If you were a billionaire today and wanted to fake your own death it would be easier than ever. Just claim a heart attack or whatever, "long covid", case closed, no investigation or even an autopsy would happen. No need to go through a multiple years long charade of this whole submersible thing.
The “submersible thing” smells strongly of a grift. He was very likely siphoning the funds from it, funneling them to his wife’s “nonprofit” or just into his own pockets.
Look at the “sub” itself and just how bare bones it was. He didn’t employ shitskins and women because they were “inspiring;” he did it because they were cheap, and he cut corners in dozens of other areas.
Then the business closed when the sub imploded “with him onboard,” and it’ll almost assuredly come out later that the company had been “shockingly” bordering on bankrupt for some time because of the Rush’s “starry eyed incompetence,” but since he’s “dead,” no criminal inquiry will occur.
With no further investigation and the money vanishing with him at the time of his “death,” he can take up residence in Tel Aviv with frequent visits to whatever latest iteration of Epstein’s Island.
TBH if he just wanted to grift he could have sold pre-order tickets, never built the sub at all, with shitty materials or otherwise (100% savings!) and just kept the money. Happens all the time with Kickstarter.
That said grifting and exiting a corporation aren't even good excuses for faking your death anyway. The barely solvent company could be dissolved without him paying a dime via bankruptcy and he could open a new company doing the same shit and probably even subsume the old company's assets in a couple of days.
So he could have done the grift, exited the company without any debt, or both without having to fake his death.
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