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Palm Beach socialite Lori Stoll, the widow of beloved concert promoter Jon Stoll, was beaten, stabbed and choked by her boyfriend at her $2.2 million-chalet early Wednesday in Aspen, Colo.
Kaiser's booking photo
Mark Kaiser, Stoll’s 38-year-old boyfriend and a former Worth Avenue art dealer, was arrested by Aspen cops and charged with assault and felony menacing, according to records and news reports in Aspen.
He paid his $10,000-bond today, according to records, but has been ordered not to leave the state.
The Aspen state attorney’s office may pursue an attempted murder charge, according to the Aspen Times. He’s been banned from contacting Stoll.
Although Colorado authorities cannot released the identify of a victim of domestic violence incidents, several sources today confirmed Stoll, 49, was the victim.
The arrest affidavit obtained by the Times mentioned that Stoll and Kaiser, who once owned the John Amann Phillips Gallery on Worth Avenue, left a local bar at about 1:15 a.m. Wednesday.
Apparently, Kaiser walked ahead and arrived at Stoll’s chalet before she did. When she arrived, an argument ensued and she ordered Kaiser to leave the home.
Kaiser, however, became violent, and grabbed her by the hair and neck before throwing her to the kitchen floor. (more…)
Donna Summer, at the Seminole Hard Rock Resort in 2010 in Hollywood (Splash News)
Disco queen Donna Summer died early this morning at home near Sarasota.
Summer was just 63, but suffered from cancer.
Manasota Key, near Sarasota, where Donna Summer lived since 2007
Public records show she moved to Manasota Key, an exclusive island near Sarasota, in 2007. She lived in her $3.7 million beachfront mansion overlooking the Gulf of Mexico with her husband, Bruce Sudano, a singer and songwriter and music producer.
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Fire and police officials said authorities were not called to the home and funeral arrangements have yet to be announced. (more…)
Port St. Lucie’s Stephen Gius killed himself by jumping into the Atlantic from a bridge Saturday morning in the Florida Keys, a tragedy that shut down the road to Key West.
Stephen Gius, with Naomi (via Facebook)
And now, friends of the 50-year-old blame a particularly poisonous divorce filed two days earlier as the reason why, despite harrowing attempts by police and good Samaritans to save him, Gius managed to kill himself near his favorite lobstering area.
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Gius, who owned a mail service, left this heart-wrenching note: “I lost my wife, my business and my dog.”
But the part about his wife, said Joe Gufford, Gius’ divorce lawyer, is where the reason for Gius’ gesture is to be found.
“There’s no doubt that it (the divorce) played a big role in this tragedy,” Gufford said. “Even if he is the one who filed.” (more…)
Trump International, in Sunny Isles Beach
Call him T. Owe!
Fading NFL star Terrell Owens is digging himself into a financial hole that includes the on-going attempt by Deutsche Bank to foreclose on his condo in Sunny Isles Beach‘s fancy Trump International.
Owens
And Amex is suing the wide receiver for his not making payments on one of his credit cards!
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Miami-Dade County records show Owens, who had controversial stints with the Dallas Cowboys, Buffalo Bills and Cincinnati Bengals, bought apartment #5302, 2,100 square feet, in 2006 for $1.75 million. Taxing authorities recently assessed the condo for $960,000!
The records show Owens took out a mortgage for $1.4 million but quit making his payments in the fall. He also stopped paying for the $1,669-a-month maintenance fees, and the building’s condo association claims he’s behind by $9,030!
The 38-year-old T.O.’s financial problems also include a lawsuit filed two weeks ago by American Express. (more…)
Palm Beach socialite and artist Page Lee Hufty is expected to be charged criminally in connection with a gun-releated incident at the house she co-owns with spy novelist Ted Bell, from whom she is getting a divorce.
Ted with Page in happier times (NY Social Diary)
Hufty, who’s in her 60s, is expected to be charged with improper exhibition of a dangerous weapon, according to a source at the Palm Beach County State Attorney’s office. A summons has been issued but a judge has yet to sign off on it before it becomes public.
The charge is a misdemeanor.
I’m told that Hufty pointed a gun at friends of Bell’s who came to the house on Everglades Island April 17 to recover some of his property.
Bell, writer of the Alex Hawke franchise, is not currently living at the $4 million-house but he and Hufty are battling over its ownership, according to divorce records. Bell was not at the home when Hufty allegedly pulled out a gun.
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High-profile lawyer David Prather reeked of liquor early Sunday morning when a trooper and a West Palm Beach Police officer helped him clear his disabled Porsche from I-95, according to the incident report obtained by Gossip Extra.
David Prather's booking photo (PBSO)
Prather was described as “laughing and smiling a lot” by the trooper who also reported that Prather’s eyes were glassy and bloodshot, and didn’t follow his finger smoothly during a field sobriety test.
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Prather, 47, also failed the one-leg stand and other tests at the scene, even though he told the trooper that he teaches how to administer field sobriety tests. Prather’s practice includes auto negligence.
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Prather’s car had stalled on the center lane of the northbound highway, near the Hypoluxo exit, when cops first saw him.
He told the trooper he was on his way home from a (South Palm Beach County) Bar Association party in Boca when he first noticed engine trouble.
He told cops he had just two glasses of wine and two of water.
Prather refused a Breathalyzer test, according to the report, and was charged with DUI.
Sold, for $85 million! (Click on the photo for the grand tour)
Saudi royal Sheik Tarek Al Fassihas sold his Miami Beach mansion to L.A. real estate mogul Richard Meruelo, Miami-Dade County records show.
The nine-bedroom, 8-bathroom crib, slightly more than 10,000-square-feet, went for $8.5 million.
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The sheik, who has the reputation of a spoiled-rotten playboy, made a mint, even if the property was once listed for $20 million: He bought two adjacent properties on Pinetree Drive in 1991 for a little more than $2 million, and combined them into one.
The prince is one of the owners of the Kuwaiti corporation Al-Jumaa, one of the Middle East’s largest.
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