WebProfile of Don Aronow murder on TV show Expose hosted by Tom Brokaw 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. He marries Emily Gowen, and they have a son together. Little Don couldn't understand how all his father's taxicabs could get lost at once. 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. Included in the settlement was $1.25 million in cash, a million-dollar Miami waterfront home and a Rolls-Royce. Aronow went down the canal 65 mph in it, and ended up running into the seawall. (Captains note: we think he means money.) 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 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). Don Aronow is also quite proud of his lovely wife Lillian. Youre a businessman too. His boats won over 350 offshore races, two world championships, and three U.S. championships as his career grew. He was larger than life. 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. "I took her to all the best places," Aronow says. [1] In 1953, he established his own construction company, the Aronow Corporation which quickly became one of the largest construction companies in the state. 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. As director of the CIA, hed also interacted with Aronow, recalling how Don came and offered to help our country. [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]. Brown: He started Formula from scratch and sold it to Thunderbird in about a year. Audiences grew. Within a year of its creation, Donzi Marine gained recognition on a global scale, making it an immediate success. A world-champion boat racer who enjoyed wild success in business, he was also an unapologetic playboy and fabled bon vivant. 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. Wylie, the son of the couple, is a founding member of the well-known NFT collection Bored Ape Yacht Club. The rest of NE 188th Street is covered with blocks of expensive condos promising comfortable waterside living. Race officials found themselves in invidious positions. Certainly, young Don became wealthy by building and selling tract houses in New Jersey. 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. She has a son with him. An estimated 70 per cent of all marijuana and cocaine imported into the US passes through South Florida, the feature reported. Don Aronow is also quite proud of his lovely wife Lillian. Aronow left his office in his white Mercedes, shortly after visiting a rival boat dealership owned by Kramer. Half out of his car, Aronow lay slumped, crimson blooming across his shirt. Marchesa Katrin Theodoli and her husband became the owners of Magnum. Nobody really knows [what happened], the only thing for sure is that Dons gone. Members of the Bee Gees were neighbours on both sides. I dont think it ever ran again. Having made a fortune in the construction business in New Jersey, building homes and shopping centres, Aronow hastily relocated to Florida in 1961. There was fibreglass dust in the air and the pungent smell of resin and paint. That was the cast of characters he was involved with. He had bought a boat in California and he asked Aronow and me to drive it and see if it was any good. Drug smuggling could be the regions major [largest] industry.. They conveyed a warmth and a feeling of genuinely liking you. I went over there and he had holes all over him. Her father was extremely wealthy and Don once told me he was going to take Shirley to California if the old man didnt cut him into the business., Michael Aronow After he was working with the family for a few years, he went off on his own and started building homes, then shopping centres and industrial parks all over northern New Jersey. He competed in the race in April 1962 and led until the end. Again, he sold his company and started a new one, Magnum, evidently named after the double-sized bottles of champagne. 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. First published in the October 2022 issue of BOAT International. Six foot three, real good-looking, lots of swagger. 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. Writer: How about a one-word description of the kind of boat you build? Allan Brown Shirley was his first wife. The race was several days away. [2] I told my secretary to call 911. At his funeral, [eye surgeon and powerboat racer] Doc Magoon gave the eulogy, and at one point he said, Don was a mans man. He paused, and then said, And he was a ladies man. Everybody looked around the room at all of the known mistresses that were sitting there., Michael Aronow My father broke up more marriages than anybody. A guy comes in with the money and you build a boat for them and you never know. He raced his 8.2-metre Maltese Magnum all over the world. WebClaudia is a New York artist and ex-wife of real estate developer Martin Kimmel. Aronow: Forrest Johnson was originally his fishing buddy. 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. After purchasing Aronows USA Racing Team, Kramer and the latter got into a business dispute, but after the Customs Service refused to do business with him, Kramer was obliged to give it back to Aronow. Don Aronow is also quite proud of his lovely wife Lillian. His company, Bertram Yacht, drew worldwide attention. He sold Magnum to American Photocopy for a ton. He would have a succession of ladies that would appear. Brown: Ben Kramer bought USA Racing from Aronow and apparently there was some money under the table. Some of the most popular types of speedboats were the Cigarette, Donzi, Formula, and Cary. [He drove it back and] the boat was sinking at the dock. [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. The Captain has covered Dons extravagant and extravagant lifestyle in great detail. They could not countenance procuring drug interdiction boats from a firm owned by a convicted smuggler and predictably moved to cancel the procurement contract. ADVERTISEMENT Thanks for watching! And he eventually became aggravated with the business. The automotive billionaire was 24 years older than Crawford, a former Wilhelmina model. So little Don had driven north to spend the day in Rochester with his parents. It did not take the US Customs Service long to learn of this. You can talk to anybody [about that] [But] he was home every night. Even local residents the Bee Gees were not immune. You make a living doing that. Kramer got a 19-year sentence for manslaughter to run concurrently with a life term for marijuana smuggling. From being a huge success in the construction industry, he went on the being a legend as a powerboat designer and racer. Donald Joel Aronow (March 3, 1927 February 3, 1987) was an American designer, builder and racer of the famous Magnum Marine, Cary, Cigarette, Donzi, and Formula speedboats. He ran a successful business making speedboats. WebI think it was at this point that Don discovered that he was Jewish. He built this entire street. Airlifted to a nearby hospital, Don Aronow was dead within the hour. [1] His father owned a gas station and then a taxi company which collapsed during the Great Depression. [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.]. It was a big building and obscured the Donzi plant you couldnt see [Donzi] from Highway 1 anymore! Get this magazine sent straight to your door, or subscribe and never miss an issue. He built speedboats for the Shah of Iran, Charles Keating, Robert Vesco, Malcolm Forbes, and George H. W. Bush. He was a hero and a genius, a ballbuster and a bully. Hed knock you right down., Allan Brown Don was so reckless with shit like that. 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. And then one night Aronow and the contessa were driving back from a candlelit dinner in a tiny restaurant high in the Carrara Mountains. So he commissioned a design from Michael Peters that split a V in two to create a catamaran. On Rotten Tomatoes, it has a 0% approval rating and an overall rating of 2.5/10. It was late and night during the depths of America's great Depression. I never thought anybodyd actually do that, but by God they did. Aronow was bigger than life, and he was also a boat designer. Check Death Reason HOw Old She Was? Semi-blind, he was forced to wear heavy-rimmed and thick-lensed glasses that were always a worry when he played. If true, it was a curious place to hide out from them. The bosss wife would lean over my drafting table with her ample bosom and say, Remember, think sex.. Some people bad-mouth him, Oh he did this, he robbed that, well thats shame on you. Who Is Ben Aronoff? 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. They pulled him out, he was pale, he had gone unconscious at some point. Specifically, the 2018 film is a remake of the corresponding true-crime book. Ultimately, Kramer pled no contest to second-degree murder. The investigating detectives believed that Kramer was seeking to silence Young in jail, paying his legal bills, even possibly seeking to have Young killed. Aronow: My father broke up more marriages than anybody. Aronow is a former junior high school gym teacher from the Bronx. You dont dare honk your horn at anybody; you could end up dead.. It was mostly a lot of hell-raising and good times.". When I started designing for Cigarette in 1978, Halter Marine had just acquired the company and they perpetuated the ethos, said Peters. We were having lunch one day and Don asked if it was a good watch. Her son Adam Kimmel is a menswear designer. But at night, were chasing many of the same guys for smuggling., Events took a turn towards the surreal when Carlos Lehder, the Medelln Cartel kingpin, started buying up Normans Cay, an island in the Bahamas some 330 kilometres off the coast of Florida, for his cocaine transport empire. And that became the original Formula Marine. Although witnesses failed to identify him in police line-ups, Young pled no contest to the shooting. No woman should be alone in this city, Barry Gibb warned Time. How Did He Die? You can talk to anyone, but every night he was at home.. I just did you a favor.. Don Aronow has actually been married twice in his life. Saccenti: He used to say youre never gonna make a lot of money building boats. Revealingly, the Time feature predicted that Miami would remain, as the late President Jaime Rolds of Ecuador put it, the capital of Latin America. 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]. Aronow doesn't care if all these retired furniture makers and machine tool executives are little more than middle-aged adolescents flaunting their masculinity on a Sunday afternoon -- tooling around the docks of some Intracoastal bar like Shooters, feeling terribly macho-nautical doing 30 knots in a $125,000 Cigarette Aronow built to run all day at 60 knots in hull- hammering six foot seas. And Don would say, Yeah we dont have any 28s, but Im building a 35 for myself and I could sell that to you. That was classic Aronow. The deals off. Im guessing Don kept some of the under-the-table money. [2] Peters: Bushs reaction was that he wanted Dade Homicide on it like the most important case on their books. Then he bought a parcel of land immediately west of them, and thats where he built the Magnum building. 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. Don Aronow born in 1927 in Brooklyn New York, left New Jersey in 1961 to relocate in Miami. 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. 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. (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. Gavin and Wylie are their two sons. Much was explained by the states southern exposure and geography its thousands of kilometres of coastline, coves and inlets. 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. 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. Don Aronow has actually been married twice in his life. WebAronow married twice. 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. They become friends and Johnson told my father about the Miami-Nassau race, which my father became really interested in. Hes pointing out the door and theres Don in his car, the engine screaming and hes slumped over the steering wheel. I can retire and lets go to Florida. This was in 1961. He was born in 1927, the son of an affluent taxicab owner whose family had emigrated from Russia and been bankrupted by the Great Depression. And every new [Cigarette] that I do, I drive right by his house with it just so he can see. The University of Florida standout athlete Michael was the one who suffered serious injuries in a vehicle accident in 1970. Included in the settlement was $1.25 million in cash, a million-dollar Miami waterfront home and a Rolls-Royce. There'd been a problem with the taxicab company his father owned in upstate New York. 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. 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. "These guys earned their money," Aronow says. Their son is menswear designer Adam Kimmel; His second wife was former Wilhelmina model, Lillian Crawford, 24 years his junior. Sure enough, I moved there on a Monday and he was murdered that Tuesday.. Brown: He was murdered right out in front of my office halfway between Saccentis building and my building. He was a hero and a genius, a ballbuster and a bully. He was going to run for president and his friend had 140 people who wanted to kill him!. 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. Don was the only person who gave me more than a platitude he gave me a job. "Sure a lot of older men have bought my race boats to drive up and down the Intracoastal on weekends," Don Aronow admits. [3][4][5] Kramer had a business dispute with Aronow after buying the latter's USA Racing Team but was forced to sell it back to Aronow after the Customs Service refused to do business with him. Further reading. One of Don Aronow's race horses has just finished first. The Beatles, Don Aronow, and his son Michael cruise off Miami before the bands iconic 1964 appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show. by The Captain | Oct 12, 2021 | Articles | 0 comments. Don Aronow with his wife Lillian and son Gavin. In the 2018 memory film Speed Kills, Ben Aronoff played a multimillionaire. The main character of Speed Kills, Ben Aronoff, is based on Miamis actual motor king, Donald Don Aronow. In 1948, he married Shirley Goldin [1] [6] who he had met while working as a lifeguard on Coney Island. About his second son, David, nothing is known. The chaotic crime scene confronting police detectives was mysterious, not least because of the geography. Phil Lipschutz is a Miami Cigarette dealer and a former contractor to the Don. He was the type of guy that if he liked you he loved you. 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. Performance boats attract a lot of characters. One of those characters was a racing boat driver and drug smuggler called Ben Kramer. His social group was pretty much divided along the same ratio. Don built boats for good guys and he built them for bad guys. The best I ever saw. You had to be able to match. Was it even a planned killing, or some crazed crime of passion? Speculation about who the killer might be ran from jilted lovers or jealous husbands to [Jewish mobster] Meyer Lansky and the CIA. (Captains note: more about Dons, er, appetites, later.) [1][2] In 1959, at age of 32, the now-millionaire Aronow moved to Miami with his family, where he began racing boats as a hobby.[2]. You gotta do your homework. Bush, right, was a close friend who initially threw his weight behind the murder investigation. He did that a few times. 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. He said, I cant do this anymore. 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. 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. He has three childrenMichael, David, and Claudiawith Shirley Goldin, his first wife. Made quite a lot of money on it in 1964. [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 David A. Arnold: Death And Obituary How Did Famous Comedian, Actor-Writer &Producer Die? 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. The business was established in 1953 and immediately became one of the biggest construction firms in the region. If you continue to be blocked, please send an email to secruxurity@sizetedistrict.cVmwom with: https://www.newyorksocialdiary.com/claudia-aronow/, Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:88.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/88.0, A summary of what you were doing and why you need access to this site. (ABOVE) HES GOT THE LOOK: Aronow looked the part. "I got into ocean powerboat racing after I retired to Florida," he says. Of the World's most recognized racing boat companies, Don Aronow established five; Donzi, Formula, Magnum, Cigarette and Phil Lipschutz I never had any inkling that Don was involved in something illegal. Like most, it's a tale of conquest; Aronow versus the odds: It was back in 1967. Bob Saccenti is the builder of Chief Powerboats and founder of Apache Performance Boats. Peters: [upon hearing Browns story] Im from California, I hope that storys not about me! Aronow agreed to buy USA Racing Team back from Kramer, equally predictably for less than the consideration hed received. Jackson said it was the best in the world. Also read:Queen Elizabeth II: Death And Obituary What Happened To Her? He would have a succession of ladies that would appear. What are the core values of superyacht builder Sirena Yachts? Adam and Leelee Sobieski also gave Don a great-granddaughter, Louisanna Ray Kimmel. [2] David [7] (Ironically, in the immediate aftermath of the crash, Saccentis life was saved by his race partner, none other than Ben Kramer.) He has just cashed in six-figures worth of winning tickets. 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]. According to Dons Wikipedia page, he was slain on February 3, 1987, while driving towards his boat firms North Miami Beach headquarters at the end of 188th Street. (Ironically, in the immediate aftermath of the crash, Saccentis life was saved by his race partner, none other than Ben Kramer. This sum, Aronow did not return. Members of the Bee Gees were neighbours on both sides. He was a great dad and a great husband. Bobby Young was the person who did the killing, and he said that Ben Kramer hired him. A certain nostalgia colours memories of the 1970s as a time of the gentlemanly marijuana business. He thought he was going to semi-retire to Florida and skin dive and fish, but he got bored. He has three childrenMichael, David, and Claudiawith Shirley Goldin, his first wife. Lipschutz: I never had any inkling that Don was involved in something illegal. Saccenti: He was a great guy and a great businessman. Besides the states weak case, there were other, more fundamental doubts over whether Kramer had arranged to have Aronow shot. "I'd never be married to a beautiful woman like Lillian if I hauled garbage for a living," Aronow adds. 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. Having sold Cigarette for the last time in 1982 (after having sold it and purchasing it back in the late 1970s while merging it with his own Squadron Marine), he formed USA Racing Team and built the Blue Thunders, 39-foot catamarans used by the United States Customs Service to patrol U.S. waters and run down illegal offshore activities, especially drug smuggling. Magnum Marine was responsible for Donalds first World Championship victory in 1927. Hes pointing out the door and there was Don in his car, the engine is screaming, hes slumped over the steering wheel. The full breakdown of his net worth at the time of his passing is still unavailable to the general public. But nothing compares with the go-fast scenes of the 1960s, 1970s and climatic 1980s. Aronow was free to pursue the contessa. On Tuesday, Smith, the retired detective, called Aronows widow, Lillian, to break the news. "She was gorgous," Aronow says. Brown: At Cigarette he had an intercom in his office and he used to boff his secretary there and if you needed him you just hit him on the intercom! 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. Donalds second business venture was Donzi Marine, which he founded in 1964 and later sold to Teleflex Inc. in the middle of 1965. With his first wife, Shirley Goldin, he has two sons and a daughter. Don built boats for good guys and he built them for bad guys. WebI think it was at this point that Don discovered that he was Jewish. In these circumstances, it would have been extraordinary if the drug cash hadnt found its way into Thunderboat Row and its fabled go-fast boats. But he could tell something terrible had happened. Because he did, thats for sure. Around one-third of the regions murders were believed to be related to drugs. By this time the mid 1990s he was being kept in an isolation cell without, his lawyer claimed, adequate dental or medical care. Actor John Travolta as Ben Aronoff in the 2018 crime drama Speed Kills. The Beatles, Don Aronow, and his son Michael cruise off Miami before the bands iconic 1964 appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show. In the boating world, we wont see the likes of Don Aronow again.. Today, Thunderboat Row is a transformed, gentrified enclave. It had to do with his father's taxicab company. He came to my basketball games, my football games, he was always around.. Brown: Don was so reckless with shit like that. Meanwhile, Kramer had been convicted of massive marijuana smuggling and money laundering, receiving multiple prison sentences including life without parole. An estimated 70 per cent of all marijuana and cocaine imported into the seawall involved.! 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