John Leslie Hug Stay away from this guy, a conartist who talks about his wife who died some years ago, and his difficult daughter,..He had some career in the 70/ 80's playing uitar in The Greg allman Band, Internet

I have read all the comments on Hug and would like to add my own, and also contact previous comment makers.

Hug appeared on the San Francisco North Beach scene in 2013. Stayed in cheap hotels and became "friendly" with one of the managers, who then introduced Hug to me. But by the first intro, he had already attempted to borrow 200 bucks from an elder citizen in north beach, who didn't have the cash in his bank to begin with, and all kinds of dumb noise resulted from it, included the closing of the elder fellows account. Soon after I looked up Hug on ripoff. But he was always around, and became more three dimensional, and well, you know....then the little favors came...requests to come over and use my computer, then a lot of calls to "hang out." Soon I had learned that he borrowed around 350. From the hotel manager, then over a hundrd from another north beach friend. But this guy Hug was definitely hurting. He was sleeping on the floor on the managers room...and his usual claims of his daughters expenses were to blame, as he receives SDI income that could easily get him his own room. Finally the manager is going to have a birthday, and Hug altruistically comes up with an idea for an unusual cake for him, and we can all pitch in in a local Italian bakery. Cake, we estimated might be 60 to 70 bucks....being a one off. So I give Hug 20 toward it. Then he let's me know the bakery wants more like 150, so the plan changes to Safeway, with some of our own decorating. Well, Hug had managed to smooze his way into the managers life enough that the guys family invited him along to their birthday dinner for him...so, instead of getting the cake, he goes off to dinner and their cake. He never returns my money. Later, something disparate happened, and he tried to borrow dough from me. I thought, what can I risk and not be burdened by, so I loaned him fifty. This was last Dec., with a promise to pay me mid January because of a Blues Foundation check. He's never paid me back a cent, and never paid back the friend or the manager. This all might seem like small potatoes compared to the big hauls he's made...but I'm just adding my dross, and also letting people know where he can be found...no, he still keeps moving around from hotel to hotel, and the story is is that he got a car, is doing the Lyft driving thing, and sleeping in it. Hard to buy the sleeping in it thing, when we hear he's making around 4 grand a month. So, talk to me. I imagine that Hug will also be able to see this, and may receive an automatic link to this, as he's added a rebuttal. I'd like to help anyone who's had the big problems...and I won't even go into his new requests to borrow music gear...

Did the exact same thing to me in 2005, telling a hard luck story, dead wife, troubled teen daughter with medical issues. He borrowed a valuable guitar, promised to return it two weeks later, but didn't. Didn't return calls for a while, then all of a sudden did, at which time he would swear he would make good, passionately, pleadingly promising he would make good, then never called or showed up at appointed times. 

Mr Hug responds to the report about him as expected:

     I have just found the report about me on Ripoff.  It infers that I did not have deceased wife, nor did I really work with the recording artists in my resume as I claim.

     I have just found the report about me on Ripoff.  It infers that I did not have deceased wife, nor did I really work with the recording artists in my resume as I claim.