the guard. She
00:47 spat racial slurs, bit Lawson's hand, and threw a glass bottle at her.
00:51 "Keep on using the n-word. Keep on using the n-word."
00:55 "You wanna leave? You're going nowhere."
00:57 Duran was eventually dragged away by her dad and put into a car,
01:01 probably hoping for a hasty exit. However, as witnesses had blocked them from leaving,
01:06 she decided to utter more racial slurs.
01:09 "She gets a water bottle and she throws it at me and says, 'I said get the f out of here.'"
01:13 Duran was arrested for her terrible antics and was charged with two felonies of assaults.
01:18 "She opened her window and grabbed dog food and started throwing dog food at the security guard."
01:24 Socialite Slurs
01:25 As this incident proves, money can't buy class. In 2018, Jacqueline Kent Cook, the daughter of
01:33 the late sports team owner Jack Kent Cook, was in line waiting to get her coat from a restaurant
01:38 in New York City. In front of the millionaire socialite was lawyer Matthew Haberkorn and his
01:43 family. Impatient and high on her own importance, Cook voiced anti-Semitic slurs at the family.
01:49 When Haberkorn confronted her outside, Cook whacked him on the head with her $400
01:54 mirrored glass purse, causing him injuries, then claimed she acted in self-defense.
01:58 Unsurprisingly, Cook was arrested for assault. She took a plea deal for disorderly conduct and
02:10 was sentenced to three days of community service. Millionaire Thief
02:15 You don't get much more entitled than defrauding a retiree of their life savings. In 2017,
02:22 an unidentified man met Florida's Peaches Sturgo on a dating website. For the next four years,
02:28 she told him about her supposed money issues with a fictional injury settlement and the bank,
02:33 causing the concentration camp survivor to write 62 checks to her, amounting to $2.8 million.
02:40 Sturgo used the cash to buy a new home, cars, and a lot of luxuries. With his life savings
02:46 and having to give up his apartment, the victim confessed to his son what had happened in 2021.
02:51 The indictment states she made the victim believe that her bank needed more money or her account
02:57 would freeze and she'd lose it all. Soon after, Sturgo was arrested in 2023. She was sentenced
03:03 to four years and three months, had to forfeit her home and the goods she purchased and pay back
03:09 what she stole. "There's typically a sense of urgency and some reason why the money chain has
03:15 to continue." Road rage racism
03:18 Melissa Guteneck did the stereotype of Audi drivers no favors in 2018. After getting treatment at a
03:25 hospital in Vallejo, California, Marchante Ferris was being driven home by her boyfriend,
03:30 Shameik Shepard, on I-80. Instead of a calming journey, they spotted Guteneck driving recklessly.
03:36 "I switched lanes and then I just seen her speed up from the rearview mirror and I see her swerving
03:43 to the next lane but I wasn't thinking nothing of it." After trying to avoid her car by switching
03:47 lanes, she cut them off. When their car got side to side with Guteneck's, the Karen rolled down
03:52 her window and screamed abuse at the couple, including some racial slurs, which were filmed
03:58 by Ferris. After the clip was put on social media and Guteneck was identified, she reportedly lost
04:04 her high-paying job at an investment banking firm. "It actually made me upset. If anybody has seen
04:09 the video, I was kind of shocked that she went along and said that." Broker brawl
04:14 After a night on the town, broker Dina Huang Chiyung got a taxi back to her hotel in Singapore
04:20 in 2016. Instead of paying the driver, the drunken Huang attempted to leave,
04:25 prompting the employee to hold onto her handbag. After some back and forth involving Huang berating
04:37 and hitting the driver, he got help from a security guard. However, Huang continued to
04:41 verbally and physically assault the pair during her rampage, including biting the guard and
04:46 bragging that she had money. "You wait, don't beat." "I have a lot of money." When things
04:51 cooled down, the police found Huang sleeping outside the hotel's restaurant. In 2018,
04:56 she was sentenced to three weeks in jail for her escapades and fined around $752.
05:01 Modern-Day Slave Owners It doesn't get more entitled from a Karen
05:06 than trying to "own" a person. And that's exactly what millionaire couple Mahender Sabnani and
05:12 Varsha Sabnani attempted at their home in Long Island, New York. The perfume makers had subjected
05:17 two Indonesian housekeepers to horrible conditions. Their crimes came to light in 2007 when one of the
05:23 women escaped and got help at a nearby donut shop. After the couple's arrest, Varsha's mother
05:28 reportedly attempted to bribe one of the victim's family to drop the charges. In 2018, Varsha, who
05:34 was deemed primarily responsible, was sentenced to 11 years in jail. Mahender was sent down for
05:39 a little over three years and fined $12,500. Wealthy Threat
05:45 On a night in 2015, road worker Bernard Armstrong was standing by his truck on the shoulder of the
05:51 North Central Expressway in Texas. As Nicole Hutchison drove home after apparently drinking
05:56 at a restaurant, she struck the truck with her Mercedes and then fatally hit Armstrong and crashed
06:02 into a freeway wall. When the police arrived to arrest her, Hutchison told them she was wealthy
06:07 and that they would regret this. During her police interview, she asked numerous times about her dogs
06:12 in the vehicle and did not display any concern regarding the crash or victim. She eventually
06:18 took a plea deal and was sentenced to 10 years in jail in 2018. After serving a little more than a
06:23 year, Hutchison was released on parole in 2019. Subsequently, she founded the Rusty Diamond
06:29 Network, a foundation to aid incarcerated women. Kentucky Karen
06:34 In 2022, student Kyla Spring was working as a desk clerk at a dormitory for the University
06:40 of Kentucky when a very intoxicated Sophia Rosing entered the building. As Spring asked to see her
06:49 ID, Rosing launched into a verbal and physical attack on her, using racial slurs repeatedly.
06:58 The police soon arrived. However, Rosing claimed her wealth gave her special status
07:03 and kicked and bit them before the cuffs were slapped on. This isn't the first time Rosing
07:08 has been filmed being drunkenly combative, bragging about how rich she was and mocking others for not
07:13 being as wealthy. The university released a statement that Rosing had been permanently
07:17 banned from their campus. In 2023, Rosing was criminally indicted on several counts,
07:23 including assaults. Not-So-Fabulous Karen
07:28 Sisters Lisa and Mary Garris were waiting for AAA in the parking lot of Lisa's apartment in
07:33 Charlotte, North Carolina in 2018. Then, an intoxicated Susan Westwood decided to get
07:39 involved. After questioning why they were there, she told them she was "white, hot,
07:43 and fabulous" and bragged about her $125,000 job.
07:48 "I'm white and I'm hot. So what are you doing here? I'm still gonna make $125,000
07:54 Monday morning. Who are you?" Westwood also threw in multiple insults with racial overtones and
08:01 shoved her phone in their face. When she left, Westwood falsely called the cops to tell them
08:06 the sisters were breaking into cars. Yikes. "Folks that are trying to break into apartments,
08:12 they are actually people that I've never seen here before, but they are African American."
08:19 In 2019, she was sentenced for misuse of 911 and assault, receiving a year of probation and
08:25 court costs. On top of that, Westwood was fired from her lavish job and was evicted
08:30 from her apartment complex. "We are so distraught and still very upset
08:39 about what has taken place only because of the color of our skin."
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08:56 "Go back where you came from and she used some harsh words."
09:08 In 2022, four Indian American women were leaving a restaurant in Plano, Texas,
09:13 when realtor Esmeralda Upton popped up. Without warning,
09:17 she ranted about how much she hated Indians, uttering slurs along the way.
09:21 Upton even got physical with one of the women, who was recording and threatened the group with
09:30 fatal violence. "Oh my God, guys, record! She's hitting me!"
09:34 When the cops arrived, for some reason, Upton mentioned she lived in a $1.5 million house,
09:39 as though that would get her off scot-free. It didn't, as she was arrested the next day and
09:45 charged for her threats. To make it worse for Upton, she also faces not one, but two lawsuits
09:50 by the victims. Delightful. Which wealthy celebrity gives off Karen vibes? Let us know below.
09:56 Who are you?
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