WebProfile of Don Aronow murder on TV show Expose hosted by Tom Brokaw Having made a fortune in the construction business in New Jersey, building homes and shopping centres, Aronow hastily relocated to Florida in 1961. Peters: I had gone through a divorce and it was terrible times. Brown: Ben Kramer bought USA Racing from Aronow and apparently there was some money under the table. The book about Don Aranows life by Arthur J. Harris was turned into the movie Speed Kills. He thought he was going to semi-retire to Florida and skin dive and fish, but he got bored. Performance boats attract a lot of characters. One of those characters was a racing boat driver and drug smuggler called Ben Kramer. After years of delight, his prosperity is abruptly ended when he is discovered dead in his automobile. With lots of money and charisma, not to mention NFL starting quarterback good looks, Aronow soon became a ladies man of legendary status in Miami circles. 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.. 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. He was right out of a Hollywood script. Little Don couldn't understand how all his father's taxicabs could get lost at once. The hobby evolved into a business and by the end of 1962, he had formed the Formula Marine boat company, which he then sold to Merrick Lewis' Alliance Machine Corp out of Dayton, Ohio. It reported Miamis Federal Reserve branch to have amassed a currency surplus of $5 billion, mostly in drug-generated $50 and $100 bills, or more than the nations 12 Federal Reserve banks combined. The associated crime could strike anyone. 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. At the age of 32 in 1959, Donald was listed as an official millionaire. I was a little hesitant to move to Miami, because my view of it was straight out of Miami Vice. After campaigning his boat "The Cigarette" around the world with mechanic Norris "Knocky" House as his cockpit companion, he won his second World Championship in three years, and third consecutive United States Championship while becoming only the 2nd American in history to win the UIM Gold Medal of Honor (Gar Wood was America's first UIM champion). If true, it was a curious place to hide out from them. Allan Brown Shirley was his first wife. Next thing I know an employee comes in and hes banging on my door. And if you had money and you were a coward, hed take as much as possible. But Don was badly hurt in a car accident in 1970 and had to use a wheelchair from then on. His first boat was made of wood and broke apart. Having made a fortune in the construction business in New Jersey, building homes and shopping centres, Aronow hastily relocated to Florida in 1961. But a dark Lincoln Continental rolled alongside of him, and thenshots rang out.]. Peters: It could have been anyone from drug runners, to business partners, to jealous husbands. 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. Boat International Media Ltd 2008 - 2022. Check Out Christopher Brineys Unseen Summer I Turned Pretty PhotosYoull Be Surprised! Next, he started Donzi, named after himself, again on NE 188th Street. (ABOVE) RICH AND FAMOUS: Aronow famously kept company with people from all walks of life. 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. Was it even a planned killing, or some crazed crime of passion? And in the end, he wound up as nothing more than a target for an assassins bullet. Brown: He was murdered right out in front of my office halfway between Saccentis building and my building. Hed knock you right down., Allan Brown Don was so reckless with shit like that. On February 3, 1987, Aronow was murdered in his car at the end of 188th Street in North Miami Beach where his boat companies operated. And I could tell you the day he was murdered there were phone calls to the King of Jordan, the King of Spain, George Bush. I didnt hear shots, with the air-conditioner and sewing machines going on, but somebody came and got me. Wylie, the son of the couple, is a founding member of the well-known NFT collection Bored Ape Yacht Club. "So I decided to build a powerboat race that would beat these other guys.". Don also rubbed quite a few people up the wrong way and one of them eventually shot Don dead in Miami in 1987. 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. Then one time, Don left, and said Alright kid, Ill see ya, and he walked out the door. Half out of his car, Aronow lay slumped, crimson blooming across his shirt. At the time, Saccenti was recovering from a horrific crash on Lake Erie. It cost Aronow a fortune to divorce his wife Shirley in 1979. 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. [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]. 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. Michael Peters If you were a coward with him, you were gone. Saccenti: I think there were over 100 suspects when they finally killed him. They could not countenance procuring drug interdiction boats from a firm owned by a convicted smuggler and predictably moved to cancel the procurement contract. And hes bellowing trying to say something. Of the World's most recognized racing boat companies, Don Aronow established five; Donzi, Formula, Magnum, Cigarette and [2] Kramer was already serving a life term in jail without the possibility of parole due to his convictions in 1988 and 1989 for narcotics trafficking and possession of a firearm, as well as his 1990 conviction for an unsuccessful helicopter escape attempt from a federal prison outside of Miami. Gavin and Wylie are their two sons. Within a year of its creation, Donzi Marine gained recognition on a global scale, making it an immediate success. In the film, Ben Aronoff is wed to Katherine Aronoff, his wife. No woman should be alone in this city, Barry Gibb warned Time. That was just his personality.. The Lincoln drove over the grass to get away. Phil Lipschutz I never had any inkling that Don was involved in something illegal. In the movie, Bens personal life is hard, just like it is in real life. Writer: (to Aronow) Tell me about your earliest memory. 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. But in the end the investigation led to a hired gun. Bob Saccenti Don used to come and see me when I was hurt one of those You need anything, let me know, things. 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. Nobody really knows [what happened], the only thing for sure is that Dons gone. The American-Puerto Rican crime drama film Speed Kills is based on the real-life boat designer and racer Donald Joel Aronow, who started Magnum Marine in Florida in 1966. Again, he sold his company and started a new one, Magnum, evidently named after the double-sized bottles of champagne. [Aronow famously kept company with people from all walks of life. 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. He had a brown Rolls-Royce and [race] horses., Bob Saccenti He used to say youre never gonna make a lot of money building boats you make a living doing that. It was a big building and obscured the Donzi plant you couldnt see [Donzi] from Highway 1 anymore! He designed, built and raced the famous Magnum Marine, Cary, Cigarette, Donzi and Formula speedboats. He had plenty of cheese. The persona of John Travolta After relocating to Miami, Ben develops swiftly as a racer, motor designer, and businessman. The investigating detectives believed that Kramer was seeking to silence Young in jail, paying his legal bills, even possibly seeking to have Young killed. The murder may forever remain a mystery. (Ironically, in the immediate aftermath of the crash, Saccentis life was saved by his race partner, none other than Ben Kramer.) Many disputes were going on in his marital life. A certain nostalgia colours memories of the 1970s as a time of the gentlemanly marijuana business. Credit: Courtesy of Arthur Jay Harris. A guy comes in with the money and you build a boat for them and you never know. 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. We collected some of the best. Queen Elizabeth II: Death And Obituary What Happened To Her? He dont speak too much English, but hes trying to explain something serious. For his part, he says the Colombians did it.]. Don built boats for good guys and he built them for bad guys. Of the World's most recognized racing boat companies, Don Aronow established five; Donzi, Formula, Magnum, Cigarette and Michael, his oldest son, was one of the best athletes at the University of Florida. WebAronow married twice. Sure enough, I moved there on a Monday and he was murdered that Tuesday.. Check Death Reason HOw Old She Was? Members of the Bee Gees were neighbours on both sides. These races were filled with tales of derring-do: engine burnouts and explosions, crew members being knocked unconscious or needing airlifting to hospital some even left marooned and bleeding amid circling sharks, not to forget the high-speed collisions, including one in rough seas under a hovering press helicopter. He was inquiring about a 60ft boat and alluding to a mysterious man he worked for and who he would kill for, if need be. Aronow was bigger than life, and he was also a boat designer. Our Privacy Policy Creator includes several compliance verification tools to help you effectively protect your customers privacy. 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. Youre a businessman too. Semi-blind, he was forced to wear heavy-rimmed and thick-lensed glasses that were always a worry when he played. Although witnesses failed to identify him in police line-ups, Young pled no contest to the shooting. Aronow had sold USA Racing Team a company that built high-speed catamarans for the US Customs Service to Kramer and his father in 1985. Much was explained by the states southern exposure and geography its thousands of kilometres of coastline, coves and inlets. The EMS showed up. "And they're entitled to spend it any damn way thay want.". Please make sure JavaScript is enabled and then try loading this page again. Peters: [upon hearing Browns story] Im from California, I hope that storys not about me! The University of Florida standout athlete Michael was the one who suffered serious injuries in a vehicle accident in 1970. You can talk to anybody [about that] [But] he was home every night. He competed in the race in April 62 and led until the end, but they [blew] a clutch and had nothing left. He pulled alongside a Lincoln car with tinted windows. A guy comes in with the money and you build a boat for them and you never know. Like others who bought a boat company from Aronow, the Theodolis had reason to be wary. Barely into his forties, Aronow was now a famous, feted and very wealthy man. Aronow was murdered in his car at the end of 188th Street in North Miami Beach on February 3, 1987. Brown: Every boat he sold was built for himself. Theres about 70 people out there who think they have a boat Don built for himself. "I got bored with it," he explains. But Aronow may have possessed a darker side that even he could not outrun. "I don't now why nobody was killed. Leaving his office that afternoon, Aronow was making for his North Bay Road residence, a 1929 Spanish-style waterfront mansion undergoing renovations, 30 minutes drive away. Further reading. By November 1981, a Time magazine cover feature was declaring that an epidemic of violent crime, a plague of illicit drugs and a tidal wave of refugees have slammed into South Florida with the destructive power of a hurricane. Similar to IMDb, it lists a middling 4.2 stars out of 10. "I got into ocean powerboat racing after I retired to Florida," he says. And he liked to get the best of people. But he knew from Bertrams experience that the way to promote and build his company was by winning races. 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! Jackson said it was the best in the world. Like most, it's a tale of conquest; Aronow versus the odds: It was back in 1967. Further reading. "But she didn't want anything to do with me.". Hes the only person Ive ever known like that. 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. 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. That was on my to-do list, Deal with Baby Doc. That was the cast of characters he was involved with. Claudia is a New York-based artist. 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. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Dons second wife Lillian Crawford and their two boys Gavin and Wylie are also left behind. People said whatever Don touched turned to gold. This is his story in the words of some of the men who knew him best. The deals off. Im guessing Don kept some of the under-thetable money., Michael Peters I had gone through a divorce and it was terrible times. 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. "I took her to all the best places," Aronow says. Ultimately, Kramer pled no contest to second-degree murder. Bobby Young was the person who did the killing, and he said that Ben Kramer hired him. It did not take the US Customs Service long to learn of this. If you are using a VPN, try disabling it. 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. 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. The secret to happiness is taking risks. 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. "I'd never be married to a beautiful woman like Lillian if I hauled garbage for a living," Aronow adds. I can retire and lets go to Florida. This was in 1961., Allan Brown Everybody has their own idea about why he was in Miami. Itinerary: Between the Bays in Anguilla and St Martin, Why this 38m yacht is the perfect new year purchase, A closer look at Benettis new 85m futuristic concept Project ORO. Just lining up. They had me in a cage for three years and nine months, with no daylight, no contact with human beings, Kramer said. 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. Guys wanted to be him. 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. Saccenti: [Kramer and Aronow] were both wealthy, and if it was over money, thats a shame. He was going to run for president, and his friend had 140 people who wanted to kill him! I just did you a favor.. Anyhow, there was this contessa Don Aronow met while he was racing in the Mediterranean off northern Italy. It was all downhill from there. We considered Formula to be a utility boat. Are lithium-ion batteries to blame for recent boat blazes? Speculation about who the killer might be ran from jilted lovers or jealous husbands to [Jewish mobster] Meyer Lansky and the CIA. Some men had told his father that he'd lost it. Wylie, the second son, says that he helped start the Bored Ape Yacht Club. Don Aronow with his wife Lillian and son Gavin. Don was the only person who gave me more than a platitudehe gave me a job, this was December of 86. Sign up to BOAT International email newsletters to get the latest superyacht news, business analysis, exclusive event invitations, and more. 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. His social group was pretty much divided along the same ratio. You make a living doing that. There'd been a problem with the taxicab company his father owned in upstate New York. Thus, the depiction of his life and death in film was handled in the 2009 documentary Thunder Man: The Don Aronow Story and the 2018 film Speed Kills, which was directed by John Travolta. The bosss wife would lean over my drafting table with her ample bosom and say, Remember, think sex.. (ABOVE) HES GOT THE LOOK: Aronow looked the part. Then he bought a parcel of land immediately west of them, and thats where he built the Magnum building. [2] David [7] [One of those characters was a race-boat driver and drug smuggler named Ben Kramer. Who Is Ben Aronoff? 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. Aronow left his office in his white Mercedes, shortly after visiting a rival boat dealership owned by Kramer. [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. I dont want to make him out to be the greatest boatbuilder in the world, but in that particular class of boats, he was unequalled., Again, Peters gave a qualifying view: Don perfected things already invented: hull shapes, construction techniques and engine setups. Aronow was extremely competitive in most aspects of his life, perhaps even to a fault. He retired and moved to Florida 10 years later -- a millionaire in his early 30's, his fortune spawned by the thousands of tract homes Aronow had built and sold throughout northern New Jersey. During his quarter-century reign as the undisputed king of Thunderboat Row, Aronow was a lot of different things to a lot of different people. [1] He graduated a top athlete from James Madison High School in 1944,[1] worked as a life guard at Coney Island, and enrolled at Brooklyn College. Thats the king, came the response, according to The Washington Post. So he commissioned a design from Michael Peters that split a V in two to create a catamaran. The twos happy marriage disintegrates due to Bens demanding schedules and their son Andrews car accident, which left his legs permanently disfigured. Lipschutz: The saying he had about [Cigarettes famed Mistress model] was every man should have a Mistress. And that certainly described him, too. You dont dare honk your horn at anybody; you could end up dead.. Brown: Everybody has their own idea about why he was in Miami. Performance boats attract a lot of characters. Michael plays the role of Andrew in the movie Speed Kills. He later got married to Lillian Crawford, a model for Wilhelmina who was 24 years younger than he was. Some people say he was hiding from the mob. And I seen it, the blood. Saccenti: He was a great guy and a great businessman. How Did He Die? Radios blared out the hits of the day. Don would compete with people his size, said Michael Peters. They just dont make em like Don Aronow anymore. Phil Lipschutz is a Miami Cigarette dealer and a former contractor to the Don. WebIn 1964, Brownie worked for Don Aronow at Donzi Marine, the first real sport boat builder. Ive met some extremely charismatic men, including Sean Connery and Roger Moore, she said. He was an alpha male, like the male lion you see on safari. Dont challenge him, and you were fine. Aranow was married twice, and his two marriages gave him a total of five children. He was the type of guy that if he liked you, he loved you. Since then, Aronow has designed and built some of the world fastest ocean powerboat racers -- including the stubby Maltgese Magnum, the sporty Donzi and the world famous Cigarette. From being a huge success in the construction industry, he went on the being a legend as a powerboat designer and racer. Lillian Aronow: (smiling) My husband is actually a veryshy man, you know. He was right out of a Hollywood script. This was December of 86. The best I ever saw. The movie sequences accurately depicted his wealth, which was real. Brown: Hed fuck your wife in a second. Their son is menswear designer Adam Kimmel; His second wife was former Wilhelmina model, Lillian Crawford, 24 years his junior. What Happened To Don Aronow? Six foot three, real good-looking, lots of swagger. A violent criminal named Bobby Young was fingered as the hitman, whose employer according to the courts was Ben Kramer. Mega-priced and obscenely over-powered, Aronow's sleek craft have set 25 world speed records, won more than 300 major races and earned a dozen world ocean racing champions. At 57, he is a lean and muscular six-foot-two. His other relationship, with Katheryn Winnicks portrayal of Emily Gowen, succeeds. 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. [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 (ABOVE) RUM RUNNER: The first boat to wear the Formula name was a 233 called Cigarette after a famous rum running boat. 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 was a hero and a genius, a ballbuster and a bully. [With lots of money and charisma, not to mention starting-quarterback good looks, Aronow soon became a ladies man of legendary status in Miami circles.]. After divorcing his first wife, Shirley, with whom he had three children, Aronow married Lillian Crawford, a Wilhelmina fashion model and socialite. Brown: Our friend Stu Jackson worked for Thunderbird and he received a gold Rolex when he retired. He gave me a spacious office, and I thought, Finally, Im starting to feel secure in life after a recent divorce. I remember taking a call from a guy named Ben Kramer and telling him that Don had already left his office for the day.. 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. Back in those days, [criminal activity involving speedboats] was very prevalent because there was a lot of smuggling going on. 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 1948, he married Shirley Goldin [1] [6] who he had met while working as a lifeguard on Coney Island. Seemingly he had everything to live for. Being a multimillionaire and accomplished speedboat racing champion, he frequently ran afoul of the law and numerous drug lords in the water metropolis. Peters: He didnt like guys that came in and tried to go toe to toe with him. He says the Colombians did it. When I started designing for Cigarette in 1978, Halter Marine had just acquired the company and they perpetuated the ethos, said Peters. In 1948, he married Shirley Goldin, [1] [6] whom he had met while working as a lifeguard on Coney Island. A kid was going to start a boat company in Florida. You can talk to anyone, but every night he was at home.. Audiences grew. 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. Young died in prison in 2009 after steadfastly refusing for years to testify against Kramer. How Did He Die? Michael, Donalds eldest son, thought his dad was a hero. His second hull was fiberglass -- its hull shaped in a deep-vee to slash through the waves. "These guys earned their money," Aronow says. WebProfile of Don Aronow murder on TV show Expose hosted by Tom Brokaw Little could prepare him for the scene two hundred metres up the street. Money comes and goes. 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. Drug smuggling could be the regions major [largest] industry.. To finance the development, he sold more civilised versions, with teak decks and sleeping quarters, to the general public. The EMS [paramedics] showed up and pulled him out. Therefore, his annoyance with the motor mogul was the true impetus for his illegal plans. 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. Don Aronow, powerboat racing champion and founder of Magnum, Cigarette and Donzi, continues to fascinate as doeshismysterious death,discovers Daniel Pembrey. 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. He stepped off and said, The boats a piece of shit, kid. 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. He said, I cant do this anymore. ADVERTISEMENT Thanks for watching! How much does it cost to charter a Below Deck yacht? I went over there and he had holes all over him. Michael Peters One of the first issues I had to deal with when he hired me [in the early 1980s] was [notorious Haitian dictator] Baby Doc [Duvalier, who was a client]. [But] he was home every night. And I was like, do I really want to move down there? 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