EXCLUSIVE: How McDonald's 'founder' cheated the brothers who REALLY started empire out of hundreds of millions, wrote them out of company history - and left one to die of heart failure and the other barely a millionaire
- Dick and Mac McDonald set up the very first McDonald's in San Bernardino, California, in 1940 and made it a success
- Ray Kroc, a high-school dropout, was so impressed he went to see them and volunteered to franchise it for them
- But
when they asked for $2.1m to sell the nascent chain to them in 1961 he
said he 'hated their guts' - then struck handshake deal on royalties
- Kroc
cut them out of percentage deal which could have netted them hundreds
of millions and drove their original restaurant into ground
- Mac
McDonald died of heart failure and his brother left just over $1.8
million - along with a collection of McDonald's memorabilia
- Kroc is still officially, firm's founder and is to be portrayed by Oscar-winner Michael Keaton in new biographical movie
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