10 Worst Sons of World Dictators

Jean-Claude Duvalier

It’s every dictator’s dream to see his son go into the family business, but usually when one dies it’s the guy with the most guns who takes over. In Haiti, Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier, son of the Francois “Papa Doc” Duvalier, took over the country at the age of 19 when his father died, becoming the youngest president in the history of the world. He immediately started using his power to make tons of money selling drugs and, even worse, the body parts of Haitian citizens he had murdered.

Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue

Equatorial Guinea has one of the poorest populations on Earth, but ousted President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo (pictured right) was one of the richest heads of state ever, with a net worth of over $600 million. How could that be? Well, he basically took control of all the country’s money to “avoid corruption.” His son Mangue (pictured left) has no compunctions about spending big bucks while his countrymen starve, blowing $3.2 million on Michael Jackson memorabilia and $30 million for his own Gulfstream private jet.

Kim Jong-Un

It rarely happens that a dictator dies of non-military causes and their kid takes over the family business, but the Hermit Kingdom is an unusual place. The son of legendary midget maniac Kim Jong-Il, young Jong-Un is currently the HNIC of North Korea, with all sorts of weaponry at his disposal. The mythology machine has already started to spin crazy “facts” about Jong-Un like his dad. Apparently he could drive at the age of three and successfully defeated anorexia!

Al-Saadi Gaddafi

Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi had a total of seven sons, and like a true manipulating maniac, he continually played them against each other. They all wanted Daddy’s job, but none of them got it. Third in line, Al-Saadi was a true scumbag, using his father’s influence to get a plum spot on Libya’s national soccer team. Laws were passed forbidding announcers to say the name of any player but Al-Saadi, and referees were paid off to favor his team. At one game, when a crowd booed him, he ordered his security detail to open fire, killing 20 people.

Marko Milosevic

When your dad has the nickname “The Butcher of the Balkans,” you have to expect things are rough at home. Marko Milosevic, the son of the former Yugoslavian President Slobodan Milosevic, used his father’s influence (and willingness to enact violent revenge) to establish himself at the center of a ton of shady businesses, including a disco and a perfume shop. He also made cash from smuggling cigarettes and booze. But when his dad’s reign came to an end, Marko had to flee the country with his wife and kids.

Faisal Wangita

We probably could have done an entire article just on the kids of Idi Amin (pictured). The Ugandan dictator, notorious for human-rights abuses and cannibalism, spread his seed far and wide with numerous women. Probably the spawn that followed most closely in his father’s footsteps was Faisal Wangita, a heartless street thug who led a gang of 40 men to beat a rival Somali gang member to death in the street in front of a crowd of onlookers.

Nicu Ceausescu

The youngest son of Romania’s maniac despot Nicolae Ceausescu (pictured) was widely considered the heir apparent to his father’s regime, and for good reason: he was an absolute bastard. Bucharest was his playground, and he loved to get drunk and crash his car into whatever was handy. He also liked to crash his penis into whatever was handy, whether women wanted it or not. Finally, he was a degenerate gambler, pissing away hundreds of thousands of dollars at casinos around the globe. His excessive drinking most likely led to his death in 1996, caused by cirrhosis.

Gamal Mubarak

It must suck to be groomed as the successor to a despotic regime and then not get the chance to rule. But shed no tears for Egypt’s Gamal Mubarak, because he’s a total a-hole. The son of Hosni Mubarak, Gamal prepared to take control by passing a law that would allow “multi-candidate Presidential elections,” i.e. letting him run against his own dad in a fixed race and “win.” After Mubarak was removed from power, journalists began to discover inexplicably huge amounts of money in Gamal’s accounts, and he’s also rumored to have been behind a number of assassination orders of political dissidents.