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There are
a hundred police officers looking for me.
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I am not going
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to fucking jail
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for one minute
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for something I didn't do.
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I received this phone call
while making this documentary
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about the strange death
of a billionaire in Monaco.
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{\an8}There is a murder mystery
to report tonight.
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{\an8}The victim, an elusive billionaire banker...
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...is unfolding at the favorite
playground of the rich and famous, Monaco.
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It raises a whole lot of questions,
like who wanted him dead and why?
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Why would he be targeted by assassins?
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I can't trust anybody, Hodge.
I... I just can't.
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That fucking murder in Monaco,
there's no proof in any of it.
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It's all bullshit.
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Wow.
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The mystery deepens
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surrounding the death
of billionaire banker Edmond Safra.
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He suffocated in a fire
in his Monaco apartment.
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The 1999 death of Edmond Safra...
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Two masked gunmen forced their way
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into Safra's penthouse apartment,
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stabbed a nurse, then set the fire.
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It's a mystery. What really happened?
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- Edmond Safra.
- Edmond Safra.
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Edmond Safra.
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...was a billionaire, and he had enemies.
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Who killed Edmond Safra?
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The Russian Mafia.
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Safra ratted out
the Russian Mafia to the FBI.
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Who do you think was responsible
for Edmond's death?
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The nurse who killed Edmond
was responsible for his death.
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The only evidence of intruders
comes from the male nurse.
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Am I a liar? No, absolutely not.
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The evidence clearly shows that I'm not.
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I'm feeling closer
to my husband than ever.
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Some people believed
this was murder by Lily Safra.
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She was a praying mantis.
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Billionaire, black-widow wife,
murder in Monaco.
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There could be no better murder mystery
than Edmond Safra's.
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I was in a lawsuit
for five years over this.
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Like, we had ten attorneys.
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I've been sued a lot.
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Oh, yeah, like, I keep our...
our outside law firm, like, employed.
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Can you introduce yourself?
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My name's Isabel Vincent.
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I'm an investigative reporter
at the New York Post.
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I spent years trying to figure out
the truth about the death of Edmond Safra.
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It was just such a mystery
that was never fully explained.
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On the night of the crime,
it's reported that masked intruders
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break into Edmond Safra's Monaco penthouse
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and try to kidnap or kill him.
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Edmond and his nurse lock themselves
inside an armored panic room.
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The intruders are unable
to penetrate the penthouse
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and set the penthouse ablaze.
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Firefighters and police
burst into the panic room.
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They find Edmond Safra
seated in a red armchair
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with his nurse, Vivian Torrente,
lying at his feet.
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How do they die like that?
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Who comes in? What went on?
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If you're looking at money as a motive,
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it makes sense that Edmond Safra
would be a target.
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Lebanese born
from a wealthy Jewish banking family,
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Forbes magazine calls him
one of the world's 200 richest men.
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They had these crazy-expensive properties
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all over the world.
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Mystery has always surrounded Safra
and his business dealings.
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His specialty, private banking
for extremely wealthy clients.
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He had many high-powered clients.
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Hollywood actors, politicians,
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even the royal family of Monaco.
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Mr. Safra is my banker.
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He was very good friends with celebrities.
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We're in the money
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The skies are sunny...
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Edmond had fabled, fabulous wealth.
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We're in the money
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Come on, my honey
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Let's spend it, lend it
Send it rolling
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Along!
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Lady C, thank you so much
for doing this. I really appreciate you.
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- Do you want anything to drink?
- No, thank you.
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I want this over with
as quickly as possible.
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- Start.
- All right.
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Okay.
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Could you introduce yourself to us?
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No.
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Who is Lady Colin Campbell?
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So Lady Colin Campbell is an aristocrat.
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And she is, like,
this larger-than-life character
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and a very good writer.
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Did you go to the castle?
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- We went to the castle.
- Oh boy.
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Actually, I'm not doing this.
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This is at an end.
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Un-fucking-believable.
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Would you say she's a reliable narrator?
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You have an hour.
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And not a second over.
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I know that she seems
kind of crazy, but she's very smart.
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And she was getting the story
as it was happening.
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I started writing this book
called Empress Bianca,
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which was based on the life of Lily Safra.
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And once word got out
that I was writing the book,
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Joseph Safra, one of Edmond's brothers,
got in touch with me.
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And I got lots of information
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that I would never have had
access to otherwise.
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The brothers did not regard Lily
as a suitable wife for their brother.
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The Safras had always been
a very respected family,
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whereas Lily Safra
was a woman of no background.
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Her ambition was to become
the world's leading socialite,
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and set about achieving it.
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But because Edmond became very infirm,
because he had Parkinson's,
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she had to look after Edmond,
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and it hampered her movements.
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Edmond was on a ton of medication.
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Some of that medication made him paranoid
about people coming after him.
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So he was surrounded
by bodyguards and nurses.
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All right, let's do it. Let's go.
We got Ted. We're ready.
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Ted Maher goes for an interview.
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He was a Green Beret,
and he was also a nurse.
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So he was a good candidate.
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Let's rewind.
Let's go all the way back in time.
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How did you get the job?
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Oh my gosh.
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I was a neonatal nurse in New York City.
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My wife, Heidi,
worked in the hospital with me.
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He was just so loving, so caring.
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We had three children,
one from a previous marriage.
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He loved kids.
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Even mowing the lawn,
he'd always have a kid around him.
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{\an8}We found out that the hospital
was going to be going on strike
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{\an8}and Heidi and I were gonna
potentially be losing our jobs.
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{\an8}On a nurse's salary,
it was already very, very hard
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just to try to pay for everything,
the mortgage and everything, so...
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At the time, I was taking care
of a set of twins,
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and the parents were in the business
of catering to the rich.
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{\an8}And they said,
"We know somebody that needs a nurse."
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{\an8}And it was one of the richest men
in the world, Edmond Safra,
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{\an8}who had Parkinson's disease.
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{\an8}And it would entail going to Monaco.
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So they're presenting this to me,
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and I'm like,
"Wow, that's... sounds really nice."
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After I speak to my wife
and telling my children...
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Bye.
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- Bye. I love you.
- I love you all.
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...I flew to Nice in France.
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I was picked up by a limo.
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I'm like, "Oh my God.
Wow, that's pretty cool," you know?
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The estate was the most expensive villa
in the world. It was amazing.
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I go in, there's security everywhere,
walking around with an Uzi of some sort.
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{\an8}I was escorted up to the villa
and told I'm meeting their psychiatrist.
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After a short period of time,
the psychiatrist realized
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I wasn't Charles Manson,
and everything was good.
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And, uh, so I was to see
Mr. Safra's wife, Lily Safra.
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She was obviously in a class
that was way out of my horizons,
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and she was very, you know,
had all the maids and butlers
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and security personnel
doing everything at her whim's call.
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She said, "Oh, we've heard
a lot of things about you."
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"Very good things."
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I was ex-Special Forces,
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so not only would her husband
be getting a nurse,
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but he'd be getting
a bodyguard-slash-nurse.
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So that was pretty much it.
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I mean, Lily was talking to me,
asked me a few basic questions,
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and she said, "I'll talk to my husband,
and... and you'll come here tomorrow."
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So I started right then.
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What's Monaco like?
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Monaco.
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Oh God.
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All the stuff you see
on the James Bond films,
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the glamour, the richness, the casino.
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Mr. Bond.
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The richest people in the world are there.
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Monaco is a tax-free paradise
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with more millionaires
in a single square mile
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than anywhere else on the planet.
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Monaco is a sunny place for shady people.
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Here, very rich people avoid paying taxes
in their native countries.
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Monaco is less than a square mile,
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and it's just this Disneyland of wealth,
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which is also very tightly controlled.
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Monaco is one of the securest countries,
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with surveillance cameras here in
almost every corner of the principality.
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There's one policeman for every 60 people.
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It's the safest place in the world.
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Monaco is groaning with money,
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with all the movie stars,
royalty, and billionaires.
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Working for Mr. Safra was a dream job.
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I mean, I'm being paid $600 a day,
and I'm getting a $10,000-a-month stipend
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to pay for the hotel, maid service, meals,
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open bar when you weren't working.
They covered everything.
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Like, wow, life is good. You know?
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The only thing I was lacking
was my family.
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So I approached management
after being there several months
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and said, "It would be really good
if, uh, I could get my family over here."
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And they said, "Sure."
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I was checking out
a school for the children.
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I was checking out an apartment
that would be close by.
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So everything was set.
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I was very lucky.
It was absolutely amazing.
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And then the shit hit the fan.
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One of the world's
richest bankers died today
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in a violent and mysterious attack
on his home in Monaco.
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Safra and his nurse
both suffocated to death.
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His wife managed to escape.
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A second nurse was stabbed
but is recovering.
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The nurse who was attacked
and stabbed by the two killers
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{\an8}is hospitalized here
at the Princess Grace Hospital.
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Ladies and gentlemen.
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There were armed intruders
inside the apartment.
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Mr. Safra took refuge in the bathroom,
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accompanied by his nurse,
Mrs. Vivian Torrente.
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While the firemen were present,
he refused to come out.
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And it was that smoke
that caused their death by asphyxiation.
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Do we know how the fire started?
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We could not determine
what caused the ignition.
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Have the videotapes been seized?
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Do they indicate
the passage of individuals?
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The videotapes have been seized
and are being studied.
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The injured man's name, please?
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Ted Maher.
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The nurse was stabbed once
in the left thigh
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and once in the abdomen.
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Did Mr. Safra receive threats?
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We are trying to gather
material elements and testimonies
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to determine whether
the security procedures in place
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were properly followed.
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How could one of
the richest men in the world be killed
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in one of the securest countries
in the world?
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What is most important to investigators
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is how anyone could've managed to get past
all of the security that protected Safra.
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I was the head of security for Edmond.
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I tried to cover everything,
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because he's famous, he's rich,
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he might be subject to attack.
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Edmond was afraid
of terrorist organizations...
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...Mafia...
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...so the security around him...
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...was massive security.
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It was a team of up to 25 security guards.
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They were from specialist army units
like the Mossad.
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Every couple of months,
I had new candidates coming in.
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Stop!
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We did exercises like attacking with arms.
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Edmond was very satisfied
with all the security.
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With the protection he had,
it shouldn't have happened.
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Edmond Safra died
the way he feared he might.
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The fire that killed him
was set by two hooded intruders
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who somehow got past the security
at Safra's penthouse.
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Police believe it was a professional job,
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very likely organized crime.
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{\an8}Whoever it was has a long reach
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{\an8}and is capable of organizing
a daring, brutal, and vindictive maneuver.
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He was a billionaire in his own right,
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the head of an international
financial empire, and he had enemies.
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Investigators are following
a link to the Russian Mafia.
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Very quickly, the news starts saying that
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the Russian mob
sent people to kill Edmond.
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In Israel, they are speculating
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the Russian mob
had put a contract out on Safra's life.
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He did have
significant investments in Russia,
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and there may have been
some shadowy connection.
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- Who am I looking at?
- So, you're look--
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- I'm gonna be right in here.
- Okay.
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Who is Bill Browder?
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Bill Browder
was Safra's Russian connection.
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Edmond was my business partner.
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I was a specialist
in the Russian stock market.
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We set up this joint venture,
the Hermitage Fund.
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He put up the first $25 million.
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It was an unbelievable success.
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We went from $25 million
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to about a billion dollars
18 months later.
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But in 1998, the Russian government
devalued their currency by 75%.
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We lost $900 million
of our clients' money.
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The ruble's value tumbled
on the Moscow trading screens.
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Russian banks have collapsed.
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The situation has become lethal.
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Most Russian banks are bankrupt.
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Edmond Safra
was deeply involved in Russia.
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His banks had lost billions there
in the economic collapse,
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and in recent months,
he had moved to dramatically reduce
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the amount of business
his banks did there.
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It was a move that almost certainly left
powerful people unhappy.
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Edmond was very nervous of the Russians
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with whom he had been in business.
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Yet another Mafia
assassination in the Russian capital.
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More than 200 businessmen
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have been killed
by Russian mobsters in the past year.
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It is very dangerous in Russia.
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It's dangerous to invest here.
It's dangerous to do business.
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One of the biggest problems
we had investing in Russia
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was that the companies
were majority owned by Russian oligarchs.
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Oligarchs are extremely
wealthy businessmen
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who are backed by the Russian government.
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And Edmond and I had
a particularly bad experience.
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We invested in an oil company
called Sidanco.
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Sidanco was owned 96%
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by a Russian oligarch
named Vladimir Potanin.
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Are you an oligarch?
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I... I would say I don't know
whether I'm oligarch or not,
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but I never felt like oligarch.
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You're the richest man in Russia, so...
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Vladimir Potanin, this oligarch,
was gonna basically steal
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75% of the money that we had made.
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I went to Edmond Safra, and I said,
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"We're gonna have to go to war
with this guy."
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He said, you know,
"You can't go to war with this guy."
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"He's an oligarch."
You know, "They'll kill you."
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Next day, there were 15 bodyguards
who Edmond had sent to protect me.
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They would scope out the rooftops
for snipers, they'd look for car bombs.
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I was terrified. Every step I took,
I thought there'd be, you know,
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a sniper, or a bomb, a poison.
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I didn't know what.
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I can't imagine it was very nice for Safra
to live like that his whole life.
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Edmond was paranoid,
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because certainly,
he had done business with Russia,
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with some very unsavory characters.
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Also around the time that Safra
is investing in Bill Browder's hedge fund,
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that's when he comes across
Russian mob money
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flowing into American banks.
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And Safra reports this to the FBI.
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{\an8}Safra's banks apparently played a role
in alerting US authorities
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{\an8}that a rival New York bank
was laundering Russian mob money.
328
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And his own banks may have been used
by the Russian mob as well.
329
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Republic National Bank
were the big transporters
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of physical cash to Russia.
331
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They would have these things
called the money plane,
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which was organized
by Republic National Bank,
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which was obviously Edmond's bank.
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They would put on
these big crates of cash,
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and they would move the cash
from New York to Russia
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on this plane
with all these security guards,
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and then the banks would get the cash.
338
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And so I would imagine
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part of the investigation into Republic
was this cash business.
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00:20:09,917 --> 00:20:13,462
His bank was flying
a billion dollars to Russia every day.
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Two months ago,
his bank testified in Congress
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about alleged Russian money laundering.
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Republic informed the FBI
and other appropriate authorities.
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Edmond's bank
received a letter from the FBI
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thanking them for their cooperation.
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00:20:33,357 --> 00:20:35,609
This letter is dated August.
347
00:20:36,318 --> 00:20:40,447
Then in December,
four months later, he's killed.
348
00:20:41,073 --> 00:20:45,160
He's given this evidence to the FBI,
and he's a marked man.
349
00:20:46,286 --> 00:20:49,665
And shortly after, he moves to Monaco.
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It's one of the safest countries
in the world.
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Safra moves into his penthouse
called the Belle Époque,
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which was above his bank.
353
00:21:02,135 --> 00:21:05,596
The penthouse is not your average
two-bedroom apartment.
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This place was over 10,000 square feet.
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It's a labyrinth of rooms.
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There were panic buttons
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and bulletproof shutters.
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A panic room with a special, strong door.
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00:21:23,657 --> 00:21:28,662
There was CCTV in the entrance,
in the corridors, and outside.
360
00:21:29,246 --> 00:21:31,789
The Belle Époque was a fortress.
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It was completely impenetrable.
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00:21:42,092 --> 00:21:44,051
How is it possible that the assassins
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will be able to get into one of the most
secure private residence in the world?
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00:21:48,390 --> 00:21:52,018
{\an8}One of the possible theories
was that the penthouse
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was easily accessible
from the hotel next door.
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A house transformed into a bunker
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but which the killers reached
from the rooftops,
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likely crossing over from the Hermitage,
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00:22:03,697 --> 00:22:06,533
one of the most exclusive hotels
in the principality.
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00:22:07,826 --> 00:22:09,952
The crime has shocked Monegasques.
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It's supposed to be very, very secure.
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If Monte Carlo loses its tranquility,
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the rich will leave here tomorrow.
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For a country that depends on
its reputation for security
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to make the world's rich feel comfortable,
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00:22:22,174 --> 00:22:26,803
solving this crime, one official said,
is of utmost importance.
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00:22:34,936 --> 00:22:36,729
Family and friends of Edmond Safra
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00:22:36,730 --> 00:22:39,565
gathered at the synagogue
in Geneva, Switzerland,
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00:22:39,566 --> 00:22:42,277
for the billionaire banker's
funeral service.
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00:22:42,944 --> 00:22:45,196
For us, it is a tremendous loss.
381
00:22:45,197 --> 00:22:46,197
Thank you.
382
00:22:46,198 --> 00:22:48,616
His death on Friday
shocked the banking world
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00:22:48,617 --> 00:22:52,536
and sent shudders through Monaco,
the quiet principality where he lived.
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00:22:52,537 --> 00:22:55,414
The funeral was to be held in Jerusalem,
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00:22:55,415 --> 00:22:59,043
but for security reasons,
it was moved to Geneva.
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00:22:59,044 --> 00:23:01,963
It took place under the close supervision
of the Geneva police.
387
00:23:04,466 --> 00:23:07,969
At that point,
many believed it was the Russian mob.
388
00:23:09,054 --> 00:23:12,349
But then on the day of Edmond's funeral,
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00:23:13,475 --> 00:23:15,184
there was this crazy twist.
390
00:23:15,185 --> 00:23:18,979
From ABC News
world headquarters in New York...
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Almost as soon
as the billionaire banker Edmond Safra
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was murdered in Monaco on Friday,
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00:23:23,944 --> 00:23:25,611
investigators began to speculate
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00:23:25,612 --> 00:23:28,531
that it was the work
of organized crime in Russia.
395
00:23:28,532 --> 00:23:32,076
In fact, it was an American nurse
who killed him.
396
00:23:32,077 --> 00:23:35,204
In Monte Carlo tonight,
a strange twist in the murder mystery...
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00:23:35,205 --> 00:23:37,957
A bizarre twist developed today
in the mysterious death...
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As friends of Edmond Safra
gathered in Geneva for his funeral,
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00:23:42,170 --> 00:23:45,172
police in Monaco arrested his nurse,
400
00:23:45,173 --> 00:23:47,383
charging him with arson
in the fire that killed
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00:23:47,384 --> 00:23:49,593
the internationally renowned banker.
402
00:23:49,594 --> 00:23:52,555
{\an8}The sudden twist
seemed to come out of left field.
403
00:23:52,556 --> 00:23:54,723
Authorities say Ted Maher concocted a plan
404
00:23:54,724 --> 00:23:57,602
he thought would make him a hero
in the billionaire's eyes.
405
00:23:58,812 --> 00:24:02,440
The nurse set the fire in a wastebasket
and planned to rescue Safra.
406
00:24:02,441 --> 00:24:04,608
Ted Maher set the fire.
407
00:24:04,609 --> 00:24:06,360
He alerted a security guard,
408
00:24:06,361 --> 00:24:09,947
believing that firemen would put out
the flames before they spread.
409
00:24:09,948 --> 00:24:11,323
{\an8}And he stabbed himself
410
00:24:11,324 --> 00:24:13,743
to make it look as though
he had fought off intruders.
411
00:24:14,327 --> 00:24:17,455
He's gonna stab himself, set the fire,
412
00:24:17,456 --> 00:24:20,708
and run out and pretend
that he's fought against two intruders?
413
00:24:20,709 --> 00:24:22,627
It was such a crazy story.
414
00:24:24,254 --> 00:24:25,838
Mr. Maher,
415
00:24:25,839 --> 00:24:28,382
M-A-H-E-R,
416
00:24:28,383 --> 00:24:31,011
made his full confession this morning.
417
00:24:31,928 --> 00:24:37,434
He himself admits
that he acted alone for personal reasons.
418
00:24:38,101 --> 00:24:38,977
Alone!
419
00:24:40,770 --> 00:24:44,565
There's no suggestion of a conspiracy,
no indication that it was commissioned.
420
00:24:44,566 --> 00:24:46,942
He acted alone.
That is what he is telling us.
421
00:24:46,943 --> 00:24:49,820
Has the CCTV footage been viewed?
422
00:24:49,821 --> 00:24:53,115
The exterior footage showed nothing,
and neither did the interior footage.
423
00:24:53,116 --> 00:24:56,410
We don't know if it's damaged
or tampered with.
424
00:24:56,411 --> 00:24:57,412
We just don't know.
425
00:24:59,456 --> 00:25:02,541
Maher's confession
is expected to result in a formal charge
426
00:25:02,542 --> 00:25:04,627
of arson leading to homicide,
427
00:25:04,628 --> 00:25:07,339
which could carry a life prison sentence.
428
00:25:08,340 --> 00:25:11,843
The next thing I know,
I'm being transported to jail.
429
00:25:13,678 --> 00:25:16,430
You can't imagine the hell
I was going through,
430
00:25:16,431 --> 00:25:20,267
being brought into those doors,
thinking about my wife and children
431
00:25:20,268 --> 00:25:22,646
and how long I was gonna be
away from them.
432
00:25:24,022 --> 00:25:26,858
I knew that I had to prove my innocence.
433
00:25:34,533 --> 00:25:36,450
Michael Griffith, an American lawyer,
434
00:25:36,451 --> 00:25:40,162
has volunteered to assist
with Ted's defense.
435
00:25:40,163 --> 00:25:42,415
They will rue the day
that Mike Griffith came to Monaco.
436
00:25:43,250 --> 00:25:44,959
I'm ready when you are.
437
00:25:44,960 --> 00:25:46,628
All right, we rolling?
438
00:25:48,630 --> 00:25:52,676
The first meeting I had
with Ted is in the prison in Monaco.
439
00:25:54,719 --> 00:25:55,719
At that time,
440
00:25:55,720 --> 00:26:00,099
all I know is Ted Maher
was a former American Green Beret
441
00:26:00,100 --> 00:26:02,727
charged for the death of Edmond Safra.
442
00:26:04,396 --> 00:26:09,734
So when I met Ted, I took pictures
of his stomach with the knife wounds.
443
00:26:10,360 --> 00:26:13,488
The police said that
he stabbed himself to be a hero.
444
00:26:13,989 --> 00:26:17,534
Of course, Ted said,
"I got stabbed by two intruders."
445
00:26:19,035 --> 00:26:22,079
Ted told me
a day before the incident occurred,
446
00:26:22,080 --> 00:26:26,668
he was abducted off the streets of Nice
by people in a van.
447
00:26:28,169 --> 00:26:29,254
What happened was...
448
00:26:32,173 --> 00:26:35,051
I was just, you know,
walking down the street.
449
00:26:36,052 --> 00:26:38,012
And I noticed this white van
450
00:26:38,013 --> 00:26:40,014
was definitely keeping an eye on me,
following me.
451
00:26:40,015 --> 00:26:42,100
I'm like,
"What the heck is this all about?"
452
00:26:45,604 --> 00:26:48,732
Soon as I... I mean, it happened so quick,
and I was just pushed into this van.
453
00:26:50,567 --> 00:26:52,151
These guys were masked.
454
00:26:52,152 --> 00:26:55,613
They had guns,
and their voices were Russian.
455
00:26:55,614 --> 00:27:00,409
They showed him pictures of his wife
coming out of their home in New York,
456
00:27:00,410 --> 00:27:02,161
pictures of his children.
457
00:27:02,162 --> 00:27:06,874
You know, they made it really clear that,
you know, I would do what I was told to,
458
00:27:06,875 --> 00:27:08,626
make sure these steel shutters,
459
00:27:08,627 --> 00:27:11,629
which cover the windows
in Mr. Safra's apartment,
460
00:27:11,630 --> 00:27:14,883
are open on one night in particular.
461
00:27:15,383 --> 00:27:18,552
I said, "I'm not even working
this night. I'm off."
462
00:27:18,553 --> 00:27:20,597
And then they said, "You will be there."
463
00:27:21,473 --> 00:27:26,477
Ted was told to follow these instructions,
or else you'll be sorry.
464
00:27:26,478 --> 00:27:30,773
If I do something wrong,
my family's gonna be killed,
465
00:27:30,774 --> 00:27:32,942
murdered, missing, hurt.
466
00:27:34,069 --> 00:27:35,362
What a horrible feeling.
467
00:27:40,742 --> 00:27:43,828
Now remember,
I'm not meant to be working that night.
468
00:27:44,537 --> 00:27:48,166
But then, it was early evening, and...
469
00:27:50,168 --> 00:27:52,128
...there I'm at the hotel,
and the phone rang.
470
00:27:53,713 --> 00:27:56,215
It was one of the managers for the Safras,
471
00:27:56,216 --> 00:27:58,301
and he said, "Mr. Maher, um,
472
00:27:58,802 --> 00:28:02,930
I know it's short notice, but one of
the nurses had a problem with her visa,"
473
00:28:02,931 --> 00:28:04,849
and I had to work.
474
00:28:05,725 --> 00:28:08,687
Okay, so take me back to the night of.
475
00:28:18,780 --> 00:28:20,948
The nurse working with me
that night, Vivian,
476
00:28:20,949 --> 00:28:24,077
she started in Safra's bedroom,
477
00:28:24,661 --> 00:28:27,747
and we would rotate back and forth
through the entire night.
478
00:28:28,456 --> 00:28:33,211
I checked all the windows,
and the steel shutters are all closed.
479
00:28:34,045 --> 00:28:38,049
But then I noticed the nursing station
shutters were still open.
480
00:28:39,509 --> 00:28:42,220
I'm like,
"Well, I... I don't have to do anything."
481
00:28:43,930 --> 00:28:46,474
Now I know that this is open for a reason.
482
00:28:47,267 --> 00:28:50,477
It's a pretty sickening feeling,
knowing that something's gonna happen
483
00:28:50,478 --> 00:28:52,647
and you don't have any idea what.
484
00:28:57,026 --> 00:29:00,113
I was in a little room
that Safra utilized for a gym.
485
00:29:03,241 --> 00:29:05,952
The next thing I know,
I'm hit over the back of the head.
486
00:29:07,620 --> 00:29:11,040
I see the intruders.
These two guys are masked.
487
00:29:11,875 --> 00:29:14,169
My Special Forces training took over.
488
00:29:14,919 --> 00:29:16,546
I grab a ten-kilo weight.
489
00:29:17,255 --> 00:29:19,841
I hit one of the guys. He went down.
490
00:29:21,968 --> 00:29:23,469
The other guy, he had the knife.
491
00:29:23,470 --> 00:29:26,555
This guy came forward with a knife
and hit me mid-side
492
00:29:26,556 --> 00:29:29,100
where I'm grabbing his hand
and coming down.
493
00:29:31,770 --> 00:29:33,438
Then I blacked out.
494
00:29:37,192 --> 00:29:40,319
After being unconscious
for maybe a couple seconds,
495
00:29:40,320 --> 00:29:43,489
I came to, and I'm bleeding.
496
00:29:43,490 --> 00:29:45,949
I'm looking around. I don't see anybody.
497
00:29:45,950 --> 00:29:48,369
But the apartment was huge.
498
00:29:48,953 --> 00:29:51,121
I went to the bedroom where Safra was,
499
00:29:51,122 --> 00:29:54,041
and Vivian says,
"Oh my God, you're bleeding."
500
00:29:54,042 --> 00:29:56,168
And I said, "Somebody's broken in,
501
00:29:56,169 --> 00:29:59,547
and put Safra in what we call a safe room,
and here's my cell phone."
502
00:30:00,256 --> 00:30:01,466
"Call for help."
503
00:30:03,760 --> 00:30:08,056
Safra slammed the door and said,
"Sound the alarm."
504
00:30:09,057 --> 00:30:13,101
In Mr. Safra's bedroom, there was an alarm
that Ted did not know about.
505
00:30:13,102 --> 00:30:16,480
Nobody had ever trained us for, like,
"Oh, there's a 911 emergency,"
506
00:30:16,481 --> 00:30:18,732
so nobody else knew about it.
507
00:30:18,733 --> 00:30:21,152
The only alarm that Ted knew
was a fire alarm.
508
00:30:22,153 --> 00:30:23,779
We had a small trash can there.
509
00:30:23,780 --> 00:30:25,739
In French, it's called a poubelle.
510
00:30:25,740 --> 00:30:28,243
I put it right underneath the smoke alarm,
511
00:30:28,910 --> 00:30:30,912
and I lit some tissue into the can.
512
00:30:31,913 --> 00:30:33,373
And the alarm went off.
513
00:30:34,374 --> 00:30:37,502
Vivian's calling on my phone.
I'm like, "Damn, somebody has to come."
514
00:30:40,296 --> 00:30:41,964
I make it to the elevator.
515
00:30:41,965 --> 00:30:45,301
I'm feeling real dizzy, and I pass out.
516
00:30:47,679 --> 00:30:50,764
If your client,
who's facing many years in prison,
517
00:30:50,765 --> 00:30:54,977
says that's his story, no matter
how many times I would grill him on it,
518
00:30:54,978 --> 00:30:57,605
then I have to go with his story.
519
00:30:59,858 --> 00:31:01,024
Michael Griffith.
520
00:31:01,025 --> 00:31:04,028
I was contacted by Ted's wife, Heidi.
521
00:31:05,446 --> 00:31:07,740
She told me what happened to her.
522
00:31:08,616 --> 00:31:10,576
Lily Safra, Edmond's wife...
523
00:31:10,577 --> 00:31:13,579
Heidi was contacted by Lily Safra's staff.
524
00:31:13,580 --> 00:31:15,747
My concern was Ted. Is he all right?
525
00:31:15,748 --> 00:31:18,125
Because I was told he was injured badly.
526
00:31:18,126 --> 00:31:19,543
Mommy, where are you going?
527
00:31:19,544 --> 00:31:23,046
Heidi and her brother
were invited over to Monaco,
528
00:31:23,047 --> 00:31:26,967
and their fare paid by Lily Safra.
529
00:31:26,968 --> 00:31:30,763
I took a plane
with my brother straight to Nice
530
00:31:31,347 --> 00:31:34,142
and was greeted with a limo
at the airport.
531
00:31:35,101 --> 00:31:38,438
The limo was supposed to bring me
straight to the hospital to see Ted.
532
00:31:39,105 --> 00:31:40,606
On the way to the hospital,
533
00:31:40,607 --> 00:31:43,151
a phone call came in
to the driver of the limo.
534
00:31:44,360 --> 00:31:46,528
The limo all of a sudden turned around
535
00:31:46,529 --> 00:31:48,948
and brought us
straight to the police station.
536
00:31:49,908 --> 00:31:51,825
I asked why,
537
00:31:51,826 --> 00:31:55,746
and they said we needed to help confirm
who I was to see my husband,
538
00:31:55,747 --> 00:31:57,665
so I had my passport and everything.
539
00:31:58,917 --> 00:32:01,835
I was questioned
at the police station extensively,
540
00:32:01,836 --> 00:32:03,755
the background, how he got the job.
541
00:32:05,089 --> 00:32:08,634
I left
the police station for a break outside
542
00:32:08,635 --> 00:32:09,886
with my brother.
543
00:32:11,638 --> 00:32:16,141
Suddenly, a car came up with three people,
all dressed in black jumpsuits,
544
00:32:16,142 --> 00:32:19,520
and grabbed us and kidnapped us.
545
00:32:20,688 --> 00:32:24,942
They held us in a room in a hotel
for three days under surveillance
546
00:32:24,943 --> 00:32:26,778
and took our passports.
547
00:32:29,822 --> 00:32:34,369
I wake up in a hospital bed,
and these two detectives come in.
548
00:32:34,869 --> 00:32:39,998
They say, "There's been a huge fire,
and Edmond Safra and Vivian have died."
549
00:32:39,999 --> 00:32:43,335
And right then, I mean,
I... I wept like a baby.
550
00:32:43,336 --> 00:32:46,546
I mean, I couldn't believe
that they had died.
551
00:32:46,547 --> 00:32:49,842
I mean, it was like, in my mind,
I'm like, "From what?"
552
00:32:50,677 --> 00:32:53,971
They showed me a newspaper
and said, "You're responsible for this."
553
00:32:53,972 --> 00:32:55,640
"Sign these documents."
554
00:32:56,808 --> 00:32:59,894
"What are you talking about
sign documents? I'm not signing anything."
555
00:33:00,520 --> 00:33:03,689
"Yeah, this shows you're responsible
for what you did."
556
00:33:03,690 --> 00:33:07,860
And I said, "Listen, I have not killed
anybody, and I'm not signing anything."
557
00:33:08,695 --> 00:33:11,989
But this police officer said,
"You're gonna sign this,
558
00:33:11,990 --> 00:33:14,784
otherwise your wife's not gonna
go back to your children."
559
00:33:15,618 --> 00:33:18,037
And they showed me my wife's passport.
560
00:33:19,414 --> 00:33:22,374
What a horrible feeling.
My family's been threatened.
561
00:33:22,375 --> 00:33:25,919
I mean, you can't imagine
what's gonna happen
562
00:33:25,920 --> 00:33:27,964
if, you know,
if I don't sign this document.
563
00:33:28,548 --> 00:33:30,007
So do you sign the document?
564
00:33:30,008 --> 00:33:32,968
Yeah. What else...
What... what would any man do?
565
00:33:32,969 --> 00:33:35,053
Your wife's not gonna go back
to your children.
566
00:33:35,054 --> 00:33:37,139
You know, two-and-a-half,
three-and-a-half-year-old,
567
00:33:37,140 --> 00:33:38,266
a eight-year-old.
568
00:33:38,766 --> 00:33:40,059
Sure, I signed it.
569
00:33:40,643 --> 00:33:42,019
What did the document say?
570
00:33:42,020 --> 00:33:43,938
Well, at that point,
I had no idea what it said.
571
00:33:44,647 --> 00:33:45,898
It was all in French.
572
00:33:47,567 --> 00:33:49,568
In his confession, Ted Maher said
573
00:33:49,569 --> 00:33:52,195
he never wanted to harm Edmond Safra,
574
00:33:52,196 --> 00:33:54,322
that he was an excellent employer.
575
00:33:54,323 --> 00:33:59,619
As for all the talk of a wider plot,
prosecutors now say there was none,
576
00:33:59,620 --> 00:34:02,664
that they believe Ted Maher acted alone.
577
00:34:02,665 --> 00:34:05,834
It sort of sounded plausible
578
00:34:05,835 --> 00:34:09,004
that he set the fire
so that he could be the big rescuer
579
00:34:09,005 --> 00:34:13,384
and that he stabbed himself in the stomach
to add drama to the situation.
580
00:34:14,594 --> 00:34:18,681
But according to Ted,
it was a forced statement.
581
00:34:19,932 --> 00:34:23,519
Ted gave up it all
because it was his family.
582
00:34:24,979 --> 00:34:26,146
Hi, Daddy.
583
00:34:26,147 --> 00:34:28,356
I hope to be home soon, okay?
584
00:34:28,357 --> 00:34:31,026
- Mm-hmm. I sent you a picture.
- I love you.
585
00:34:31,027 --> 00:34:33,695
- Love you too.
- Never forget that.
586
00:34:33,696 --> 00:34:35,113
Bye. Love you.
587
00:34:35,114 --> 00:34:36,114
Bye-bye.
588
00:34:36,115 --> 00:34:37,115
I love you.
589
00:34:37,116 --> 00:34:38,826
Oh, Heidi, I love you.
590
00:34:40,161 --> 00:34:41,662
I had no motive.
591
00:34:42,955 --> 00:34:45,415
Why would I wanna kill a golden goose
592
00:34:45,416 --> 00:34:50,879
that was giving me a $10,000 golden egg
a month as a paycheck
593
00:34:50,880 --> 00:34:54,841
just to take care of my children
and my wife and my apartment?
594
00:34:54,842 --> 00:34:57,969
And he's paying me $600 a shift.
595
00:34:57,970 --> 00:35:01,264
I mean, you know, I have everything.
596
00:35:01,265 --> 00:35:03,266
I have more than anything
I could ever dream of.
597
00:35:03,267 --> 00:35:06,479
Why would anybody risk losing that?
598
00:35:09,148 --> 00:35:11,024
In crimes,
599
00:35:11,025 --> 00:35:17,198
you're always looking for
who had any benefits for that.
600
00:35:19,617 --> 00:35:21,868
Safra and his nurse
both suffocated to death.
601
00:35:21,869 --> 00:35:23,703
His wife managed to escape.
602
00:35:23,704 --> 00:35:26,790
The banker's wife,
at the other end of the apartment
603
00:35:26,791 --> 00:35:29,252
when the tragedy occurred,
has not been treated as a suspect.
604
00:35:29,752 --> 00:35:34,382
Edmond left his fortune to his wife.
605
00:35:40,972 --> 00:35:43,057
This is her third husband.
606
00:35:44,016 --> 00:35:46,560
When I was researching Lily Safra,
607
00:35:46,561 --> 00:35:50,188
there was absolutely no information
about her early life.
608
00:35:50,189 --> 00:35:54,067
How does somebody from Rio de Janeiro,
609
00:35:54,068 --> 00:35:56,571
who grows up middle-class,
610
00:35:57,488 --> 00:36:01,284
ascend to the heights of world society?
611
00:36:02,160 --> 00:36:04,494
You know, she marries four times.
612
00:36:04,495 --> 00:36:07,914
Each time, her fortunes go up.
613
00:36:07,915 --> 00:36:12,711
What was it about her?
Why was she so seductive?
614
00:36:12,712 --> 00:36:14,380
I became totally obsessed.
615
00:36:17,633 --> 00:36:19,092
I moved to Brazil
616
00:36:19,093 --> 00:36:24,347
'cause I knew how difficult it was
to find anything in Brazil.
617
00:36:24,348 --> 00:36:28,059
I tracked people down,
but they would just totally clam up.
618
00:36:28,060 --> 00:36:30,020
And they were so afraid of Lily.
619
00:36:30,021 --> 00:36:34,150
I think people had this... this view of her
as a dangerous woman.
620
00:36:36,569 --> 00:36:40,198
There was always this fear
that people were following me.
621
00:36:41,199 --> 00:36:45,036
I was sure somebody
was watching the apartment.
622
00:36:46,162 --> 00:36:49,372
I finally got Lily's school records.
623
00:36:49,373 --> 00:36:52,752
There were clues about where she lived.
624
00:36:54,003 --> 00:36:58,299
So I went to the neighborhoods,
and people still remembered her.
625
00:36:59,508 --> 00:37:04,179
Then I discovered these parallels
between Edmond's death
626
00:37:04,180 --> 00:37:08,683
and what happened with husband number two,
Alfredo Monteverde.
627
00:37:08,684 --> 00:37:10,144
Freddy Monteverde.
628
00:37:10,811 --> 00:37:12,146
Do you know that story?
629
00:37:16,192 --> 00:37:18,735
He was one of the richest men in Brazil.
630
00:37:18,736 --> 00:37:21,655
He owned hundreds of department stores.
631
00:37:21,656 --> 00:37:23,531
{\an8}They were called Pontofrio,
632
00:37:23,532 --> 00:37:26,494
{\an8}named after the refrigerators
they imported.
633
00:37:29,205 --> 00:37:32,666
Lily married Alfredo in the '60s.
634
00:37:32,667 --> 00:37:34,751
A couple of years after they married,
635
00:37:34,752 --> 00:37:38,464
he died under
rather strange circumstances.
636
00:37:40,132 --> 00:37:42,676
When I got the autopsy report,
637
00:37:42,677 --> 00:37:46,681
I found out he committed suicide
by shooting himself
638
00:37:47,431 --> 00:37:48,473
twice.
639
00:37:48,474 --> 00:37:51,476
So the first two husbands
both died of natural causes. No one--
640
00:37:51,477 --> 00:37:53,520
I don't think either of them was murdered.
641
00:37:53,521 --> 00:37:57,691
Well, the second one
died of two gunshot wounds to the chest.
642
00:37:57,692 --> 00:37:58,858
Okay.
643
00:37:58,859 --> 00:38:02,028
So... So he was kill...
So... so... so he was murdered?
644
00:38:02,029 --> 00:38:03,446
They ruled it a suicide.
645
00:38:03,447 --> 00:38:05,783
Yeah, I don't know
how you shoot yourself twice.
646
00:38:08,536 --> 00:38:11,955
The whole thing was totally implausible.
It was ridiculous.
647
00:38:11,956 --> 00:38:13,665
Alfredo Monteverde
648
00:38:13,666 --> 00:38:15,751
was found dead at his residence.
649
00:38:17,336 --> 00:38:21,048
Police investigations
concluded it was a case of suicide.
650
00:38:22,341 --> 00:38:26,344
Rosita Fanto, Freddy Monteverde's sister,
651
00:38:26,345 --> 00:38:28,472
was a great friend of mine.
652
00:38:29,307 --> 00:38:34,603
Freddy had discovered that Lily
was having an affair with Edmond Safra.
653
00:38:35,771 --> 00:38:39,065
Freddy called Rosita and told her
654
00:38:39,066 --> 00:38:43,237
that he would be getting in touch
with his lawyers to divorce Lily.
655
00:38:44,363 --> 00:38:48,576
And shortly thereafter,
Freddy was found dead.
656
00:38:52,496 --> 00:38:59,170
What was strange was the speed
with which Lily secured his assets.
657
00:38:59,879 --> 00:39:04,215
When Rosita realized
what had happened, she went ballistic.
658
00:39:04,216 --> 00:39:06,093
It was rightfully her money.
659
00:39:07,094 --> 00:39:10,430
In the will Lily gave to everybody,
660
00:39:10,431 --> 00:39:13,141
there was no mention
of his mother and sister,
661
00:39:13,142 --> 00:39:16,312
who were the original shareholders
in his company.
662
00:39:17,605 --> 00:39:20,983
Certainly there were parallels
with the Safra situation.
663
00:39:21,484 --> 00:39:25,779
Both wills were changed
mere weeks before they died.
664
00:39:25,780 --> 00:39:31,285
Happy birthday, dear Edmond...
665
00:39:31,994 --> 00:39:36,707
Edmond agreed to change the will
and then was going to reverse it.
666
00:39:37,541 --> 00:39:41,336
His two brothers, who were like
his best friends, Moise and Joseph,
667
00:39:41,337 --> 00:39:44,256
are all of a sudden erased from the will.
668
00:39:45,007 --> 00:39:50,346
And Lily inherits $4.8 billion, tax-free.
669
00:39:51,097 --> 00:39:55,266
So about a week before Edmond died,
they both became Monegasque citizens.
670
00:39:55,267 --> 00:39:59,105
And if you're a Monegasque citizen,
you do not pay tax.
671
00:39:59,772 --> 00:40:02,982
Is that coincidence, or is that by design?
672
00:40:02,983 --> 00:40:04,193
It's very convenient.
673
00:40:04,777 --> 00:40:08,696
I warmly congratulate you
on reaching this notable milestone.
674
00:40:08,697 --> 00:40:10,574
Mrs. Lily Safra.
675
00:40:12,201 --> 00:40:14,994
But the main reason people suspected Lily
676
00:40:14,995 --> 00:40:18,665
was because on the night that Edmond died,
677
00:40:18,666 --> 00:40:22,503
the bodyguards
supposedly had the night off.
678
00:40:23,671 --> 00:40:26,673
Not one member of Safra's personal army
679
00:40:26,674 --> 00:40:29,342
was with him the night of the fire.
680
00:40:29,343 --> 00:40:31,678
A few months before,
681
00:40:31,679 --> 00:40:36,433
Lily gave a clear order
that she doesn't want any security there
682
00:40:36,434 --> 00:40:38,310
because Monaco is secure.
683
00:40:39,854 --> 00:40:41,104
So I went to see Edmond,
684
00:40:41,105 --> 00:40:44,649
and he told me,
"Listen, do what you need to do
685
00:40:44,650 --> 00:40:47,944
without Lily knowing it."
686
00:40:47,945 --> 00:40:50,447
I ask you to stay in your chairs.
687
00:40:50,448 --> 00:40:52,324
We have a surprise for you.
688
00:40:54,785 --> 00:40:56,954
But Lily fired me,
689
00:40:58,164 --> 00:41:02,209
and Samuel Cohen
was the new head of security.
690
00:41:02,918 --> 00:41:05,086
He was a Lily person,
691
00:41:05,087 --> 00:41:07,756
working exactly the way she wants.
692
00:41:08,757 --> 00:41:11,801
Now to that murder mystery
rocking the financial world this morning.
693
00:41:11,802 --> 00:41:14,554
Investigators in Monte Carlo
are questioning the bodyguard
694
00:41:14,555 --> 00:41:16,598
of one of the world's richest men
695
00:41:16,599 --> 00:41:20,059
to find out why he wasn't around
when a deadly fire broke out
696
00:41:20,060 --> 00:41:23,647
in Edmond Safra's
exclusive Riviera penthouse.
697
00:41:24,398 --> 00:41:28,944
Lily Safra's hand is traceable throughout.
698
00:41:29,528 --> 00:41:30,571
Edmond.
699
00:41:31,155 --> 00:41:32,615
My husband.
700
00:41:33,782 --> 00:41:35,450
Edmond, my dear.
701
00:41:35,451 --> 00:41:37,578
Thank you. Thank you.
702
00:41:38,704 --> 00:41:41,081
Thank you.
703
00:41:43,375 --> 00:41:46,670
I'm feeling closer
to my husband than ever.
704
00:41:48,547 --> 00:41:50,757
The trial of Ted Maher has begun.
705
00:41:50,758 --> 00:41:52,884
He faces life in prison.
706
00:41:52,885 --> 00:41:57,723
But Monaco was
quite determined to blame the nurse.
707
00:42:01,185 --> 00:42:03,187
This was not an open-and-shut case.
708
00:42:04,104 --> 00:42:06,689
And unfortunately, I wasn't impressed
709
00:42:06,690 --> 00:42:10,069
with the Monaco lawyers
representing Ted at the time.
710
00:42:11,195 --> 00:42:12,905
I'm Sandrine Setton.
711
00:42:13,405 --> 00:42:17,701
For the young lawyer I was at the time,
this case was fantastic.
712
00:42:19,787 --> 00:42:25,084
I was part of the defense team
before Mr. Griffith came in,
713
00:42:25,584 --> 00:42:30,172
and in terms of defense,
we disagreed completely.
714
00:42:30,756 --> 00:42:32,049
We didn't see eye to eye.
715
00:42:32,675 --> 00:42:35,219
They wanted Ted
to stick to the confession.
716
00:42:37,012 --> 00:42:39,097
The Monaco attorneys said,
717
00:42:39,098 --> 00:42:42,767
"You can't go back on this now
because it would show that you're lying."
718
00:42:42,768 --> 00:42:44,060
I'm like, "What do you mean?"
719
00:42:44,061 --> 00:42:47,397
"I'm being given a document
that could have been in Swahili."
720
00:42:47,398 --> 00:42:50,276
I said, "Hey, wait a minute, Ted.
Your wife was abducted
721
00:42:51,318 --> 00:42:53,820
to force you to make this confession."
722
00:42:53,821 --> 00:42:55,030
"Let's go that route."
723
00:42:56,156 --> 00:42:59,451
But we thought his story,
724
00:42:59,952 --> 00:43:03,454
the two guys coming in,
wounding him and so on,
725
00:43:03,455 --> 00:43:06,666
would not be regarded as true,
726
00:43:06,667 --> 00:43:11,046
because we never believed
that had ever happened.
727
00:43:12,047 --> 00:43:15,341
They said, "Michael doesn't know
how the system works up here."
728
00:43:15,342 --> 00:43:17,385
"If you do what he says,
729
00:43:17,386 --> 00:43:19,679
you're gonna get yourself
into a lot of trouble."
730
00:43:19,680 --> 00:43:24,684
The worst sentence for Ted
would have been life prison.
731
00:43:24,685 --> 00:43:27,563
"You do wanna go back to your family,
right? You need to trust us."
732
00:43:28,772 --> 00:43:31,941
I have to make a decision right then.
Which way do I go? What do I do?
733
00:43:31,942 --> 00:43:34,278
Finally, Ted said
734
00:43:34,862 --> 00:43:39,575
he will not go back on his confession.
735
00:43:40,242 --> 00:43:44,288
I said, "Unbelievable." I demanded to know
who these guys were representing,
736
00:43:44,872 --> 00:43:48,375
Ted or the Safra family
or Monaco, whatever.
737
00:43:48,876 --> 00:43:50,835
He was told this is the best way to go.
738
00:43:50,836 --> 00:43:52,503
Heidi, I don't know what to tell you.
739
00:43:52,504 --> 00:43:55,549
- This is our life. This is Ted's life.
- This is your life. Right.
740
00:44:00,679 --> 00:44:03,265
The trial becomes like a whole circus.
741
00:44:05,934 --> 00:44:07,645
Everybody's covering it.
742
00:44:09,313 --> 00:44:12,774
Ted's trial was the O.J. case of Europe.
743
00:44:12,775 --> 00:44:15,443
Let's turn now
to the trial taking place in Monaco.
744
00:44:15,444 --> 00:44:18,072
Media from around the world have gathered.
745
00:44:18,656 --> 00:44:22,158
Ted's charged
with arson resulting in the death
746
00:44:22,159 --> 00:44:24,495
of Edmond and Vivian Torrente.
747
00:44:24,995 --> 00:44:27,706
The trial was a chance
to find the answers.
748
00:44:28,207 --> 00:44:31,752
What really transpired
in Safra's penthouse?
749
00:44:35,005 --> 00:44:36,798
Mr. Maher
750
00:44:36,799 --> 00:44:37,966
intended
751
00:44:38,884 --> 00:44:43,806
to stage an attack, one he could claim
to have fought off single-handedly.
752
00:44:44,515 --> 00:44:47,558
The prosecution raised the theory
753
00:44:47,559 --> 00:44:53,022
of he has planned the whole story
to be the hero.
754
00:44:53,023 --> 00:44:57,403
The prosecution claimed that
he was in financial straits,
755
00:44:58,278 --> 00:45:01,781
so he wanted to show
Edmond Safra, his boss,
756
00:45:01,782 --> 00:45:03,701
what a great hero he could be.
757
00:45:04,618 --> 00:45:09,330
Mr. Safra
would have gratified Ted with money.
758
00:45:09,331 --> 00:45:13,168
So for him, that was a jackpot.
759
00:45:14,795 --> 00:45:17,922
The chief of the nurses, Sonia Herkrath,
760
00:45:17,923 --> 00:45:20,509
came as a witness.
761
00:45:23,887 --> 00:45:25,513
So Sonia was the head nurse,
762
00:45:25,514 --> 00:45:29,435
and she was a key witness
for the prosecution.
763
00:45:32,646 --> 00:45:38,694
{\an8}I had been working
for Mr. Safra since March 1998,
764
00:45:39,653 --> 00:45:43,449
when Ted started to work for Mr. Safra.
765
00:45:44,366 --> 00:45:48,911
Even in the beginning,
Ted was very unhappy with me.
766
00:45:48,912 --> 00:45:53,500
He would complain
that I'm not giving him enough shifts
767
00:45:54,084 --> 00:45:58,547
and that he wasn't getting enough money
to support his family.
768
00:45:59,047 --> 00:46:02,049
He'd said that
he wasn't supposed to be working
769
00:46:02,050 --> 00:46:03,718
on that Friday, but then he was?
770
00:46:03,719 --> 00:46:04,802
It's not true.
771
00:46:04,803 --> 00:46:07,972
He was scheduled
as he was scheduled. He made it up.
772
00:46:07,973 --> 00:46:13,227
In her testimony, there were
some very strong allegations made.
773
00:46:13,228 --> 00:46:16,397
Let's fast-forward to the night
of the incident in Monaco.
774
00:46:16,398 --> 00:46:19,026
Can you describe what happened that night?
775
00:46:23,489 --> 00:46:27,534
The evening of December 2nd, 1999,
776
00:46:28,118 --> 00:46:32,998
a male attendant and I had taken care
of Mr. Safra during the day.
777
00:46:33,665 --> 00:46:37,252
So we gave a report to Vivian and to Ted.
778
00:46:38,796 --> 00:46:42,507
I noticed that Ted was kind of frantic
779
00:46:42,508 --> 00:46:47,387
and couldn't wait for us
to get out of the penthouse.
780
00:46:48,222 --> 00:46:51,266
There was something not quite right.
781
00:46:54,186 --> 00:46:58,774
Mrs. Safra went to bid
Mr. Safra good night,
782
00:46:59,274 --> 00:47:03,027
and Ted supposedly made the remarks,
783
00:47:03,028 --> 00:47:06,740
"You're gonna sleep well tonight,
Mrs. Safra."
784
00:47:08,659 --> 00:47:12,371
The problem is that Sonia
was not a reliable
785
00:47:13,330 --> 00:47:14,164
witness.
786
00:47:15,457 --> 00:47:20,838
There was really an antagonism
between these two.
787
00:47:21,964 --> 00:47:26,176
She thought he wanted to take her job.
788
00:47:26,677 --> 00:47:29,178
Sonia was the top dog.
789
00:47:29,179 --> 00:47:32,181
Her and Ted, they didn't get along.
790
00:47:32,182 --> 00:47:33,724
It was a power thing.
791
00:47:33,725 --> 00:47:36,394
Sonia, she thought
I was gonna take her job away.
792
00:47:36,395 --> 00:47:38,021
And I was like, "That's ridiculous."
793
00:47:38,605 --> 00:47:40,690
It just didn't matter to me, so...
794
00:47:40,691 --> 00:47:44,986
Ted had a Jekyll and Hyde personality.
795
00:47:44,987 --> 00:47:47,488
He was overly aggressive.
796
00:47:47,489 --> 00:47:51,742
When we are boosting Mr. Safra up in bed,
797
00:47:51,743 --> 00:47:55,496
Ted would have the tendency
to say, "Easy, easy,"
798
00:47:55,497 --> 00:47:59,167
as if to say you're not being careful.
799
00:48:00,252 --> 00:48:04,714
And so, of course,
Mr. Safra, hearing this, would favor Ted,
800
00:48:04,715 --> 00:48:09,344
and they immediately entrusted
the care of Mr. Safra to him.
801
00:48:10,053 --> 00:48:13,389
I just couldn't get it past her
that I didn't want her job title.
802
00:48:13,390 --> 00:48:15,641
I just wanna work. I'm here for my family.
803
00:48:15,642 --> 00:48:17,768
They seemed to be at each other's throats,
804
00:48:17,769 --> 00:48:21,690
jockeying for position
in front of their boss.
805
00:48:23,358 --> 00:48:25,693
During the recess of the trial...
806
00:48:25,694 --> 00:48:29,447
...one of the lawyers of Mrs. Safra said,
807
00:48:29,448 --> 00:48:32,074
"Sonia, you are a very brave girl."
808
00:48:32,075 --> 00:48:37,080
Ted told me Sonia was paid
$100,000 to testify against him.
809
00:48:37,789 --> 00:48:38,998
I don't know about that.
810
00:48:38,999 --> 00:48:42,752
Sonia, the head nurse, was paid by Lily,
811
00:48:42,753 --> 00:48:46,672
as in a confidential agreement
in, quote, "not help Ted."
812
00:48:46,673 --> 00:48:48,966
All the nurses were paid this.
813
00:48:48,967 --> 00:48:50,384
It's not true.
814
00:48:50,385 --> 00:48:54,639
I'm convinced, you know, that Ted did it.
815
00:48:54,640 --> 00:48:59,769
He really wanted to be a hero
in the eyes of Mr. Safra,
816
00:48:59,770 --> 00:49:02,022
but it turned haywire.
817
00:49:03,899 --> 00:49:07,819
The lawyer of Mrs. Safra questioned Heidi.
818
00:49:12,616 --> 00:49:17,161
You wrote in a letter to Ted
that money was his mistress.
819
00:49:17,162 --> 00:49:19,081
What did you mean by that?
820
00:49:19,706 --> 00:49:21,457
I don't even remember it.
821
00:49:21,458 --> 00:49:24,168
He was more stressed
about bills than I was.
822
00:49:24,169 --> 00:49:26,128
We would always have a mortgage.
823
00:49:26,129 --> 00:49:28,382
Yeah, he was stressed about money.
824
00:49:29,299 --> 00:49:32,260
But I know my husband.
He wouldn't hurt people.
825
00:49:35,639 --> 00:49:39,517
There was so much more
I wanted to say, but I froze at times.
826
00:49:39,518 --> 00:49:41,728
I just pray for the truth to come out.
827
00:49:43,647 --> 00:49:47,066
The next evidence
the prosecution brought forward
828
00:49:47,067 --> 00:49:48,527
was the footage.
829
00:49:49,277 --> 00:49:52,989
The Belle Époque was full of cameras.
830
00:49:52,990 --> 00:49:55,450
Outside, inside.
831
00:49:58,537 --> 00:50:03,875
But it appeared
that the image had been erased.
832
00:50:05,043 --> 00:50:06,919
What was missing
833
00:50:06,920 --> 00:50:12,967
was where it can be shown
that there were intruders.
834
00:50:12,968 --> 00:50:15,428
Two weeks before the fire,
835
00:50:15,429 --> 00:50:18,556
Ted was in the nurse's station,
836
00:50:18,557 --> 00:50:21,517
standing on a chair
837
00:50:21,518 --> 00:50:24,311
and fiddling at the ceiling tiles
838
00:50:24,312 --> 00:50:26,981
to check on the electrical connections.
839
00:50:26,982 --> 00:50:33,070
The prosecutor raised the fact
that Ted, at one point,
840
00:50:33,071 --> 00:50:38,951
was working in a casino
in the video security department.
841
00:50:38,952 --> 00:50:43,247
They claimed that Ted
knew how to dismantle the cameras
842
00:50:43,248 --> 00:50:47,044
because he had experience
when he worked in Las Vegas.
843
00:50:50,714 --> 00:50:55,217
And finally, the prosecution brought up
his background with the Green Berets.
844
00:50:55,218 --> 00:50:58,345
Supposedly, because he had been assigned
845
00:50:58,346 --> 00:51:00,848
to a ground medical unit,
846
00:51:00,849 --> 00:51:04,435
he knew where he could injure himself
847
00:51:04,436 --> 00:51:06,438
without touching a vital organ.
848
00:51:07,314 --> 00:51:10,233
They said my husband certainly is guilty,
849
00:51:10,817 --> 00:51:14,361
but he's got abdomen wounds
in places that he can't even reach.
850
00:51:14,362 --> 00:51:18,199
He's left-handed, and they have
stab wounds on the right flank.
851
00:51:18,200 --> 00:51:21,744
If somebody that has any medical knowledge
is gonna stab themselves,
852
00:51:21,745 --> 00:51:24,872
they certainly aren't gonna,
you know, go where your aorta is
853
00:51:24,873 --> 00:51:26,165
and bleed to death.
854
00:51:26,166 --> 00:51:27,876
I mean, this was ridiculous.
855
00:51:29,669 --> 00:51:34,716
The evidence shows there's more to this
than Monaco wants us to all know.
856
00:51:37,094 --> 00:51:40,763
The defense argument
was that Ted was not directly responsible...
857
00:51:40,764 --> 00:51:43,641
...for the death of Edmond Safra.
858
00:51:43,642 --> 00:51:47,436
The Monaco police
and the fire department were negligent.
859
00:51:47,437 --> 00:51:50,064
We were gonna hit Monaco and pound them.
860
00:51:50,065 --> 00:51:52,566
Maher and his lawyers, including Griffith,
861
00:51:52,567 --> 00:51:54,026
a star of the New York bar,
862
00:51:54,027 --> 00:51:56,362
are seeking to place blame
on the emergency services.
863
00:51:56,363 --> 00:51:58,239
Ted never thought this could happen.
864
00:51:58,240 --> 00:52:00,783
He thought,
as soon as that smoke detector went off,
865
00:52:00,784 --> 00:52:03,744
that the police would get here
in ten or fifteen minutes, and they did.
866
00:52:03,745 --> 00:52:06,790
And guess what?
It took them another two and a half hours.
867
00:52:07,415 --> 00:52:12,586
We would prove the police
created the time frame
868
00:52:12,587 --> 00:52:17,300
for Mr. Safra and Vivian Torrente
to be dead.
869
00:52:31,064 --> 00:52:32,857
4:49 a.m.
870
00:52:32,858 --> 00:52:35,485
The fire alarm sounds.
871
00:52:36,069 --> 00:52:37,444
4:53 a.m.,
872
00:52:37,445 --> 00:52:40,322
the concierge in the lobby
of La Belle Époque
873
00:52:40,323 --> 00:52:43,576
sees Ted Maher
holding his abdomen with both hands.
874
00:52:43,577 --> 00:52:46,912
He notes in his notebook,
"Man injured by gunshot."
875
00:52:46,913 --> 00:52:48,497
When the concierge
876
00:52:48,498 --> 00:52:50,249
called the police,
877
00:52:50,250 --> 00:52:53,711
he said, "The guy has been shot."
878
00:52:53,712 --> 00:52:57,549
This confusion had a dramatic effect.
879
00:52:58,133 --> 00:53:01,385
And that's what caused a certain delay.
880
00:53:01,386 --> 00:53:04,513
An elite unit
insisted on securing the premises,
881
00:53:04,514 --> 00:53:08,018
even if that meant searching through
the building's 23 levels of parking.
882
00:53:08,602 --> 00:53:11,979
There were
23 levels of underground parking.
883
00:53:11,980 --> 00:53:14,565
The police had to clear
the entire building
884
00:53:14,566 --> 00:53:17,110
before letting the firemen inside.
885
00:53:17,694 --> 00:53:21,071
And the clock just
keeps ticking and ticking and ticking.
886
00:53:21,072 --> 00:53:26,160
I received a phone call
from Vivian, frantically asking me,
887
00:53:26,161 --> 00:53:29,455
"Sonia, please call the police."
888
00:53:29,456 --> 00:53:32,708
I told them they were already there.
889
00:53:32,709 --> 00:53:38,297
After that, I called
the head of security in La Leopolda,
890
00:53:38,298 --> 00:53:41,259
and he zipped through to Monaco.
891
00:53:42,052 --> 00:53:45,262
5:20 a.m.,
arrival on-site of Samuel Cohen,
892
00:53:45,263 --> 00:53:48,516
responsible for security,
with the keys to their boss's apartment.
893
00:53:49,267 --> 00:53:52,562
When I arrived, I tell them
exactly how and where they need to go.
894
00:53:53,563 --> 00:53:56,774
Nobody listened to what I said,
and they all refused my help.
895
00:53:56,775 --> 00:53:58,525
It was a nightmare.
896
00:53:58,526 --> 00:54:00,402
There was total chaos.
897
00:54:00,403 --> 00:54:03,906
I decided to go up
to the fifth floor by myself.
898
00:54:03,907 --> 00:54:08,494
He took
the elevator down to the hotel lobby,
899
00:54:08,495 --> 00:54:11,747
where he was stopped by police officers.
900
00:54:11,748 --> 00:54:13,832
They tackled him, handcuffed him,
901
00:54:13,833 --> 00:54:15,335
and said, "You can't go upstairs."
902
00:54:15,919 --> 00:54:18,587
I'm sitting on the floor, handcuffed.
903
00:54:18,588 --> 00:54:21,966
One of the firemen says, "I'm afraid."
904
00:54:21,967 --> 00:54:24,134
"I have a fear of heights."
905
00:54:24,135 --> 00:54:27,263
For goodness' sake! Is it not your job
906
00:54:27,264 --> 00:54:30,891
to be able to climb, to scale heights?
907
00:54:30,892 --> 00:54:34,479
That statement leaves you speechless.
908
00:54:39,276 --> 00:54:41,026
6:15 a.m.,
909
00:54:41,027 --> 00:54:43,696
first attempt to fight
the fire by firefighters.
910
00:54:43,697 --> 00:54:45,698
You're hearing, through testimony,
911
00:54:45,699 --> 00:54:48,867
the policeman tells the firemen,
"Do not advance,"
912
00:54:48,868 --> 00:54:51,788
an hour and 45 minutes after I leave.
913
00:54:52,706 --> 00:54:54,206
Is there something I'm missing here?
914
00:54:54,207 --> 00:54:56,710
I mean, and I'm supposed
to be blamed for that?
915
00:54:58,837 --> 00:55:01,798
While Mr. Safra and Vivian
were in the safe room,
916
00:55:02,424 --> 00:55:05,676
they made six phone calls to me.
917
00:55:05,677 --> 00:55:10,473
And they said there was smoke
seeping into the safe room.
918
00:55:11,224 --> 00:55:15,644
I kept begging the police,
"Please, please go to the penthouse."
919
00:55:15,645 --> 00:55:17,104
6:30 a.m.,
920
00:55:17,105 --> 00:55:20,607
last telephone contact with Vivian.
921
00:55:20,608 --> 00:55:23,737
7 a.m., firefighters enter Safra's room.
922
00:55:26,281 --> 00:55:28,240
7:45 a.m.,
923
00:55:28,241 --> 00:55:31,995
nearly three hours
after the first call to the police...
924
00:55:33,079 --> 00:55:37,333
...discovery of the inanimate bodies
of Edmond Safra,
925
00:55:37,334 --> 00:55:39,418
seated in a red armchair,
926
00:55:39,419 --> 00:55:42,088
and Vivian Torrente lying at his feet.
927
00:55:43,631 --> 00:55:46,675
So the firemen don't put out the fire,
928
00:55:46,676 --> 00:55:49,012
the police don't bust the door down.
929
00:55:50,180 --> 00:55:52,765
It's almost on purpose
that they botched it.
930
00:55:52,766 --> 00:55:55,059
The nurse's trial has turned into
931
00:55:55,060 --> 00:55:56,644
a trial of the Monaco police.
932
00:55:58,355 --> 00:56:00,522
If not for the gross negligence
933
00:56:00,523 --> 00:56:04,651
of the police and the fire department,
Mr. Safra would have been saved.
934
00:56:04,652 --> 00:56:07,988
There was an absolutely colossal blunder,
935
00:56:07,989 --> 00:56:10,908
one that, tragically, ended in disaster.
936
00:56:10,909 --> 00:56:14,495
The testimony of
Edmond Safra's security guard is damning.
937
00:56:14,496 --> 00:56:16,498
He paints a picture of total chaos.
938
00:56:17,582 --> 00:56:21,585
The fact that the security
wasn't there, the police didn't function,
939
00:56:21,586 --> 00:56:23,629
the CCTV didn't function...
940
00:56:23,630 --> 00:56:27,299
So many things went really wrong.
941
00:56:27,300 --> 00:56:28,426
They are bizarre.
942
00:56:33,014 --> 00:56:37,602
Finally, it was time to hear
Mrs. Lily Safra.
943
00:56:42,273 --> 00:56:44,651
I went to bed and I fell asleep.
944
00:56:45,235 --> 00:56:47,903
Then suddenly,
I heard what I thought was the bell...
945
00:56:47,904 --> 00:56:50,448
...and it kept ringing.
946
00:56:52,659 --> 00:56:54,202
It was the telephone.
947
00:56:54,786 --> 00:56:57,329
It was my husband, and he said,
948
00:56:57,330 --> 00:56:59,623
" Chérie, there are aggressors
in the house."
949
00:56:59,624 --> 00:57:03,503
"They have injured Ted Maher.
Close yourself in and call the police."
950
00:57:04,087 --> 00:57:06,965
Suddenly, all the blinds
opened up by themselves.
951
00:57:09,342 --> 00:57:11,553
But only to the level of the railing.
952
00:57:12,679 --> 00:57:16,182
I didn't know how I got out, but I did.
953
00:57:18,017 --> 00:57:21,937
Safra refused to leave
the bathroom, unconvinced it was safe.
954
00:57:21,938 --> 00:57:23,939
He even ignored pleas from his wife,
955
00:57:23,940 --> 00:57:27,110
who called him on a cell phone
to say the coast was clear.
956
00:57:28,778 --> 00:57:33,283
All I know is that Joseph Safra
believed that Lily had killed his brother.
957
00:57:35,660 --> 00:57:40,664
Joseph told me that she's the one
who kept him in the strong room,
958
00:57:40,665 --> 00:57:42,584
because there was a code between them.
959
00:57:43,960 --> 00:57:50,924
The code was that if she told Edmond
to come out of the room,
960
00:57:50,925 --> 00:57:55,889
he mustn't open the door
because they were in danger.
961
00:57:56,764 --> 00:57:59,641
He was, um, instructed
not to leave the safe room
962
00:57:59,642 --> 00:58:02,936
until the bodyguards told him
it was okay to do so.
963
00:58:02,937 --> 00:58:04,021
That was the protocol.
964
00:58:04,022 --> 00:58:07,357
And I knew about that protocol
when they were looking after me,
965
00:58:07,358 --> 00:58:09,735
in case some intruders had a gun
to the head of his wife
966
00:58:09,736 --> 00:58:10,736
or something like that.
967
00:58:10,737 --> 00:58:14,199
She was clever. Very clever.
968
00:58:15,366 --> 00:58:18,243
Edmond's brothers
make a statement at the trial
969
00:58:18,244 --> 00:58:20,871
that says,
"There's no question in our minds
970
00:58:20,872 --> 00:58:23,790
that our beloved brother Edmond
and Vivian Torrente
971
00:58:23,791 --> 00:58:27,127
were the victims of nefarious actions."
972
00:58:27,128 --> 00:58:30,339
"Those who were there at the scene
on that fateful morning
973
00:58:30,340 --> 00:58:33,342
each know what they did and did not do."
974
00:58:33,343 --> 00:58:35,261
I mean, it's pretty damning.
975
00:58:37,555 --> 00:58:40,516
After more than
two and a half hours of deliberation,
976
00:58:40,517 --> 00:58:44,561
the court found that
the American nurse was responsible
977
00:58:44,562 --> 00:58:47,898
for the deaths
of Edmond Safra and Vivian Torrente.
978
00:58:47,899 --> 00:58:50,526
Well, isn't justice wonderful
over in Monte Carlo?
979
00:58:50,527 --> 00:58:53,028
An American man has been sentenced
to ten years in prison
980
00:58:53,029 --> 00:58:55,739
in what's being called
"Monaco's trial of the century."
981
00:58:55,740 --> 00:58:59,536
They condemned me for ten years
for something that I didn't do.
982
00:59:00,036 --> 00:59:01,746
I think we pushed it too far.
983
00:59:04,249 --> 00:59:07,376
I just feel they want
a nice clean ending to all of this
984
00:59:07,377 --> 00:59:09,420
and use my husband as a scapegoat
985
00:59:09,921 --> 00:59:13,132
to make Monaco look like
the safe haven that they want it to be.
986
00:59:15,885 --> 00:59:19,264
There's more to the story,
and I'm not ending it here.
987
00:59:24,602 --> 00:59:27,980
Edmond's widow.
Now she controls a colossal fortune
988
00:59:27,981 --> 00:59:29,815
of more than $3 billion,
989
00:59:29,816 --> 00:59:32,443
making her one of the richest women
in the world.
990
00:59:33,152 --> 00:59:35,320
The nurse will stay behind bars.
991
00:59:35,321 --> 00:59:37,240
Monaco's honor is preserved.
992
00:59:40,952 --> 00:59:43,453
Reading the transcripts of the trial
993
00:59:43,454 --> 00:59:45,330
and going through everything,
994
00:59:45,331 --> 00:59:47,416
I don't think Ted got a fair trial.
995
00:59:47,417 --> 00:59:50,670
Does anybody get a fair trial in Monaco?
996
00:59:54,132 --> 00:59:56,926
No justice Monaco!
997
01:00:05,977 --> 01:00:08,104
My name is Luigi Ciardelli.
998
01:00:09,188 --> 01:00:11,524
I was Ted Maher's cellmate.
999
01:00:12,233 --> 01:00:13,276
The American.
1000
01:00:14,193 --> 01:00:18,655
My cellmate, Luigi, was...
You know, he was a bad, bad guy.
1001
01:00:18,656 --> 01:00:21,742
You know, robbery, cocaine,
and... and prostitutes.
1002
01:00:21,743 --> 01:00:22,743
That was his life.
1003
01:00:22,744 --> 01:00:25,912
I used to rob the rich
to give to the poor guy.
1004
01:00:25,913 --> 01:00:27,748
Not to poor people.
1005
01:00:27,749 --> 01:00:30,043
Singular, the poor guy. Me.
1006
01:00:32,754 --> 01:00:38,508
The prison
can be described as a hotel. Five stars.
1007
01:00:38,509 --> 01:00:39,843
"It's Monte Carlo."
1008
01:00:39,844 --> 01:00:41,887
"It's the best prison in the world.
Yada yada."
1009
01:00:41,888 --> 01:00:44,556
They give you so much food
and so much cheese
1010
01:00:44,557 --> 01:00:46,850
that your cholesterol goes off the chart.
1011
01:00:46,851 --> 01:00:50,021
But this is a jail. It's not meant
for long-term incarceration.
1012
01:00:50,730 --> 01:00:53,231
Ted Maher must serve
the rest of his sentence
1013
01:00:53,232 --> 01:00:55,192
in a French prison.
1014
01:00:55,193 --> 01:00:56,777
I have three months
1015
01:00:56,778 --> 01:01:01,782
before I'm gonna be transferred
to a French prison that's 85% Muslim.
1016
01:01:01,783 --> 01:01:04,201
We will continue to hunt down the enemy.
1017
01:01:04,202 --> 01:01:07,288
President Bush is playing cowboy
in Afghanistan and Iraq.
1018
01:01:07,872 --> 01:01:09,624
I was a dead man.
That was a death sentence.
1019
01:01:10,375 --> 01:01:12,584
So I realized I had to get out of there.
1020
01:01:12,585 --> 01:01:14,045
I put into motion
1021
01:01:14,837 --> 01:01:15,880
an escape.
1022
01:01:18,383 --> 01:01:21,968
On the promenade,
he suggested a game of chess.
1023
01:01:21,969 --> 01:01:23,971
We play.
1024
01:01:24,931 --> 01:01:28,101
He says, "What do you think
about escaping Monte Carlo?"
1025
01:01:29,227 --> 01:01:32,479
I had to trust somebody that was that bad
1026
01:01:32,480 --> 01:01:35,858
because anyone else would have
probably just ratted me out.
1027
01:01:36,442 --> 01:01:38,069
I wanted to leave.
1028
01:01:38,778 --> 01:01:40,987
The mission, its name?
1029
01:01:40,988 --> 01:01:43,241
Monaco: Fuck You.
1030
01:01:44,283 --> 01:01:45,742
Everything is secure.
1031
01:01:45,743 --> 01:01:49,830
The cameras, external, internal.
1032
01:01:49,831 --> 01:01:52,958
Noise detectors and sensors.
1033
01:01:52,959 --> 01:01:55,628
To escape seemed very difficult.
1034
01:01:57,130 --> 01:01:59,215
It was called the Rock, the Bunker.
1035
01:02:01,259 --> 01:02:03,218
In my cell, there was a window,
1036
01:02:03,219 --> 01:02:06,096
and it had a beautiful view
of the Mediterranean.
1037
01:02:06,097 --> 01:02:08,725
But it was through eight levels of bars.
1038
01:02:09,225 --> 01:02:14,188
So I got my sister to send me
four hacksaw blades in a small book,
1039
01:02:15,148 --> 01:02:18,525
which was hand-carried in
by Father Peter Ball,
1040
01:02:18,526 --> 01:02:20,235
who I knew had a pacemaker,
1041
01:02:20,236 --> 01:02:22,447
and he wouldn't be going through
a metal detector.
1042
01:02:23,781 --> 01:02:25,282
Yeah. Yeah.
1043
01:02:25,283 --> 01:02:28,453
Ted claims that
he was the one who smuggled in the blades.
1044
01:02:29,746 --> 01:02:31,413
That makes me laugh.
1045
01:02:31,414 --> 01:02:34,791
Ted's obsession
with being the main character
1046
01:02:34,792 --> 01:02:36,627
is baffling.
1047
01:02:37,295 --> 01:02:40,756
My first obstruction
was a galvanized screen
1048
01:02:40,757 --> 01:02:42,758
that was a sixteenth of an inch of metal.
1049
01:02:42,759 --> 01:02:46,219
It doesn't sound like very much, but when
it's galvanized, it can be very abrasive.
1050
01:02:46,220 --> 01:02:48,013
The really dense ones,
1051
01:02:48,014 --> 01:02:50,015
when you saw through them,
make a lot of noise.
1052
01:02:50,016 --> 01:02:51,183
...the right to remain silent...
1053
01:02:51,184 --> 01:02:54,936
As long as it was
TV time, the volume was turned up high.
1054
01:02:54,937 --> 01:02:56,438
After cutting the bars,
1055
01:02:56,439 --> 01:02:58,815
it would take me an hour
of what I call camouflage.
1056
01:02:58,816 --> 01:03:00,692
Ash was required.
1057
01:03:00,693 --> 01:03:04,947
I mixed the ash
from the cigarettes with glue.
1058
01:03:05,531 --> 01:03:07,699
Then I would paint over with the ash.
1059
01:03:07,700 --> 01:03:10,494
He would pat me on the back and say,
1060
01:03:10,495 --> 01:03:13,331
"You're good, hey! Picasso. Picasso."
1061
01:03:16,876 --> 01:03:19,837
Took me five and a half
weeks to get through those bars.
1062
01:03:25,468 --> 01:03:29,137
That night
there was a Champions League match.
1063
01:03:29,138 --> 01:03:32,349
All the guards were watching the TV
1064
01:03:32,350 --> 01:03:35,895
with their backs turned
to the video surveillance cameras.
1065
01:03:37,730 --> 01:03:40,858
And so I said,
"Luigi, we're gonna go, all right?"
1066
01:03:41,442 --> 01:03:43,903
Ted, just a moment, please.
1067
01:03:44,487 --> 01:03:45,445
You...
1068
01:03:45,446 --> 01:03:47,489
...big ass.
1069
01:03:47,490 --> 01:03:48,865
I, no.
1070
01:03:48,866 --> 01:03:52,702
And then Luigi said, "Oh, no, I... I gotta
go first 'cause I'm the lightest person."
1071
01:03:52,703 --> 01:03:54,412
"Luigi, I don't care, first, whatever."
1072
01:03:54,413 --> 01:03:56,498
I pass through, I climb down.
1073
01:03:56,499 --> 01:03:59,960
The rope is hanging
because he still had to come down.
1074
01:03:59,961 --> 01:04:02,838
And Ted is there
kicking around with his legs.
1075
01:04:02,839 --> 01:04:04,298
And I leave.
1076
01:04:04,799 --> 01:04:08,469
Monaco, fuck off! Monaco, fuck off!
1077
01:04:09,303 --> 01:04:12,222
So he basically left me to... out to dry.
1078
01:04:12,223 --> 01:04:16,185
Once again, Ted got fucked.
That guy ran off to Italy.
1079
01:04:18,354 --> 01:04:21,982
So Ted starts to go through the window,
and he gets stuck.
1080
01:04:21,983 --> 01:04:23,441
He told me, he gets stuck.
1081
01:04:23,442 --> 01:04:26,653
So he says, finally,
after about five or ten minutes,
1082
01:04:26,654 --> 01:04:29,698
he did one of these Lamaze things,
you know... ...you know,
1083
01:04:29,699 --> 01:04:31,117
and he finally popped out.
1084
01:04:31,742 --> 01:04:33,786
Of course, Ted had
the most well-known face in Monaco.
1085
01:04:34,370 --> 01:04:37,497
Over there, the prisons
don't have orange jumpsuits.
1086
01:04:37,498 --> 01:04:40,208
They dressed you
like you're a normal person,
1087
01:04:40,209 --> 01:04:41,502
almost like a tourist.
1088
01:04:42,086 --> 01:04:43,879
And he's walking down the hill,
1089
01:04:43,880 --> 01:04:45,964
and there's three gendarmes,
three police officers,
1090
01:04:45,965 --> 01:04:47,924
standing there with their hats
and everything.
1091
01:04:47,925 --> 01:04:50,802
And the cops say to him,
"Bonsoir, monsieur."
1092
01:04:50,803 --> 01:04:53,388
He says, "Bonsoir, monsieur."
1093
01:04:53,389 --> 01:04:56,684
He then walked
all the way to Nice, 25 miles.
1094
01:05:02,899 --> 01:05:05,817
I've done it. Holy fuck.
I'm in another country.
1095
01:05:05,818 --> 01:05:08,028
I'm not in Monte Carlo. I'm in France.
1096
01:05:08,029 --> 01:05:11,866
By that time, it was drizzling,
raining, and it was cold.
1097
01:05:13,326 --> 01:05:15,493
I come up to a two-star hotel.
1098
01:05:15,494 --> 01:05:18,038
It was all closed up at night,
so I knocked on the door.
1099
01:05:18,039 --> 01:05:20,665
And the guy came out,
and I spoke to him in French,
1100
01:05:20,666 --> 01:05:23,668
telling him that my car broke down,
I'm American.
1101
01:05:23,669 --> 01:05:26,421
"Can I use the telephonie
une minute, s'il vous plaît?"
1102
01:05:26,422 --> 01:05:29,550
"Oh, yeah, no problem, allez."
So he let me in.
1103
01:05:30,843 --> 01:05:34,597
Ted didn't have any money,
so he calls up his sister.
1104
01:05:35,181 --> 01:05:39,309
She says, "Oh my God, just so... so happy
that I can speak to you."
1105
01:05:39,310 --> 01:05:42,271
And I said, "Give me your Visa number."
1106
01:05:42,772 --> 01:05:45,440
She gives him a credit card.
He then calls-- You ready for this?
1107
01:05:45,441 --> 01:05:48,360
He calls his priest, Father Ball.
1108
01:05:48,361 --> 01:05:51,112
And he says, "Father,"
he says, "Look," he says, "I need money."
1109
01:05:51,113 --> 01:05:54,532
"Could you drive to some...
And I'll meet you on the road near Nice."
1110
01:05:54,533 --> 01:05:56,744
And then he calls his wife.
1111
01:05:57,828 --> 01:06:01,082
I said, "Who is this?"
And he said, "It's me, Ted."
1112
01:06:02,083 --> 01:06:05,669
And he just kept talking.
I couldn't even speak.
1113
01:06:05,670 --> 01:06:09,881
He said, "I'm out."
And I said, "You're what?"
1114
01:06:09,882 --> 01:06:11,549
He said, "I'm out."
1115
01:06:11,550 --> 01:06:14,177
Before I could go any further,
"Oh my God, you're a fugitive."
1116
01:06:14,178 --> 01:06:17,389
"I'm not speaking to you.
I'm gonna get in trouble too."
1117
01:06:17,390 --> 01:06:20,309
Uh, "I have nothing to say to you."
And she hung up the phone.
1118
01:06:21,477 --> 01:06:26,314
If that wasn't enough,
she calls my Monegasque attorney,
1119
01:06:26,315 --> 01:06:29,068
and he contacts the prison.
1120
01:06:29,819 --> 01:06:32,445
His lawyer says,
"Is my client still there?"
1121
01:06:32,446 --> 01:06:34,614
They see my bed. I'm in bed.
1122
01:06:34,615 --> 01:06:36,032
"Yeah, yeah, he's still here."
1123
01:06:36,033 --> 01:06:37,784
"Allez, Mr. Maher. Allez."
1124
01:06:37,785 --> 01:06:40,579
Pull back the cover.
"Oh, putain de merde."
1125
01:06:41,080 --> 01:06:46,168
The reverend calls the police,
and the police trace the phone call.
1126
01:06:47,461 --> 01:06:50,171
I'm hypothermic. I fill up that bathtub
as hot as it can get,
1127
01:06:50,172 --> 01:06:53,009
and there I am smoking a cigar.
1128
01:06:53,884 --> 01:06:55,010
Free at last.
1129
01:06:55,011 --> 01:06:56,387
I sleep like a baby.
1130
01:06:57,680 --> 01:07:00,015
Checkout time is 12 o'clock.
1131
01:07:00,016 --> 01:07:01,225
Ted stays till 12.
1132
01:07:01,892 --> 01:07:05,812
Five minutes before 12,
the police rush up and grab him,
1133
01:07:05,813 --> 01:07:06,896
and they took him off.
1134
01:07:06,897 --> 01:07:09,108
I didn't have time to get on my underwear.
1135
01:07:10,609 --> 01:07:15,447
Jesus, I mean, I've gone through all that
to be betrayed by your wife,
1136
01:07:15,448 --> 01:07:18,324
by your attorney, by your priest.
1137
01:07:18,325 --> 01:07:21,036
My God, it doesn't get
any worse than that.
1138
01:07:21,037 --> 01:07:22,996
It's too early to tell,
1139
01:07:22,997 --> 01:07:27,459
but he's definitely created
some kind of international incident here.
1140
01:07:27,460 --> 01:07:28,377
Wonderful.
1141
01:07:29,795 --> 01:07:32,088
I did the best I could to bring him home,
1142
01:07:32,089 --> 01:07:35,801
but now it seems like
he's doing his own job of screwing up.
1143
01:07:36,761 --> 01:07:38,512
Part of me wanted him home,
1144
01:07:39,096 --> 01:07:42,058
but the bigger part of me
was scared to death to have him here.
1145
01:07:42,767 --> 01:07:44,517
I know the kids need their dad,
1146
01:07:44,518 --> 01:07:48,396
but I don't think it's healthy
to have Ted in their life.
1147
01:07:48,397 --> 01:07:51,233
I don't need him, and I don't want him.
1148
01:07:51,901 --> 01:07:55,029
He just screwed up the next seven years
of his life, at least,
1149
01:07:55,613 --> 01:07:57,238
and the rest of his life, actually,
1150
01:07:57,239 --> 01:08:00,576
'cause he will not know his kids
by the time he gets home.
1151
01:08:01,452 --> 01:08:03,537
And he will certainly not know me.
1152
01:08:04,246 --> 01:08:06,707
I think Heidi Maher realized
1153
01:08:07,291 --> 01:08:11,628
that she was married to a crazy man.
1154
01:08:11,629 --> 01:08:14,965
Shortly thereafter, she divorced him.
1155
01:08:15,466 --> 01:08:18,426
Remember, I mentioned previously
1156
01:08:18,427 --> 01:08:22,722
that the wife was abducted
by Lily Safra's chauffeur.
1157
01:08:22,723 --> 01:08:26,226
The limo was supposed to bring me
straight to the hospital to see Ted.
1158
01:08:26,227 --> 01:08:28,686
But the limo all of a sudden turned around
1159
01:08:28,687 --> 01:08:31,190
and brought us
straight to the police station.
1160
01:08:31,690 --> 01:08:36,027
We brought a lawsuit against Lily Safra
1161
01:08:36,028 --> 01:08:39,281
on behalf of Heidi for the abduction.
1162
01:08:40,366 --> 01:08:42,826
Before the court appearance in New York,
1163
01:08:42,827 --> 01:08:47,289
Heidi called me and said,
"I wanna drop everything."
1164
01:08:51,335 --> 01:08:54,797
The trial was set to take place
in New York City,
1165
01:08:55,297 --> 01:09:00,052
but two days before the trial,
Heidi dropped the lawsuit.
1166
01:09:00,553 --> 01:09:03,097
And why would she drop that?
1167
01:09:04,014 --> 01:09:05,348
Monies were involved.
1168
01:09:05,349 --> 01:09:06,891
Off the record for a minute.
1169
01:09:06,892 --> 01:09:11,480
Don't... I'm just talking to you now
because, allegedly...
1170
01:09:12,231 --> 01:09:13,065
uh...
1171
01:09:14,275 --> 01:09:15,109
...in cash.
1172
01:09:17,820 --> 01:09:18,821
Wow.
1173
01:09:19,822 --> 01:09:21,322
But I can't say that on the air.
1174
01:09:21,323 --> 01:09:24,242
Lily Safra paid her,
1175
01:09:24,243 --> 01:09:26,661
paid her right out to stop the lawsuit.
1176
01:09:26,662 --> 01:09:29,622
I... I... I... I don't know
that there was or wasn't.
1177
01:09:29,623 --> 01:09:32,500
But of course,
two and two equals four at times.
1178
01:09:32,501 --> 01:09:36,629
Later on, I found out
that a house in New York
1179
01:09:36,630 --> 01:09:39,424
was purchased for $360,000,
1180
01:09:39,425 --> 01:09:41,969
no loan, nothing.
1181
01:09:42,469 --> 01:09:46,931
Lily was far too subtle
to say, "I'm bribing you."
1182
01:09:46,932 --> 01:09:49,100
It was, "Oh, you poor thing."
1183
01:09:49,101 --> 01:09:54,023
"My lawyer will give you a check
for $250,000."
1184
01:09:54,815 --> 01:09:57,651
Anything inconvenient was forgotten.
1185
01:09:59,862 --> 01:10:01,821
Now I'm in a French prison,
1186
01:10:01,822 --> 01:10:04,616
and I have to get
an extradition back to Monaco
1187
01:10:04,617 --> 01:10:08,078
for a second trial
for, you know, escaping the prison.
1188
01:10:09,288 --> 01:10:13,042
And I was given nine months
on top of the original sentence.
1189
01:10:19,715 --> 01:10:23,801
After spending 2,865 days in prison...
1190
01:10:23,802 --> 01:10:26,262
Judge Hullin has just come down hard
1191
01:10:26,263 --> 01:10:27,889
on the justice system in Monaco.
1192
01:10:27,890 --> 01:10:30,391
...one of the judges involved in my case
1193
01:10:30,392 --> 01:10:31,726
made a public statement.
1194
01:10:31,727 --> 01:10:35,813
"Remember the male nurse,
you know, Ted Maher, involved in Safra?"
1195
01:10:35,814 --> 01:10:40,110
"The whole trial was prearranged
before he even set foot in the courtroom."
1196
01:10:42,238 --> 01:10:45,114
Judge Hullin
is denouncing certain practices.
1197
01:10:45,115 --> 01:10:49,827
At times, in criminal cases, sentences
were known even before the hearings.
1198
01:10:49,828 --> 01:10:55,541
The judge had decided
to find him guilty from the very outset.
1199
01:10:55,542 --> 01:10:57,043
It's very Alice in Wonderland.
1200
01:10:57,044 --> 01:10:59,963
Are you ready for your sentence?
1201
01:10:59,964 --> 01:11:03,091
Sentence?
But there must be a verdict first.
1202
01:11:03,092 --> 01:11:05,760
It really is, like,
the verdict then the trial.
1203
01:11:05,761 --> 01:11:07,637
Judge Hullin's accusations
1204
01:11:07,638 --> 01:11:10,766
before the Monaco Court of Appeal
have shaken the Rock.
1205
01:11:11,809 --> 01:11:15,354
Can people be paid off?
Can authorities be paid off? Yeah.
1206
01:11:16,230 --> 01:11:18,357
Monaco's a bit of a banana republic.
1207
01:11:19,441 --> 01:11:22,652
In Monaco,
the prince demands an iron fist.
1208
01:11:22,653 --> 01:11:25,446
At the root of the severity
of Monaco's justice system,
1209
01:11:25,447 --> 01:11:29,701
the principality's image,
which must be safeguarded at all costs.
1210
01:11:29,702 --> 01:11:33,496
Monaco is
a sort of private billionaire's club.
1211
01:11:33,497 --> 01:11:36,582
And all of a sudden, one
of your biggest billionaires gets killed.
1212
01:11:36,583 --> 01:11:37,668
What's your incentive?
1213
01:11:38,252 --> 01:11:40,211
Your incentive is,
this doesn't happen here.
1214
01:11:40,212 --> 01:11:43,215
You don't have to worry.
Come to Monaco. You won't be killed.
1215
01:11:44,758 --> 01:11:46,677
Monaco is run by Prince Albert.
1216
01:11:48,137 --> 01:11:51,556
Now, Prince Albert
is not a particularly pleasant character.
1217
01:11:51,557 --> 01:11:53,683
He was a big friend of Vladimir Putin.
1218
01:11:53,684 --> 01:11:58,646
Anyone who's ever seen the picture
of Putin on horseback without a shirt on,
1219
01:11:58,647 --> 01:12:00,148
that was taken in Siberia
1220
01:12:00,149 --> 01:12:03,609
on a trip that Prince Albert
and Putin went on together.
1221
01:12:03,610 --> 01:12:06,779
In my mind, anyone
who's sort of that chummy with Putin,
1222
01:12:06,780 --> 01:12:09,825
some of Putin's nastiness
rubs off on them.
1223
01:12:11,660 --> 01:12:13,745
Putin's army of propagandists
1224
01:12:13,746 --> 01:12:16,581
came up with all sorts
of allegations against me.
1225
01:12:16,582 --> 01:12:19,292
They accused me
of the murder of Edmond Safra.
1226
01:12:19,293 --> 01:12:21,670
In your mind, who killed Edmond Safra?
1227
01:12:22,713 --> 01:12:24,922
The Russians. The Russian Mafia.
1228
01:12:24,923 --> 01:12:28,885
And Lily had some sort of part in it,
1229
01:12:28,886 --> 01:12:31,012
only because...
1230
01:12:31,013 --> 01:12:33,682
...there's too many things
that are leading that way.
1231
01:12:35,392 --> 01:12:39,562
After Edmond's death, Lily decides
she's gonna sell La Leopolda.
1232
01:12:39,563 --> 01:12:43,524
A villa is about
to become the most expensive in the world.
1233
01:12:43,525 --> 01:12:45,610
A preliminary agreement
is said to have been signed.
1234
01:12:45,611 --> 01:12:47,653
The buyer's name remains unknown.
1235
01:12:47,654 --> 01:12:49,989
But all eyes are turning to Russia.
1236
01:12:49,990 --> 01:12:53,910
The man who ends up
entering into a contract to buy the house
1237
01:12:53,911 --> 01:12:55,953
is Mikhail Prokhorov.
1238
01:12:55,954 --> 01:12:59,665
Prokhorov, a Russian
nickel magnate worth $18 billion.
1239
01:12:59,666 --> 01:13:02,211
He is one of Russia's richest men.
1240
01:13:04,088 --> 01:13:06,339
He offers $500 million.
1241
01:13:06,340 --> 01:13:10,552
So he puts down his 10% deposit
of $50-something million,
1242
01:13:11,428 --> 01:13:14,848
and the deal doesn't go through.
1243
01:13:15,849 --> 01:13:18,851
And Lily says,
"Too bad, I'm gonna keep the cash."
1244
01:13:18,852 --> 01:13:21,605
She keeps the $50 million,
and he goes away.
1245
01:13:22,106 --> 01:13:23,940
Was that some kind of a weird payoff?
1246
01:13:23,941 --> 01:13:27,443
$53 million just gone. Poof.
1247
01:13:27,444 --> 01:13:30,822
I... I... I just can't believe
anyone can take $53 million in stride.
1248
01:13:30,823 --> 01:13:32,282
I don't care how rich you are.
1249
01:13:36,245 --> 01:13:39,163
Even though a judge said
that the trial was rigged,
1250
01:13:39,164 --> 01:13:41,417
Ted wasn't released early.
1251
01:13:41,917 --> 01:13:44,002
Ted still served his time.
1252
01:13:47,214 --> 01:13:51,468
When I was finally released,
I was led to the heliport...
1253
01:13:52,928 --> 01:13:55,556
...and I was flown to Nice.
1254
01:13:56,140 --> 01:13:59,017
And from there, I flew back to JFK.
1255
01:14:02,396 --> 01:14:06,441
Free at last. Free at last.
I am free. Yep.
1256
01:14:06,442 --> 01:14:08,526
Right, we're good. Let's cut.
Thank you, Ted.
1257
01:14:08,527 --> 01:14:09,486
Yep.
1258
01:14:14,575 --> 01:14:16,868
This is where the story was meant to end.
1259
01:14:16,869 --> 01:14:20,538
But shortly after this interview,
something interesting happened.
1260
01:14:20,539 --> 01:14:21,999
Ted went missing...
1261
01:14:22,791 --> 01:14:24,710
for months.
1262
01:14:27,212 --> 01:14:30,090
There are over a hundred
police officers looking for me.
1263
01:14:31,216 --> 01:14:32,717
I am not going
1264
01:14:32,718 --> 01:14:33,885
to fucking jail
1265
01:14:33,886 --> 01:14:35,178
for one minute
1266
01:14:35,179 --> 01:14:37,180
for something I didn't do.
1267
01:14:37,181 --> 01:14:39,974
Especially after what I went through
in Monaco.
1268
01:14:39,975 --> 01:14:41,768
I'm not fucking doing it again.
1269
01:14:43,228 --> 01:14:45,188
History seemed to be repeating itself.
1270
01:14:45,189 --> 01:14:48,191
Ted had tried to convince me
he was innocent in Monaco,
1271
01:14:48,192 --> 01:14:51,862
but now he was back on the run
and claiming to be the fall guy. Again.
1272
01:14:52,571 --> 01:14:55,990
Hodges, I got fucking
warrants out for my arrest right now.
1273
01:14:55,991 --> 01:14:57,075
I don't know where to go.
1274
01:14:59,328 --> 01:15:02,038
I can't trust anybody,
Hodge. I... I just can't.
1275
01:15:02,039 --> 01:15:05,667
I'm... I'm telling you right now, I need
a safe house, to be honest with you.
1276
01:15:06,251 --> 01:15:08,753
Text me later on this afternoon,
and I'll make sure my phone's on,
1277
01:15:08,754 --> 01:15:12,132
then we'll touch base again.
But I'm gonna go dark now.
1278
01:15:12,799 --> 01:15:16,553
After Monaco,
Ted legally changed his name to Jon Green.
1279
01:15:18,013 --> 01:15:19,764
Search Records, how may I help you?
1280
01:15:19,765 --> 01:15:23,184
I'm trying to figure out some charges
that were brought against somebody.
1281
01:15:23,185 --> 01:15:25,646
- Trying to see what the charges are?
- Yeah.
1282
01:15:26,271 --> 01:15:27,104
Okay.
1283
01:15:27,105 --> 01:15:28,231
Jon Green.
1284
01:15:28,232 --> 01:15:30,025
You have burglary,
1285
01:15:30,776 --> 01:15:32,610
larceny, forgery, fraud.
1286
01:15:32,611 --> 01:15:33,529
Oh boy.
1287
01:15:34,279 --> 01:15:38,366
Green is accused of forging
his estranged wife's checks.
1288
01:15:38,367 --> 01:15:41,244
This police officer showed up at the bank.
1289
01:15:41,245 --> 01:15:43,538
"Are you Jon Green?"
"Yes. What can I help you with?"
1290
01:15:43,539 --> 01:15:44,580
"Can you step outside?"
1291
01:15:44,581 --> 01:15:47,416
You know what
this rookie police officer does to me?
1292
01:15:47,417 --> 01:15:49,794
She shot me with a fucking Taser.
1293
01:15:49,795 --> 01:15:52,755
I realized I have to get the fuck
out of town, like, quick.
1294
01:15:52,756 --> 01:15:54,674
Police tell us they have reached out
1295
01:15:54,675 --> 01:15:56,634
to other law enforcement in other states
1296
01:15:56,635 --> 01:16:00,013
based on tips,
and the FBI is also helping.
1297
01:16:01,932 --> 01:16:03,933
The whole thing was a fucking setup.
1298
01:16:03,934 --> 01:16:06,019
I'm telling you,
I have no reason to lie to you.
1299
01:16:06,603 --> 01:16:09,647
Even though there's warrants
for my arrest, it's all bullshit.
1300
01:16:09,648 --> 01:16:13,025
They're tracking everything.
They were tracking me with the phone
1301
01:16:13,026 --> 01:16:15,237
even though the SIM card
wasn't in the damn thing.
1302
01:16:15,821 --> 01:16:18,239
You know, I'm looking at this shit on TV.
1303
01:16:18,240 --> 01:16:20,199
He's definitely very intelligent.
1304
01:16:20,200 --> 01:16:23,661
Seems almost like he's, you know,
one step ahead a lot of times.
1305
01:16:23,662 --> 01:16:26,289
It's almost like
he's a submarine right now.
1306
01:16:26,290 --> 01:16:27,249
He's gone down.
1307
01:16:28,166 --> 01:16:31,503
You gotta realize, man,
I'm in fucking survival mode.
1308
01:16:34,798 --> 01:16:36,425
Hey, man, how's it going?
1309
01:16:37,759 --> 01:16:41,012
He was calling weekly,
and at times, we were talking for hours.
1310
01:16:41,013 --> 01:16:43,472
If I mysteriously die in a car accident,
1311
01:16:43,473 --> 01:16:46,350
you're the only person
I've been able to talk to
1312
01:16:46,351 --> 01:16:48,019
to tell the whole story.
1313
01:16:48,020 --> 01:16:51,105
The more I listened,
the more my objectivity became blurred.
1314
01:16:51,106 --> 01:16:53,524
It's crazy how they try
to twist shit around
1315
01:16:53,525 --> 01:16:55,568
so that it makes things look really bad.
1316
01:16:55,569 --> 01:16:58,279
Half the time, I wondered
if he was telling me the truth,
1317
01:16:58,280 --> 01:17:01,365
and half the time,
it sounded like a fantasy.
1318
01:17:01,366 --> 01:17:04,160
So much for being
innocent until proven guilty, right?
1319
01:17:04,161 --> 01:17:06,203
Good afternoon. We have developing news.
1320
01:17:06,204 --> 01:17:08,289
Police continue their search
1321
01:17:08,290 --> 01:17:11,042
for a man with such a bizarre story,
1322
01:17:11,043 --> 01:17:13,837
it seems too bizarre to be true.
1323
01:17:14,504 --> 01:17:16,005
You know I'm innocent,
1324
01:17:16,006 --> 01:17:19,091
and it's the same fucking story
every fucking time.
1325
01:17:19,092 --> 01:17:21,510
Who am I? I'm a murderer from Monte Carlo.
1326
01:17:21,511 --> 01:17:23,846
You don't think there's a pattern here?
1327
01:17:23,847 --> 01:17:25,264
Holy fuck!
1328
01:17:25,265 --> 01:17:26,558
Shit.
1329
01:17:27,267 --> 01:17:31,604
Developing news.
Jon Green, or should we say Ted Maher,
1330
01:17:31,605 --> 01:17:33,982
{\an8}has been found and arrested.
1331
01:17:37,402 --> 01:17:41,280
After spending some time in jail,
Ted was interrogated by detectives.
1332
01:17:41,281 --> 01:17:44,033
Now, I have to advise you
of your rights, okay?
1333
01:17:44,034 --> 01:17:46,535
You have the right to remain silent.
Anything you say...
1334
01:17:46,536 --> 01:17:48,829
Then I got this news.
1335
01:17:48,830 --> 01:17:52,416
...an incarcerated
individual at Eddy County Adult Detention.
1336
01:17:52,417 --> 01:17:53,334
Jon Green.
1337
01:17:53,335 --> 01:17:55,920
To accept this free call, press 1. To--
1338
01:17:55,921 --> 01:17:57,880
You're not gonna
fucking believe this, man.
1339
01:17:57,881 --> 01:18:00,633
What exactly are they accusing you of?
1340
01:18:00,634 --> 01:18:04,471
Criminal conspiracy
in the first degree to commit murder.
1341
01:18:05,472 --> 01:18:07,014
MTD Radio News.
1342
01:18:07,015 --> 01:18:09,393
Police say Jon Green
was serving time in prison
1343
01:18:09,976 --> 01:18:14,189
when he allegedly conspired with
and paid another inmate to kill his wife.
1344
01:18:15,273 --> 01:18:16,232
Say it again?
1345
01:18:16,233 --> 01:18:17,609
Ted did what?
1346
01:18:18,193 --> 01:18:20,027
While Ted was in jail for other charges,
1347
01:18:20,028 --> 01:18:23,197
he allegedly hired
a hit man to kill his wife.
1348
01:18:23,198 --> 01:18:24,532
That's a good one.
1349
01:18:24,533 --> 01:18:25,741
Oh, Heidi?
1350
01:18:25,742 --> 01:18:27,493
No, a new wife.
1351
01:18:27,494 --> 01:18:33,124
I'm not surprised
that Ted would do a crazy thing like that.
1352
01:18:33,125 --> 01:18:35,209
The murder plot never came to fruition,
1353
01:18:35,210 --> 01:18:37,336
but Green will go on trial Monday.
1354
01:18:37,337 --> 01:18:40,590
I mean, this is fucking blatant lies.
1355
01:18:41,258 --> 01:18:43,467
I know what I've done
and I know what I haven't done.
1356
01:18:43,468 --> 01:18:44,844
And I'll tell you right now,
1357
01:18:44,845 --> 01:18:49,014
I don't give a flying fuck
what anybody thinks right now.
1358
01:18:49,015 --> 01:18:51,684
You know, you can tell by looking
in the eyes of the person,
1359
01:18:51,685 --> 01:18:54,562
see if they're a fucking bullshit artist
or a fucking scam artist.
1360
01:18:54,563 --> 01:18:56,230
When you look into a man's eyes,
1361
01:18:56,231 --> 01:18:58,149
you can see
they're telling the fucking truth.
1362
01:18:58,150 --> 01:19:03,154
Has this recent thing reinforced
what you've been saying about Monaco?
1363
01:19:03,155 --> 01:19:05,614
Absolutely. Absolutely.
1364
01:19:05,615 --> 01:19:08,993
And I don't know what
Michael Griffith is thinking now.
1365
01:19:08,994 --> 01:19:12,204
This is Ted's life.
He's always stepping in shit.
1366
01:19:12,205 --> 01:19:14,957
This is, like,
an ongoing drama with this guy.
1367
01:19:14,958 --> 01:19:15,958
Like, it never ends.
1368
01:19:15,959 --> 01:19:19,170
Ted holds the world record for imbecility.
1369
01:19:19,171 --> 01:19:23,090
In fact, I could write a book
on Ted's imbecility, and I'd call it...
1370
01:19:23,091 --> 01:19:25,843
{\an8}...The Imbecilities of Ted Maher.
1371
01:19:25,844 --> 01:19:31,349
It seems that Ted can do bad things.
1372
01:19:31,850 --> 01:19:33,392
Hiring a hit man is crazy.
1373
01:19:33,393 --> 01:19:35,645
Who does that?
1374
01:19:38,648 --> 01:19:40,983
I had wanted to believe Ted's story,
1375
01:19:40,984 --> 01:19:44,904
but now I couldn't help but question
the most basic details.
1376
01:19:44,905 --> 01:19:46,782
- My military experience?
- Yeah.
1377
01:19:47,282 --> 01:19:50,284
His military career
had always impressed me.
1378
01:19:50,285 --> 01:19:52,703
...to go for Special Forces, was selected.
1379
01:19:52,704 --> 01:19:54,121
Was that true?
1380
01:19:54,122 --> 01:19:56,582
I'm a member
of the Guardians of the Green Beret.
1381
01:19:56,583 --> 01:20:00,586
{\an8}And we research and root out people
1382
01:20:00,587 --> 01:20:06,467
{\an8}who are telling stories, uh,
about being "real" Green Berets
1383
01:20:06,468 --> 01:20:07,719
{\an8}when they aren't.
1384
01:20:09,846 --> 01:20:12,014
And so is there any... any possible way,
1385
01:20:12,015 --> 01:20:15,309
according to this document,
that he was a Green Beret?
1386
01:20:15,310 --> 01:20:22,066
{\an8}There is no way, uh, that he completed
the Special Forces medical course
1387
01:20:22,067 --> 01:20:24,151
{\an8}nor was a Green Beret.
1388
01:20:24,152 --> 01:20:28,156
{\an8}And those stories,
being a Green Beret, are untrue.
1389
01:20:34,496 --> 01:20:36,164
Thank you. Please be seated.
1390
01:20:39,251 --> 01:20:41,502
{\an8}Uh, now, let's... let's bring Green in.
1391
01:20:41,503 --> 01:20:42,420
{\an8}Okay.
1392
01:20:52,347 --> 01:20:56,058
Jon Green is charged
with criminal solicitation
1393
01:20:56,059 --> 01:20:58,686
to commit first-degree murder,
willful and deliberate.
1394
01:20:58,687 --> 01:21:02,231
And then you start thinking,
"Well, what really happened
1395
01:21:02,232 --> 01:21:06,027
in Monaco on December 3rd, 1999?"
1396
01:21:08,738 --> 01:21:12,575
The mystery deepens
surrounding the death of Edmond Safra.
1397
01:21:12,576 --> 01:21:14,535
Why would he be targeted?
1398
01:21:14,536 --> 01:21:15,996
A male nurse now has confessed.
1399
01:21:16,580 --> 01:21:18,747
You start questioning everything.
1400
01:21:18,748 --> 01:21:20,207
I was just pushed into this van.
1401
01:21:20,208 --> 01:21:23,043
Mysterious people kidnapping him.
1402
01:21:23,044 --> 01:21:25,296
Of course it never happened.
1403
01:21:25,297 --> 01:21:27,214
These guys were masked.
1404
01:21:27,215 --> 01:21:29,717
I hit the guy, and the one guy went down.
1405
01:21:29,718 --> 01:21:31,135
Were there intruders?
1406
01:21:31,136 --> 01:21:33,763
I don't think there ever was an intruder.
1407
01:21:34,806 --> 01:21:37,392
Ted was never a Green Beret.
1408
01:21:38,602 --> 01:21:41,771
All along his life, he made little lies.
1409
01:21:42,355 --> 01:21:44,189
This "so-called" confession,
1410
01:21:44,190 --> 01:21:46,525
I didn't understand what it said,
'cause it was in French.
1411
01:21:46,526 --> 01:21:49,236
Ted's confession was not in French.
1412
01:21:49,237 --> 01:21:52,574
Before he signed,
it was translated into English.
1413
01:21:53,742 --> 01:21:55,576
It's crazy. It's just insane.
1414
01:21:55,577 --> 01:21:59,414
He transformed the reality in his favor.
1415
01:22:00,707 --> 01:22:04,836
- There were just so many lies.
- It's a lot of imagination.
1416
01:22:05,754 --> 01:22:10,341
I have no doubt
that Ted was the one responsible,
1417
01:22:10,342 --> 01:22:15,430
and there was never ever any conspiracy.
1418
01:22:18,975 --> 01:22:20,435
It's time, Mr. Green.
1419
01:22:20,936 --> 01:22:22,771
If I can have you please stand.
1420
01:22:27,025 --> 01:22:29,653
We find the defendant, Jon Green,
1421
01:22:30,487 --> 01:22:33,739
guilty of criminal solicitation
to commit first-degree murder,
1422
01:22:33,740 --> 01:22:36,326
willful and deliberate,
as charged in count one.
1423
01:22:36,826 --> 01:22:40,205
Mr. Green will remain in custody
pending this sentencing.
1424
01:22:42,374 --> 01:22:45,835
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury,
this concludes your service on this trial.
1425
01:22:48,380 --> 01:22:51,006
I feel sad, in a way.
1426
01:22:51,007 --> 01:22:52,926
He ruined his life
1427
01:22:53,718 --> 01:22:55,929
for whatever motivation he had.
1428
01:22:56,513 --> 01:22:57,889
Poor darling.
1429
01:23:08,358 --> 01:23:11,026
Honestly, it doesn't look good
from my vantage point.
1430
01:23:11,027 --> 01:23:13,487
It feels like there's a...
a repeating pattern here,
1431
01:23:13,488 --> 01:23:15,489
you know, with Monaco.
1432
01:23:15,490 --> 01:23:18,492
Well, this... Monaco...
Monaco, that was 20 years ago.
1433
01:23:18,493 --> 01:23:20,744
- Right.
- So this is not like a, you know...
1434
01:23:20,745 --> 01:23:22,746
a... a repeat of... of Monaco.
1435
01:23:22,747 --> 01:23:25,457
I mean, you know, it just boils my blood
1436
01:23:25,458 --> 01:23:29,461
that the prosecution
could even bring that up.
1437
01:23:29,462 --> 01:23:32,548
Jon Green was not in... in... in Monaco.
1438
01:23:32,549 --> 01:23:34,008
Ted Maher was.
1439
01:23:34,009 --> 01:23:37,469
And there's a reason
why that court order was assigned...
1440
01:23:37,470 --> 01:23:39,930
Ted continued to profess his innocence.
1441
01:23:39,931 --> 01:23:42,266
Just like in Monaco,
and now in the States,
1442
01:23:42,267 --> 01:23:45,019
he was behind bars and wrongfully accused.
1443
01:23:45,020 --> 01:23:46,854
The truth will come out at some point.
1444
01:23:46,855 --> 01:23:49,189
Is he the unluckiest man in the world,
1445
01:23:49,190 --> 01:23:53,360
or is he a serial liar
who refuses to take responsibility?
1446
01:23:53,361 --> 01:23:57,364
Do you remember me asking you
three years ago, I said, "Are you a liar?"
1447
01:23:57,365 --> 01:23:58,866
- Am I a liar?
- Yeah.
1448
01:23:58,867 --> 01:24:01,786
No, absolutely not. Absolutely not.
1449
01:24:02,287 --> 01:24:04,121
I'm gonna ask you again. Are you a liar?
1450
01:24:04,122 --> 01:24:06,457
No. Absolutely not.
1451
01:24:06,458 --> 01:24:08,333
Have you been truthful to me?
1452
01:24:08,334 --> 01:24:10,210
Yes. Everybody in this room.
1453
01:24:10,211 --> 01:24:12,087
You know, you can look in my eyes
1454
01:24:12,088 --> 01:24:14,090
and see if I'm telling the truth.
1455
01:24:14,674 --> 01:24:16,843
There's no reason to lie. It's done.
1456
01:24:17,343 --> 01:24:18,969
Over the last four years,
1457
01:24:18,970 --> 01:24:22,139
I've come to know
and have compassion for Ted.
1458
01:24:22,140 --> 01:24:25,185
So this was not the ending for him
I had hoped for.
1459
01:24:25,685 --> 01:24:30,315
I can only conclude that Ted's version
of events has become his reality.
1460
01:24:31,024 --> 01:24:34,068
I asked you a long time ago,
I said, "Who killed Edmond Safra?"
1461
01:24:34,069 --> 01:24:35,736
Who killed Edmond Safra?
1462
01:24:35,737 --> 01:24:38,239
The Russians. The Russian Mafia.
1463
01:24:38,740 --> 01:24:40,783
- Has your opinion changed on that?
- No.
1464
01:24:40,784 --> 01:24:45,038
Maybe you should get out and take a trip
to Russia and ask... ask Vladimir about it.
1465
01:25:05,850 --> 01:25:08,978
I'm filming. I can't speak now.
Is it important?