Guys wanted to be him. Also read:Queen Elizabeth II: Death And Obituary What Happened To Her? Even though he was caught having affairs outside of his marriage, his son said he was a great dad and a great husband., He went on to say, My dad ended more marriages than anyone else. A tough, athletic, Jewish kid from Sheepshead Bay in Brooklyn, New York, by the age of 21, Aronow was married and about to start a career in his father-in-laws New Jersey construction company. (Ironically, in the immediate aftermath of the crash, Saccentis life was saved by his race partner, none other than Ben Kramer.) Brown: He was also the best boat salesman in the history of the world. According to Dons Wikipedia page, he was slain on February 3, 1987, while driving towards his boat firms North Miami Beach headquarters at the end of 188th Street. He was the type of guy that if he liked you he loved you. One of Don Aronow's race horses has just finished first. After Aronows brief visit with Saccenti, he got back in his white Mercedes and began to pull away. He sold Magnum to American Photocopy for a ton. Dont challenge him, and you were fine. Don Aronow, powerboat racing champion and founder of Magnum, Cigarette and Donzi, continues to fascinate as doeshismysterious death,discovers Daniel Pembrey. If your browser is out of date, try updating it. Aronow evidently stopped his car willingly; he was found with his foot pressed fully down on the accelerator, the 5.6-litre Mercedes engine racing wildly hed put the car in neutral, almost certainly to engage whoever was inside the Lincoln. If you continue to be blocked, please send an email to secruxurity@sizetedistrict.cVmwom with: https://www.newyorksocialdiary.com/claudia-aronow/, Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:88.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/88.0, A summary of what you were doing and why you need access to this site. He has just cashed in six-figures worth of winning tickets. The University of Florida standout athlete Michael was the one who suffered serious injuries in a vehicle accident in 1970. Young died in prison in 2009 after steadfastly refusing for years to testify against Kramer. Peters: He didnt like guys that came in and tried to go toe to toe with him. They conveyed a warmth and a feeling of genuinely liking you. Aronow won the World Powerboat Championship in 1967 (hed go on to win it once more and the US championship three times), and in 1968, he sold Magnum. However when the Customs Service found out about the younger Kramers criminal reputation, they put the kibosh on the transaction.]. But if he didnt like you, watch out., Allan Brown Our friend Stu Jackson worked for Thunderbird and he received a gold Rolex when he retired. Despite being pursued, the murderers managed to escape by driving across the grass. Emblematic of both the American dream and a particularly magnetic kind of American masculinity, Aronow was a frontiersman, a real-life Marlboro Man and a fearless racer. I was like, do I really want to move down there? On Tuesday, Smith, the retired detective, called Aronows widow, Lillian, to break the news. During our conversation she revealed that she was a bit hesitant about being interviewed since she is not someone who is comfortable in the public eye but in the end we chatted about everything from her art, her stint in the antiques business to her childhood in Florida with her father, Don Aronow the boat racer and builder of the renowned Some people badmouth him, He did this, he robbed that. Well, thats shame on you. He started hosting Sunday afternoon brunches at the new home, sometimes for 50 or 60 people, with only Skip and Joanne Allen, of Southern Boating, and my wife and I as the token Christians. Shortly after the visit, Aronow left his office and drove down the street to Apache Performance Boats to visit with his former protg, Bob Saccenti. A violent criminal named Bobby Young was fingered as the hitman, and his employeraccording to the courtswas Ben Kramer. Witnesses assert that as Aronow rolled down his window, the other driver allegedly started shooting. The story was also the basis for the 2009 documentary film Thunder Man: The Don Aronow Story and the 2018 movie Speed Kills with John Travolta. In the film, Ben Aronoff is wed to Katherine Aronoff, his wife. Peters: One of the first issues I had to deal with when he hired me [in the early 80s] was [notorious Haitian dictator] Baby Doc [who was a client]. Aronow sold the company (and Brownie) shortly after its inception (and a couple of big offshore wins). There was fibreglass dust in the air and the pungent smell of resin and paint. So little Don had driven north to spend the day in Rochester with his parents. He raced his 8.2-metre Maltese Magnum all over the world. A tough, athletic, Jewish kid from Sheepshead Bay in Brooklyn, New York, by the age of 21, Aronow was married and about to start a career in his father-in-laws New Jersey construction company. During our conversation she revealed that she was a bit hesitant about being interviewed since she is not someone who is comfortable in the public eye but in the end we chatted about everything from her art, her stint in the antiques business to her childhood in Florida with her father, Don Aronow the boat racer and builder of the renowned His roles in Saturday Night Fever, Carrie, Urban Cowboy, Face/Off, Grease, and A Civil Action, among many others, make him a must-see 70s and 80s heartthrob. Adam and Leelee Sobieski also gave Don a great-granddaughter, Louisanna Ray Kimmel. The result was the 8.5-metre 007, named after the gathering cinematic phenomenon. Brown: At Cigarette he had an intercom in his office and he used to boff his secretary there and if you needed him you just hit him on the intercom! Speculation about who the killer might be ran from jilted lovers or jealous husbands to [Jewish mobster] Meyer Lansky and the CIA. Specifically, the 2018 film is a remake of the corresponding true-crime book. At the time, Saccenti was recovering from a horrific crash on Lake Erie. A kid was going to start a boat company in Florida, he had bought a boat in California, and he asked Aronow and me to drive it and see if it was any good. Her son Adam Kimmel is a menswear designer. The drug money was corrupting banking, real estate and law enforcement. Don Aronow is also quite proud of his lovely wife Lillian. Certainly, he added sex appeal to it all. In 1977, Cigarette introduced the super sexy new 35 Mistress (as the advertisement read). His social group was pretty much divided along the same ratio. He was a quiet boy, remarkably shy during his early years, with delicate features and soft brown eyes. In the movie, Bens personal life is hard, just like it is in real life. Those two managed to make you feel like you were the centre of their world. He dont speak too much English, hes trying to explain something, something serious. And that became the original Formula Marine. Revealingly, the Time feature predicted that Miami would remain, as the late President Jaime Rolds of Ecuador put it, the capital of Latin America. The Miami moto king launched Magnum Marine the next year, in 1967. Michael, Donalds eldest son, thought his dad was a hero. But if you decided to take him on, dont expect him to give ground., His next project was considered to be his masterpiece: the long lean Cigarette boats named after a vessel used to hijack rum-runners during Prohibition days. Aronow left his office in his white Mercedes, shortly after visiting a rival boat dealership owned by Kramer. It was in 007 that he beat Bertram in the Miami-Nassau race in 1965. A guy would come looking at a boat with a girl, and the guy would ask How much? And Don would go, Seventy grand. The guy would say, Thats too much. And Don would say every time, I think you should go get a Bayliner then, this is way too much boat for you. And the guys would be ripping their pockets open trying to give him money! Separately, there were rumours that Aronow may have been assisting law enforcement, even becoming an informant or at least that, in early 1987, he was about to be subpoenaed to give evidence about the USA Racing Team transactions. He became hooked on racing and thats how it all began., Phil Lipschutz Once racings in your blood, you can never get it out., Michael Aronow After that 62 race, my father started to work with Jim Wynne and Walt Walters. You dont dare honk your horn at anybody; you could end up dead.. aronow: I dont think any of those guys had ever seen anything quite like it to be honest. [Aronow was extremely competitive in most aspects of his life, perhaps even to a fault.]. When his kids are teenagers, his first wife Kathy decides she cant stand him anymore after finding out about his other relationships. Saccenti: [Kramer and Aronow] were both wealthy, and if it was over money, thats a shame. Bush, right, was a close friend who initially threw his weight behind the murder investigation. You gotta do your homework. You never knew who might show up here, from royalty and high-born celebrity clients to drug-dealing low-lifes, by way of government officials, heads of the various boat firms and a diverse population of workers who earned their livings here. And then one night Aronow and the contessa were driving back from a candlelit dinner in a tiny restaurant high in the Carrara Mountains. WebAronow married twice. Michael Peters was a contracted designer to Aronow from 1981 to 1986, and was then hired full-time. WebClaudia is a New York artist and ex-wife of real estate developer Martin Kimmel. [1] His father owned a gas station and then a taxi company which collapsed during the Great Depression. When you shook his hand, that was the deal. A world-champion boat racer who enjoyed wild success in business, he was also an unapologetic playboy and fabled bon vivant. (ABOVE) HES GOT THE LOOK: Aronow looked the part. The Captain tracked down a motley crew prepared to spill the beans. WebI think it was at this point that Don discovered that he was Jewish. Aronow famously kept company with people from all walks of life. They become friends and Johnson told my father about the Miami-Nassau race, which my father became really interested in. More plausibly, he was drawn to the Sunshine State by its warmth, excitement and a different form of escapism, as many tend to be. 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