I hadn't heard that. I met him a few times and he seemed like a good guy.
csb alert!
My uncle was his high school principal, and one time I was at the Rose with my cousin (my uncle's son) and DK came by to ask how everything was. We were at a regular table, so he really had no reason to come check on us. My cousin mentioned my uncle, and DK's face lit up and said he owed much of his success to my uncle. Apparently DK was a high school fuck-up, but my uncle worked with him and saw some inherent brains and wrote him a recommendation for a job, or college, or something like that. Basically refused to give up on the guy. Anyway, DK was forever grateful and said he really didn't think anyone changed the path of his life more than my uncle. He sat and shot the shit for like 20 min, and said anytime my cousin came back to tell the waitress to let DK know. We didn't abuse the offer, but we went a few times and let the waitress know, and we got varying types of free stuff.