Infomercial King, Kevin
Trudeau, Jailed for
Failing to Pay Fine
Kevin Trudeau, the self-proclaimed
“Infomercial King” who has allegedly made
a fortune peddling information on television
commercials selling diet books, was jailed
this week in Chicago after failing to pay a
former court judgment of $38 million for
bilking the public with false claims. But the
50-year old resident of nearby Oak Brook
was sprung from the federal lock-up within
24 hours and being given strict orders from
the judge to either report his true earnings to
the court or face prison again.
Trudeau insists that he has been
unable to pay even a small portion
of the multi-million dollar fine he
owes because he has no money. But
after court officials discovered that he was
recently spending on such high-priced
luxuries as two haircuts at the Vidal Sassoon
salon costing $320, almost $1,000 in cigars
and the same amount on gourmet meats
purchased online, a U.S. District judge
ordered Trudeau to be locked up. While in
jail, federal regulators met with Trudeau to
attempt to discover just where he has placed
much of the funds that have resulted from
his infomercial sales pitches. Trudeau,
however, insists he is having trouble
remembering where in the world he chose to
stash his ill-gotten earnings.
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