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Power: Don King

The Maxwells | 5. Top Dollar

Power: Don King

Sony Music

Society & Culture, History, True Crime

3.9 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

It’s the late 80s and Robert Maxwell goes on a spending spree for companies in New York. But will the purchase of the New York Daily News prove to be one deal too far? Power is a Somethin’ Else production with Sony Music Entertainment. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Something that's...

0:07.0

Carol Burgoli was a secretary at the Mier Group.

0:10.0

She worked directly with a lot of higher ups, including Maxwell.

0:13.0

Occasionally, she'd even fly with Maxwell in his helicopter.

0:17.0

One time, she was talking to a friend about it.

0:20.0

He said to me,

0:21.0

whatever you do is said, don't get in that helicopter.

0:24.0

I said, why?

0:25.0

He said, wherever that helicopter takes off, he said,

0:28.0

a hundred pair of eyes wishing it to crash.

0:31.0

So I said to him,

0:32.0

tell him not to look up,

0:33.0

because the last thing he does before he gets in that helicopter

0:36.0

is pee off the roof, and that's a fact.

0:39.0

Carol's friend wasn't particularly shocked.

0:41.0

He laughed and he said,

0:43.0

oh, that's right, he said,

0:45.0

that's all he's ever done is, you know, pissed on our heads.

0:49.0

Maxwell could do whatever he wanted.

0:52.0

He could toss his leftover food on the floor,

0:54.0

use towels instead of toilet paper, and literally piss on people's heads

0:58.0

before he went from one country to another.

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