re: Leander Perez- Stolen land claim in Plaquemine Parish

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where did the perez's spend all than money?

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I feel guilty saying this, but I’ve known his great grandson most of my life. His (my friend’s) father married a New Orleans girl in his 20’s, had one son with her, then soon after divorced her. He moved to Poplarville, became a cop, and started a new family, new life, and had little to do with his ex from then on. I wanna say he gave her the bird when it came to child support.

His mother, Joyce, was a wonderful woman. A Newcomb graduate and New Orleanian, who later in life remarried after her husband passed, moved to Baton Rouge when New Orleans breaking records for murder. She was the most intimidating elderly woman you would want to meet. In her 70’s she was shrewd, generous to her grandson, sharp as a tack, and from what I saw, lived very frugally. I can remember Joyce bringing gallon jugs of water from Baton Rouge to my friend’s apartment on Nashville because she knew tap in the city was, and is, undrinkable.

That’s about the extent of good things anyone will say about them, probably. I met a good bit of his relatives over the years and it seems the scumbag gene skipped generations with their family.

We went to Idlewild on the weekends a lot to go shoot and raise hell. The houses, the chapel, the game room with any mount from Africa you can imagine, the closets still full with his ridiculous wardrobe,….it was all surreal.

One weekend, Leander’s grandson’s, who I think, lived on the property at that time, showed us an itemized expense sheet of a safari he had just returned from in Africa. It was more than a lot of doctors and lawyers were making a year in the 90’s.

Moreso than the amount of money he had just blown on shooting a bunch of shite he wasn’t gonna eat, and that his grandfather had already shot and had full body mounts of in his game room (which was actually just another house on the property), I was dumbfounded by how disinterested he was to discuss any of it, and how he moved the conversation to something else that, to me, seemed mundane/boring by comparison. I want to say it was pictures of his daughter at an equestrian tournament.

This has me Oweo’ing pretty frickin hard, I’ll admit it. I apologize. But, to answer the question of where did he spend all the money, I’d say he didn’t. The amount of generational wealth he left for his descendants, with which they were willed trust funds to live leisurely and with little regard for stress or reality, is his legacy. fricking people he didn’t know from the grave. He’d probably be proud.

I never got the impression any of them had any affinity for the man or discussion about what he did. With that said, none of them were beatin’ themselves up over it.