How long was dickey eklund in jail

I want to thank you. Dicky did. Or rather, a production company working on behalf of Dicky did. Dicky tells me the producers duped him as well. Ward settled the suit three months later, under confidential terms, and entered a new agreement with Paramount. It was about Dicky and Micky. Paramount had obtained the rights. Soon, the two fighters were flying to L. The Fighter was shot in 33 days in Lowell in No one wants that. Everyone wants to see all the golden moments.

Russell during filming. Complicating matters was that the whole town would turn out to watch the Eklund family watching themselves being acted out on the street. Leave my brother alone! While the script was being hammered out, Dicky and Micky moved in with Wahlberg in L. Bale says that one day Dicky was reading the script and looked up at Bale with rage in his eyes.

When The Fighter premiered in Lowell in December, it seemed as if the entire town — more than a handful of its residents make appearances in it — filed into the Showcase Cinemas to see it. Many more showed up just to watch its stars, and the actors who play them, parade into their afterparty. He soon blew through it all and is now getting by on what little training he does. But people want me around. But loyalty is his essence. The screen on the front door is framed in wads of duct tape.

The entry hall is bare but for two large photo posters: one of a sweaty Dicky hugging his bloody brother in the ring after a fight, and the other a faux fight poster from the movie.

You shoulda seen it. Scented candles line the mantel above the walled-off fireplace, flanking decorative photo frames that say love and family. Two years ago, almost to the day of our visit, Leslie called the Lowell police. She eventually escaped and called The police charged Dicky with assault with attempt to murder — a charge commonly applied when an alleged assault includes strangulation.

Prosecutors later dropped the case after Leslie refused to testify. The pattern continued last summer. Leslie called the cops and Dicky was arrested, but the prosecution could not go forward because she again refused to testify.

When I ask him about it, he says that Leslie had been chasing him out of the house and tripped while trying to prevent him from leaving.

Dicky has had trouble with other women as well. The force of the blow knocked Bilodeau straight back, and the back of his head hit the pavement. Bilodeau was found lying unconscious in the street, suffering from head trauma. His death was ruled a homicide. Her case is pending. Elizabeth Bilodeau said her hope is that Morrell will turn his life around and never use his fists to hurt another human being.

There is some dispute about this; Dickie stepped on Leonard's foot as he threw the punch, a transgression which went unnoticed by referee Matt Mullaney, who administered a count. Eklund's post-boxing career was less distinguished. Following his own retirement he fell upon hard times, battling drug addictions so severe that he became the subject of a gritty HBO documentary America Undercover, detailing the day-to-day life of a hard-core junkie.

He wound up doing nearly five years in prison in the early s, emerged clean and sober, and had to all appearances led an exemplary life since. After his release Eklund became involved in his brother's boxing career, taking over as chief trainer, with sometimes spectacular results.

He was working the corner the night in London three and a half years ago when Ward, trailing on the scorecards, knocked out the previously unbeaten Shea Neary to win the minor WBU light-welterweight title, and engineered the strategy which carried his younger sibling through the three Gatti wars.

He was considered an indispensable component of Team Ward, and his 10 per cent trainer's share of Micky's earnings earned him more money in the past three years than he'd made his own 29 professional bouts put together.

Apparently it wasn't enough. Eklund wasn't named as a defendant in the lawsuit attorneys representing Micky Ward filed in Cambridge last week, but the bare bones of the case make it clear Micky believes his brother sold him down the river for something less than 30 pieces of silver.

Scout Productions has Ward's signature on a document dated May 8th, , the first sentence of which seems rather unambiguous: "This letter shall serve as an option agreement setting forth the basic terms of the agreement between you, Mikey Ward, Scout Productions, Fourth Wall Entertainment, and Edgartown Ventures, regarding Producer's option to acquire all right, title and interest in and to Ward's 'Life Story' which producer intends to develop and produce as a motion picture.

He contends that he was led to believe he was agreeing to play a "small role" in a follow-up documentary about his brother. Asked why Eklund would have helped deceive him, Ward said "because they threw money at him". Exactly how much money a man would take to sell out his own brother remains unlearned. Micky Ward and Arturo Gatti will jointly appear at a public autograph session at the Mohegan Sun tomorrow afternoon.

The Boston Red Sox, Celtics, Bruins, and New England Patriots have all sent along jerseys numbered '38' the number of his professional boxing wins for presentation at tomorrow night's gala. A host of speakers, including yours truly, will pay tribute to his accomplishments, but the place reserved on the dais for Dickie Eklund will remain vacant.

The bond between the once-inseparable siblings may have been ruptured beyond repair, and for that one can only feel a sadness that knows no bounds.