Life in Hawaii was a beach for Luigi Mangione, before the privileged 26-year-old computer engineer flipped a switch, went off the grid and allegedly gunned UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in cold-blood outside a Hilton hotel in Midtown. Exclusive photos, obtained by The Post, show the murder suspect having fun in the sun, dining with tanned pals and even frolicking with a pair of beauties during his time at the penthouse in Surfbreak, a “co-living” space in Honolulu near Waikiki, where he stayed from January to June in 2022 paying $2,000-a-month.In one photo, the murder suspect cuddled up next to a grinning woman, Tracy Le, with his arm draped behind her on a couch.Aanother snap shows Mangione tickling the gal pal and another woman in a hallway.“There was no simmering anger that was visible,” Josiah Ryan, a Surfbreak spokesperson, told The Post.
Le, a data engineer in New York City, posted the pictures on her Instagram account in April 2022, with the caption, “So many people I love in one picture.”Mangione was “the only name whose FaceTime calls I would pick up.He was one of my absolute best, closest, most trusted friends,” she wrote in the caption of a TikTok video, which showed Mangione — who now stands accused of killing Brian Thompson, 50, on the streets of Midtown — holding mochi ice cream at a grocery store with a giggling alongside Le.The Post reached out to a number of the individuals depicted in the pictures, including Le, none of whom responded to a request for comment or an interview. The NYPD is exploring whether a July 2023 back injury fueled Mangione’s apparent hatred toward to the medical industry.Mangione, who was arrested at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pa., following a five-day manhunt, was found with a three-page manifesto accusing “parasitic” health insurance companies of corporate greed.The accused killer was locked up without bail at State Correctional Institution in Huntington, Pa., and is fighting extradition o...