Posted on 10/13/2010 9:40:11 PM PDT by BlackVeil
Her name is Lily Safra...
The daughter of a British railway engineer, Lily's ascent from humble origins to fabulous wealth had been little short of dazzling. By the late Nineties, her husband was presiding over a £3 billion fortune - all of which passed to Lily alone when, on the morning of December 3, 1999, Edmond died in a fire, apparently succumbing to fumes in the property's highly reinforced panic room....
Four days later, in a tearful confession, one of Edmond's full-time nursing staff, 41-year-old Ted Maher, admitted to lighting the fire in a doomed bid to stage a heroic rescue which would boost his status and pay.
Later convicted of death by arson, he was given a ten-year prison sentence. ...
While Edmond was her fourth husband, he was also the second to die in complex circumstances. Thirty years earlier, in 1969, her second husband Freddy Monteverde was found bleeding to death in bed from a shot fired from a revolver by his side.
These two untimely deaths have caused Mrs Safra great personal pain, but more than that too. While Monteverde's death was ruled suicide, some reports suggested he had died from not one but two fatal shots, only one of which could be self-inflicted.
Now, decades later, Lily is keenly aware that despite her belief that Maher's confession draws a line under the terrible events of December 3, 1999, many feel there are a host of unanswered questions from that troubling night too - questions that, the Mail can reveal, have achieved a renewed urgency.
Released from prison in 2007 after serving just five years of his sentence, Mr Maher has now publicly renounced his confession, insisting he was the fall guy for a crime he did not commit. ...
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Oh my. I had forgotten all about this. What a tangled web this is.
Does everyone know what a panic room is?
And why this billionaire would have one ???
>>> Does everyone know what a panic room is?
A fortified self-contained area in a home a to which a person can retreat. Depending how much you want to spend it can be quite well provisioned and fortified, allowing you to call for help and sit out the danger as you wait for rescue.
2] Residence packed with state of art surveillance, but non of it worked..... that day
3] All TWELVE bodyguards given the day off at the same time.
4] Lilly married 4 times, and Safra was not the first to die under mysterious circumstances.
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Am I the only one who thinks the wife was responsible?
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