It was mostly a lot of hell-raising and good times.". Saccenti: The real Don was sitting at a business table negotiating deals. I just did you a favor.. Don Aronow has actually been married twice in his life. He has just cashed in six-figures worth of winning tickets. Guys wanted to be him. At the time, Saccenti was recovering from a horrific crash on Lake Erie. Next thing I know, an employee is banging on my door. He did that a few times. "I got into ocean powerboat racing after I retired to Florida," he says. A kid was going to start a boat company in Florida. 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. He marries Emily Gowen, and they have a son together. Because he did, thats for sure. Content presented under the "BOAT Presents" logo is an advertising feature and Boat International Limited has been paid to include this content. [2] David [7] Then the investigation got going and they realised who Aronow was involved with. She was once married to renowned developer Martin Kimmel. 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In Italy. 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. "That's what winning is all about," Aronow grins nearly 20 years later. I cant imagine that, though, he was pretty easy to find. It was all downhill from there. Peters recalled a sound like firecrackers a pop pop pop, eerie and ominous. Further reading. Being a multimillionaire and accomplished speedboat racing champion, he frequently ran afoul of the law and numerous drug lords in the water metropolis. Reaching out across the Pacific to Miami, Florida, The Captain gets the lowdown on the wild life and times of legendary Cigarette builder Don Aronow. Semi-blind, he was forced to wear heavy-rimmed and thick-lensed glasses that were always a worry when he played. He was going to run for president, and his friend had 140 people who wanted to kill him! Everything there to me was racing and drug trafficking. Peters: A guy would walk into his shop, all excited to meet [Aronow] and buy a boat. 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. There'd been a problem with the taxicab company his father owned in upstate New York. He was pale, he had gone unconscious at some point. Aronow had sold USA Racing Teama company that built high-speed catamarans for the U.S. Customs Serviceto Kramer and his father in 1985. (ABOVE) RICH AND FAMOUS: Aronow famously kept company with people from all walks of life. [Then vice president] Bush said, We aint gonna buy boats from Ben Kramer. 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They were fast (more than 112km/h), good for interdiction activities (stable when boarding intercepted boats) and comparatively easy to drive. The people who killed him were found out almost a decade after the fact. I didnt hear shots, with the air-conditioner and sewing machines going on, but somebody came and got me. But Don was badly hurt in a car accident in 1970 and had to use a wheelchair from then on. Lillian Aronow: (smiling) My husband is actually a veryshy man, you know. [But] he was home every night. 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. aronow: I dont think any of those guys had ever seen anything quite like it to be honest. And then one night Aronow and the contessa were driving back from a candlelit dinner in a tiny restaurant high in the Carrara Mountains. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. He was an alpha male, like the male lion you see on safari. It was into this volatile, heady mix that vice president George HW Bush President Reagans lieutenant in the White Houses war on drugs unwittingly stepped. Brown: Hed fuck your wife in a second. Speed Kills Story Based On Motorboat Racer Don Aronows Real Life, Ben Aronoff Wikipedia: John Travolta Portrayed Don Aronows Character, Who Is Ben Aronoffs Wife? This is his story in the words of some of the men who knew him best. "I'd never be married to a beautiful woman like Lillian if I hauled garbage for a living," Aronow adds. An estimated 70 per cent of all marijuana and cocaine imported into the US passes through South Florida, the feature reported. 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. [1] In 1953, he established his own construction company, the Aronow Corporation which quickly became one of the largest construction companies in the state. Because he did, thats for sure.. (Captains note: we think he means money.) On Tuesday, Smith, the retired detective, called Aronows widow, Lillian, to break the news. 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. Peters: He didnt like guys that came in and tried to go toe to toe with him. Aronow left his office in his white Mercedes, shortly after visiting a rival boat dealership owned by Kramer. He was right out of a Hollywood script. 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. The book about Don Aranows life by Arthur J. Harris was turned into the movie Speed Kills. 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 was the only person who gave me more than a platitudehe gave me a job, this was December of 86. WebAronow married twice. It was in 007 that he beat Bertram in the Miami-Nassau race in 1965. Our Privacy Policy Creator includes several compliance verification tools to help you effectively protect your customers privacy. Everything there to me was racing and drug trafficking. The fictionalized version of Donald Aronow is played by Ben Aronoff. He owns a horse farm in Ocala, a home in Miami Beach and a new Long Island estate that just made Toen and Country. Lipschutz: I never had any inkling that Don was involved in something illegal. Aronow went down the canal 65 mph in it, and ended up running into the seawall. 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. And the guy would say, I want a 28. And Aronow would say Oh no, were all sold out. And the guy would keep pushing, Oh, I wanted one all my life. (Ironically, in the immediate aftermath of the crash, Saccentis life was saved by his race partner, none other than Ben Kramer. The story was also the basis for the 2009 documentary film Thunder Man: The Don Aronow Story and the 2018 movie Speed Kills with John Travolta. Only Magnum and a marina (not Fort Apache) are still here. In the boating world, we wont see the likes of Don Aronow again.. Accounts of the dealings vary, but perhaps $2 million had been paid under the table in cash by Kramer when he bought the firm, using drug money. Nobody really knows [what happened], the only thing for sure is that Dons gone., Phil Lipschutz [Aronow] lived right on the water on Biscayne Bay. "I took her to all the best places," Aronow says. I saw it, the blood. I was a little hesitant to move to Miami, because my view of it was straight out of Miami Vice. Peters: It could have been anyone from drug runners, to business partners, to jealous husbands. ESPN covers Dons career as a boat racer, discussing everything from his life in luxury to his death. Due to Dons business relationships with some of the riskiest figures in the field, his name was changed to Ben Aronoff. Don Aronow called his new boat the Formula. Don Aronow born in 1927 in Brooklyn New York, left New Jersey in 1961 to relocate in Miami. The boats tend to be smaller, more sedate, more family-oriented. Don Aronow is also quite proud of his lovely wife Lillian. But a dark Lincoln Continental rolled up alongside and then shots rang out. He had plenty of cheese. "But she didn't want anything to do with me.". His mother and father sounded very frightened in the front seat of the car as it sped homeward through the night. Allan Brownie Brown is a former acquaintance. Phil Lipschutz I never had any inkling that Don was involved in something illegal. To finance the development, he sold more civilised versions, with teak decks and sleeping quarters, to the general public. At 57, he is a lean and muscular six-foot-two. Don Aronow's pockets are stuffed with fifties and hundreds. And in the end, he wound up as nothing more than a target for an assassins bullet. Although witnesses failed to identify him in police line-ups, Young pled no contest to the shooting. Their son is menswear designer Adam Kimmel; His second wife was former Wilhelmina model, Lillian Crawford, 24 years his junior. (ABOVE) CRIME SCENE:A violent criminal named Bobby Young (right) was fingered as the hitman, whose employer according to the courts was Ben Kramer (left), Bob Saccenti [Kramer and Aronow] were both wealthy, and if it was over money, thats a shame. He built speedboats for the Shah of Iran, Charles Keating, Robert Vesco, Malcolm Forbes, and George H. W. Bush. Saccenti: When he came to Florida, he got hooked up with the greats, and he definitely made his mark. Youre never gonna make a lot of money building boats, he was quoted as saying. Little Don couldn't understand how all his father's taxicabs could get lost at once. Claudia is a New York-based artist. Aronow sold the company (and Brownie) shortly after its inception (and a couple of big offshore wins). But it bothered Don Aronow that he couldn't win. In Miami, his head was turned by the nascent offshore powerboating scene and in particular the gruelling Miami-Nassau race that ran for 296 kilometres. 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). WebClaudia is a New York artist and ex-wife of real estate developer Martin Kimmel. Despite having a complex plot, Speed Kills from 2018 failed to win over both reviewers and viewers. He stepped off and said, The boats a piece of shit, kid. After buying Aronows USA Racing Team, Kramer had a business dispute with Aronow, but was forced to sell it back to Aronow after the Customs Service refused to do business with him. Included in the settlement was $1.25 million in cash, a million-dollar Miami waterfront home and a Rolls-Royce. Their father, Hugh Gibb, was mugged; Barry Gibbs wife, Linda, had her purse snatched. He was formidably competitive both on and off the water, brutally handsome and adroit at negotiating the line between the legal and the illicit at least until the very end. WebProfile of Don Aronow murder on TV show Expose hosted by Tom Brokaw Another witness tried to follow the Lincoln as it fled but could not catch the killer(s). Members of the Bee Gees were neighbours on both sides. 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. In the real-life offshore racing seasons, a majority of the contestants might well turn out to be drug runners say, George Morales, Sal Magluta and Willie Falcn, all convicted of cocaine trafficking. And I can tell you, the day he was murdered there were phone calls to the King of Jordan, the King of Spain, George Bush. Miami claimed the nations highest murder rate at 70 per 100,000 residents, and this years pace has been even higher. In Speed Kills, the story of Ben Aronoff is based on the life of Donald Aranow, who built speedboats and raced them. Was it even a planned killing, or some crazed crime of passion? On Tuesday, Smith, the retired detective, called Aronows widow, Lillian, to break the news. Of the World's most recognized racing boat companies, Don Aronow established five; Donzi, Formula, Magnum, Cigarette and Six foot three, real good looking, lots of swagger. The Beatles, Don Aronow, and his son Michael cruise off Miami before the bands iconic 1964 appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show. 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. [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. (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. Also, said Peters, the Coast Guard drivers were left drowned in the wake of the offshore racers and the cocaine runners, who just had a different mentality come race time.. They become friends and Mr. Johnson told my father about the Miami-Nassau race and my father became really interested in it. The boat coasted in fourth. Emblematic of both the American dream and a particularly magnetic kind of American masculinity, Aronow was a frontiersman, a real-life Marlboro Man and a fearless racer. But in the end, the investigation led to a hired gun. WebAronow married twice. At his funeral, Doc Magoon gave the eulogy, and at one point he said Don was a mans man, and he paused, and then he said, and he was a ladies man. And everybody looked around the room at all of the known mistresses that were sitting there. [On the afternoon of February 3, 1987, a man claiming to be Jerry Jacoby walked into Aronows Thunderboat Row office exhibiting strange behavior; inquiring about a 60-foot boat and alluding to a mysterious man that he worked forand who he would kill for if need be. Aronow had just finished a meeting with Apache Power Boats co-owner Bob Saccenti when a powder blue Lincoln drew up next to his vehicle from the opposite direction. "And they're entitled to spend it any damn way thay want.". During his quarter-century-long reign as the undisputed king of Thunderboat Row, Aronow was a lot of different things to a lot of different people. Hed knock you right down. You make real money when you sell the company., Allan Brown He was also the best boat salesman in the history of the world. 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. Lipschutz: [Aronow] lived right on the water on Biscayne Bay. In his spare time, he built speedboats for the Shah of Iran and American presidents George Bush Sr and Lyndon Johnson, among others and he hung out with the Beatles. Just lining up. He had plenty of cheese. The Beatles, Don Aronow, and his son Michael cruise off Miami before the bands iconic 1964 appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show. Lillian Aronow: Winning is an natural aphrodisiac. Don Aronow with his wife Lillian and son Gavin. His boats won over 350 offshore races, two world championships, and three U.S. championships as his career grew. 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. George H.W. [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 There are about 70 people out there who think they have a boat Don built for himself!, Michael Aronow By 1966, my dad had sold Donzi to Teleflex. Aronow is a former junior high school gym teacher from the Bronx. 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. But they [blew] a clutch and had nothing left. Around one-third of the regions murders were believed to be related to drugs. The Captain tracked down a motley crew prepared to spill the beans. We could see all the gunshots. He built this entire street. Airlifted to a nearby hospital, Don Aronow was dead within the hour. This was December of 86. I didnt hear shots, with the air conditioner and sewing machines going on, but somebody came and got me. Even local residents the Bee Gees were not immune. Phil Lipschutz is a Miami Cigarette dealer and a former contractor to the Don. He was about outdoing the other guy no matter what you were doing. "It won big," Aronow says. Check Out Christopher Brineys Unseen Summer I Turned Pretty PhotosYoull Be Surprised! Aronow: My father broke up more marriages than anybody. If true, it was a curious place to hide out from them. The full breakdown of his net worth at the time of his passing is still unavailable to the general public. Aronow: Forrest Johnson was originally his fishing buddy. Hes pointing out the door and theres Don in his car, the engine screaming and hes slumped over the steering wheel. A world-champion boat racer who enjoyed wild success in business, he was also an unapologetic playboy and fabled bon vivant. Michael Peters If you were a coward with him, you were gone. 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. We considered Formula to be a utility boat. Some people bad-mouth him, Oh he did this, he robbed that, well thats shame on you. Please make sure JavaScript is enabled and then try loading this page again. They could not countenance procuring drug interdiction boats from a firm owned by a convicted smuggler and predictably moved to cancel the procurement contract. Everyone who knew him has a story to tell. His 193cm, still-athletic frame barely fitted inside the sporty white Mercedes-Benz two-seater in which he drove away from USA Racing Teams office on Thunderboat Row. After Don Aranow was killed by a gunshot in Miami in 1987, his story was told in the 2009 documentary Thunder Man: The Don Aranow Story and in the 2018 film Speed Kills. People said whatever Don touched turned to gold. He later got married to Lillian Crawford, a model for Wilhelmina who was 24 years younger than he was. He was going to run for president and his friend had 140 people who wanted to kill him!. He was a great dad and a great husband. Alongside the sexual revolution came the growth in the drugs trade. I just did you a favour., Michael Peters [upon hearing Browns story] Im from California, I hope that storys not about me!, Bob Saccenti I think there were over 100 suspects when they finally killed him., Michael Peters It could have been anyone, from drug runners to business partners to jealous husbands.. [He drove it back and] the boat was sinking at the dock. It was testimony to the Theodolis diplomatic instincts that this would not become their fate. Ultimately, Kramer pled no contest to second-degree murder. The weather was cold and he was getting ulcers. "It's being able to deliver when it counts.". 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. 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. Whatever the truth of such rumours, the way South Floridas drug business metastasised from marijuana to cocaine smuggling, to vast profits and lawlessness, would sustain five seasons of Miami Vice. "So I decided to build a powerboat race that would beat these other guys.". A world-champion boat racer who enjoyed wild success in business, he was also an unapologetic playboy and fabled bon vivant. He had bought a boat in California and he asked Aronow and me to drive it and see if it was any good. Bush, right, was a close friend who initially threw his weight behind the murder investigation. Who Is Ben Aronoff? 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. Check Death Reason HOw Old She Was? He said, I cant do this anymore. "I don't now why nobody was killed. Collecting his children from summer camp, and not returning to the family home, the 34 year-old arrived in Florida with a $2 million retirement fund. I used to work boat shows with him and Holy Christ!, Michael Aronow I dont think any of those guys had ever seen anything quite like it, to be honest., Allan Brown At Cigarette, he had an intercom in his office and he used to boff his secretary there. Bob Saccenti Don used to come and see me when I was hurt one of those You need anything, let me know, things. It did not take the US Customs Service long to learn of this. Lipschutz: Once racings in your blood you can never get it out. Michael Peters concludes, If you want to find anything comparable today, you need to look elsewhere, maybe to the final frontier Blue Origin, SpaceX, Bezos and Musk. He pauses. Don Aronow born in 1927 in Brooklyn New York, left New Jersey in 1961 to relocate in Miami. Rumours concerning Fort Apache continue to circulate, including one about the dock area, positing that camouflaged metal doors opened into large storage compartments, accessible at low tide at night, say. The twos happy marriage disintegrates due to Bens demanding schedules and their son Andrews car accident, which left his legs permanently disfigured. "I'm one of these guys who has to finish first," Aronow explains. And then the investigation got going and they realized who Aronow was involved with, and Bush backpedaled out of there as fast as he could. Then he bought a parcel of land immediately west of them and built the Magnum building. "So I decided to do a little construction on the side.". When I started designing for Cigarette in 1978, Halter Marine had just acquired the company and they perpetuated the ethos, said Peters. Youre a businessman too. And if you had money and you were a coward, hed take as much as possible. This sum, Aronow did not return. Read more:David A. Arnold: Death And Obituary How Did Famous Comedian, Actor-Writer &Producer Die? Bush back-pedalled out of there as fast as he could. A violent criminal named Bobby Young was fingered as the hitman, and his employeraccording to the courtswas Ben Kramer. He was about outdoing the other guy, no matter what you were doing., Bob Saccenti He was a great guy and a great businessman. Make that a very healthy six figures. WebThree weeks before he was murdered, Aronow had a pensive, reflective talk with his wife, Lillian, a former girlfriend of Jordan's King Hussein. He was a real successful cocksman the best I ever saw. Hed retained his key designers. More tips and leads pointed to Kramer as the man whod ordered and paid for the hit. 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. On the afternoon of February 3, 1987, a man claiming to be Jerry Jacoby walked into Aronows Thunderboat Row office exhibiting strange behaviour. He sold Magnum to American Photocopy for a ton. The rest of NE 188th Street is covered with blocks of expensive condos promising comfortable waterside living. Back in those days, [criminal activity involving speedboats] was very prevalent because there was a lot of smuggling going on. Next thing I know an employee comes in and hes banging on my door. Aronow's mechanic was busy prepping their twin-engined Magnum. Today, Thunderboat Row is a transformed, gentrified enclave. Then he bought a parcel of land immediately west of them, and thats where he built the Magnum building. As director of the CIA, hed also interacted with Aronow, recalling how Don came and offered to help our country. Donalds second business venture was Donzi Marine, which he founded in 1964 and later sold to Teleflex Inc. in the middle of 1965. Don Aronow with his wife Lillian and son Gavin. Hes pointing out the door and there was Don in his car, the engine is screaming, hes slumped over the steering wheel. However, when the Customs Service found out about the younger Kramers criminal reputation, they put the kibosh on the transaction, Allan Brown Ben Kramer bought USA Racing from Aronow and apparently there was some money under the table. He thought he was going to semi-retire to Florida and skindive and fish but he got bored., Michael Peters Aronow looked the part. WebIn 1964, Brownie worked for Don Aronow at Donzi Marine, the first real sport boat builder. A ruthless businessman, he equally relished a challenge in his personal life; Hed fuck your wife in a second, said powerboat Hall of Fame racer and boatbuilder Allan Brownie Brown, author of Tales from Thunderboat Row. Meet His Family, Ben Aronoff Net Worth Figures In The Movie. Don Aronow has actually been married twice in his life. Her son Adam Kimmel is a menswear designer. The drug money was corrupting banking, real estate and law enforcement. By various accounts, he then fled to Florida in 1960 to escape the mob. Ben establishes his automotive empire in the film after relocating to Miami and changing his perspective to win. He succeeds in a number of major motor races and rises to the position of speedboat tycoon. It was late and night during the depths of America's great Depression. 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. You make real money when you sell the company. Over the years, theories have developed to involve the Chicago mob, Colombian drug kingpins, cuckolded husbands or just a random shooter. Aronow set out after Bertram, working with designers on NE 188th Street to create deep V fibreglass Formula boats, notably the seven-metre 233. 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? Cigarette, Donzi and other Aronow-conceived brands live on, as do the Miami to Key West race and offshore poker runs. Although he entered a no guilty plea to manslaughter in 1996, the real offender was Ben Kramer, the 1986 American Power Boat Association Offshore Championship winner. Brown: Every boat he sold was built for himself. 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