Madness Under the Royal Palms (34 page)

“to beat his whole…”:
Boston Globe
, July 20, 2000.

her husband had not threatened: Angela B. Koch to William Koch, November 9, 2000, Exhibit A. in Koch v. Koch.

“Every marriage has its…”: Ibid.

“absolutely scurrilous”:
Palm Beach Daily News
, November 4, 2000.

“an alcohol abuse problem”: Hearing before the Honorable John Phillips, Koch v. Koch, October 12, 2000.

“to preclude the wife from…”: Husband’s Response to Wife’s Motion for Temporary Relief, Koch v. Koch.

“the resolution of the criminal charges…”:
Palm Beach Daily News
, November 15, 2000.

buy an 8,986-square-foot mansion: Palm Beach County Appraiser Public Access.

He came to South Florida:
Palm Beach Daily News
, March 25, 2001.

“caused some jaws…”:
Palm Beach Daily News
, January 6, 2002.

In 1991, she and…”:
Palm Beach Post
, June 21, 1991.

couple was a public item:
Palm Beach Daily News
, December 26, 2001.

This evening was a 1970s:
Palm Beach Daily News
, May 5, 2002.

purportedly fourteen years old:
Palm Beach Post
, July 7, 2008.

Alan Dershowitz and Kenneth Starr:
Palm Beach Post
, February 13, 2008.

“The slow, dissatisfying resolution…”:
Palm Beach Post
, July 7, 2008.

“fantasy world”:
Palm Beach Post
, September 18, 2005.

“I liked looking at it…”:
Palm Beach Daily News
, December 31, 2000.

35,000 bottles:
Chicago Tribune
, March 8, 2007.

“narcissistically titled”:
Boston Globe
, September 2, 2005.

“unrepentantly lowbrow”:
Boston Herald
, January 21, 2006.

planning to tear down: Interviews, OTR and
Wall Street Journal
, July 11, 2008.

The previous owner:
Miami Herald
, June 26, 1988.

131-foot yacht
Octopussy
:
Palm Beach Post
, April 27, 1989.

Four years later, he bought:
Boston Globe
, August 8, 1991.

He sold Mediplex once again:
Boston Herald
, January 5, 1994.

Abe pensioned off:
Boston Globe
, November 20, 1991.

He eventually settled:
Palm Beach Post
, May 18, 2004.

buying the Santa Anita:
Boston Globe
, March 31, 1998.

adding five Texas golf courses:
Palm Beach Post
, March 11, 1998.

bought the estate for $41.35 million: Ibid., November 16, 2004.

“Pop! I’m a dime a dozen…”: Arthur Miller,
Death of a Salesman
(1999), p. 102.

“Nobody dast blame this man”: Ibid., p. 108.

Chapter Eighteen

“How you doing?”: Interview, Fred Keller.

The situation was only resolved: Proceedings before the Honorable Kathleen Kroll in Rosemarie B. Keller vs. Fred Keller, July 20, 2001.

He was a recovering: Interview, Brian Bohlander.

“Brian was more than a little disturbed…”: Interview, Lois Yost.

“a bare butt whipping…”: Paul Keller manuscript Isthmus, p. 23.

“the sole remaining connection”: Ibid., p. 6.

“an inability to develop or”: Evaluation of Fred Keller by Stephen R. Alexander, Psy. D., November 29, 2000 and February 5, 2001 in Fred Keller V. Rose Keller.

“Ms. Keller probably was…”: Evaluation of Rosemarie Keller by Stephen R. Alexander, Psy. D., December 21, 2000 and January 25, 2001 in Fred Keller V. Rose Keller.

You know and I know…”: Proceedings before the Honorable Kathleen Kroll in Re: the Marriage of Rosemarie B. Keller and Fred Keller, October 14, 2004.

“My intention was to placate her…”: Interview, Fred Keller.

She was doing his paralegal’s: Interview, Martin Haines.

Chapter Nineteen

As she began restoring:
Sun-Sentinel
, March 19, 1995.

Cathleen chaired:
Palm Beach Post
, March 24, 1991.

“I was probably the only girl…”: Interview, Cathleen McFarlane Ross.

“What do you do?”: Ibid.

Both of his wives: Interview, Walter Ross.

There were 150: Palm Beach Charity Register 2007–2008.

Chapter Twenty

“How do you feel?”: Interview, Barbara Wainscott.

Barbara apologized for the wildly: Ibid.

“Son of a bitch…”: Interview, caretaker.

The supposed benefactors:
Palm Beach Daily News
, October 10, 2007.

“a one-horse ship…”:
Time
, October 06, 1952.

In 1948 when his only son: Ibid.

“I was in Palm Beach and my…”: Interview, Eles Gillet.

Warry feared that: Interviews, Warry Gillet III, and Eles Gillet.

“She was the chicest woman…”: Interview, Dan Ponton.

“I did cancer three times”: Interview, Eles Gillet.

“You don’t marry a good-looking woman and then be hurting for money…”:
New York Observer
, February 17, 2003.

“We are gonna blow…”:
Miami Herald
, December 30, 1983.

Chapter Twenty-One

found that her husband:
Baltimore Sun
, May 16, 2002.

their son had served:
Chicago Tribune
, September 22, 1995.

“all funeral expenses be paid as soon as practical,”:. Last Will and Testament of F. Warrington Gillet, Jr., August 2, 1993, Palm Beach County, Florida.

Warry III claims:
Palm Beach Post
, May 18, 2003.

But in 1993, Warry wrote a will: Last Will and Testament of F. Warrington Gillet, Jr., August 2, 1993, Palm Beach County, Florida.

The codicil signed eight years later: First Codicil to Last Will and Testament of F. Warrington Gillet, Jr., April 30, 2001.

Warry III and Susan: Interviews, Warry Gillet III and an attorney intimately involved with the matter.

“The silver is well protected”: The dialogue is from Eles Gillet’s memory of the exchange. Susan Chewning tells a similar story.
Palm Beach Post
, May 18, 2003.

“good friend”:
Palm Beach Post
, July 8, 2005.

“She hurt us badly, so…”: Interview, Warry Gillet III.

“Eles Gillet’s friends are coming…”:
Palm Beach Daily News
, January 25, 2004.

as “the story of a wealthy tobacco…”: Interview, Warry Gillet III.

Her forty-nine-year-old son:
Palm Beach Daily News
, October 17, 2006.

“dupioni silk in burnished oranges, reds and yellow”:
Palm Beach Daily News
, March 12, 2008.

“I couldn’t see anybody”: Interview, Eles Gillet.

immortalized himself on one: Interviews, Mildred McLean and Jan West.

rammed his Red Chrysler into a Ford: Palm Beach Police Department Incident Report, March 1, 2006.

Peter tore the paraphernalia: Interview, Peter Rock.

Eles wrote out: Interviews, Eles Gillet and Peter Rock.

He started making excuses: Interview, Peter Rock.

“According to paperwork…”:
Palm Beach Post
, April 4, 2008.

Chapter Twenty-Two

“I want you to know that”: Interview, Dan Ponton.

“There are these people who join…”: Ibid.

“But finally I realized that…”:
Palm Beach Daily News
, May 25, 1979.

Roxanne and the psychic sued:
Miami Herald
, October 7, 1982 and
Sun-Sentinel
, July 15, 1987.

four female legs, a trumpet:
The Palm Beach Post
, July 13, 1990.

“I want the people to identify with what…”: Ibid.

Three years later, he twisted poor Santa: Interview, Bruce Sutka.

Sutka put up another holiday house: Ibid.

The event came into its own in 1981:
Palm Beach Daily News
, January 3, 1981.

The leopard leaped upon a table: Interview, Bruce Sutka.

some of the guests decided:
Palm Beach Daily News
, January 31, 1981.

“Choosing one of the two events is a little”:
Palm Beach Daily News
, January 2, 1991.

“It wasn’t like a voice from…”:
Palm Beach Post
, July 13, 1990.

“Fall of the Roman Empire”:
Palm Beach Daily News
, January 2, 1990.

“Bruce will have to come up with something good next year…”: Ibid., January 3, 1991.