Man Who Inspired Tom Hanks The Terminal Dies At Airport Where He Lived For 18 Years
Merhan Karimi Nasseri, the real-life man who inspired Steven Spielberg’s film The Terminal, has died at the airport where he had lived for 18 years. The Iranian is believed to have been born in 1945, but was left in legal limbo at Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris, France in 1988, apparently without residency papers. He lived there until 2006, when he was hospitalized and his position was dismantled, with Nasseri cared for by the airport’s French Red Cross branch after his release from hospital, before being housed in a Paris shelter from 2008....