Posted on 10/29/2025 11:51:16 PM PDT by nickcarraway
"I figured I’d see what all the hype was about"
Mangione, who was arrested in December for allegedly shooting and killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson outside of a Manhattan hotel, has turned into somewhat of a cultural phenomenon over the last year, earning himself a large base of fans, some campaigning for his freedom, while others praise his looks.
The suspect has spent the last 10 months at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, where he awaits charges for second-degree murder. He turned 27 in May, and now, a letter that he wrote to an undisclosed recipient reflecting on his birthday has been leaked online.
In the letter, Mangione reflects on the 27 things he’s grateful for – one of them being Taylor Swift’s ‘Cardigan’ that was later stuck out and replaced with Lil Durk‘s ‘Dis Ain’t What U Want’. Mangione wrote: “Last week, I downloaded a bunch of Taylor Swift and Charli XCX onto my tablet.”
He went on to explain: “I’ve never really listened to either of them, but some phony list of my favorite music circulated on social media… Rather than be a buzzkill and set the record straight, I figured I’d see what all the hype was about. So I’m walking laps on the top tier of my unit listening to ‘cardigan’ by TSwift, when one of the other inmates, ‘King,’ calls me over to see what I’m listening to. He scolds me for awhile, then replaces all my music. Now I listen to Lil Durk.”
You can read Luigi Mangione’s full letter below.
As a result of Mangione’s rise to infamy, the internet has begun fan-casting actors to portray the suspect in a hypothetical film. One name that is often brought up to play Mangione is Dave Franco, who earlier this year confirmed that he’s received countless pitches for a film.
When asked if by The Hollywood Reporter if anyone has compared Mangione to the actor, Franco’s wife Alison Brie quipped: “Anyone? Do you mean everyone?” Franco added: “I have never received more texts in my life about anything. Anyone who has my phone number has reached out about it.”
However, Brie and Franco were quick to clarify that “no official offers” have been made.
Talk of Franco’s potential casting as Luigi Mangione comes after two documentaries based on the murder suspect were announced in December. Stephen Robert Morse, known for his work on Netflix’s documentary Amanda Knox, is working on one that will focus on those directly involved in the murder, including Thompson’s family and Mangione himself. That production will also explore the controversial nature of private healthcare.
The other will come from the production companies Anonymous Content and Jigsaw Prods and the acclaimed director Alex Gibney, who has made documentaries about Scientology, WikiLeaks and Enron. That project will examine the wider context of the killing and how culture reacted to the events surrounding it.
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So, if you murder someone, you get to hang out and do whatever you want all day long?
How does he get 2nd degree when he planned, stalked, executed and ran like hell afterwards?
Such things are just symptoms of a culture that evicts God, and His Word.
Worse will come...
“Luigi Mangione listened to...Taylor Swift before being confronted by an inmate”
Even prison Inmates have STANDARDS.
“How does he get 2nd degree when he planned, stalked, executed and ran like hell afterwards?”
High-end parents. The REAL LOSERS are poorer White guys who don’t have that luck, or the luck of being DEI and thus immune from punishment.
Blame NYC’s twisted electorate and judicial system.
Not regular tablets, but ones appropriate for prison.
It sounds like he understood whom he must like.
Nailed it. God out = nihilism in.
He must be gay. That would explain his violent tendancies.
The justice ‘system’ is laughable
I believe the last Republican Governor, Pataki, campaigned on bringing back the death penalty. After he was elected, he went all wobbly and converted to a democrat light.
You know what I see here? Mangione suddenly likes Taylor Swift we find out? That’s a message to the females on the jury pool. This whole story is BS.
Those girls are supposed to be thinking of him sitting alone in his sad little jail cell, listening to Taylor Swift.
Your memory is inaccurate. George Pataki reinstated the death penalty in 1995. Subsequently seven men were sentenced to death. New York’s highest court rules with the death penalty response unconstitutional in 2004. The situation on Pataki. I guess part of the problem is in 1994 voters were really concerned about crime, but his crime went down they lost their fervor for the death penalty.
The law was poorly written, was overturned by a leftist court and the democrat controlled legislature was only too happy to let it die and not fix the language. Pataki never fought for it and neither did Joe Bruno who was Senate majority leader at the time. They wobbled and NYS went from purple to deep blue.
You really think there was anything Pataki, or anyone else could do to make it legal today? Crime went down. In 1994 NYers were angry about crime, then crime went down.
Is he definitely only being charged with second degree murder? Because if he is, the jury has to find him not guilty. It’s very clear he commuted first degree murder, so he is completely not guilty of committing second degree murder.
” campaigned on bringing back the death penalty.”
It was passed, but it had so many conditions and loopholes it was never going to be used. Typical RINO crap. It was repealed by the Democrats.
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