George Gregory Plitt, Jr. (November 3rd, 1977 – January 17th, 2015) was an American fitness model and actor. He starred in the Bravo television series Work Out. He died at age 37 when he was struck by a train locomotive while filming a video..
Greg Plitt was originally from Lutherville, Maryland. His mother was an interior designer, and his father was a real estate agent. Plitt had an older sister who attended the United States Naval Academy. Plitt said that he had been a fitness buff since his father bought a home gym when Plitt was in sixth grade; he was further inspired after seeing how his older sister changed after her first year in the Naval Academy.
George Gregory Plitt, Jr. (November 3rd, 1977 – January 17th, 2015)
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Greg Plitt has appeared on the covers of more than 100 fitness magazines and 25 romance novels in the last four years. He is undisputedly America’s No. 1 male fitness model, appearing on the cover of at least one magazine every month for the last four and a half years starting in 2007. Greg won the 2009 Star Physique Award for Best Male Physique on TV. Men’s Fitness magazine named Greg one of America’s 25 Fittest Americans alongside Lance Armstrong.
Plitt was a graduate of Gilman School, Class of 1996, in Baltimore, Maryland, where he was on the football, wrestling, and golf teams. He was also a graduate of the United States Military Academy, Class of 2000, and was both Airborne and Ranger qualified. Plitt served in the US Army as a Ranger for five years..He was a certified personal trainer in Los Angeles,. He was a member of the official MET-Rx athlete and was awarded the MET-Rx Athlete of the Year award for 2012.[4] He was the author of the workout program MFT28 as featured by Bodybuilding.com and appeared on covers and/or in editorials for Maxim, AXL, American Health & Fitness, Flaunt, Men's Fitness, Muscle & Fitness, Men's Health, FitnessRx for Men, Instinct Magazine, and Men's Exercise, among others.
Plitt compared his work as a physical trainer to his work training military recruits:
That transformation that you see when someone becomes a soldier; many of them come in with real bad attitudes.... they start changing their ways and they become the men they always wanted to be. Then other soldiers start looking up to them as role models. Then they're proud and they hold their heads high. That's more gratifying than anything I've done. That's what's so cool about it — to be able to train somebody and transform them and bring out all of the great qualities that everyone possesses.
Gregg Plitt served in the US Army as a Ranger for five years
Plitt was a global spokesperson/model for Thierry Mugler's Angel Men and ICE*Men men's fragrances. He did TV commercials for Old Spice Body Wash, ESPN's Great Outdoor Games, Under Armour, MTV, Zoli Sinks, Gold's Gym Power Flex, Bowflex, and modeled for Under Armour, Old Navy Jeans, Calvin Klein, Modell's, and Skimpies, among others.
In his later career, he had several acting roles. Images of his body were used to create Dr. Manhattan's muscular physique in the 2009 film Watchmen, as well as the corpse of General Zod in Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice..
Greg Plitt - One of The Best Motivational Speeches Ever (very powerful!)
Greg Plitt - One of The Best Motivational Speeches Ever (very powerful!)
Greg Plitt - NO Steroids !
Plitt was struck and killed by a southbound Metrolink Antelope Valley Line train 268, led by Metrolink MP36PH-3C locomotive no. 888 in Burbank, California, on January 17, 2015, while running between the rails. The entire incident resulting in his death was recorded by an onboard event recorder camera mounted in the cab of the lead locomotive. After examining the video, police reportedly told TMZ Plitt may have been trying to outrace the train when it approached for a video he was shooting. He was shortly after knocked off the tracks and out of frame. He may have believed the train was coming up behind him on a parallel track, not the one he was on. The video was for a self-produced energy drink commercial.
Greg Plitt - NO Steroids !
He wanted to push things to the limit,' 'He's just like Superman.'
Greg Plitt - Spot Where He Died On Tracks?
Greg Plitt - Spot Where He Died On Tracks?
Greg Plitt, the bodybuilding model who was killed by a train while filming a sports advert video in LA, was allegedly trying to outrun it when he was struck
Metrolink officials told the LA Times that Plitt and his film crew did not have permission to be on the commuter railroad's right-of-way. 'He had no permit to be there,' said Jeff Lustgarten, a Metrolink spokesman. 'We have a whole process for people to go through if they want to be on our right-of-way, especially for film crews.'
Warren Coulter, who had been friends for 15 years with 37-year-old George Gregory Plitt Jr., who went by 'Greg' said: 'It was just a freaky moment where something got out of control.' Coulter told The Associated Press that Plitt was a West Point graduate and Army Ranger who had jumped out of planes more than 1,000 times in his life and had a taste for the extreme, but also treated everyone and everything with respect and care as befitted his military past. 'Everything Greg did, he did extremely well,' Coulter said. 'This isn't anyone who ever took a nap.'Coulter said he spoke to members of the film crew and says Plitt misjudged the situation and tripped and fell before he was hit by the train. 'No question of it, it was just a mistake,' Coulter said.
Investigators have ruled out a suicide, and were trying to determine who directed the men to film without a permit in a restricted area of the tracks Saturday 17th January 2015 afternoon.
They have interviewed witnesses who saw Plitt standing on the track even as the train's horn was blaring, Burbank police Sgt. Scott Meadows said.
It appears Plitt may have believed the train was on a nearby, parallel track, Meadows said.
'It's like a blind turn,' he said. 'When the train came, you might not be able to tell which set the train is on.'
Metrolink Antelope Valley Line
Metrolink Antelope Valley Line
Riding Metrolink Train #268 from Sylmar to Sun Valley Station....
Riding Metrolink Train #268 from Sylmar to Sun Valley Station....
Metrolink (SCAX) MP36PH-3 #888 - Gregg Plitt was also hit by this locomotive..
Metrolink Train SCAX 888 on 4/22/08
Metrolink Train SCAX 888 on 4/22/08
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Footage released by Minnesota officials shows how Mr Ruiz urged his girlfriend to shoot him with a gold-plated gun to see if a .50-caliber bullet could pass through a book. In the shocking clip, Mr Ruiz, 22, shows off the .50-caliber Desert Eagle handgun and the bullet he wanted Monalisa Perez to fire at him as he held a hardcover encyclopedia against his chest. The couple planned to post the video on YouTube..
Babe, I'm not doing this. I can't," Monalisa Perez told her boyfriend of six years, Pedro Ruiz, outside their home in Halstad, Minnesota, last June 2017.
Mr Ruiz shows off with his Desert Eagle hand gun...
News Portion of YouTube Stunt Gone Wrong Video
Perez, then 19 and pregnant with the couple's second child, was pointing a loaded .50-caliber Desert Eagle handgun at Ruiz who was holding an encyclopedia in front of his chest. A GoPro camera on the couple's car and another camera on a ladder were recording what was supposed to be Ruiz's first video stunt for the YouTube channel he had named "Damitboy." "The point of the video is, I just really want to see if a .50-caliber bullet can go through a book," Ruiz had said earlier. Now, Perez, who had previously refused to go along with the dangerous stunt, was getting cold feet again. "Come on," Ruiz said, urging his girlfriend to pull the trigger.
The Desert Eagle is a gas-operated, semi-automatic pistol known for chambering the .50 Action Express, the largest centerfire cartridge of any magazine-fed, self-loading pistol.
News Portion of YouTube Stunt Gone Wrong Video...
"Babe, if I kill you what's going to happen to my life," Perez said. "Like no, this isn't ok. I don't want to be responsible." "You won't," Ruiz said. "As long as you hit the book. As long as you hit the book, you'll be fine. Come on, the battery's gonna die on it. Come closer." Perez told him to "go back more," but Ruiz refused, urging the teen to shoot the gun. "Come on. Right there babe." Perez pulled the trigger. "Stop. Babe, stop. Babe," Ruiz said, the last words recorded to his first video. Authorities found Ruiz with a gunshot wound to his chest. He died at the scene.
DESERT EAGLE 50 AE 🔥
DESERT EAGLE 50 AE 🔥
Unfortunately the hard backed book was no match for the high powered bullet.
A few days later, Perez was charged with second-degree manslaughter for the death of her 22-year-old boyfriend. Earlier that year 2018, she was sentenced to 180 days in jail.
Monalisa Perez fatally shot her boyfriend, Pedro Ruiz, in the chest during a YouTube stunt gone wrong.
Happier times before the tragedy unfolded..
"So if I'm gonna die, I'm pretty much ready to go to heaven right now," Ruiz said, looking into the camera. "If I die, I'll be ready for Jesus. He probably won't accept me into the pearly gates because of how stupid this is. But I have confidence that my girlfriend will hit the book and not me."
In a 911 call after the shooting, a hysterical Perez told the operator, "We were doing a YouTube stunt and it went wrong." "He wanted to see if I could shoot his gun in a book and it went and shot him and it’s all on recording," Perez told the operator. "Oh my god, he's going to die."
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Monalisa Perez, who had been dating Ruiz since she was 14 or 15 years old, had her own YouTube vlog that showed "the real life of a young couple who happen to be teen parents." Many of the videos featured the couple doing "pranks," "stunts," and "challenges," and some videos featured their 3-year-old daughter. But Ruiz wanted his own YouTube channel where he said he could do "all the crazy stuff Pedro does." "I'm borderline crazy," Ruiz said in a video recorded on the day of the fatal stunt. "I just love the adrenaline ... the near-death experiences." "I hope I capture all my audience like that," Ruiz said, snapping his finger. "I hope with everything I do you guys can just be hooked, and watch until I fail."
Ruiz had even told one of his high school friends that if the stunt did not go as planned, he would "go out with a bang," the friend later told authorities.
In one of the videos recorded on the day he died, Ruiz said that he was unfazed when his friends thought he was "crazy" and "stupid."
"Every week I'm going to be bringing you guys new videos, crazy videos," Ruiz told his imaginary audience. "I don't have much money. But it takes money to do the crazy stuff I want to do. I hope with doing this YouTube, I can build a loyal audience that loves to see crazy stuff."
Two weeks before the incident, the couple had told Perez's parents that they were planning to make money by creating YouTube videos. Ruiz told them that he would start making money on the videos once he reached 10,000 views or followers. In an interview with authorities after the shooting, Perez said she had repeatedly refused Ruiz's requests to carry out the book stunt for more than a month. "And today, I finally just said yes. I gave in," Perez told an officer. She said that Ruiz had practiced the stunt using another book and the bullet hadn't gone through it. She said that Ruiz was standing so close to her that she could touch him. She said that after she pulled the trigger, Ruiz "like flew back and he looked down and he said, 'Oh shit,' and then right away I went to him, I was like, 'Babe, oh my God,' and I ran inside and called 911."
"I didn't mean to hurt him, he was my everything," Perez said, breaking down during the interview. "It wasn't supposed to happen like this."
In a video filmed before the stunt, Ruiz looked at the camera and said he wanted to be "crazier" than some of his role models, such as the stunt performers on Jackass.
"But if I fail," he said, "I wanna die trying."
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