Read Madness Under the Royal Palms Online
Authors: Laurence Leamer
“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.