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Thank you for joining me for today's episode of Once Upon a Crime. We're in the series Millionaire

Murders, where people are targeted

for murder due to their wealth. Last time, I told the story of how a greedy son took a hit

out on his own family in order to inherit their riches. This time, the story is not as clear

cut as to the motive. But the victim was a man of vast wealth,

living in a veritable fortress who may have perished when a person in his employ sought to make a name

for himself. This is Chapter 2, Murder in Monaco, Edmund Safra.

Lily Watkins was born in Brazil in 1934.

Her father, Wolf White Watkins, was a Russian Jewish immigrant and a native of Czechoslovakia,

and her mother, Anita Noodleman, was born in Uruguay.

Lily married for the first time at age 19. Her husband,

Mario Cohen, was an Argentinian millionaire who made his money as the manufacturer of nylon

stockings. They had three children together, a daughter, Adriana, and two sons, Eduardo and Claudio.

Lily and Cohen divorced in the early 1960s, and she then met a Brazilian named Alfredo Freddie Greenberg. Greenberg later changed his name to Monteverde.

Monteverdi was also wealthy.

He owned a chain of appliance stores in South America.

Lily and Monteveri adopted a son together named Carlos.

Monteverdi committed suicide in 1969.

Lily inherited around $230 million from her late husband.

She employed her husband's banker, Edmund Safra, the head of Banco Safra in Brazil, to help

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