Alleged assassin Luigi Mangione was reportedly beaten up by a group of men in dresses during a 2024 trip to Thailand.
Mangione, who allegedly murdered UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on Dec. 4, 2024, traveled to Thailand months earlier in May, according to the New York Times.
While in Thailand, he used WhatsApp to keep his friends abreast of his adventures overseas. One day, he texted that he’d temporarily lost his phone in a taxi.
“On another night, he wrote, he had been beaten up by seven ‘ladyboys,’ a commonly used local term for transgender women that can be seen as derogatory,” the Times notes.
In the text, he included a photo of his scratched-up arm.
Luigi Mangione getting pounded by 7 Thai ladyboys was not on my bingo card pic.twitter.com/4nkJvDN7E0
— Duchess of Meme (@DuchessOfMeme) October 21, 2025
Mangione infamously killed Thompson out of extreme anger over America’s healthcare system.
Yet he “was never insured by UnitedHealthcare, according to the company, and no evidence has emerged of any personal disputes over insurance coverage,” according to the Times.
But the Times does note that in July of 2023, the American healthcare system performed surgery on him for a “longstanding back pain from a spinal condition that worsened after a surfing incident.”
The surgery was an “unexpected success,” to the point that he no longer needed any pain meds within days of the operation.
“The surgery cleared the way for his sprawling tour of Asia in early 2024,” according to the Times.
During the trip, he met an American expat named Christian Sacchini, whom the Times notes had moved to Thailand to play professional soccer.
Mangione complained to Sacchini about how “effed up” the healthcare system in America was, especially price-wise.
Sacchini told the Times that the young man was especially shocked after learning how cheap an MRI is in Thailand compared to the U.S.
“He couldn’t believe it,” the expat said.
The price range for a Chest MRI in the United States is typically between $500 and $7,900, while in Thailand, the cost for a Chest MRI is approximately $300.
— ww (@Wodonx) May 28, 2023
While abroad, Mangione also displayed a fascination and deep respect for the Unabomber, Theodore John Kaczynski.
“In conversations with others, in a journal entry, and in a social media post, Mr. Mangione wrote and spoke of his interest in Mr. Kaczynski, who believed that modern-day technology was harmful for individual freedom, as well as the natural environment, and had led to widespread human suffering,” according to the Times.
Despite conceding that Kaczynski was “rightfully imprisoned” for his bombing campaign, Mangione wrote that it was impossible to ignore “how prescient many of his predictions about modern society turned out.”
After Mangione returned to the States in July of 2024, he began writing in his journal about alleged injustice, especially in the American healthcare system.
“I finally feel confident about what I will do,” he wrote in one August entry. “The details are finally coming together. And I don’t feel any doubt about whether it’s right/justified. I’m glad — in a way — that I’ve procrastinated, bc it allowed me to learn more about UHC. The target is insurance. It checks every box.”
In his journal, he also mentioned deciding not to go ahead with a plan he called “KMD.”
“KMD would’ve been an unjustified catastrophe that would be perceived mostly as sick, but more importantly, unhelpful,” he wrote. “Would do nothing to spread awareness/improve people’s lives.”
It’s still not clear what “KMD” stood for.
In another entry, he complained that the problem with Kaczynski’s so-called revolutionary act was that it had killed innocent people — many of them.
“He crosses the line from revolutionary anarchist to terrorist — the worst thing a person can be,” Mangione wrote. “This is the problem with most militants that rebel against — often real — injustices; they commit an atrocity, either whose horror outweighs the impact of their message, or whose distance from their message prevents normies from connecting the dots.”
“Consequently, the revolutionary idea becomes associated with extremism, incoherence, or evil — an idea that no reasonable member of society could approve of,” he added.
And in one final entry, he wrote about the investor conference that Thompson would attend on Dec. 4.
“This investor conference is a true windfall,” he wrote in October. “It embodies everything wrong with our health system, and — most importantly — the message becomes self-evident.”
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V. Saxena is a staff writer with a decade of experience as a professional writer, and a lifetime of experience as an avid news junkie. He holds a degree in computer technology from Purdue University. Saxena also contributes to BizPac Review.
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