Luka Magnotta

Quick Facts

Full Name	Luka Magnotta
Occupation	Criminal
Date Of Birth	Jul 24, 1982(1982-07-24)
Age	42
Birthplace	Scarborough
Country	Canada
Birth City	Ontario
Horoscope	Cancer

Luka Magnotta Biography

Luka Magnotta is one of the most popular and richest Criminal who was born on July 24, 1982 in Scarborough, Ontario, Canada. An ex-adult film star from Canada, he became the target of an international manhunt after a video of him shooting Lin Jun, a Chinese student, online. He fled Canada and was later arrested in Germany.

He and He and Keith Jesperson are two notorious Canadian murderers. were two well-known Canadian killers.

Magnotta was born Eric Clinton Kirk Newman on July 24, 1982, in Scarborough, Ontario, the son of Anna Yourkin and Donald Newman. He was the first of their three children. According to him, his mother was obsessed with cleanliness, would routinely lock her children out of the house, and once put her children’s pet rabbits out in the cold to freeze to death. His father was diagnosed with schizophrenia in 1994, after which he divorced Magnotta’s mother, leading Magnotta to move in with his grandmother, Phyllis.

Luka Rocco Magnotta (born Eric Clinton Kirk Newman; July 24, 1982) is a Canadian murderer who was convicted of killing and dismembering Chinese international student Jun Lin before mailing Lin’s hands and feet to elementary schools and federal political party offices. This act gained international notoriety. After a video depicting the murder was posted online in May 2012, Magnotta fled from Canada, becoming the subject of an Interpol Red Notice and prompting an international manhunt. In June 2012, he was apprehended in Berlin while reading news about himself at an Internet café. In December 2014, after eight days of deliberations, a jury convicted him of first-degree murder. He was previously sought by animal rights groups for allegedly uploading videos of himself killing kittens.

His parents were Donald Newman, and Anna Yourkin.

Luka Magnotta Net Worth

Luka Magnotta is one of the richest Criminal from Canada. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Luka Magnotta 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

In 2003, he began to appear in adult videos. He was also a pin-up model in Fab magazine’s 2005 issue.

Canadian Press named him Canadian Newsmaker Of The Year 2012, causing much controversy in the press and the general public.

Jun Lin (Chinese: 林俊 ; pinyin: Lín Jùn ) (December 30, 1978 – May 24/25, 2012), also known as Justin Lin, was an international student from Wuhan and an undergraduate in the engineering and computer science faculty at Concordia University. He worked part-time as a convenience store clerk in Pointe-Saint- Charles. Lin had been studying in Montreal since July 2011. Lin moved into a Griffintown-area apartment with a roommate on May 1.

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Who is Luka Magnotta Dating?

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Magnotta is alleged to be the person behind a series of videos of animal cruelty involving cats which were posted to YouTube beginning in 2010, including one titled 1 boy 2 kittens which showed a man deliberately suffocating two kittens with a vacuum cleaner. In January 2011, a private Facebook group identified Magnotta as the person in these videos; animal rights activist groups subsequently offered a $5,000 reward for bringing him to justice. He was initially dubbed the “Vacuum Kitten Killer” by the online animal activists. In February 2011, Toronto police began investigating Magnotta in connection with the videos after receiving a complaint from the Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. The OSPCA also contacted the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in England, the FBI, and police in Montreal due to the suspect’s extensive travels.

Facts & Trivia

Luka Ranked on the list of most popular Criminal. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Canada. Luka Magnotta celebrates birthday on July 24 of every year.

On June 8, 2012, the Los Angeles Police Department announced they were in contact with Montreal police to determine if Magnotta was involved in the then-unsolved murder and decapitation of Hervey Medellin, known as the “Hollywood Sign Murder”, but later announced that they did not believe he was involved in the crime. The animal rights group Last Chance for Animals claimed responsibility for posting YouTube videos linking him to the Hollywood Sign Murder in an attempt to lure Magnotta into contacting them. LCA offered a $7500 reward for information leading to his arrest while he was on the run. On November 16, 2015, Gabriel Campos-Martinez was sentenced to 25 years to life for the murder.

Where is Luka Magnotta today?

​Luka Magnotta He is now serving a life sentence in Quebec’s maximum- security Port-Cartier Institution , where he married another incarcerated person in 2017. His mother, Anna Tourkin, called for his release in 2020 due to a COVID-19 outbreak at the prison, but all requests for his release were denied.

Why is Luka Magnotta famous?

Luka Rocco Magnotta (born Eric Clinton Kirk Newman; July 24, 1982) is a convicted Canadian murderer. He was convicted of murdering and dismembering Jun Lin and mailing his severed limbs to different political parties and elementary schools. Lin was a Chinese international student.

Did Luka Magnotta change his name?

Magnotta was born in the summer of 1982 as Eric Clinton Kirk Newman. He was named after the famous actors Clint Eastwood, who has been involved in plenty of cool movies, and Kirk Douglas, pictured above. He did, however, legally change his name to Luka Rocco Magnotta in 2006.

What nationality was Luka Magnotta?

Canadian

How long is a life sentence in Canada?

Life imprisonment in Canada is a criminal sentence for certain offences that lasts for the offender’s life. Parole is possible, but even if paroled, the offender remains under the supervision of Corrections Canada for their lifetime, and can be returned to prison for parole violations.