Michael Skupin
| Michael Skupin | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Michael David Skupin January 29, 1962 Farmington Hills, Michigan, U.S. |
| Residence | Milford, Michigan, U.S. |
| Other names | Michael Landry |
| Education | Western Michigan University (B.B.A.) |
| Occupation | Software publisher, television personality, copier salesperson |
| Television |
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| Criminal charge | Possession of child pornography, larceny by conversion |
| Criminal penalty | One to four years in prison, four years probation, $31,800 restitution |
| Children | 7 |
| Website | www |
| Conviction(s) | November 18, 2016 (jury trial, possession of child pornography) November 21, 2016 (no contest plea, larceny by conversion) |
Michael David Skupin (born January 29, 1962) is an American software publisher and television personality, best known for competing on two different seasons of the reality competition show Survivor. His first time on the show, he became the first person ever to be medically evacuated from the game after he fell hands first into a fire.
Skupin was born January 29, 1962, in Farmington Hills, Michigan. When he was only four, his father died of cancer. His mother, Mary Louise Skupin, went on to marry Clarence Landry when Michael was ten. Michael then took his stepfather's last name, though Clarence had never officially adopted him.
While in high school, Michael Landry became a star athlete, playing tight end for the football team at Brother Rice High School in Birmingham. During his junior year, Landry was expelled for throwing water balloons at some students at a neighboring all-girls high school. For his senior year, he transferred to St. Mary's Preparatory in Orchard Lake where, even before his expulsion, he was offered a spot on their football team playing both tight end and linebacker.
After high school, Landry tried to enroll at Western Michigan University (WMU), but he was initially denied acceptance due to the fact that no Social Security number existed for a "Michael Landry." He reapplied to WMU under his birth name, Michael Skupin, and was accepted. In 1984, Skupin graduated with a B.B.A. degree.
Skupin's first job after college was selling copiers for 3M. In 1992, he teamed up with a childhood friend, Greg Swan, to found Rhinosoft Interactive, a software company based out of Wisconsin. In 2000, Rhinosoft was involved in a controversy when some CD-ROM versions of the Bible, published by Skupin and Swan, were distributed into various boxes of cereal as part of a promotion by General Mills. The cereal company, which had been distributing computer games and dictionaries on CD-ROM as part of the same promotion, claimed that it was unaware of the presence of the Bible CD-ROM's. General Mills apologized for the move, stating that it was against company policy to "advance any particular set of religious beliefs," although Swan insisted that the company had indeed been aware of the disc-based Bibles all along.
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