 He died from prostate cancer on July 12, 1998.Over his career Givens was the target of dozens of lawsuits and two court cases for defrauding customers, one in California and one in Florida.The California fraud case found that he had misled his customers by claiming that he had made his money using his financial strategies, rather than by selling his financial strategies, and he was ordered to refund $14.1 million to his customers.