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Oliver Sipple, who saved then President Gerald Ford's life from an assassin, was subsequently outed as gay by the press, disowned by his family and ultimately died regretting saving the President

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Oliver Sipple, a veteran who saved Gerald Ford from being shot. Subsequently outed as gay, his family disowned him. He sued the media outlets that outed him to no avail. He developed schizophrenia and alcoholism. Found dead at 47, he never met Ford and his funeral was attended by 30 people

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1. Warren Buffett got so mad that his son's adopted daughter appeared on the documentary ''The One Percent'' that he disowned her and sent her a letter that said she had ''never been considered a real family member'' and had ''not been legally or emotionally adopted'' by him.

2. Kathleen Kennedy, sister of JFK, was disowned by her family- especially her mother- after marrying an Anglican. After being widowed during WWII, she then chose to marry a divorcee, but died in a plane crash. Only her father went to her funeral.

3. In 1965, Kris Kristofferson was given an assignment to teach English literature at West Point. Instead, he decided to leave the Army and pursue songwriting. His family disowned him because of this decision and they never reconciled with him

4. Mariah Carey's mother was disowned by her family for marrying a black man

5. Oliver Sipple, a man who thwarted an assassination attempt on Gerald Ford. After being outed in the press as gay by Harvey Milk, he was disowned by his family, became an alcoholic and died alone of pneumonia.

6. Oliver Sipple, a marine veteran who saved the life of President Ford during an attempted assassination in 1975, but would die in anguish after the media revealed his homosexuality when reporting on his heroic deeds, leaving his family to disown him.

7. After Anna died in 1882, Douglass remarried. His new wife was a white abolitionist from an abolitionist family but they disowned her anyway for the interracial marriage.

8. Sadism (the act of receiving pleasure from inflicting pain on another) was named after an 18th century nobleman by the name of Marquis de Sade. He was such a sexual deviant that his own family disowned him and turned him over to authorities. He passed away in an insane asylum.