Duane Chapman
Duane Chapman was born in Denver, Colorado, United States on February 2nd, 1953 and is the Reality Star. At the age of 71, Duane Chapman biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, TV shows, and networth are available.
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Duane Lee Chapman Sr. (born February 2, 1953) is an American reality television actor, bounty hunter, and former bail bond holder.
Chapman made international news for his capture of Max Factor heir Andrew Luster in Mexico in 2003, and the following year, he was given his own series, Dog the Bounty Hunter (2004–2012) on A&E.
Chapman appeared on Dog and Beth, a similarly styled television show, from 2013-2015.
On WGN America, his most coveted series, Dog's Most Wanted, airs.
Early life
Chapman was born in Denver, Colorado, and the son of Wesley Duane Chapman (1930–2000), a welder who served with the US Irwin during the Korean War, and Barbara Darlene Chapman (more specifically, a Sunday school teacher) and Barbara Darlene Chapman (1934–1994), an Assemblies of God minister (more specifically a Sunday school teacher). Jolene Kaye Martinez (née Chapman, 1955–2016), Michael Chapman, and Paula Hammond (née Chapman). He has a German and English descent on his father's side as well as an English descent on his mother's side.
Chapman left home at the age of 15 and joined the Devils Diciples, an outlaw motorcycle club. Chapman was found guilty of first degree murder in 1976 and sentenced to five years in a Texas jail. He was sitting in a cab while his buddy shot and killed Jerry Oliver, 69, during a confrontation over a pact to buy weed.
Chapman served 18 months at the Texas State Prison in Huntsville, Texas. LaFonda, his first wife, divorced him and married his best friend when he was in jail. He did field service and served as the warden's barber during his time in prison. Chapman said in a Fox News interview in 2007 that he assaulted an prisoner attempting to escape while serving his term, and a congratulatory note by a corrections officer prompted him to become a bounty hunter later.
Chapman is not allowed to own any firearms as a result of his criminal record, and he has been refused admission to the United Kingdom.
Personal life
Duane Lee Chapman II and Leland Blane Chapman were married in Chapman's first marriage to La Fonda Sue Darnell, with whom he has two children. Both sons will work with Chapman at Da'Kine Bail Bonds in Honolulu, Hawaii, and will appear on television with their father.
Ann Tegnell was his second marriage, with three children, Zebadiah Chapman, Wesley Chapman, and James Robert Chapman. The two married in Colorado on August 22, 1979, a few years after Chapman was released after serving two years of a five-year term at the Texas State Penitentiary for third degree murder. The two people reconciled for a brief period of time, leading to the birth of their son James. Ann was then granted custody of both their children and then relocated to Utah. Wesley was primarily raised by his maternal grandmother, but both sons were denied from interacting with Chapman; the two of them reunited with Chapman as adults.
Lyssa Rae "Big Lyssa" Brittain was his third marriage (née Greene). According to reports, the marriage was conducted by a Native American chief in the Colorado mountains in 1982 and ended on November 20, 1991. Lyssa had just been together in a bar just days before, but she and her husband, an Assemblies of God minister, had to separate due to their infidelity. According to Chapman, Lyss paid $100,000 to have his baby, which she accepted. Barbara Katie Chapman (June 8, 1982 – May 19, 2006), Tucker Dee Chapman (September 8, 1983), and Lyssa Rae Chapman (June 10, 1987). The family lived in Denver, Colorado, where his grandfather Mike left Chapman's home to Chapman, along with Duane Lee and Leland. According to Chapman's daughter Lyssa, she and her siblings had a rough childhood, with accusations of sexual assault and heroin use plaguing the family.
Tawny Marie Chapman's fourth marriage was arranged. The two met in 1988, after Chapman arrested her on a drug possession charge, and she later became his secretary. The two met in 1992, divorced in 1994, and officially divorced in 2002. The two children were never together, but Chapman's children did refer to her as their mother during the two's time together. Chapman referred to the marriage as "a disaster from the start," accusing her of amphetamine use.
His fifth marriage was to Alice Elizabeth "Beth" Barmore (née Smith; October 29, 1967 - June 26, 2019), with whom he had a sabbatical union until the two married on May 20, 2006 at a Hilton hotel in Waikoloa Village, Hawaii. Bonnie Joanne Chapman (born December 16, 1998), Garry Chapman (February 7, 2001), and Chapman adopted Beth's daughter from her previous marriage, Cecily Barmore-Chapman (born June 19, 1993). Chapman was also able to help Beth locate and reconcile with her son, Dominic Davis (born 1985), who was born in 1985 and later adopted as a juvenile and subsequently placed for adoption. Together, Dog and Beth operated Da'Kine Bail Bonds. Beth died of throat cancer at The Queen's Medical Center in Honolulu on June 26, 2019. She had been diagnosed with the disorder in 2017. To chronicle the event, the family appeared in an A&E series titled Dog and Beth: Fight of Their Lives.
Chapman was engaged to Francie Frane on August 23, 2021, according to TMZ. According to reports, the two met six months after Beth's death, but Frane, like Chapman, was recently widowed after losing her husband, Robert "Bob" Frane in December 2018. On May 20, 2021, the two announced their engagement in May 2020 and married in Colorado.
Chapman's oldest child, Christopher Michael Hecht (born 1972), who was born to his ex-girlfriend, Debbie White, while serving an 18-month prison term. Debbie saved her pregnancy from Chapman and committed suicide in 1978, causing the baby to be adopted by Keith and Gloria Hecht. Hecht has been struggling with heroin and alcohol abuse since at least 1991, according to reports, he has a long criminal history, with a history of hate crimes.
Chapman denies bail reform and has joined movements in California, Vermont, New Jersey, and Colorado that seek to reverse or overturn bail reform laws. Chapman called President Biden "little Hitler" and "that jerk" who "stoled" the 2020 election in September 2022 at the Christian evangelical "Opening the Heavens" conference in September 2022. After being "caught," Obama predicted that Republicans would sweep the 2022 midterms and that "little Hitler" President Biden will commit suicide.
Career
Chapman made international news by arresting Andrew Luster, the heir of Max Factor cosmetics, who had fled the country in the middle of his murder trial on suspicion of opioid misuse and raping a number of women. Luster had been found guilty of 86 counts, including multiple rape charges related to assaults in 1996, 1997, and 2000. Chapman's hunt team assisted him with his hunt, which included his son, Leland, and Tim Chapman (the latter having no acquaintance). Luster was captured by the three bounty hunters in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, where they had been living under assumed names. They were arrested by Mexican police on their way to bring Luster to the San Diego jail, and all four of them were jailed. Both the dog and Leland were arrested on suspicion of drug use. Luster was sent to California to face his 125-year term after the authorities announced his identity.
The chapman and his crew were initially refused bail but after Beth Announced the media and aroused public opinion in the United States, they were released on bail. They followed their counsel's lead and left the area, thereby becoming international bail-jumpers. Chapman and his son Leland Chapman, and his friend Tim Chapman were arrested by United States Marshals and jailed in Honolulu on behalf of the Mexican government on September 14, 2006. Since bounty hunting is unlawful in Mexico, Mexican authorities have charged all three with "deprivation of liberty" relating to Andrew Luster's detention in 2003. The Mexican government declared the three Chapmans fugitives from justice and sent them to Mexico for sentencing because they didn't have permission to leave the country while out on bail in 2003. Chapman spent one night in Honolulu's federal detention center, "The federal marshals treated us with utter admiration." You don't want to go to a federal prison because it's traumatic," I can tell you.
Chapman was shackled in a packed Honolulu courthouse on the next day, September 15, 2006. Although the judge found that the men were not a flight risk, he ordered that they wear an electronic monitoring device around the ankle. The three guys were released on bail ($300,000 for Duane Chapman and $100,000 each for Leland Chapman and Tim Chapman). According to Chapman's lead counsel, Brook Hart, it was argued that although the accusation against Chapman was a misdemeanor in Mexico, the accusation of kidnapping became a criminal under American law. Hart's charges were denied by Mexican officials, who maintained that Chapman had not been charged with a criminal record. On November 16, 2006, an extradition hearing was scheduled.
Chapman has speculated that his detention was triggered in part by a potential prisoner swap deal between the Mexican and American authorities. According to Chapman, the federal agents "sold him out" by swapping him in for a convicted Mexican drug lord. Tim and Duane had their ankle bracelets removed so they could work. Reports of an open letter dated September 26, 2006, sent on Chapman's behalf by 29 Republican congressmen to US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on October 11, 2006, surfaced. The authors' letter revealed their displeasure with Chapman's extradition and demanded that Rice deny Mexico's request for the same. Lawyers for Chapman responded on October 20, 2006, claiming that the Mexican federal court had granted them an order to suspend the criminal trial against the bounty hunter until further evidence and witness testimony were obtained. On December 23, 2006, a court hearing was held. Because a report from a lower court was still waiting, the initial hearing was postponed. Both sides of the tale were heard, and the court was reluctant to suspend for a few days. The court started on January 16, 2007, and the court had to hear it on Tuesday, February 6, 2007, but the deadline was postponed.
A Mexican federal court ruled on February 16, 2007, that there was no reason not to sue Chapman on the charges of deprivation of liberty in Mexico. Gene Ward, Karen Awana, Rida Cabana, Lynn Finnegan, Barbara Marumoto, Colleen Meyer, Beth Bennett, Kevin Blake, Joe Bertram, Kenito, Marylin Lee, and John Mizuno all voted in favor of the extradition charges against TV Bounty Hunter, Duane 'Dog' Chapman, on February 23, Hawaii State Representatives Gene Ward, Duano, John Mizuno introduced House Concurrent Resolution 50, "Requesting hea County Court of Hawaii, Lynn, Lynn, Lynn Finnegan, Lynn Finnegan, Barbara Marua, Barbara Marue Caita, Kahonty Hunter, and John Mizunty Chapman"'s, "Requeste Chapman" in response. The International Affairs Committee approved the bill on March 7.
Chapman and his then counsel, William C. Bollard, appeared on various television shows during this period. On WFLD, Fox 6 News San Diego, The Glenn Beck Program, and The Morning Show with Larry King Live, Greta Van Susteren, Mark, and Mercedez Morning Show on Mix 94.1 KMXB in Las Vegas. The arrest warrant for Chapman and his associates could have been revoked, according to a Mexican court, as the statute of limitations governing the detention had expired. The 15-page legal order was released in Spanish and was translated and checked for legal legitimacy. Chapman received permission to have the electronic surveillance unit removed for a brief period of time in order to fly to the East Coast for previously scheduled appearances on September 29, 2006. The First Criminal Court in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, dismissed all criminal charges against Duane, Leland, and Tim Chapman on the grounds that the statute of limitations had expired. All pending charges were effectively dropped by the order. According to A&E, the prosecution appealed the decision; this is common practice in Mexico. The extradition hearing was dismissed by U.S. Magistrate Judge Barry Kurren on November 5, 2007, claiming that even though the charges were appealed, the trio is no longer charged with any criminal charges.
Chapman, a veteran of bounty hunting, was featured on Take This Job, a publication devoted to people with unusual occupations. This led him and the show's production company to stage a spin-off about his attempts to capture bail fugitives, and specifically Chapman's attempts to track down Andrew Luster in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. Chapman was interviewed for the August 28, 2003 episode of Dominick Dunne's Power, Privilege, and Justice following Luster's release. By now, Chapman's name had caught the American public's attention. At that time, A&E decided to create a continuing reality show based on his bounty hunting career. The first series of Dog the Bounty Hunter premiered on August 30, 2004, running for eight seasons before being cancelled in 2012. Ozzy Osbourne performed the theme tune.
After a private phone call between him and his son, Tucker, was sold to the National Enquirer in early October 2007, Chapman lost negative public attention. The talk was about his son's relationship with a black woman. Chapman can be seen using the word nigger and discussing its use in his household on the recording. A&E revealed that it had suspended production of Chapman's TV series as a result of an investigation. Chapman's public apology was released on October 31, 2007, but A&E revealed on November 2, 2007, that the show would still be unavailable "for the foreseeable future." A&E released a statement on February 19, 2008, saying Chapman had "taken and continues to take the appropriate steps in reaching out to several African American companies in an attempt to make amends for his private remarks" and announcing that Chapman's TV show will be back in production.
CMT announced on September 25, 2012 that it had ordered a new reality series that would debut in April 2013. Chapman, Beth, and Chapman's son Leland were among the failed bail bond agencies around the country, giving them tips on how to resurrect their businesses and assisting in the capture of the country's most wanted fugitive prisoners.
For the first time since Leland left the previous show in 2012, Chapman and his son Leland were teaming up for the first time since Leland left the show in 2012. The show lasted three seasons before being cancelled in 2016.
Dog's Most Wanted, a new spin-off starring Dog and Beth, is also available on CBS for a single season.
Before it premiered on the streaming service Unleashed, his latest series, Dog Unleashed, was cancelled in 2021. The production company suing Chapman for breach of contract said the show was cancelled after Chapman allegedly made racist and homophobic outbursts and also illegally used a taser during a shooting in Virginia. Chapman has denied the charges brought in the lawsuit.
Following the murder of Gabby Petito, Chapman was involved in the manhunt for Brian Laundrie in September 2021.
Chapman's autobiography, You Can Run But You Can't Hide, was released in 2007 (co-written with Laura Morton). The book debuted at number one on the New York Times bestseller list.
Mercy Is Given, his second book, was released in 2010, and Morton co-authored it.