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Arnold started to make small investments in real estate and began to see the benefits. Remarkably, by the time he was 25, he was a millionaire, well before he made his first film.
Sadly, in 1971, as Schwarzenegger was starting to make his mark in the States, he learned that his brother Meinhard had died in a driving incident.
They had a strict upbringing, which Arnold attributes to his brother’s untimely death. “The brutality that was at home…I think he could not sustain. He [Meinhard] was much more delicate…