Kevin O'Leary's Boat Collision [2]
Canadian True Crime
Kristi Lee
4.7 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 25 May 2026
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Summary
[Part 2 of 2] In 2019, a late-night boat collision involving Kevin and Linda O’Leary on Ontario’s Lake Joseph, left two people dead and sparked years of intense public scrutiny and conflicting narratives.
In part two, we uncover why Canada’s most talked-about boating tragedies remained in the spotlight for years.
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IMPORTANT NOTES AND DISCLAIMERS:
– This series does not frame this incident as a crime. While it was initially investigated and reported as a potential Criminal Code matter (per Toronto Life, August 24, 2020), the charges ultimately laid fell under the Canada Shipping Act.
– If you know anyone related to this case, please respect their privacy.
– The intention of this series is to look beyond the headlines, rumours and conspiracy theories surrounding a highly publicized boating tragedy, and carefully examine the evidence to better understand what happened.
– Kristi Lee is not a lawyer, but a member of the general public reviewing this case through the lens of the open court principle. This series has been pieced together from the public record, including court documents, online news sources and trial reporting by media outlets including the National Post, CBC News and the Toronto Star.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Canadian True Crime, a completely independent project funded mainly through advertising. |
| 0:05.8 | To listen, add free and early, subscribe to our premium feed on Amazon Music Included with Prime, Apple Podcasts, and Patreon. |
| 0:14.1 | This podcast often has disturbing content and course language. It's not for everyone. Please take care when listening. |
| 0:20.2 | This is part two, the final episode. This series has been pieced together from court documents, |
| 0:27.7 | trial reporting and the news archives. Just a reminder that Linda O'Leary's charge was not criminal |
| 0:34.3 | and her trial fell under the Canada Shipping Act. If you know anyone related to this |
| 0:39.9 | case, please respect their privacy. People ask me all the time, why are you so tough? Did you learn that? |
| 0:48.5 | I said, no, it's just dealing with the truth all the time. In business, you've got to deal with the |
| 0:52.8 | truth. You can't make up stuff. It just |
| 0:55.8 | happens to you. Reality always comes and bites you in the heine. So why not deal with it from day one? |
| 1:00.8 | One. One. We left off on Saturday, August 24th of 2019, the night that Kevin and Linda O'Leary took their |
| 1:18.1 | cobalt water ski boat across Lake Joseph to attend a dinner party hosted by friends. |
| 1:24.8 | Later that evening at about 1125 p.pm, security footage showed them leaving to return home, |
| 1:32.5 | with Linda driving the boat, her controversial businessman and reality TV star husband Kevin O'Leary |
| 1:39.1 | sitting beside her and their family friend Alison in the back seat. |
| 1:50.6 | It was a moonless night, a lake in complete darkness, according to Kevin O'Leary's testimony. |
| 1:57.1 | They couldn't see anything as they were planing across the lake at speed, the boat's hull lifting partly out of the water. |
| 2:00.2 | Without warning, they hit something that he described as |
| 2:03.8 | completely invisible. Two passengers on the other boat suffered devastating fatal injuries. Retired |
| 2:12.7 | accountant Gary Paltash died on the dock, and mother of three Suzanne Brito passed away two days later. |
| 2:21.6 | In this episode, we go inside what happened at the O'Leary Cottage in the minutes and hours after the crash. |
| 2:29.5 | The head-scratching moments and baffling decisions that would later become central to a courtroom battle. |
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