I noticed this on ESPN.com this morning.
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It’s no secret, however, that Waknine provided Clarett with a life of luxury from August 2004 to August 2005.
“When I worked with Maurice, he had Hai and a very high-profile lawyer,” strength coach Charles Poliquin said earlier this year, after having trained Clarett in November and December 2004 in Phoenix. “There are not a lot of guys that want to play pro football who have a team of lawyers and money men backing them up, and, for sure, they had his best interests at heart. But he was living too nice a life. Too nice. He was living in Malibu. Right on the beach. I’ve been to the house. [Waknine] owned like 10 cars and said, ‘Pick whatever car you want.’”
But money eventually became an issue, especially for all of Clarett’s three personal trainers. None of them – Poliquin, Chad Ikei and Todd Durkin – was ever paid for his services, and when one contacted a member of Clarett’s inner circle to be reimbursed, he was told, “You’ll get paid when I get paid.”
That was the one positive thing said about Clarett at the NFL Combine…he looked like he was in great shape…ran like a O-Lineman however.