Inside the VERY extravagant wedding of son of disgraced legal heir Alex Murdaugh... as he asks for cash to renovate his new house
The only surviving son of disgraced legal scion Alex Murdaugh has tied the knot in a lavish celebration at a former hunting estate in South Carolina - and is asking for contributions to pay for his marital home as a wedding gift.
Buster Murdaugh, 32, married his long-term girlfriend Brooklynn White, 29, in an extravagant ceremony surrounded by family and friends in the heart of the Lowcountry on Saturday May 3.
The legal dynasty heir opted for a monochrome outfit, sporting a white blazer and shirt with black pants and a bow tie.
A huge 'RMA' was emblazoned across his cumberbund, spelling out the initials of his full name Richard Alexander Murdaugh - a name he shares with his killer father.
His bride, lawyer Brooklynn, looked radiant in a white off-the-shoulder gown with a white and blue floral bouquet.
When the night fell, the bride and groom and their guests donned white cowboy hats.
The couple chose the exclusive Coosaw Point - a luxury riverside community - for their nuptials, where a 50-person wedding will set a couple back around $26,000 for the venue costs alone.
Based on Lady's Island - just minutes from downtown Beaufort and Hilton Head - the venue's website boasts amazing river views, vast green spaces and plenty of southern charm.
The couple opted for an outdoor ceremony on the lawns, followed by a reception in a huge tent decorated with beautiful blue and white florals and green tablecloths.
It's not clear how much the extravagant ceremony set the couple back but DailyMail.com has learned that mandatory costs include a $10,000 venue rental fee, $2,500 wedding coordinator fee and starting price of around $100 per person for food and drinks. The venue also charges for staffing and rental of items such as seating and linen.
Photos of the wedding show the couple also splashed out on multiple other vendors including two live bands, a wedding planner, a photographer, a florist who provided a breathtaking floral arch and a baker who created an elegant four-tier white wedding cake.
Notably absent from the nuptials were Buster's immediate family members after his father Alex notoriously murdered his mom Maggie, 52, and younger brother Paul, 24, on the wealthy family's sprawling estate in the summer of 2021.
It was June 7, 2021 when the mother and son were found shot dead by the dog kennels on the 18-acre estate at Moselle.
Alex called 911 claiming he had come home to find their bloodied bodies.
But his lies quickly unraveled.
Three months later, the powerful attorney orchestrated a botched murder-for-hire plot on himself, so that Buster would get a life insurance windfall.
Days later, he checked into rehab for a decades-long opioid addiction.
It later emerged that, days before the murders, he had been exposed for stealing millions of dollars from his law firm clients.
Alex is now behind bars serving life in prison for the brutal murders - as well as for a slew of financial crimes.
He continues to claim his innocence in his family's murders.
It was not immediately clear which of Buster's surviving family members attended his happy day.
But Buster's new wife doesn't appear to have been put off by the cursed Murdaugh family name.
Her social media shows she has already proudly taken her new husband's name, becoming Brooklynn White Murdaugh.
As part of their celebrations, the couple listed three wedding registries, asking their guests for contributions to their 'House Project Fund,' as well as a selection of homeware items to furnish it.
A choice of $85 patterned tissue box covers and a $545 Mahjong game kit feature on one of the wish lists.
None of the guests have yet opted to splurge $999.95 on a wanted Dyson Robot vacuum or a $69 bottle of 'Glam wash' laundry detergent.
The newlyweds also appear to share the Murdaugh family's love of four-legged friends, with several dog-themed items making it onto the registries.
Among the items the couple asked for from their guests was a gold-colored, hand gilded dog head coat hook retailing for $95.
A patterned wooden box with a gold dog perched on top will set one generous guest back $648.
While a bronze golden retriever lamp retailing for $415 also made the list.
Famously, it was the Murdaughs' dogs who helped nail Alex for the murders of his wife and son.
At his murder trial, a damning cellphone video of a dog was played to the court.
The video had been taken by Paul to send to his friend minutes before he was shot dead.
The newlyweds also appear to share the Murdaugh family's love of dogs, with several dog-themed items making it onto the registries
A gold-colored dog head coat hook retailing for $95 and a box with a gold dog perched on top for $648 made it onto the list
A choice of $85 patterned tissue box covers and a $545 Mahjong game kit feature on the wish list
None of the wedding guests have yet opted to splurge $999.95 on a Dyson Robot vacuum or a $69 bottle of 'Glam wash' laundry detergent
In the background, Alex's distinctive voice was heard yelling at the family's beloved dog Bubba who had just caught a chicken.
Unbeknown to Alex, the bombshell video proved he had lied about his alibi for that night - and crucially placed him at the crime scene at the time of the murders.
Despite the evidence, Buster stood by his father during his murder trial, attending court for every day of his six-week case.
Brooklynn was also there every day by her long-term partner's side.
When Buster took the stand to testify in his father's defense, he revealed that he was with Brooklynn when his dad called to tell him his mom and brother were dead.
Brooklynn grew up in Rock Hill, South Carolina, before attending the University of Alabama where she earned a bachelor's degree in political science, her LinkedIn shows.
She then returned to her home state to study at University of South Carolina School of Law.
She got her bar admission in 2022 and now works as an associate at Lyles & Associates law firm.
There, she specializes in construction litigation, insurance litigation, insurance coverage litigation and estate planning, according to the company website.
It is not clear where Brooklynn and Buster met but he also attended the University of South Carolina School of Law - before he was kicked out for plagiarism.
Buster comes from a long line of prominent lawyers with the Murdaugh family wielding power over the Lowcountry justice system for years.
For three generations, a Murdaugh held the powerful position as solicitor in the 14th Judicial Circuit solicitor's office.
Buster's dad Alex carried on the legal tradition working for the local prosecutor's office and at his law firm PMPED.
But the family empire came crashing down following the brutal murders of Maggie and Paul.
The slayings also shone a light on other scandals connected to the powerful family.
In 2018 - four years before the murders - the family housekeeper Gloria Satterfield died in a sudden 'trip and fall' at the Moselle estate. Alex then stole $4m from her sons in a wrongful death lawsuit settlement.
That same year, Paul was charged with causing a boat crash in which his friend Mallory Beach was killed.
And Buster's name was also linked to the death of 19-year-old Stephen Smith.
In July 2015, Smith was found dead from blunt force trauma to the head on a road in Hampton County.
His death was ruled a hit-and-run at the time but Smith's mom Sandy has never accepted this conclusion.
There was no debris or skid marks pointing to a collision and she has long suspected Smith was killed as a hate crime because he was gay.
In a bombshell 2016 letter to the FBI, Sandy begged the bureau to look into Buster as a suspect in his murder.
The two young men had been classmates at school and rumors had long swirled through the Lowcountry that they had been in a relationship.
Just two weeks after Maggie and Paul's murders, the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division opened a new investigation into Smith's death.
His death was later ruled a homicide.
Buster has never been charged in connection to the case.
He finally broke his silence over the allegations in an interview for a FOX Nation documentary in the fall of 2023, blasting the rumors and denying any involvement in his murder.
He also denied ever having 'anything to do with [Smith] on a physical level in any regard.'
The interview also marked his first and only comments to date - other than on the witness stand - about his mom and brother's murders at his dad's hands.
Buster insisted - many months on from Alex's conviction - that he still believed his dad was innocent.
It is unclear if the father and son are still in contact today - or if Murdaugh, who owes millions of dollars to his financial crime victims, picked out a gift for the new bride and groom.
Hashtags
Try Our AI Features
Explore what Daily8 AI can do for you:
Comments
No comments yet...
Related Articles
The Independent
31 minutes ago
- The Independent
CNN responds after police detain correspondent Jason Carroll during LA protests coverage
CNN correspondent Jason Carroll was briefly detained by Los Angeles Police Department officers on Monday night while covering the ongoing protests against Donald Trump's immigration raids, prompting the network to respond that it was 'pleased' the matter was resolved quickly. With much of the national media's attention centered squarely on LA now that the president has mobilized the National Guard and Marines to respond to the anti-ICE demonstrations, Carroll was reporting from one of the protests in the city. Shortly after wrapping up a live dispatch during anchor Laura Coates' broadcast, however, Carroll found himself with his hands behind his back as law enforcement officers began leading him away. Noticing the situation, Coates stopped her discussion with CNN analyst John Miller to ask Carroll what was happening. 'I am being detained,' the reporter exclaimed, his mic still live. 'I'm being detained, Laura.' After Carroll asked the officers if he was being arrested, one of the cops could be heard telling him that he was being led away from the protest scene and would not be allowed to return. 'We're letting you go. You can't come back. If you come back, you will be arrested,' the officer stated. 'Because then if you come back in, then you go.' At that point, a man identifying himself as working for The New York Times told Carroll that his crew had 'video of you guys' and that if CNN needed it later, the network just needed to call the paper. 'Thank you, I appreciate that,' Carroll responded. The CNN correspondent would thank the officers after he was escorted behind the police perimeter before turning back to Coates to explain to viewers what happened. 'I was called over, and the officer told me to put my hands behind my back. I said, 'Am I being arrested?' And he said, 'You are being detained,'' Carroll told viewers. 'I was walked out of the area. They took down my information.' According to Carroll, it didn't matter to the officers that he had clarified that he was a reporter for CNN, as they were adamant that he needed to leave the scene. 'They did not put me in zip ties, but they did grab both my hands as I was escorted over to the side,' he continued. 'They said you are being detained while we lead you out of this area. You are not allowed to be in this area.' A CNN spokesperson confirmed to The Independent that Carroll and his production team were briefly held by the LAPD, adding that they were thankful that the situation was defused in a swift manner. 'A CNN reporting team was briefly detained in Los Angeles while capturing the events that were unfolding as police attempted to clear an area during the ongoing protests and police and military response in the city,' the spokesperson said in a statement. 'We are pleased the situation resolved quickly once the reporting team presented law enforcement with their CNN credentials. CNN will continue to report out the news unfolding in Los Angeles.' Meanwhile, Caroll said on Monday night that he wasn't too bothered by the police detaining him while he was reporting from the demonstration, noting that it essentially comes with the job. Still, he did say this came as a bit of a surprise. 'You take a lot of risks as the press. This is low on that scale of risks, but it is something that I wasn't expecting, simply because we've been out here all day,' he concluded. 'I've covered any number of protests, and normally the officers realize that the press is there doing a job.'
Daily Mail
33 minutes ago
- Daily Mail
My son was the victim of a shockingly cruel sex scam – his final words still haunt me
A grieving mom has revealed how her son's shocking last last words have continued to haunt her after his death. Jordan DeMay, from Michigan, was just 17 when two brothers sexually extorted him for $1000 before continuously goading him to kill himself. In March 2022, Samuel and Samson Ogoshi, now in their early 20s, posed as a female interest on Instagram, where they solicited nude images of Jordan. After receiving the pictures, the brothers threatened to leak them if Jordan refused to cough up money. When the student and athlete responded 'I'm kms rn [I'm kill myself right now] Bc of you [Because of you]', the brothers told him 'good', adding, 'I will make u commit suicide. I promise you I swear'. His mother Jennifer Buta has opened up to The Sun about how the heart wrenching last words from her beloved son have continued to linger. Jennifer, who still lives in Michigan, recalled receiving a text message from Jordan in the early hours of the fateful morning. The sweet message read 'Mother, I love you'. While at the time she assumed it was nothing more than an endearing phrase from her teenage son, she would later discover a truth that would leave her eternally 'shattered'. Jennifer told the publication, 'I live with the grief of losing my son every day, and only wish he'd come to me or his dad about what happened. We miss him every day'. 'Jordan's late-night text message had been a final goodbye' she added. Sexual extortion, or sextortion, involves persuading a person to send explicit photos online and then threatening to make the images public unless the victim pays money or engages in sexual favors. Jennifer is adamant that young people learn of the dangers of sextortion, and urged parents to talk to their children. She told The Sun: 'Now I am determined to raise awareness to stop other parents from going through this heartbreak. 'Sextortion needs to be talked about in schools... we need to be educating our kids about it and parents should be having those difficult conversations'. Sexual extortion carries a mandatory minimum sentence of 15 years in prison and a maximum penalty of 30 years. Last year Samuel and Samson Ogoshi were sentenced to 17½ years in federal prison after pleading guilty to sexually extorting not only Jordan, but other teenage boys and young men across the U.S. The siblings were accused of inducing Jordan to send a naked picture of himself and then extorting him. Under the name Dani Roberts, posing as a woman, the brothers wrote to Jordan stating: 'I have screenshot all ur followers and tags can send this nudes to everyone and also send your nudes to your family and friends until it goes viral. 'All you've to do is to cooperate with me and I won't expose you. 'Are you gonna cooperate with me?' the message read. 'Just pay me rn [right now] and I won't expose you'. When Jordan asked 'how much?' he was told he needed to fork over $1,000. After Jordan paid $300, Samuel Ogoshi continued to make further threats. 'Goodbye', Ogoshi wrote. 'Enjoy your miserable life.' It led Jordan to write a devastating message in response. 'I'm kms rn [I'm kill myself right now] Bc of you [Because of you].' 'Good,' Ogoshi wrote back. 'Do that fast. Or I'll make you do it. I swear to God.' 'I will make you regret you life,' the scammer went on. 'I will make u commit suicide. I promise you I swear'. Jordan took his life shortly afterwards. Jordan's mother, Jennifer, gave emotional testimony as she told the court during Samuel Ogoshi's sentencing that her son's death had left her 'shattered to the core, infuriated and trapped in grief'. She said the last text her son sent her was 'Mother I love you' - a text she awoke to and thought was endearing until she learned that Jordan had killed himself in his bedroom. 'What I thought was an endearing message from Jordan was his goodbye and his reassurance of his love for me,' she said. 'I would never have imagined that while I was asleep both of the defendants hid behind their screens and tortured Jordan for hours while he was alone'. Jordan DeMay's stepmother, Jessica DeMay, said during her tearful testimony that she and Jordan's other relatives will 'never again experience pure joy' because every happy moment would be tainted by 'a small cloud of sadness around it' that comes from Jordan's death. The teen's father, John DeMay, told the court he is haunted by the image of 'my son laying on his bed dead with a gunshot wound to his head'. 'Jordan was an amazing young man. He was resilient, he was smart, he was educated, he was an athlete. He was my only son. And you got to talk to him for the last time in his life. That's horrifying to me' he said. A federal judge sentenced Samuel and Samson Ogoshi after hearing how Jordan killed himself at his family's home in Marquette, in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. The Ogoshis, both from Lagos, Nigeria, had previously been extradited from Nigeria to stand trial. The brothers each pleaded guilty to conspiring to sexually exploit teenage boys. They were accused of running an international sextortion ring in which they posed as a woman, a scheme which resulted in Jordan's March 2022 suicide. The depraved brothers researched their victims to find out where they lived, went to school and worked, as well as the identities of their family and friends. Once they had the information, the brothers approached their targets, managing to solicit the minor victims to produce and send sexually explicit images of themselves. 'Once they received the images, they created a collage of pictures that included the sexually explicit image with other images of the victim and their school, family, and friends' prosecutors explained. 'The Ogoshi brothers threatened to disclose the collages to the family, friends, and classmates of the victim unless the victim agreed to pay money using online cash applications'. Federal prosecutors said their sextortion schemes targeted more than 100 victims, including Jordan. 'The sentencing of Samuel and Samson Ogoshi sends a thundering message' U.S. Attorney Mark Totten said in a statement. 'To criminals who commit these schemes: you are not immune from justice. We will track you down and hold you accountable, even if we have to go half-way around the world to do so'. U.S. District Judge Robert J. Jonker, who also sentenced the Ogoshis to five years of supervision following their release, said he would decide what restitution the brothers must make once he receives additional information. Before sentencing the brothers, Jonker said the case called for long sentences. He said both of the defendants had shown a 'callous disregard for life' while noting that the siblings had continued their sextortion scams even after learning that Jordan had killed himself. 'The continuation of the overall scheme even after there was certain knowledge that one individual, the individual in this case, took his own life points to the need for a high sentence' the judge said during sentencing. Jordan's family described him as 'the perfect mix of fun-loving and hard-working'. 'Jordan's smile could light up any room. Jordan's charm and beautiful smile were contagious, drawing people to him wherever he went and leaving a lasting impression on everyone he met. He wanted to connect and be everyone's friend and he did just that'. Samuel Ogoshi's attorney, Sean Tilton, said his client cooperated with authorities and had written a letter of apology. He said Samuel Ogoshi was remorseful 'and feels a tremendous sense of guilt of the loss of life in this case'. Samson Ogoshi´s attorney, Julia Kelly, said during his sentencing that her client was 'very remorseful' and that he was 18 when he began taking part in extortion and scam attempts. She said such scams are common in Lagos, Nigeria, and he saw those as a quick way to make money. Kelly wrote in a court filing that 'hundreds of people just like him were involved in similar scamming'. 'He was told who could get him a hacked account, how to make a fake profile, how to boost accounts and, because English is not his first language, was given a script of what to say' she wrote.
BreakingNews.ie
34 minutes ago
- BreakingNews.ie
Disney to pay £323.6m to take full control of streaming service Hulu
Disney will pay Comcast's NBCUniversal nearly 439 million dollars (£323.6 million) for its stake in Hulu, taking full control of the streaming service. The move closes out an appraisal process that has dragged on for a few years. Advertisement Disney said in November 2023 that it was acquiring a 33% stake in Hulu from Comcast for at least 8.6 billion (£6.34 billion). That amount reflected Hulu's guaranteed floor value of 27.5 billion dollars (£20.2 billion), according to a regulatory filing. Disney has run Hulu since 2019, when Comcast ceded its authority to Disney and effectively became a silent partner. Hulu began in 2007 and quickly evolved into as a service backed by entertainment conglomerates who hoped to stave off the internet with an online platform for their own TV shows. Advertisement Disney joined in 2009, planning to offer shows from ABC, ESPN and the Disney Channel. A decade later, Disney gained majority control of the business when it acquired 21st Century Fox. The entertainment giant said on Monday that its appraiser arrived at a valuation below the guaranteed floor value during the initial phase of the appraisal process, while NBCUniversal's appraiser arrived at a valuation substantially in excess of the guaranteed floor value. A third appraiser was brought in and concluded that The Walt Disney Co will pay 438.7 million dollars (£323.6 million) for the Hulu stake. 'We are pleased this is finally resolved. We have had a productive partnership with NBCUniversal, and we wish them the best of luck,' Disney chief executive Bob Iger said in a statement. Advertisement 'Completing the Hulu acquisition paves the way for a deeper and more seamless integration of Hulu's general entertainment content with Disney+ and, soon, with ESPN's direct-to-consumer product, providing an unrivalled value proposition for consumers.' The transaction is anticipated to close by July 24. It is not expected to impact Disney's fiscal 2025 adjusted earnings forecast. Shares in Disney rose slightly in morning trading on Tuesday.
