Uh oh, Spaghetti Oโs!
Dane Cookโs brother stole $12 million from the comedian and hid bricks of cash inside pasta sauce, a new documentary reveals.
Premiering on Sept. 29, โFunny Money: The Dane Cook Storyโ delves into the financial drama that absorbed the blockbuster comedian in 2008, when his half-brother and business manager, Darryl McCauley, was charged with embezzling at least $12 million from Cook.
McCauley pleaded guilty to larceny, embezzlement and other charges (along with his wife, Erika) and was ordered to pay back the $12 million. He served a six-year prison sentence and then disappeared entirely. โWhere is he? What has he done? How does this end?โ Cook narrates in the documentary trailer.
In โFunny Money,โ Cook says growing up, he and McCauley both wanted to be stand-up comedians. McCauley ultimately became a corrections officer, while Cook went on to become one of the most commercially successful comics of the 2000s. Cook describes McCauley in the documentary as โa person who spent so much time pretending to be something he wasnโt.โ
Working as the handler of his finances, McCauley began withdrawing sums of $20,000, $50,000 and even $100,000 from Cookโs accounts without him noticing. โI was starting to feel something that I couldnโt really identify,โ Cook admits in the trailer. โWas he hiding it in different places, stockpiling this money?โ
Finally, it was revealed that McCauley had stolen a massive amount of money from his famous brother, hiding piles of cash in a safe and even wrapping it in plastic before stashing it inside pasta sauce containers โ a storyline straight out of โThe Bear.โ
While an investigation determined that McCauley had embezzled at least $12 million, Cook believes the amount could be even higher. โI do believe that thereโs money out there,โ he says in the trailer. โI believe thereโs people that know more.โ
โFunny Money: The Dane Cook Storyโ will be available to stream on demand beginning Sept. 29.
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