Why Luigi Mangione Went Dark in 2023 and Returned Transformed [View all]

Something happened to Luigi Mangione in 2023.

He had been the valedictorian of his private Maryland high school—Gilman, where annual tuition is currently $35,000—graduating in 2016. He was strong, good-looking, and smart: a golden son in a sprawling Baltimore family whose wealth had been built by his grandfather, Nicholas Mangione Sr.

The dynasty’s business interests ranged from hotels and country clubs to a radio station and a care facility for seniors that most recently declared $36 million in annual revenue. Luigi was, among dozens of Nicholas’ grandchildren—there were already 37 in 2008—the heir to his grandfather’s empire.

He went from Gilman to the University of Pennsylvania, studying computer science, starting a club where developers could build video games, working as a developer for the makers of Civilisation VI, and spending the summer of 2019 at Stanford as a teaching assistant in AI.

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