Amidst Kim Jong-Un And North Korean ‘Courtship’, Dennis Rodman’s $200,000 Debt Caused A Series Of Complications

Dennis Rodman never been frugal with the money he’s earned over the decades from being a star in the NBA. Of course, while he earned less than $30 million in his 14 seasons in the league, his spending habits often got the better of him on most occasions. 

Whether it was flying across the country to try and impregnate Madonna or simply going to various cities throughout a week to party, Rodman knew exactly how to spend his money in the most frivolous ways possible. 

When it came to making business savvy decisions however, Rodman wasn’t always the brightest. His idea to open up a restaurant near his Newport beach house led to an ungodly amount of complications for him and his business partner, leading to it eventually closing down in 2005 after less than half a decade of services.

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Dennis Rodman would have to pay $200,000 in debt from his defunct restaurant 

Rodman’s restaurant, Josh Scolum’s, was a disaster from the get-go. Everything from Dennis Rodman himself getting arrested at his establishment to his busboy claiming he was never paid $2,000 worth of overtime salary after from cursed out by Dennis, had happened at Josh Scolum’s. 

To make matters even worse, the ghost of Josh Scolum’s haunted ‘The Worm’ for well over a decade as he would constantly be reminded of the massive amounts of debt he had built up from it. In 2006, G.P. Enterprises was slated to receive just over $80,000 from Rodman due to unpaid taxes and damages to their property. 

As time went on, the debt built up and in 2017, it had amassed to well over double of what the initial amount was. The former Pistons star was ordered to pay $198,489 in 2017 to the same company. 

Dennis Rodman immediately flew to North Korea 

Dennis Rodman being ordered to pay nearly $200,000 to G.P. Enterprises fortunately coincided with yet another trip of his to North Korea. This delayed any proceedings that dealt with the Josh Scolum’s debacle. 

Interestingly enough, Rodman did not pay his ‘friend for life’, Kim Jong-Un, a visit when he went to North Korea on this 5-day trip of his trip. Upon returning, he would once again have to come back to reality and face the $200k debt that he had piled up over a dozen years.

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