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Shearn Moody Jr. (May 23, 1933 – June 25, 1996) was an American financier, entrepreneur and philanthropist from Galveston, Texas. He was heir to a financial empire, as well as a convicted felon and originator of the Moody Gardens resort complex. 〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher= Houston Chronicle )〕 Moody was also the grandson of insurance and financial tycoon William Lewis Moody, Jr.〔 ==Personal life== Shearn Moody, Jr. was born on May 23, 1933 to Shearn Moody, Sr. and Frances Moody Newman in Galveston, Texas.〔 〕 His father died in 1936, while he was an infant. Moody was well known for eccentric behavior, such as building a slide from his bedroom window to a swimming pool, where he kept pet penguins, and wearing house slippers wherever he went.〔 Moody, a homosexual, never married and spent the final years of his life involved in civil court cases. His longtime partner was a former Las Vegas dancer named Jimmy Stoker. Moody felt that the court system was corrupt and believed that his enemies used the legal system to try to steal his wealth and power; he claimed to have employed "several hundred" lawyers in various legal battles and even at one point hired nationally-known lawyer Roy Cohn to help in his ongoing litigation problems.〔 Moody died at home in 1996, after suffering from years of chronic high blood pressure and kidney disease.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Shearn Moody, Jr.」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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