Billy Brown is an American television personality and writer born on December 3, 1953 in Fort Worth, Texas USA. He is known for being the main star of the television show “Alaskan Bush People”.
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Early life
Billy is the eldest son of Billy Joe and Kathryn Brown. His father’s privileged position as president of a limousine company allowed Billy and his sister Kathy to grow up in an economically privileged environment: “I was given new boats and cars for my birthdays. I was truly the luckiest kid in town. I had everything – money, clothes, expensive toys and a loving family too”.
Young Billy’s world was struck by misfortune, however, as his parents and sister died in a private plane crash on March 2, 1969.
Devastated by this tragedy, 16-year-old Brown was trapped in newspapers chanting his agreement for his emancipation from his family, thus losing his right to his family’s fortune: “The first month after the accident been like the world’s longest bad dream,” Brown wrote.
First marriage
Billy spent the next few months after the accident wandering around Texas and Nuevo Mexico looking for odd jobs to support himself. However, he was consoled in his pain by a 17-year-old woman named Brenda, whom he married on October 23, 1969.
Based in Texas, the couple welcomed two daughters before filing for divorce five years after their marriage. Twila is the only publicly known child of said relationship, as her sister’s name is unknown.
Second marriage
Billy met Ami Branson while working as a plumber at his mother’s house in Earlene. Perceived by Branson’s family as a “very charismatic” individual, they didn’t find out that Billy was having sex with Ami behind their backs until she fell too deeply in love with Brown, whom she married. on June 16, 1979, after threatening his mother to run away. with him if she did not allow the union.
The couple welcomed their first child Mathew three years after they married in 1982, and a year and a half later their second child Joshua “Bam Bam” was born in August.
Deciding that normal jobs weren’t for him, Billy convinced Ami to leave Texas and tour the country as nomads eventually settling in Alaska, where they would have settled on the remote “wild” island of Mosman, away from civilization because they could not afford to live. somewhere else.
After living stranded for nearly two years, the family returned to Port Protection and then headed to Haines, where Billy built a house for his family, which unfortunately accidentally burned down. In 2001, Brown’s family lived in Juneau, then at some point moved to Santa Clarita, California. They lived there briefly before returning once more to Alaska, apparently establishing their life outdoors in the bushes.
Including Matt and Josh, the couple had seven children in total. The other five children are called Solomon “Bear”, Gabe, Noah, Snowbird and Rainy. All were apparently home-schooled.
Problems with wife’s family
In his memoir, Billy Brown described his relationship with Ami as “love at first sight” and called it “the [most] beautiful young woman I have ever met.
Despite this, he allegedly lied and tricked Brinson into letting him marry 15-year-old Ami, who was a high school student at the time: “He lied about his age,” Ami’s mother Earlene said. in 2017 to Radar Online, in reference to the 11-year gap between the couple.
Brown also lied about his economic status: “He gave the impression that he was very wealthy and came from a wealthy family. He seduced us with the trappings of wealth.
When the young couple welcomed their second son Josh, Billy broke another of his promises to Ami’s family when he convinced her to leave Texas to become a nomad: “We thought he would support ‘Friend, that he would keep her in school’. , and never prevents him from seeing us. And we never saw her again!
At the time of the interview with Radar Online, Earlene Branson had not seen her daughter in almost four decades. However, a year in early 2016, Earlene traveled to Alaska to meet Ami, with the goal of reconciling with her daughter.
The trip was heavily publicized on Facebook, and Earlene’s son, Jes Branson, cited his mother’s health issues as the reason she wanted to reunite with Ami, from whom she was estranged: “Her only wish is to see her daughter before she dies, and she is ready to travel 7,000 miles around- traveling from Texas to Alaska to try to get there.Earlene’s efforts were in vain, however, because at the time of his trip, Ami was vacationing in Hawaii with the rest of the Browns and was unable to meet his mother.
On November 9, 2018, matriarch Branson died at age 85. Although it was claimed that Ami was devastated by the loss of her mother, it was later reported that she did not attend the funeral.
Career
Writer
While Brown’s family was living in Haines, Billy began writing children’s books to support his family. Although writers’ salaries were not too high, Billy’s work quickly gained recognition and provided him with an acceptable income.
Besides Brown’s dozens of children’s books, he also published his memoirs, “One Wave at a Time,” in which he recounts his adventures as a nomad in the United States and the hardships he and his family had to endure in because of that.
Alaskan Bush People – TV Show
Created on Discovery in 2014, “Alaskan Bush People” featured Billy Brown’s family and their life in the bushes. The show was promoted as a “reality show” by the network, describing its stars as “a remarkable family off the beaten path and in the Alaskan wilderness”. Audiences quickly warmed to the family and its lifestyle, resulting in high ratings for the show which quickly became the number one unscripted cable program for male audiences 18-49. years, with an average of 4 million viewers.
Although “Alaskan Bush People” has aired for 10 seasons to date, it stopped attracting new viewers at the end of the fourth season when its stars faced a variety of scandals.
What caused the sudden downfall of Alaskan Bush’s fan base?
The Browns family were harshly reprimanded by their audiences as the show’s real nature, lifestyle and economic situation were questioned.
Through an investigation by the Alaska Department of Revenue, it was concluded that Browns spent more than 180 days out of the territory per year from 2009 to 2012. As a result, the family was convicted of forgery and theft for lying in their claims for permanent dividends.
Benevolent leader or obsessive authoritarian? Controversial Brown family patriarch Billy answers your questions in an Alaskan Bush People special #tonight 8 p.m.
Posted by Discovery Channel UK on Wednesday, February 22, 2017
Realizing that the family resided outside of Alaska most of the year and did not actually live in the bushes as claimed on the show, many fans turned their backs on the family.
The family faced more backlash when in 2018 they rented a $2.7 million Beverly Hill mansion. Although Browns’ reason for staying in LA was lung cancer treatment for Ami at the University of California Medical Center, fans questioned Browns’ true economic status, as the event contradicted the style. of the family’s austere life and the unfortunate financial situation portrayed on the show.
Net value
Billy Brown’s net worth is estimated at $500,000 as of 2020 which is the result of his appearances on the Discovery show “Alaskan Bush People” and his earnings for his published books.
Appearance
Billy is a male of white ethnicity, whose current height and weight are unknown. Her hair was naturally brown in her youth, accompanied by blue eyes.
Alaskan bush people:
Billy Brown has lost control over the show’s appearance – Bear Brown blows his cover?#BillyBrown #AlaskanBushPeople https://t.co/1FE4UfOEcc—SoapDirt.com (@SoapDirtTV) October 27, 2019
Interesting facts
He worked as a commercial fisherman in the North Pacific for a short time.
Billy supposedly didn’t allow Ami to reunite with his family for decades.
Billy’s child from his first marriage, Twila Byars, apparently hasn’t seen his father for 30 years, as featured in an episode of ‘Alaskan Bush People’ in which the daughter and father apparently meet warm. However, it was later learned that the meeting was scripted and that the couple had already been in contact.
One of Billy’s grandchildren, Twila’s daughter, died in a car accident when she was 14.
Although Ami was just a teenager when she married Billy, the union was completely legal due to Texas laws.