Ben Mallah

Ben Mallah: the 400-lb cigarette-smoking Florida real estate tycoon

Sam's obsession of the week: Ben Mallah, a gregarious, cigarette-smoking South Florida real estate tycoon who buys $20M hotels and drives a $500K Bentley, and who got into YouTube in his mid-50s after already being successful. Off-putting on the surface, but Sam can't stop watching.

“He's this big old fat guy, like 400 pounds fat because he's probably like 6'3" and he's disgusting. He's like, smokes cigarette and he like looks like he smells and he like always hits people like on the back real hard. He's just gregarious and in your face. And on the surface he appears like incredibly dislikable and cocky. And I love him. He turns out to be, he seems pretty quite charming and he's a real estate tycoon down in South Florida.”