Internet News Record 07/10/09 - 08/10/09 LibertyNewsprint.com U.S. Edition Fla. hotel heir slaying sparks bitter estate feud (AP) (Yahoo! News: U.S. News) similar motion by Novack's Novack and everyone at the hotel blood smeared on her car and on million. That figure is expected Submitted at 10/8/2009 11:19:27 AM elderly aunt. the day of the killing was walls in the house, but they increased after all assets are Neither Narcy Novack nor her considered a "person of interest." concluded no crime was inventoried. FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – attorney returned repeated calls Austin said detectives were committed. But if she were to lose the The mysterious death of a and e-mails seeking comment. reviewing hotel surveillance Ben Novack Jr. eventually built estate, most of it would go instead Fontainebleau Hotel heir has Police documents said Narcy video, and police collected five his own multimillion-dollar to Abad and trusts for her two triggered a family feud over his Novack was "deceptive" rolls of duct tape, computers, convention planning business, teenage sons. multimillion-dollar estate, with regarding her knowledge of the videotapes and paperwork from which brought the Novacks and Abad and Maxine Fiel — sister relatives accusing his wife of killing during a polygraph test, an the Novacks' $3 million Abad to the Hilton Rye Town in of Ben Novack's Jr.'s mother — murder even though no one has investigative tool not usually waterfront Florida home. New York for an Amway claim in court challenges that been charged. admissible in court. "The case is active and continues convention July 12. Narcy Novack deserves nothing, Ben Novack Jr., whose father Other court documents showed to move forward," Austin said in Narcy Novack told investigators even if she is not charged or founded the lavish Miami Beach a tempestuous relationship an e-mail. that her husband had stayed up all convicted in her husband's death. landmark frequented by President between the couple that included Novack Jr. grew up in the night working, finally going to Under state law, even if a person John F. Kennedy and Frank bondage sex games and bouts of swanky confines of the bed about 6:30 a.m. She said she is not convicted of murder, a Sinatra, was found beaten to death violence. In 2002, Novack Fontainebleau, whose frequent went downstairs for breakfast and judge can still prevent them from in a suburban New York hotel in claimed his wife orchestrated a visitors in its 1950s heyday returned about 7:40 a.m. to find gaining an inheritance if there is July. His wife Narcy Novack is a home invasion robbery that left included the famous — Jerry her husband beaten. substantial proof "of an unlawful person of interest in the killing, him tied to a chair for 24 hours, Lewis, Harry Truman, Irving She later told police her and intentional killing." and relatives claim she deserves then decided not to prosecute Berlin— and the infamous, such husband had a "tendency to make Narcy Novack has been nothing from the estate, which when she told police it was an as mobsters Meyer Lansky and people angry" and that he had summoned to give an Oct. 20 includes a vast collection of episode in their unusual sex life. Sam Giancana. The massive hotel, "been hanging out and doing deposition in the estate case. Batman memorabilia. Narcy Novack also claimed her with its signature curved exterior, business with weird people." Among the questions a subpoena Novack Jr., 53, was found in a husband once broke her nose. was the setting for the James For example, she said he had wants her to answer: What Rye Brook, N.Y., hotel room Then there's Novack's Batman Bond movie " Goldfinger." recently gotten into a dispute at happened to some of the Batman covered in blood. His face, hands collection, which lawyers in the The founder, Ben Novack Sr., their home with another collector memorabilia and what documents and legs were bound with duct case said was among the world's was often photographed with over a Batman comic book he had or items might she have taken tape. largest and includes a replica of celebrities along with his wife agreed to buy for $43,000. from her Bernice Novak's safe Novack's daughter, 33-year-old the Batmobile featured in the Bernice, a striking redheaded ex- Eventually, the collector left with deposit box after her death. May Abad, claims in court 1960s TV show. Some of the model. Although Novack lost the a paper bag containing the cash. ___ documents in the estate case that items — figurines, comic books, hotel after a 1977 bankruptcy, he Police said expensive jewelry, On the Net: Narcy Novack "unlawfully and costumes and the like — may left a sizable estate to his son and like a Rolex watch, was left Ben Novack police investigation intentionally killed or participated have been removed from the four widow. undisturbed in the room. No site: in the procuring of the death." warehouses where the collection Bernice Novack, 86, died in electronic card keys were used http://www.bennovackjr.com/ Abad wants a judge to invoke is housed. Estate attorney Douglas April from what was classified by during the 70 minutes his wife Florida's "killer" statute, which Hoffman said the collection was the medical examiner as an was gone. can bar someone responsible for a being inventoried by experts. "unwitnessed fall" at her Fort Under her husband's will, Narcy person's death from collecting an Rye Brooke Police Chief Lauderdale home. She suffered a Novack stands to inherit his entire inheritance. She's joined in a Gregory Austin said Narcy broken jaw and police found fortune, which is at least $6 2 Top News/ World/ Tech News/ Internet News Record Analysis: Allies may decide Berlusconi's fate (AP) (Yahoo! News: U.S. News) judges as "leftists" and implying national obsessions. powers away from Rome to the limitations will kick in before it is Submitted at 10/8/2009 11:22:47 AM that the president — a dignified In a soccer-crazy nation, he regions. completed. figure who has sought to be a owns AC Milan, one of Italy's Berlusconi is generally In the Milan corruption trial, ROME – From cruise-ship voice of reason — is a communist most successful clubs. And his lukewarm to federalism — but Berlusconi was accused of crooner to billionaire media stooge. media empire has fed Italy an would cross the unpredictable ordering the 1997 payment of at mogul to Italy's dominant political There's little question the high endless stream of glitz that has Bossi at his peril: he brought least $600,000 to British lawyer figure, Premier Silvio Berlusconi court's decision to remove helped the masses vicariously live down Berlusconi's first David Mills in exchange for the has achieved an improbable rise Berlusconi's immunity as premier "la dolce vita" — the sweet life. government after only a few lawyer's false testimony at two to power. — clearing the way for his Polls have shown that months in 1994. The premier's hearings in other corruption cases Now — dogged by a sex corruption trial to resume — is a Berlusconi, who has ruled for legal woes could turn him into a in the 1990s. scandal and ordered back to trial massive political blow that could seven of the past eight years, hostage to Bossi's whims, and Berlusconi faces the tax fraud this week to face corruption and hobble his premiership if he holds enjoys broad support despite make him lose credibility with the charge in a trial over Mediaset's fraud charges — he's staring into onto power. repeated scandals. His wife has public. purchase of TV rights. the abyss of a spectacular Preparing for court appearances accused him of having Gianfranco Fini, the speaker of In a separate ruling just a few downfall. and defending himself against inappropriate relationships with the lower house, is sounding ever- days ago, Fininvest was ordered But this master of self- political attacks will prove a far younger women — one was 18 more statesmanlike as he moves to pay euro750 million ($1 transformation has bounced back major distraction from such — and a self-described call girl from the far-right to mainline billion) to a rival for its 1990s from scandal countless times in critical issues as Italy's economic said he spent a night with her. European conservatism. Italian takeover of the Mondadori the past, and the Constitutional crisis and Afghanistan, where six Berlusconi says he is "no saint" newspapers said he was irritated publishing house. Fininvest said Court's decision Wednesday to lift Italian troops recently were killed but has denied ever paying by Berlusconi's attacks on the the ruling is unjust and it will seek his political immunity as premier in a bombing. anyone for sex or having any president, and he has increasingly to suspend the "absurd" judgment may be just another chink in the Stefano Folli, a commentator for improper relationships. appeared to distance himself from pending an appeal. leader's Teflon armor. the business daily newspaper Il The premier said Thursday he his partner in power. The civil damage award stems With the opposition in disarray, Sole 24 Ore, calls this the "most will go on TV and appear in If Berlusconi is dragged into a from a case in which three the Italian people still behind him critical moment of his political courtrooms to prove that legal quagmire, Fini may find it Berlusconi associates were and almost inexhaustible avenues life." corruption and tax fraud charges ever harder to resist a grab for convicted of corrupting a judge so for appeal, Berlusconi's fate But Berlusconi is never quite so in two trials against him are false.