Desperate For Cash
Before making Rocky, Sly desperately needed funds and agreed to sell his beloved dog for $50. Within a week, he got money from selling his script and got his dog back for $3,000. He said, “I sold my bull-mastiff Butkus to a little person…I got $50 from this guy called Little Jimmy. When I sold the Rocky script, I went to see Little Jimmy and begged for the dog back. He lined up his children, ‘Oh my kids love the dog’. I said, ‘You’ve only had him for a f***ing week.’ He wanted to fight me and said he was gonna kill me – he was a crazy little person. I couldn’t fight him, they’d arrest me, so I offered to pay double. Anyway, $3000 and several threats later…”
Desperate For Cash
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