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John McAfee found dead by apparent suicide in Spanish prison cell

23/06/2021

A casually dressed and sunweathered man reclines with a cigarette on a yacht.
Enlarge / John McAfee on his yacht off the coast of Cuba in 2019.

Adalberto ROQUE / AFP / Getty

John McAfee—the antivirus tycoon whose eccentric and often illegal antics on yachts and in tropical rain forests came to define him in later years—took his own life in a Spanish prison cell shortly after suffering a major defeat in his fight against extradition to the US. He was 75.

The death was first reported by El Pais and later by Reuters, and the Associated Press, all of which cited law enforcement sources in Barcelona. Multiple news agencies also reported McAfee’s death.

According to El Pais and the AP, prison personnel found McAfee hanging in his cell and provided emergency medical services but were unable to save his life.

The reports came hours after revelations surfaced that McAfee suffered a crushing defeat in his bid to avoid extradition to the US to face charges that that could carry decades in prison. Federal prosecutors filed one indictment in March and another in October. The first alleged a cryptocurrency pump-and-dump scheme and the latter tax evasion on millions of dollars in income.

Long, strange trip

In 1987 McAfee founded McAfee Associates, a software company that produced one of the first commercial antivirus products. The entrepreneur ran the company until 1994, when he resigned. By the time McAfee as a company was purchased by Intel for what at the time was the astounding price of $7.78 billion, McAfee the man had already sold his entire stake in the company.

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In the the mid 1990s he founded a company that launched PowWow, one of the Internet’s first instant messaging and social networking app that arguably was ahead of its time. In 2000, invested in firewall maker ZoneAlarm and joined the company’s board of directors.

By 2009, McAfee’s finances were faltering, dropping from a peak of more than $100 million to $4 million. He continued to dabble in new and highly questionable businesses ventures including a maker of herbal-based antibiotics, a wouldbe producer of a $100 ‘anti-NSA’ device called D-Central. The offering eventually became available as an Android app on Google Play.

Around the same time, McAfee became encumbered in a litany of legal charges. They included murder charges filed in 2012 in Belize. McAfee’s oddysee with the country’s legal system played out on the Internet over the next 14 months, culminating in in this blockbuster account

McAfee was also reported to be living and sleeping with a naked 17-year-old girl in the weeks leading up to the 2012 Belize murder he was charged with.

McAfee was arrested in October at a Barcelona airport after an international manhunt finally closed in on him. He had been fighting extradition ever since. On Wednesday, Reuters reported that the extradition the US was seeking was approved by the high court in Spain. The decision signaled that he was likely to lose in his fight to evade US prosecutors.

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