The DeLorean Company went bankrupt that same year, and John DeLorean fought the drug charges. According to Thomas Reuters Legal, DeLorean’s defense team portrayed him as being duped by federal agents who demonstrated gross misconduct to the point of entrapment. In August 1984 John DeLorean was acquitted.

But he wasn’t done being accused of shady dealings. In 1985 DeLorean was charged in Detroit with racketeering, fraud and tax evasion to the tune of about $8.5 million, the Los Angeles Times reported. The accusation was that he siphoned that money from his 140 investors, who included entertainers Sammy Davis Jr., Johnny Carson, and Roy Clark. Yet the defense was able to convince the jury that the money in question was actually a loan from a British auto executive named Colin Chapman, who helped with some engineering work on the DMC-12, according to the Los Angeles Times. Conveniently, Chapman died in 1982. The jury found DeLorean not guilty on all counts.

Delorean beat all the charges, but he was driven into bankruptcy, according to Forbes, who reported he had to sell his New Jersey home. Years later, the nearly 500-acre estate ended up being bought by Donald Trump and turned into a golf course. It’s now called Trump National Golf Club. By the time DeLorean died in 2005 from complications from a stroke at 80 years old, he was living in a one-bedroom apartment with his fourth wife, Sally, per Forbes.

Netflix will begin streaming the documentary “Framing John DeLorean” on May 5.