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A Mysterious Death in Monaco: Ted Maher

Red Collar

Catherine Townsend

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4.6604 Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

After billionaire Edmond Safra burned to death in his Monaco mansion, his 36-year-old nurse was charged with the crime. Fraud, conspiracy theories, dognapping and a locked-room mystery.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This week, I'm going to tell you about a mysterious death.

0:07.9

This case started over 20 years ago in Monaco when a billionaire burned a death in his mansion

0:13.8

under extremely mysterious circumstances.

0:17.0

And it continued in San Antonio, Texas, just a few weeks ago with a dog napping.

0:22.8

At 4.49 a.m. on Friday, December 3, 1999,

0:27.6

67-year-old billionaire banker Edmund Safra and his wife, Lily, were at home in their penthouse called La Belle Poc.

0:35.6

Their home was a massive 17,000 square foot apartment. It was referred to as the

0:41.5

most beautiful residence in Monaco. Basically, they lived in the safest building in one of the

0:47.5

safest cities on the planet. And Edmund Safra had gone above and beyond to make sure that his

0:53.0

apartment was an indestructible

0:54.9

fortress. The Bell Apoc apartment was just the cherry on the cake of the global Safra real estate

1:00.4

holdings. The couple also had their villa nearby called Laliapolda. This had been made famous by

1:06.5

Grace Kelly and Carrie Grant when they shot to catch a thief there. In the past, Edmund and

1:12.2

Lily had done a lot of entertaining at their villa, but in recent years, Edmund had contracted

1:18.4

Parkinson's disease, and as his condition got worse, they tended to stay more and more at the

1:23.8

Bellapok apartment. They also had a huge apartment on Fifth Avenue, New York City,

1:28.8

and two townhouses on the Eaton Square in central London back to back. Eaton Square, of course, is the

1:34.4

neighborhood where Tony and Cherie Blair lived, and Madonna and Guy Ritchie had their apartment

1:39.7

back in the day. It was a quiet night in the penthouse. Normally, Edmund had a private army surrounding

1:45.4

him at all times. He was very paranoid about security, and as we'll discuss later, not without reason.

1:52.0

So he had former Mossad armed guards with him. He also had a team of nurses who provided

1:57.3

24-hour care for the conditions related to his Parkinson's disease.

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