I'll tell a story about probably the worst client I ever had.
I was still a baby lawyer and I was getting assigned all of the shit work that came into the firm. We had gotten a call from a guy who was evicted from his commercial space. The case came to me. I looked at it and discovered that the landlord had fucked up the notice. So we went to JP court on a bench trial for the eviction and I successfully fought it off and even got my client a $5,000 judgment for lost business due to being wrongfully locked out. Here's the thing, though - the client was a gay drug addict - meth, I think. He was very high strung, very emotional, very flamboyant. He was also very critical of me, despite the fact that I got his ass out of a crack and got him 5 grand he probably should not have gotten because he had very little evidence of lost business. Anyway, after the trial I had to go to the guy's place of business, which was an antiques/used furniture store in the Heights. It was also where he was living. I was required by the court to take photos of all of the furniture as part of the court's final order. So I show up over there and my client, who had not slept in days until then, answers the door with no shirt on and looking haggard as fuck. He knew I was coming to take the photos, but he was disoriented and got all pissed off that I was there and basically threw me out, but not before I got the photos. He called my boss, the managing partner, and told him how much I sucked. So, he fired me and I never heard from him again.
In a strange twist, he had a "benefactor" who was a gay pilot. He owned his own 747 and basically served as Air Force One for a bunch of African countries who I guess could not afford their own presidential plane. The guy had a name that was perfect for who he was and what he did. He was straight out of central casting. Anyway, the guy had money and basically financed my client's life. He paid his retainer too. I guess the guy had a boy toy in every port that he kept more or less on a leash. It was very weird.