Is it true Frank Dux was exposed as a fraud?

Answer 1

Frank Dux like most celebrities is continually subjected to misleading and sensationalized reporting, that often results in unsubstantiated allegations being made and repeated.

For example, the most common allegation of wrong doing stems from an editorial written by Los Angeles Times reporter who turns out is the one exposed as deceptive in a case of libel and slander of Frank Dux v. Robert Brown, Alexander McColl, Larry Baily and Soldier Of Fortune Magazine, Case No: BC198883, Superior Court Of California, Los Angeles County - like what happened to P. Diddy Colmes, the Los Angeles Times held up fraudulent evidence as credible by which to financially benefit

Shortly after the movie Bloodsport's release in May of 1988, a staff writer published an editorial in the Los Angeles Times' local San Fernando Valley Metro Section accusing Dux of making everything up. The editorial is written in a format one may easily mistake for an objective article. Johnson states that Dux's Kumite trophy didn't come from a 1975 tournament in the Bahamas, but rather it was merely ordered and picked up by Dux at a trophy shop just a few miles from his Southern California home.

This alleged trophy receipt was exposed in a court proceedings to be an obvious fabrication, thus withdrawn from evidence due to these facts:

• The alleged trophy receipt is a Xerox document where Frank Dux's signature is cut and recopied from another document onto the receipt, in addition to giving the incorrect address for him.
• Anyone could create this on their home copier.
• The trophy inscription name is incorrectly spelled D-U-K-E-S and not D-U-X (contrary to the correct spelling inscribed on Dux's trophy).
• The alleged trophy receipt is dated 1979, which is three years after the trophy was first viewed in Dux possession, in 1976.
• the photo that was taken of Dux holding the trophy that appeared in Black Belt magazine, November 1980, was snapped three years before the date on the LA Times receipt
• No resemblance exists between the LA Times photocopy of a trophy receipt and Dux's trophy. The alleged receipt the LA times relies on is for a three tiered trophy with two gold cups on and four judo figures. The Dux kumite trophy is a two foot pedestal base with a large engraved silver bowl as its crown - it is not even remotely close regarding its size specifications and materials to the description on the alleged receipt.

In the interview with Martial Arts Illustrated, Dux also stated that the article's author, was an acquaintance of his ex-wife and that the article was written at the same time that he was embroiled in a bitter divorce.

One can view and compare the alleged trophy receipt against Dux Trophy as it appeared in Black Belt magazine.

In addition, another misleading source is the book Stolen Valor, which it turns out is self published. The author states that he used the Freedom of Information Act to obtain a copy of Dux's Marine Corps records, and thereby discovered that Dux served in the Marine Corps Reserves in the U.S. from 1975 to 1981, never seeing any overseas action.

The main problem with Stolen Valor author's research is that it ignores the fact that Frank Dux never claimed to be a veteran of the Vietnam War in the first place. "I never represented myself in my book or otherwise as a Vietnam War veteran, was in the CIA, or murdered anyone," Dux said, in Asking The Masters. Thus, Dux could hardly be exposed as a fraud for making claims it turns out he never made.

The Legal Analysis and Breakdown of Stolen Valor which is the crux of Dux's court case of libel and slander Dux vs. Soldier of Fortune magazine that repeats and makes unsubstantiated allegations of their own reveals the book Stolen Valor in which the allegations appear is self-published, not subjected to unbiased independent external scrutiny, unlike Dux book The Secret Man,HarperCollins, 1996 that according to the Artesia Daily Newspaper, July 18, 2008 is vetted (facts and claims substantiated) by the law firm of Slade and Metcalf for HarperCollins, prior to its publication.