Dan Bilzerian, known to many as the "King of Instagram" ' he has more than 6 million followers ' is one of the internet's most curious characters.The 34-year-old poker star comes off as a god of the alpha male. His life is documented on the photo-sharing site ' fast cars, money, hot women.Spend a little more time flipping through his photos and reading about him, and Bilzerian comes off as straight-up unlikable.Recently, Bilzerian was sued by a model-actress who claims Bilzerian threw her off a roof of a house into a pool, causing her to injure her foot. Her lawyer's threat to collect from Bilzerian received a response from "the King" that read: "Like your client, the facts of the claim won't, quite, fly."Then there's his social-media presence beyond Instagram."My greatest fear is that someone will break in and I won't be able to decide what gun to shoot them with," he once tweeted.In a profile by GQ, the inner workings of Bilzerian's lifestyle are meticulously recorded, focusing on his formative years, which Bilzerian says were "lonely and stressful.""The details of Dan Bilzerian's early life read more like a Marvel Comics origins story than the biography of a real human being," GQ reports.[Bilzerian] grew up in Tampa, Florida, in an eleven-bedroom mansion that was half the size of Buckingham Palace, with its own indoor basketball court, batting cage, lake-front views, swimming pool, water slide, and an "imported volcanic rock mountain". His dad, descended from survivors of the Armenian diaspora, owned a robotics company, among other investments. Meanwhile, pretty much everyone in his family, including Dan, his mum, Terri, and his little brother, Adam, has a near-genius-level IQ.And the apple apparently doesn't fall too far from the tree when it comes to toeing the line of the law: Bilzerian Sr. oncesued his son's Little League baseball team for slander in an argument over a $5,000 donation. The case was later dismissed.Looks like the hours I've been logging on Christian mingle are finally paying offUne photo publie par Dan Bilzerian (@danbilzerian) le Janv. 20, 2015 at 12:04 PST"Basically I didn't get a ton of attention as a kid," Bilzerian has admitted in past interviews. "I guess that's why I'm such a flashy lunatic."His father later went to prison for stock and tax fraud.According to GQ:As his dad became embroiled in yet more litigation, Bilzerian arrived at school one day with an M16 machine gun in the boot of his car. The weapon, Bilzerian has since explained, was his dad's from Vietnam: "I was so proud of the damn thing, I was showing everybody." Neither the school nor the authorities had much sympathy, however. This time, in fact, Bilzerian wasn't just expelled. He says he was asked to leave Utah and not come back.You can read GQ's entire profile of Dan Bilzerian here, and more about him on Business Insider here.Below are some of the photos you can see on Bilzerian's wildly popular Instagram page.Packed for Art Basel, say what you will about my shitty clothes, my accessories are fashionableA photo posted by Dan Bilzerian (@danbilzerian) on Dec 2, 2014 at 2:20pm PSTWent to Big Al's beautiful biracial wedding tonight and won so much money I think I am gonna marry a black girl tooA photo posted by Dan Bilzerian (@danbilzerian) on Sep 13, 2014 at 11:18pm PDTIn an attempt to appear more sophisticated, I rented this suit for the dayA photo posted by Dan Bilzerian (@danbilzerian) on Aug 11, 2014 at 11:31am PDTNOW WATCH:Why Everyone Is So Excited About Ultra-HD TVOO.ready(function() { OO.Player.create('ooyalaplayer', 'B4ODZ0cjqfNvolsGDLNmpJIsxYW-Alx2'); });Please enable Javascript to watch this videoSEE ALSO:Why The 'King Of Instagram' Ended Up In JailJoin the conversation about this story
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