Murder in the Hamptons: Ted Ammon

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Catherine Townsend

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🗓️ 1 September 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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After 52-year-old Ted Ammon was bludgeoned to death at his home in East Hampton, police begin investigating his estranged wife, Generosa, and her electrician lover Danny Pelosi as the fight over Ted's $80 million fortune intensified. Twenty years later, there are still many unanswered questions about the murder mystery that filled the tabloids with tales of sex, money, betrayal and tragedy in one of the country's wealthiest neighborhoods.

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0:00.0	On Monday, October 22, 2001, a murder mystery was unfolding on middle lane in the wealthy town of East Hampton.
0:13.1	The news had just broken that 52-year-old investment banker Ted Ammon had been beaten to death in his own home.
0:20.4	These days, East Hampton is thought of as kind of a playground of the rich and famous.
0:26.1	Ted Ammon's home was just a few blocks away from where Jerry Seinfeld lives.
0:30.4	Robert De Niro and Alec Baldwin are among the many celebrities who have homes in East Hampton, too.
0:36.0	But especially back in 2001, the part of East Hampton where
0:40.5	Ted Ammon was living was near the Maidstone Club in Further Lane, which was kind of the main
0:46.5	drag for old money families. They come there because they can get this enclave of small town
0:52.3	normality. It's a very safe area. In fact, there had not been a
0:57.6	murder in East Hampton in over 20 years. Ted Ammon's driver, a guy named Milton Masseus,
1:04.5	came to Ted's Upper East Side Townhouse in Manhattan on Monday morning. He was supposed to take
1:09.6	Ted to work, but Ted didn't answer the door.
1:13.2	Milton knew that Ted had been at the Hamptons over the weekend, at his six-bedroom, English country
1:18.3	mansion at 59 Middle Lane. Ted had had a lot on his mind. He had gone to the beach with his three
1:25.0	dogs to get some quiet time, but he was supposed to be back in the city, and it was completely out of character for Ted to not show up for work.
1:33.1	But even more than that, even though Ted was this businessman and a master of the universe, he was also, above all, a father who adored his kids.
1:43.3	He had a twin boy and a twin girl who were 11 years old,
1:46.8	and he was supposed to pick them up at school on Monday afternoon. So once Milt started making
1:52.1	calls and figured out that Ted hadn't made any arrangements for someone to pick up his kids,
1:57.7	he knew something was very wrong. He called one of Ted's business colleagues, a guy named
2:03.1	Mark. Once these guys figured out that no one had seen or heard from Ted since Saturday,
2:08.7	they made the decision that they were going to East Hampton to check on him. They took a helicopter
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