Millionaire founder of Pinkberry battered homeless beggar Lee, a former kick-boxer turned architect, co-founded Pinkberry with fellow South Korean entrepreneur Shelly Hwang, whom he later married. The chain acquired a rapid popularity, based in part on Lee's avant-garde store designs, and now has more than 250 branches in the US, Mexico and the Middle East. The multi-million dollar fortune that Lee reaped from the business bought him luxuries such as a Porsche, a Rolls Royce Phantom and a Ferrari, a mansion in Malibu and a walk-in wardrobe packed with Hermes suits. But he also had a drug habit and a dangerous temper, the court heard. In 2001, he was jailed after being charged with possessing cocaine, assaulting a woman and carrying a loaded firearm. In 2009, a former friend filed for a restraining order against him, alleging that Lee had an "extreme violent temper" and had swung a knife at him. Lee, whose wife divorced him in 2010 after staging an unsuccessful intervention aimed at getting him into a treatment programme, was arrested by Los Angeles airport's Fugitive Task Force in January last year, after arriving back in the city following a trip to South Korea.