Kramer got a 19-year sentence for manslaughter to run concurrently with a life term for marijuana smuggling. Still riding high in the charts was The Bangles recent chart-topper Walk Like an Egyptian, originally inspired by the way people struggle to maintain balance aboard boats, apparently. Also read:Queen Elizabeth II: Death And Obituary What Happened To Her? Bobby Young, a career criminal, acknowledged the occurrence in 1995 and gave a complete confession in 2009, just before he passed away. He competed in the race in April 1962 and led until the end. 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Don Aronow is also quite proud of his lovely wife Lillian. She has a son with him. WebAronow married twice. I never thought anybody would actually do that, but by God, they did., Michael Peters [George] Bushs reaction was that he wanted [Miami] Dade Homicide on it like it was the most important case on their books. One of Don Aronow's race horses has just finished first. Money comes and goes. However when the Customs Service found out about the younger Kramers criminal reputation, they put the kibosh on the transaction.]. A tough, athletic, Jewish kid from Sheepshead Bay in Brooklyn, New York, by the age of 21, Aronow was married and about to start a career in his father-in-laws New Jersey construction company. Aronow said Let me see. Then he took the watch by the clasp, banged it on the table, and threw it in a glass of beer. He sold Magnum to American Photocopy for a ton. During our conversation she revealed that she was a bit hesitant about being interviewed since she is not someone who is comfortable in the public eye but in the end we chatted about everything from her art, her stint in the antiques business to her childhood in Florida with her father, Don Aronow the boat racer and builder of the renowned He eventually became aggravated with the business. He went to 188th Street in Miami and decided he wanted to put a plant there. Next thing I know, an employee is banging on my door. Don did not enjoy boating. It cost Aronow a fortune to divorce his wife Shirley in 1979. "But she didn't want anything to do with me.". Australia, DEAN OF THE DEEP | TIM DEAN ABOARD HIS 47FT OBRIEN, FULL SEND MODE CLAYTON MCDIARMIDS MINT HAINES HUNTER V17. Barely had he begun to win before he sold Formula to Thunderbird Boats. A guy would come looking at a boat with a girl, and the guy would ask How much? And Don would go, Seventy grand. The guy would say, Thats too much. And Don would say every time, I think you should go get a Bayliner then, this is way too much boat for you. And the guys would be ripping their pockets open trying to give him money! He pulled alongside a Lincoln car with tinted windows. He admired Aronow and acquired a corner of the Row, obtaining an interest in Apache, which in turn supplied the vessels he raced offshore (his fabled Warpath, based on a deep V Cigarette mould, won him a world championship). When you shook his hand that was the deal. He hung out with kings, mobsters and the Beatles, and considered future president George HW Bush a close friend. He was about outdoing the other guy no matter what you were doing. Michael Aronow is one of Dons five sons from three wives. There'd been a problem with the taxicab company his father owned in upstate New York. He was right out of a Hollywood script. "I'm one of these guys who has to finish first," Aronow explains. Michael, his oldest son, was one of the best athletes at the University of Florida. He flourished as an entrepreneur during his upswing in motorsports and the automotive industry, setting himself apart from others. He wears khaki slacks to work-tieless and sockless-as he cuts six-figure boat deals with a young Italian count one minute, and talks rpm's with a greasy race mechanic the next. Shortly after the visit, Aronow left his office and drove down the street to Apache Performance Boats to visit with his former protg, Bob Saccenti. Don Aronow is a proud man; proud of the way he's survived. The weather was cold and he was getting ulcers and he said, I cant do this anymore. And he liked to get the best of people., Bob Saccenti When he came to Florida, he got hooked up with the greats and he definitely made his mark. He sold Magnum to American Photocopy for a ton. Money comes and goes. He did that a few times. We collected some of the best. His company, Bertram Yacht, drew worldwide attention. Witnesses said a powder blue Lincoln pulled up next to Aronow's car from the opposite direction, and when Aronow rolled down its window the driver opened fire. A violent criminal named Bobby Young was fingered as the hitman, and his employeraccording to the courtswas Ben Kramer. The great speed of Cigarette boats also made them a popular choice among cocaine smugglers. Jackson said it was the best in the world. [A tough, athletic, Jewish kid from Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, by age 21 Aronow found himself married and about to start a career in his father-in-laws New Jersey The business was established in 1953 and immediately became one of the biggest construction firms in the region. "That's what winning is all about," Aronow grins nearly 20 years later. [Aronow was extremely competitive in most aspects of his life, perhaps even to a fault.]. He was a hero and a genius, a ballbuster and a bully. In Italy. Hed bought a Formula and a Cigarette from him, describing Aronow as a joy to be around. Many disputes were going on in his marital life. Aronow famously kept company with people from all walks of life. He thought he was going to semi-retire to Florida and skin dive and fish, but he got bored. At the time, Saccenti was recovering from a horrific crash on Lake Erie. But Aronow may have possessed a darker side that even he could not outrun and in the end, he wound up as nothing more than a target for an assassins bullet. Aronow agreed to buy USA Racing Team back from Kramer, equally predictably for less than the consideration hed received. The year Aronow won his first world championship as an international powerboat driver, he says. In 1948, he married Shirley Goldin [1] [6] who he had met while working as a lifeguard on Coney Island. Innovations such as fibreglass construction techniques and the drag-reducing deep V hull were taking chunks from the record times, and also from crews in rough seas. In the 2018 memory film Speed Kills, Ben Aronoff played a multimillionaire. Meet His Family, Ben Aronoff Net Worth Figures In The Movie. Writer: How about a one-word description of the kind of boat you build? People said whatever Don touched turned to gold., Michael Aronow Forrest Johnson was originally his fishing buddy. We considered Formula to be a utility boat. [One of those characters was a race-boat driver and drug smuggler named Ben Kramer. Audiences grew. Make that a very healthy six figures. The murder fell awkwardly between the sort of extravagant statement killings orchestrated by Colombian cocaine kingpins and the kind of professional contract hit carried out by killers keen to hide their tracks, or at least ensure a clean escape. But if he didnt like you, watch out., Allan Brown Our friend Stu Jackson worked for Thunderbird and he received a gold Rolex when he retired. Peters: A guy would walk into his shop, all excited to meet [Aronow] and buy a boat. ADVERTISEMENT Thanks for watching! He has been elected to every powerboating Hall of Fame in existence and as stated above, he and Gar Wood were the only two Americans to have ever received the UIM Gold Medal of Honor. By various accounts, he then fled to Florida in 1960 to escape the mob. The result was the 8.5-metre 007, named after the gathering cinematic phenomenon. Aronow left his office in his white Mercedes, shortly after visiting a rival boat dealership owned by Kramer. Some people say he was hiding from the mob. (Ironically, in the immediate aftermath of the crash, Saccentis life was saved by his race partner, none other than Ben Kramer.) I never thought anybodyd actually do that, but by God they did. You make real money when you sell the company., Allan Brown He was also the best boat salesman in the history of the world. Included in the settlement was $1.25 million in cash, a million-dollar Miami waterfront home and a Rolls-Royce. On Tuesday, Smith, the retired detective, called Aronows widow, Lillian, to break the news. His second hull was fiberglass -- its hull shaped in a deep-vee to slash through the waves. Whereas Don Aronow was more brash, assertive more resolutely a mans man. That was the cast of characters he was involved with. And then one night Aronow and the contessa were driving back from a candlelit dinner in a tiny restaurant high in the Carrara Mountains. When you shook his hand, that was the deal. At the east end of the street is now the Aventura Arts & Cultural Center; further east, across Biscayne Bay, on oceanside Sunny Isles Beach, stands the Porsche Design Tower. The EMS showed up. They had three children: [1] Michael who was a star athlete at the University of Florida until he was severely injured in a car accident in 1970 and used a wheelchair after that. [1], After school, he worked as a physical education teacher for a time until he accepted a job at his father-in-law's southern New Jersey construction business which was booming thanks to demand from returning World War II veterans. There was a jumpiness, an electricity in the air, too not unusual on the street known locally as Thunderboat Row, Performance Street or Gasoline Alley. Congregating witnesses spoke of a dark Lincoln Continental having pulled up alongside Aronows white Mercedes. Lillian is Aronow's second wife -- a former Palm Beach socialite, heiress and high fashion model. "She was gorgous," Aronow says. Hes pointing out the door and there was Don in his car, the engine is screaming, hes slumped over the steering wheel. In 1966, he founded Magnum Marine and in 1967 proceeded to win his first World Championship driving two 27' Magnums, a single engine inboard and a triple engine Mercury-powered outboard. From one of Italy';s best families.". [1] In 1945, he joined the merchant marine and worked overseas until the end of World War II. He was going to run for president and his friend had 140 people who wanted to kill him!. Within a year of its creation, Donzi Marine gained recognition on a global scale, making it an immediate success. Don and I had had a meeting to discuss my salary. Ben Aronoff's success in business and as a successful boat racer hampered his personal life and caused a separation between him and his wife. The book about Don Aranows life by Arthur J. Harris was turned into the movie Speed Kills. The more problematic aspect was that Aronow additionally arranged to sell USA Racing Team, complete with the Blue Thunder contract, to Ben Kramer, who by now had drug smuggling convictions. [3] Kramer was already in prison on a life sentence with no possibility of parole following 1988 and 1989 convictions for drug smuggling and gun charges, as well as receiving a 1990 conviction for a failed escape attempt by helicopter from a federal prison near Miami.[4]. American designer/builder/racer:famous Magnum Marine/Cigarette/Donzi/Formula speedboats, Learn how and when to remove this template message, "How a Kid From Brooklyn Put Go-Fast Boats On The Map" By Capt Ken Kreisler, "Don Aronow's Murder Leaves Miami Wondering: Were 'Cigarettes' Hazardous to His Health? On Rotten Tomatoes, it has a 0% approval rating and an overall rating of 2.5/10. He stepped off and said, The boats a piece of shit, kid. He was about outdoing the other guy, no matter what you were doing., Bob Saccenti He was a great guy and a great businessman. A certain nostalgia colours memories of the 1970s as a time of the gentlemanly marijuana business. We'd race to Nassau and back on the weekends. Six foot three, real good looking, lots of swagger. Retired President Lyndon B. Johnson owned several 16ft. Donzi speedboats on his Texas ranch with which he would race his Secret Service agents. I cant imagine that, though, he was pretty easy to find. Aronow raced his 8.2-metre Maltese Magnum all over the globe, Don Aronow with his wife Lillian and son Gavin, NE 188th Street which was nicknamed Thunderbolt Row, Credit: Courtesy of Cigarette Racing Team, Ben Kramer (on right) with racing friends, some of whom were convicted of cocaine traffiking (from left) Willie Falcn, Keith Eickert, Sal Magluta and Bobby Saccenti, Aronow was driving a sporty white Mercedes-Benz two-seater, Credit: Courtesy of Miami-Dade Police Dept/Arthur Jay Harris, Dry Martini, a cigarette designed and built by Don Aronow, Credit: Ajax News & Feature Service/Alamy Stock Photo, The Beatles taking a ride in a Formula 23 on their first trip to the US, The then vice president Bush personally tested the Blue Thunder boats, Aronow with Howard Cosell at the Kentucky Derby, The Lincoln Continental the shooter allegedly used, How the 88m Project X came to life over 14 years. It was all downhill from there. (ABOVE) TICKET TO RIDE: Don Aronow and his son, Michael, cruising off Miami with the Beatles before their iconic 1964 appearance on The Ed Sullivan show. He was going to run for president, and his friend had 140 people who wanted to kill him! They had me in a cage for three years and nine months, with no daylight, no contact with human beings, Kramer said. At Bushs instigation, the US Customs Service took the fateful step in 1985 of placing a $1.7 million order for high-speed pursuit boats with Aronows USA Racing Team. Separately, there were rumours that Aronow may have been assisting law enforcement, even becoming an informant or at least that, in early 1987, he was about to be subpoenaed to give evidence about the USA Racing Team transactions. The weather was cold and he was getting ulcers. The deals off. Im guessing Don kept some of the under-the-table money. You had to be able to match. His social group was pretty much divided along the same ratio. When Cigarette founder and powerboat racing champion Don Aronow was shot dead on 3 February 1987 in Miami, the boating world was convulsed, but not everybody was surprised. Her son Adam Kimmel is a menswear designer. Despite being pursued, the murderers managed to escape by driving across the grass. Peters: One of the first issues I had to deal with when he hired me [in the early 80s] was [notorious Haitian dictator] Baby Doc [who was a client]. More plausibly, he was drawn to the Sunshine State by its warmth, excitement and a different form of escapism, as many tend to be. Back in 1981, Time quoted a legal researcher living in Miami as saying: I see people walking down the streets openly carrying guns, some in their hands, others in their holsters. Gavin and Wylie are their two sons. The full breakdown of his net worth at the time of his passing is still unavailable to the general public. You can talk to anybody [about that]. To this day, he maintains his innocence. He started hosting Sunday afternoon brunches at the new home, sometimes for 50 or 60 people, with only Skip and Joanne Allen, of Southern Boating, and my wife and I as the token Christians. Don Aronow: The King of Thunderboat Row, 1994, by Michael Aronow He has three childrenMichael, David, and Claudiawith Shirley Goldin, his first wife. But Aronow may have possessed a darker side that even he could not outrun. The drug money was corrupting banking, real estate and law enforcement. [A tough, athletic, Jewish kid from Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, by age 21 Aronow found himself married and about to start a career in his father-in-laws New Jersey Still subject to a non-compete agreement with Cigarette which hed bought back, then sold again in 1982 Aronow was forbidden from producing deep V monohulls. Around one-third of the regions murders were believed to be related to drugs. The contessa suddenly mashed her brakes and brought the car to a halt at the side of the road, its tires only inches away from a sheer drop into a dark valley. Although witnesses failed to identify him in police line-ups, Young pled no contest to the shooting. And every new [Cigarette] that I do, I drive right by his house with it just so he can see. The EMS [paramedics] showed up and pulled him out. Kramer was hot tempered, the argument went; had he been sufficiently enraged by the USA Racing Team misfire to kill Aronow, he would have done so in 1985, whereas Kramer reportedly remained respectful towards Aronow until the end. Ive met some extremely charismatic men, including Sean Connery and Roger Moore, she said. Alongside the sexual revolution came the growth in the drugs trade. Aronow won the World Powerboat Championship in 1967 (hed go on to win it once more and the US championship three times), and in 1968, he sold Magnum. [3] In 1995, career criminal Bobby Young admitted to shooting Aronow and pleaded no contest to second degree murder, eventually providing a full confession in 2009 shortly before his death. You make real money when you sell the company.. When his kids are teenagers, his first wife Kathy decides she cant stand him anymore after finding out about his other relationships. He would build larger premises next door, on what was now known as Thunderboat Row, putting his erstwhile companies and new-found competitors in the shade. During the day were asked to patrol their race course during events for emergency rescues, a Coast Guard official told the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. A violent criminal named Bobby Young was fingered as the hitman, whose employer according to the courts was Ben Kramer. He became hooked on racing and thats how it all began., Phil Lipschutz Once racings in your blood, you can never get it out., Michael Aronow After that 62 race, my father started to work with Jim Wynne and Walt Walters. The Miami moto king launched Magnum Marine the next year, in 1967. Allan Brown He started Formula from scratch and sold it to Thunderbird in about a year. An estimated 70 per cent of all marijuana and cocaine imported into the US passes through South Florida, the feature reported. And when [then Vice President] Bush said We aint gonna buy boats from Ben Kramer. He was larger than life. The boats tend to be smaller, more sedate, more family-oriented. Because he did, thats for sure.. We could see all the gunshots. [Then vice president] Bush said, We aint gonna buy boats from Ben Kramer. Marchesa Katrin Theodoli and her husband became the owners of Magnum. Aronow's close friend at the time, Vice President George Bush, was a former Cigarette owner and was involved in testing out the 39-foot cats prior to government approval. This was December of 86. Check Out Christopher Brineys Unseen Summer I Turned Pretty PhotosYoull Be Surprised! Yet deep V monohulls were now reaching 160km/h. Aronow was bigger than life, and he was also a boat designer. Saccenti: When he came to Florida, he got hooked up with the greats, and he definitely made his mark. Sign up to BOAT International email newsletters to get the latest superyacht news, business analysis, exclusive event invitations, and more. His roles in Saturday Night Fever, Carrie, Urban Cowboy, Face/Off, Grease, and A Civil Action, among many others, make him a must-see 70s and 80s heartthrob. His father said it had to do with something called the Depression. Specifically, the 2018 film is a remake of the corresponding true-crime book. Aronow sold the company (and Brownie) shortly after its inception (and a couple of big offshore wins). Phil Lipschutz I never had any inkling that Don was involved in something illegal. He was a great dad and a great husband. The same year he almost killed himself when his race boat hit a wave off California, shot airborne and slammed into a helicopter hovering overhead. Aronow was murdered in his car at the end of 188th Street in North Miami Beach on February 3, 1987. His face flushed with excitement, Don Aronow launches into another one of his stories. It lets you transport your luxury car up to the safety of your own unit, even as crime rates have dropped. No woman should be alone in this city, Barry Gibb warned Time. But a dark Lincoln Continental rolled up alongside and then shots rang out. At the time, Saccenti was recovering from a horrific crash on Lake Erie. He was the wealthiest in the field, but he died tragically, and it took 20 years for the prosecution to convict him. A kid was going to start a boat company in Florida, he had bought a boat in California, and he asked Aronow and me to drive it and see if it was any good. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. They could not countenance procuring drug interdiction boats from a firm owned by a convicted smuggler and predictably moved to cancel the procurement contract. Phil Lipschutz The saying he had [about Cigarettes famed Mistress model] was, Every man should have a Mistress. And that certainly described Don, too., Allan Brown Hed fuck your wife in a second. Check Death Reason HOw Old She Was? Claudia is a New York-based artist. Those two managed to make you feel like you were the centre of their world. Aronow, it seems, would sell anybody a boat, especially for cash, but if you said you were using it to smuggle drugs, Don wouldnt have anything to do with you, asserted Mike Kandrovicz from USA Racing Team. The race was several days away. George H.W. In 1948, he married Shirley Goldin, [1] [6] whom he had met while working as a lifeguard on Coney Island. Those times can only be likened to the Old West: the Marlboro Man; the weed-strewn strip with its pioneers and settlers; the freebooters from south of the border bringing their lawlessness and loot and the law of the gun. Aronow: By 66 my dad had sold Donzi to Teleflex. Like most, it's a tale of conquest; Aronow versus the odds: It was back in 1967. Aronow: After he was working with the family for a few years he went off on his own and started building homes, then shopping centers, industrial parks, all over northern New Jersey. Performance boats attract a lot of characters. One of those characters was a racing boat driver and drug smuggler called Ben Kramer. He came to my basketball games, my football games, he was always around. Five days after his murder, The Washington Post reported that a Customs official described Aronow as co-operative when Aronow had been approached for information about one of his clients. The guy would say, I want a 28. And Aronow would say, Oh no, were all sold out. And the guy would keep pushing, I wanted one all my life. And Don would say, We dont have any 28s, but Im building a 35 for myself and I could sell that to you. That was classic Aronow., Allan Brown Every boat he sold was built for himself. Certainly it is less difficult now to see how, in 1980s Miami, the murder of a man as magnetic as Aronow could garner 140 suspects at the Metro-Dade Police Department, each with the apparent motive, means and opportunity to have the King of Thunderboat Row gunned down in broad daylight. It was in 007 that he beat Bertram in the Miami-Nassau race in 1965. 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