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Current Events –
George Zimmerman Family:’We’re The Victims”
Current Events
These outlandish claims came after George Zimmerman and his brother, Robert, took advantage of 3 complimentary nights at a the luxurious Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Miami.
Lounging between 2 free hotel rooms, the siblings racked up $3,600 in expenses by buying dinner for 10 at the hotel restaurant, getting pampered several times at the spa and buying Mercedes-Benz cologne at the gift shop as they filmed an interview with CNN in February. If that wasn’t enough, the spoiled brothers, who claim they never get to have any fun anymore, racked up hundreds of dollars in room service charges, cleaned-out their minibars and made regular use of the hotel laundry service.
Robert laid around all day getting wasted, smoking cigarettes and chowing down on shrimp. “You and your brother are evil!” a CNN producer screamed at Robert Zimmerman, as the news network initially refused to pay the bloated tab. George wouldn’t even speak to GQ Magazine until they agreed to comp him a week at a hotel.
The Zimmermans have descended into debt and depression since George fatally shot and killed unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Florida.
That day is like “9/11 for my family,” Robert explained to a Fox News producer, who wanted an interview on the second anniversary of the shooting earlier this year.
“We can’t travel together that day — it’s like having the whole royal family travel together!” he told the cable network on the anniversary.
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In the forthcoming GQ Magazine interview, brothers George and Robert, sister Grace, and parents Bob and Gladys all consider themselves the real “victims” of the shooting. Robert said he believes his brother suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder and that George’s life has been hell due to him remaining involuntarily unemployed since the shooting.
George has $2.5 million in debt and legal fees, while his parents, who were forced to leave their suburban Orlando home, have racked up thousands in hotel costs and rent at a safe house somewhere near Lake Mary, Florida.
George’s dad, Bob, says the family knows they are in grave danger everyday of their lives.
“I am sure there are people, you know, some young kid that has nothing going for him, but he’s able to get a pistol, wants to make a name for himself. ‘Maybe I’ll kill one of the Zimmermans. Maybe George, maybe one of his family members. I’ll be famous.’ You know? That happens,” he told GQ. “And that’s what worries me.”
The family, which owned a total of 10 guns combined before the shooting, was on edge right after Trayvon was killed. When Grace saw the news, though George had yet to be named, she yelled out, “We need more guns!” and bought another pistol, GQ reported.
Now the Zimmermans have escape routes planned and “go bags” packed with essential electronics and documents in the event of a threat. Robert sleeps with a gun nearby and has not been able to have a normal relationship since the shooting.
Robert Zimmerman told GQ he realizes he’ll “never be able to f*ck somebody without thinking, What’s going to happen? Are they recording me? Did they leave their laptop open? Is this being broadcast live? Is this person 2 weeks later going to find out who my brother is and then sell something? Are they going to say you raped them?”
Oh, boo hoo. The poor, poor Zimmermans!
