Timothy Dexter didn't really seem to mind, though. He would even furnish his home with a library. "He wanted the library just so that he could look intelligent and wealthy," says CNN's Jarrett Bellini. The house's furniture and wallpaper was stained. It smelled like an out of bad odor. His wife moved out.
It is perhaps the wildest story yet. The story of a man who did everything wrong but somehow came out even better every time
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices