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How Gary Coleman went from millionaire child star to mall security guard to dead at just 42 years old
"I don't have any friends and don't have any intention of making any. People will stab you in the back, mistreat you, talk about you behind your back, steal from you. And they're not really your friends." In his later years, legendary "Diff'rent Strokes' actor Gary Coleman had grown so disillusioned with people using him for his money and fame that he wrote in his will that he didn't want anyone who had a financial stake in him present at his funeral. Indeed, people had been taking advantage of the former child star from the moment he started acting. When he was 20, Coleman successfully sued his parents for $1 million of the roughly $3 million they misappropriated from him. Later, his marriage to actress Shannon Price proved to be even more fraught. Coleman accused her of using him for his money, abusing him, and carrying on affairs behind his back. And even though the couple divorced less than a year after they were married, they lived together r