Joe Hunt & The Billionaire Boys Club

Killer Psyche

Wondery | Treefort Media

True Crime, Exhibit C

4.6 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Retired FBI agent and criminal profiler Candice DeLong dives into the case of Joe Hunt. In the 1980s, Hunt formed a high-profile investment and social group dubbed the “Billionaire Boys Club,” calling on some of the wealthiest young men in Los Angeles to join him in his pursuit of wealth and power. But behind Hunt’s facade of success was a web of lies and fraud – pushing him to go to deadly lengths to protect his image. Candice discusses how Hunt’s obsession with success spiraled out of control, and how it ultimately became his undoing.

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0:19.5	A listener note, this episode contains adult content and is not suitable for everyone.
0:25.0	Please be advised. In the
0:35.0	1980s,
0:38.0	in the 1980s, Beverly Hills, California was a playground of excess,
0:42.0	where the mantra was sex, drugs, and rock and roll, and less was never more.
0:51.0	Greed was not only famously good, it was the way of life.
0:57.0	But in a town where designer labels define status and where you dined was as important as who you knew, the glittering facade
1:07.2	of luxury masked darker ambitions. At the heart of this high octane scene was the billionaire boys club, a group of
1:17.2	young men from the Krem de la Krem of Beverly Hills Elite. They lived the high life,
1:24.4	reveling in their privileged status with the best service,
1:28.4	the best tables, and a life of ostensibly unchecked opulence.
1:35.0	To the public, these boys were geniuses,
1:39.0	wealthy investors making a fortune off of their business acumen. But unknown to most of its
1:46.5	members, the foundation of their fortune was really just a carefully laid house of cards, a common Ponzi scheme.
1:57.0	Leading them was the subject of today's episode, Joe Hunt, a charismatic young man from humble beginnings
2:06.2	whose grandiose dreams and insatiable hunger for power
2:11.1	would prove to be his undoing. Joe's quest for dominance would spiral into a tale of
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