Steven Seagal is a bit of an enigma for a lot of martial artists, because a lot of people see him as a person who is incapable of telling the truth, but at the same time, they respect him as someone who has achieved a high level of skill in the martial art of aikido.

The problem is that if Steven Seagal, the movie star, were just Steven Segal, who runs a martial arts gym in suburbia Midwest, USA, he would be seen as a predator who would be in one of Robs McDojo Life McDojo news videos, because Steven Siegel is an absolute monster who has done nothing his entire career but place himself in positions to engage in predatory behavior.

I posted a video last year called the problem with Steven Seagal.

And I was surprised to see that a lot of people defending Siegel, saying.

That I did poor research or that.

I’ve been listening to too many rumors.

So I decided to actually look into Mister Seagal.

And I was shocked, because Steven Segel is worse than I could even imagine.

What I saw was that Steven Seagal has four roles that he plays, and.

The common thread among all four of them, well, besides the constant lying, is that each one of them allows Steven Siegel to engage in some very abusive behavior that began the minute Siegel stepped into his first role as the sensei.

So that’s where we’ll start.

He’s a legitimate aikido master.

Like, 100% absolute legitimate aikido master.

According to Siegel’s website, Stephen Frederick Siegel was born in Lansing, Michigan, on April 10, 1952.

His humble childhood was underscored by a fascination with the martial arts and the blues.

Siegel mastered martial arts at an early age, becoming a 7th degree black belt and an aikido master.

The thing is, when Siegel first hit the scene, he was telling people that he was from Brooklyn, New York, for some reason, I guess, to make him appear to be the tough guy that he played in his early movies.

This all stopped when Siegels mother told the truth, that the family moved to Fullerton, California when Siegel was five years old.

He was actually frail due to asthma while living in Michigan, but he thrived after the move to Orange county.

She said that Siegel was in a rock music and not the blues, as he claimed.

Later, he worked with a japanese man in Garden Grove, and that’s how his martial arts journey actually began.

I talked more about this in my previous video, the problem with Steven Seagal.

So I’m not gonna rehash the stuff.

From that video, but here’s where things get interesting.

During Siegel’s role as the sensei, oh.

And if you wonder why I keep saying Steven’s last name is Siegel, its because thats the actual proper pronunciation of his name.

Steven saw the Chagall exhibit at a museum and he liked the sound of the words, so he changed the pronunciation of his last name.

So after studying okinawan and karate in California, Seagal was convinced to go to Japan around the age of 19.

Things didnt work out and he returned to California, where he would eventually meet Miyako Fujitani, who was teaching aikido in California at the time.

Now, I should mention that Seagal at one point was saying that he studied under aikido founder Morihei Ueshiba, who had already passed away before Seagal even made it over to Japan.

Seagal fans like to deny that Steven ever made the claim, but you can.

Read it for yourself in some of Seagals first interviews in Black Belt magazine from 1988 and 1990.

In 1974, Seagal returned to Japan with his aikido instructor, Miyako Fujitani.

Now, I defended this move in my last video, but since then, well, I learned that Robert Strickland, who was working as a CIA consultant in Japan, and.

Robert Strickland says that Steven Seagal married Miyako to avoid the draft.

He believed that marrying a japanese national and moving to Japan would make him less likely to be deported and sent back to the US.

I thought this guy was a patriot.

Now, Seagal fans love to point out that Steven was the first westerner to open a dojo in Japan, but thats not true.

When his father in law retired from teaching, Seagal took over the teaching duties.

But the dojo was owned by his mother in law and it was managed by his wife.

Miyako went on to say that Steven Seagal only earned his black belt because the judge in charge of his grading fell asleep during his presentation.

He was so embarrassed that when he woke up, he awarded Seagal with his black belt.

The stories about Seagal fighting the yakuza and throwing people out of the dojo are also untrue.

Miyako said that Seagal only chased away a few drunks outside the school.

Seagal likes to tell people how the dojo attracted the attention of the CIA and other high ranking military members in Japan, and many of them went on to become Seagal students.

Now, if you listen to the Seagal hype, well, its because Seagal was such a highly accomplished practitioner of aikido.

But the reality is that these were Americans.

They were obviously joining a dojo where another American was open to teaching Americans in English.

If youve never been to Japan.

There are some businesses to this day that will not allow Americans unless they speak and read Japanese.

And I personally experienced this in Sasebo when I was in the navy.

But keep this part in your memory banks about Seagal teaching people like Robert Strickland, who actually was a CIA consultant, and other high ranking military personnel because this is going to come up again later.

Why? Because Steven Seagal is an absolute monster.

But anyway, Seagals role as Sensei would eventually shift from Japan back to America.

Steven told his wife that he wanted to go back to the US to get rich in Hollywood or to open up restaurants.

Miyako believed in Seagal’s Dream, so she says she spent years saving money and living on the bare minimum so that she could fund Seagal’s dreams.

Well, Seagal returned to the US, where he opened his first dojo in Taos, New Mexico.

And he thanked his wife, Miyako, by.

Marrying his second wife, actress Adrienne La Russa, while he was still married to Miyako, who was still in Japan raising their children.

So while Seagal is busy cheating on his first wife with his new wife, the dojo in New Mexico was struggling financially.

Seagal was known to leave on these trips, where he’d return with cash, and nothing was known about his mysterious financial backers.

But Seagal liked to say that he was away carrying out hits for the mob.

Eventually, when La Russa filed for annulment, she said she was basically paying Seagal to stay away from her.

But she didn’t want to say anything else because she was afraid of Seagal.

Scary friends.

Well, at this point, Seagal is starting to transition to his next role, his biggest role, the movie star.

So while Seagal is struggling to keep his dojo open and he’s married to two women on two different continents, he finally decides to make good on his promise to get rich Hollywood.

Seagal just happens to meet with Kelly LeBrock’s manager, who tells him if he wants to break into Hollywood, he needs to be seen with famous people.

Seagal like anyone else who had seen Kelly LeBrock in anything in the eighties was completely smitten with her.

Dont hate me because Im beautiful.

So he pulls a straight up baller.

Move and takes off to Japan to meet her.

Not long after that meeting with her manager.

So Seagal is back in Japan, where his wife and kids live, while his other wife is back in the US, and he’s going to meet Kelly LeBrock so that he can break into Hollywood.

Well, he succeeded in meeting her, and within two weeks, of meeting, they were lovers, and a year later, they were parents.

So Seagal at one point had two wives on separate continents while he’s wooing his third wife.

And why is that? Because Steven Seagal is an absolute monster.

This dude is terrible, worse than I could even imagine.

But back to our story.

So by this point, the Taos dojo completely failed.

Seagal calls one of his shady friends to steal Kelly LeBrock’s porsche so that he can use the insurance money to fund his dojo.

So, I mean, remember what Kelly’s manager told Seagal.

If you want to make it into Hollywood, you need to be seen with famous people.

Being married to Kelly LeBrock wasnt enough.

Seagal had to take a page from Bruce Lee’s playbook and become sensei to the stars.

And thats exactly what he did.

In 1987, he opened a dojo in Los Angeles where he taught Bruce Lee’s.

Former student James Coburn, Sean Connery.

He broke his wrist.

And the person responsible for launching Seagal’s career, Michael Ovitz.

Michael Ovitz arranged for Seagal to meet with executives at Warner Brothers, where he would demonstrate aikido.

Mark Makita, a karate instructor, was brought in to serve as Seagal’s uke for the demonstration.

By the end, the Warner brothers executives were amazed.

They’d never seen anything like what Seagal was doing.

And one said that he couldn’t believe how easily Seagal could grab someone and throw them across the room with very little effort.

The only thing is that the entire thing was staged.

Mark Makita said that the only way Seagal’s techniques would work is if he allowed himself to be thrown for the demonstration.

But after that demonstration, Warner Brothers dropped $50,000 on a screen test for Seagal, and the entire thing was a complete disaster.

Seagal had no charisma, and his whispering.

Voice was terrible on film.

This is when Ovitz stepped in.

Like I said, Michael Ovitz launched Seagal’s movie career.

Ovitz was the casting agent for lethal weapon, and when he was called on for lethal weapon two, he agreed not to take a raise on the sequel if Seagal was hired to make a movie.

Now, there are questions about if Ovitz was actually bribed by the mafia to vouch for Seagal.

And this is something that’s going to come up throughout Seagal’s time as the movie star.

Up until he started to make direct to video movies, at least in 1990, Seagal is at the peak of his fame.

By this time, hes done “Above the Law,” “Hard to Kill”, “Marked for Death” and “Out for Justice,” making him a bona fide action hero.

Around this time, Steven Seagal started his own production company with Julius Naso.

This marks an interesting twist in Seagals career.

He’d already had a history of implying that he had some kind of connection with the mob.

Well, this Julius Naso guy started a pharmaceutical company when he was in college in the seventies, where he was selling health supplements.

But what I heard is that he was selling drugs to sailors.

And on top of that, Julius Nassau’s uncle, who had the same name, Julius Nassau, owned a concrete company that was.

In some trouble involving Anthony Salerno, the original fat Tony.

Basically, these guys were connected to the Gambino crime family.

It turns out that Nassau loaned Seagal a half million dollars of the Gambino family’s money to do a four picture deal.

After forming their production company, Seagal was no longer under contract with Warner Bros.

They paid his production company, or sometimes his money went directly to Julius Naso.

Now, on top of that, members of the Gambino family or their relatives started to appear in Seagal’s movies.

Steven Seagal is notorious for hitting stuntmen and hurting people on the set.

But if you look at some of his early movies, there are people in some fight scenes who never get hit.

And it turns out that those guys were all associates of the Gambino family.

And he was given a piece of every movie that they did.

Money was coming in.

So when you hear people like Sammy “the Bull” Gravano telling stories about how Seagal was crying to the FBI about how he was being extorted by the.

Mafia, Steven Seagal, all those karate movies, remember them things hes shit in his pants? Id think twice.

Well, now you know why the Gambino family went looking for their money.

After Seagal decided that he didn’t want to make any more movies, and Naso sent them straight to Seagal while he was working on “Exit Wounds”.

Now, on top of dealing with the mob, Seagal started losing all of those friends that he’d made when he was sensei to the stars.

Seagal managed to get close to all kinds of special forces operators, FBI and CIA agents, along with consultants solely for the purpose of taking their stories and telling them as if they happened to him.

Seagal tried to tell a story about training with the Green Berets to a group of his students at a seminar.

Everything was going okay until one guy who’d been a former Green Beret spoke up and said, hey, bro, I told.

You that story.

another time.

Seagal was treasure hunting off the coast of Barbados with Gary Goldman, and he was bragging about his time when he had been a Navy SeaL.

Gary Goldman was an ex mercenary who vouched in the press for Seagal because.

They were working on a movie together.

But after they fell out, well, Goldman were candid on all of that stuff.

And he said that Seagal likes to get close to operators to steal their stories and make it part of his own personal narrative.

But anyway, after Seagal was done bragging about his time as a SEAL while they were off treasure hunting, well, he almost drowned in calm water.

Seagal completely panicked, and Goldman and the other people there had to push him back onto the boat.

So he was one of those Navy SEALs that don’t swim.

Also, remember Seagal’s friend from Japan, Robert Strickland? Seagal asked if Strickland could put out a hit on Gary Goldman after he told the press that Seagal was lying about his past.

Seagal also called up his friend Robert Strickland after a GQ article came out exposing him and his lies.

Seagal wanted Strickland to have someone help expose the article writer, Alan Rickman as being gay, even though Rickman wasn’t gay.

As a matter of fact, Seagal did an interview on the Arsenio Hall Show for the sole purpose of calling out and shaming Alan Rickman.

Whenever Seagal is called out, he likes to flex by going on tv to try to humiliate that person.

It’s kind of like what Seagal tried to do in those videos that he did with Jesse Enkamp.

And if you want to hear the details on the smack talk that happened in that video, just let me know in the comments.

And I’ll have to make another video because this one is going to be really long.

There’s a lot of stuff because Steven Seagal is a monster.

But anyway, Seagal kept trying to get his former CIA consultant friend Robert Strickland to carry out his dirty work whenever he got exposed by somebody.

Well, that is, until he finally fell out with Robert Strickland.

So at the time, Seagal was making the rounds of nighttime talk shows, David Letterman, Arsenio hall and the other guys.

When he was at the height of his career making movies, Seagal was asked about being a consultant with the CIA.

Did you or did you not work with the CIA? Did I make that up? Are people just saying that to be funny? Or did you actually have a job with the Central Intelligence Agency? Have you ever lived a dangerous life that might be like the lives they live when you’re in the CIA, and.

He shared a story about something that happened.

Well, he told a story that he heard from Robert Strickland, and Robert Strickland just happened to be watching the interview.

Strickland sued Seagal, and Seagal being the kind of person to run tell that told Strickland to back off because he has powerful friends.

Later, a friend contacted Robert Strickland, and they told him that he really should back off because Seagal did have some.

Powerful people who were heavily invested in his public image.

And now we know that it was the Gambino crime family.

So all this stuff about Steven Seagal literally being “Hard to Kill” in real life, like he portrayed in his movies, well, that was all set up by the mob because they were actually invested in the success of this guy’s movies.

And Seagal, he went along with all.

Of it because, well, Steven Seagal is an absolute monster.

Well, you’re above the law.

I used to be a police officer.

But I don’t care.

Oh, yeah, that’s true.

Not about the law.

Obviously, a person showing signs of possibly being a pathological liar who allegedly gets in bed with a mob to become a movie star has little regard for the law.

But once Sagal’s movie career was relegated to direct to video films, he decided to reinvent himself as a dog the bounty hunter knockoff with his Steven Seagal Lawman reality series.

And this started Sagals next role as the lawman.

According to Seagal, hed actually been a cop for 20 years while he was also making movies.

But the truth is that outside of playing a cop in his movies, Steven Seagal actually has no training as a police officer.

He claims to have done some training at the LAPDS academy, but there are no records with the city of Los Angeles to substantiate that claim.

The truth is that while filming one of his movies, Sagal started giving martial arts training to local police officers.

He’s a cop now, and he’s teaching them how to do karate and all these stupid moves and whatever.

At the time, mafia guys were making fun of him, which leads me to believe that it was while filming under.

Siege where Robert Booth Nichols, a Gambino family associate, worked closely with Seagal.

Joseph John, a retired Navy captain who helped secure the use of the USS Missouri for the film, described Sagal and Nichols as buddies.

Now, I have no idea what that.

Meant, but I guess Nichols didnt like Seagal spending so much time with the local law enforcement.

Anyway, Sagal continued to teach the officers with the Jefferson Parish Sheriffs Department by visiting him a few days out of the year.

And after about a decade or so, they just sort of grandfathered him into the department.

As a deputy sheriff, Seagal was not actually doing any type of police work other than volunteer ride alongs.

Hed absolutely zero training.

He had not done 40 years of police work, as he claimed, nor had he done 20 years of police work like he claimed on his reality tv show.

Steven Seagal trained as a policeman the same day that he passed a die motivator to go to buds to do a SEal training.

Well, Steven Seagal, with absolutely zero training as a peace officer, drove a tank through a guy’s fence, killing his dog in order to assist Sheriff Joe Arpaio in the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Department, bused a guy for chicken fighting, even though the only evidence that the guy was chicken fighting was the fact that he owned a little over 100 chickens, and he had been issued a citation for being at a chicken fighting event a year earlier.

Sagal was allegedly on loan to Sheriff Joe from the Jefferson Parish sheriff’s department.

But the thing is, Seagal was not an officer with Jefferson Parrish at that time.

He was just a regular civilian driving a tank through this guy’s house with a SWAT team to humiliate this guy, who later had all of the charges dropped.

And it was just so he could show something off on his reality show.

So the question is, well, why was Sagal no longer an officer with Jefferson Parrish after I just told you guys how he got deputized? Well, Sagal was no longer a deputy.

Sheriff because Steven Seagal is an absolute monster.

See, while Sagal was filming his dog, the bounty hunter knockoff reality show, he took out an ad for an executive assistant.

Miss Kaden Nguyen was hired for the job.

And when she arrived in Louisiana, Sagal told her that one of her duties would be to perform a massage for him if she didn’t know how to perform the kind of massage that Sagal was talking about.

Well, he would teach her by giving her a massage.

I’m an expert in Shiatsu massage.

Please let me massage you.

You told me that one.

Next thing you know, she’s having her boobs grabbed on by him.

I’m an expert.

Let me give me those titties, baby.

I’m an expert.

Well, at this point, things get very dark, and I can’t really go into the full details of the alleged incident here on YouTube.

I’m just gonna say that according to Kaiden, she was assaulted three times in a five day period.

She said that she was held in Seagal’s home for at least a week, and when she finally managed to escape, Sagal chased after her with a weapon that had a flashlight attached to it.

Kaiden also alleged that Sagal kept two young russian girls on staff who were available for any extra services in addition to massage at all times of the day.

Nguyen filed a civil suit against Steven Sagal, but her lawsuit was settled out of court.

Now, I’m not going to judge her decision to file a civil suit versus going to the police.

For Seagal, though, this was the end of his career as a police officer.

That’s her choice.

Jefferson Parrish was going to launch an internal affairs investigation immediately following the outcome of the lawsuit.

And since settling out of court was neither an admission of guilt or innocence, the investigation was going to move forward.

And I guess Seagal could have potentially been facing criminal charges for s trafficking.

While a uniformed deputy, Seagal resigned immediately from his position before the investigation and he left the state of Louisiana.

As if Seagal isn’t already sounding like an absolute monster.

Well, it turns out this wasn’t even the first time he allegedly tried something like what happened with K didn’t win.

In 2004, Stephen Seagal attended Ray Charles Funeral, and during the funeral, Seagal approached Ray Charles granddaughter, Blair Robinson, about working as his executive assistant.

Her father attended the interview with her, and she was hired for the job.

When Blair flew out to Seagal’s office in Memphis, she was informed on the first day on the job that one of her responsibilities would be to give Sagal a massage every day.

If she didn’t know how to perform the kind of massage he wanted, he would teach her by giving her a massage.

Good job.

Blair left immediately and hopped on the first flight she could get to Los Angeles, and that was that.

Other people were not so fortunate.

When Seagal was filming on deadly ground about ten years earlier, he invited an.

18 year old extra to a rap party after they wrapped for that day of filming.

When she arrived at the party, well, it turns out she was the only person there.

And when she arrived at the party, she was a virgin.

And when she left, well, she wasn’t.

And according to her, what allegedly happened was non consensual.

So I’ll let you figure it out.

And if you haven’t, well, I’m just going to say that what allegedly took place happened because Steven Seagal is an absolute monster.

So after being the sensei to the stars who had three wives, the movie star being backed by the mob, and the ex cop facing too many hash metoo allegations to count.

According to the Washington Post, the only thing left for Steven Seagal is to.

Pursue enlightenment, because if there’s anyone who can get people to look the other way when they’re accused of multiple sexual offenses and taking money from shady people, it’s a religious leader.

I just met with the Dalai Lama.

He, in his wisdom, decided to make me a deity.

In 1997, Steven Seagal was recognized as a reincarnation of Chundrag Dorje, a 17th century buddhist lama, by the tibetan leader Pinur Rinpoche.

While Pinur Rinpoche may have recognized Seagal as a toku, Hollywood recognized that something fishy was happening.

And from what I can tell, it’s not been proven that sagal made a generous donation to Pinur Renpoche’s monastery.

And Pinur Rinpoche’s organization denied receiving any substantial size donation from Steven Seagal.

But you have to wonder what they define as a substantial size donation.

Either way, Sagal took the honor and ran with it.

And he makes sure to remind people that he was recognized as a toku every chance he gets.

Yeah, I am a lama.

I’m a tuku.

I’m a rinpoche.

In 1999, Sagal wanted to let the world know about his high spiritual accomplishment.

By going on the compassion in the.

Martial arts lecture tour.

On the talks, Sagal was known to come out in full tibetan monk robes, announce to everyone that he was a reincarnated llama, and then give a dharma talk for an hour on compassion as a spiritual discipline.

At the end of the talk, Sagal would open up the floor to questions from the audience.

And some of these auditoriums were known to hold thousands of people.

At one talk, which was attended by buddhist professor and meditation teacher Douglas Gentil, Seagal was asked by one audience member if he always dresses in full tibetan monk attire.

Seagal’s response was to roll his eyes.

Then he said, next question.

He was asked multiple times about how he’s able to reconcile his spiritual beliefs about compassion and nonviolence with the violence that he displays in his action films.

And his response was to approach each take with a pure heart and hope that it’s visible to the audience, whatever that means.

Well, at this point, Jintill actually pressed Sagal on this point after Seagal said something about how his movies are really about good versus evil.

And at the end, its all about telling a story about good winning out over evil.

But see, the thing is, in Buddhism, this type of dualistic thinking reinforces this type of thinking that does not lead.

To one seeing true nature.

So thats why Jintill pressed Sagal about his response.

Its not in line with buddhist teachings.

Well, Sagals response to Gentiles question was, well, see, I dont want to talk over peoples head in the audience because.

We understood that this nigga was clearly lying.

And the truth is that Seagal had no idea what he was talking about on stage.

Just like Sagal says lines in his movies.

This was just another opportunity for Sagal to flex on stage and pretend to be some enlightened buddhist monk.

The moment someone made him deviate from the script, well, the entire facade he was trying to present fell apart.

Hey, Stephen, your ex wife called.

You can’t bring the kids over this weekend.

You tell that she doesn’t get those kids over here, I’ll break her fucking neck.

So what does any of this have to do with Steven Seagal and his martial arts accomplishments? Because for some people, none of this.

Stuff diminishes him as a martial artist in their eyes.

And my question is, I mean, why doesn’t it? If someone from my teacher’s school had all of these allegations, they’d be kicked out of the school and stripped of their rank.

I guess the idea woo duh or martial arts morality, doesnt exist in some japanese martial arts circles.

And this is strange when an art like aikido is supposed to have a spiritual aspect to it.

But I mean, maybe it doesnt matter what you do as long as you keep taking falls and talking like a blitzed out hippie.

My question is, I mean, how do you even know what Sagals level of skill is? His ex wife said the judge fell asleep during Sagal’s black belt test, and it sounds like it may have been awarded as an attempt to save face.

Sagal stories about fighting yakuza in Japan were fake.

The aikido demonstration that launched his movie career was fake.

All the stuntmen who Seagal beat up in his movies, it was no different from someone getting hurt taking bumps in professional wrestling.

The fights are fake.

The injuries are real.

Im just going to say this.

Of all of the internal martial arts people that I know personally, some of them have fought and won in combat sports.

Ive never heard any of them say, wow, man, look at Steven Seagal’s movements.

He’s got great internal mechanics.

So I’m going to point to my first video on aikido.

The problem with aikido, and I’m going.

To say that my understanding of aikido is that it requires the same internal mechanics that make Taijiquan work.

And I’ve never heard anyone say that Steven Seagal has it.

So just like everything else that he’s pretended to be for me, he’s also.

The great pretender when it comes to martial arts.

And I know some people are going to feel some kind of way about what I just said.

And I mean, like, look, this is just me sharing my opinion based on the things that I have observed about Steven Seagal.

The truth is this, if Steven Seagal is completely innocent of all of these allegations, none of this mafia stuff is true, and his aikido is completely legit, how is that going to change your life? How will that make you better as a martial artist? And, I mean, if you’re mad at me for doing a Steven Seagal exposed video again, hows you getting mad at me gonna make you better? I mean, its just my opinion that Steven Seagal is an absolute monster.

And the only thing that I feel that I can learn from him is how not to be a really bad person.

But sometimes.

Look, man, ive tried to stick up for Seagal like I did in this video where I look into if he lied about fighting Bruce Lee, and he.

Actually mentioned that stuff in the Jesse endcamp video.

So I may have to post an update to this video very soon because I know a lot more of the details than I did when I first made that video a year ago.

And also, hey, if you want to know something that actually will make you better, then you should keep training, remember to breathe, and come holler at me on the next video.