Mauris Noronha (Mauris Bhai)

Some Lesser Known Facts About Mauris Noronha

• Mauris Noronha lived in the Dhobi Talao area in South Mumbai during his childhood and moved to North Mumbai later with his family.

• In 2003, he returned to India after working in Dubai for four years and the US for eight years. He worked as a bartender on Disney Cruise Liners for around a decade.

  

• Later, he became a professional poker player and played mainly in Las Vegas. After returning to India, he started a finance business.

  

• During the COVID-19 lockdown, he became popular as a social worker after he started donating ration kits and other essential items to the poor, needy, and underprivileged.

  

• Mauris Noronha was planning to move to the USA with his family and had collected around $ 250,000 (Rs 2 crore) to show as funds; however, he donated ration worth Rs 1.5 crore. He also did not pay his house loan of Rs 70 lakh to help the needy.

• In 2022, he contested the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) elections from ward number 1 of Dahisar but failed to win.

  

• On 8 February 2024, Mauris was doing a Facebook Live with Abhishek Ghosalkar, the son of prominent Shiv Sena UBT leader Vinod Ghosalkar, at his office in IC Colony, Borivali.

  

• It was reported that they met each other to end their enmity which originated due to political reasons. During the Facebook Live, he shot Ghoaslkar first and later shot himself, committing suicide.

• It was alleged that Noronha believed that Ghosalkar was the reason behind the rape case against him. His last words were ‘God Bless You All.’ ^[6]NDTV

• In an interview, he said that God, Mother Teresa, and Salman Khan were his inspiration behind doing charity work.

• He often drank alcoholic beverages during parties.