Small Town Murder - The Electrician Executioner East Hampton New York

Episode Date: January 11, 2026

This week, in East Hampton, New York, a horribly bloody murder scene is found, inside of a custom mansion, in an elite neighborhood. The multimillionaire victim has plenty of enemies, both business, a...nd personal, but because of a removed hard drive, in the alarm system, detectives focus on the blue collar electrician boyfriend of the dead man's soon to be ex-wife. He also has others to blame, but will anyone buy it??   Along the way, we find out that rich people are cheap when it comes to booking bands, that it's hard to look past a suspect, when they have over 80 million reasons to commit the crime, and that if you tell everyone you know that you murdered someone, eventually, someone will tell!!   New episodes, every Wednesday & Friday nights!!   Donate at patreon.com/crimeinsports or at paypal.com and use our email: crimeinsports@gmail.com THE HALLOWEEN SHOW!!! 10/30/2025 @ 9:00 PM Eastern Time Get your tickets on moment.co/smalltownmurder  Tickets are $20.  Video Playback will be available for 2 weeks after the live event.  Go to shutupandgivememurder.com for all things Small Town Murder, Crime In Sports & Your Stupid Opinions!   Follow us on... instagram.com/smalltownmurder facebook.com/smalltownpod   Also, check out James & Jimmie's other shows, Crime In Sports & Your Stupid Opinions on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts!!

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Starting point is 00:00:00 This week, in East Hampton, New York, the brutal murder of a multi-millionaire in his own cushy bed begins an investigation that makes international news with many suspects, including his ex-wife and her new blue-collar boyfriend. Welcome to Small Town Murder. Hello, everybody, and welcome back to Small Town Murder. Yay! Oh, yay indeed, Jimmy. Yay, indeed. My name is James Petrogalo. I'm here with my co-host.
Starting point is 00:00:40 I'm Jimmy Wiseman. Thank you, folks, so much. for joining us today on another absolutely crazy edition of small town murder. This is wild, stuff that we have for you today. This is like seeing in the window of a mansion and seeing dirty stuff that's going on. It's weirdest. Oh, it's for all of us regular people. This is a crazy story. And it's, it's an interesting thing. We will get to that. First of all, shut up and give me murder.com. Head there right now. Tickets for live shows. Get your tickets for the virtual live show. If you're listening to this the day, it comes out like on Wednesday night.
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Starting point is 00:03:17 where Jimmy will mess your name all up. So you can't beat it. Do that. It's the best five bucks you'll ever spend. That said, disclaimer time. This is a comedy show. We are comedians. The murders are insanely real, unfortunately.
Starting point is 00:03:32 Everything that we say is factual. Nothing is made up for comedic effect or any silly stuff like that because you don't have to. No. The murders we pick are so crazy. They make their own comedy in the stupidity of a murderer that we'll make fun of. Or if a police force obviously lets a murderer go and then they kill more people will make fun of that. There's a lot of stuff to make fun of here.
Starting point is 00:03:52 But what we don't do, what we never make fun of is we never make fun of the victim or the victim's family. Why, James? Because we're assholes. But we're not scumbags. See? It's really easy how that works there. So if that sounds good to you, you're going to hear a wild, wild story. If you'd think true crime and comedy should never have.
Starting point is 00:04:08 ever go together. We could possibly not be for you, but I think maybe you should give it a shot and see what you think. Either way, no complaining later. That said, I think it's time to sit back, everybody. Let's all take a deep breath here and arms to the sky. Let's all shout. Shut up and give me murder. Let's do this, everybody. Let's go on a trip. Yeah, shall we? We're going to New York this week. Nice place. It's not, well, this is a really nice place we're going to. We're going to East Hampton, New York. Where's that? Which is, it's actually, this is.
Starting point is 00:04:42 The Hamptons? This is way out on the end of Long Island. This is where the richest of the rich people have houses. Not where they live. No, no, no. Where they spend summers and weekends. They don't fuck out of there. And things like that.
Starting point is 00:04:55 This is a hedge fund manager, billionaires. Joe. Jerry Seinfeld. Where this takes place this week, Seinfeld's house is on the next block. Oh. So, I mean, we're talking people with hundreds of millions, if not. billions of dollars live here. It's crazy stuff.
Starting point is 00:05:11 This is actually, it happened in East Hampton Village, but that's inside East Hampton, so that doesn't really matter. It's just a smaller part of East Hampton. It's like I said, eastern tip of Long Island, about two hours to New York City. It's a trek over there. About two hours and 15 minutes to Chappaqua, New York. Our last New York episode, Murder by Moonlight back in early June, I believe. That was a crazy one. This is in Suffolk County out here.
Starting point is 00:05:36 Area code 631 and 934. The motto here is, quote, America's most beautiful village. Stay out, refra. Yeah. Well, unless you're going to do my landscaping or something, stay out. That's the thing that people that actually live here are the people that service all of these rich people. Those are the people that live here. So the stats are kind of interesting.
Starting point is 00:05:57 A little bit of history here. The village of East Hampton founded in 1648 by Puritan Farmers. Wow. Oh, yeah. The community was based on. farming with some fishing and whaling. Sure, sure. Yeah, there's no more farming going on out here.
Starting point is 00:06:11 We're much whaling, right? It's illegal now. Oh, right. Well, then, yeah. There's like two countries on earth that wail, and it's like Japan and Farrow Island. Literally, this is the only two countries at whale. Does Alaska allow some still a little bit? It's America.
Starting point is 00:06:27 I doubt it. I mean, like the northern, like, native area? Yes, I think they have just, yeah, if there's actually people going out with a fucking carpoon. You know, they probably let a tribe of people do that or something like that, but you can't go like a big fishing boat and go out there and shoot them. I don't think they're trapping them.
Starting point is 00:06:46 No, no, like if a pod comes in, that's, yeah, go ahead. I've been doing that for thousands of years. Go ahead and keep doing it.
Starting point is 00:06:52 So, um, now whales that washed up on the beach were butchered and whales were hunted offshore with rowboats. A lot of times manned by Montauk Indians. Really? Yeah. That's how that,
Starting point is 00:07:03 yeah. That's how that's how we're down. Yeah. Exactly. Everything here's, named after a tribe from Woppengers. It's the Wopinger tribe. Same thing. It was the 1910s and 20s that they started building the luxury estates.
Starting point is 00:07:15 That's when it became a big deal. Really? Oh, yeah. They figured out summer's pretty fucking nice. Well, yeah, the summer by the beach. And wow, we got our beach over here. We probably shouldn't just be farming on it. Oh, it's beautiful out there.
Starting point is 00:07:28 Beautiful out there. Reviews of this town. Here we go. Here's five stars. I have lived in East Hampton all my life. So for 18 years. Oh, an 18 year old. This is an 18 year old.
Starting point is 00:07:39 East Hampton is where I grew up. We knew that. You just said you lived there your whole life. Went to, that means you're... You're going to say the same thing over and over again? So you're either really rich or you hate rich people. One of the two. Went to school, made friends and learned so much.
Starting point is 00:07:53 East Hampton is located in a beautiful area at the end of Long Island, and I wouldn't want to live anywhere else. Anywhere else. Yeah. That's right. And this shit's super flat, right? There's not a fucking hill. No, no, no, no.
Starting point is 00:08:04 This is amazing. There's no, there's no, there's no, there's no flat. There's no pills over here. Here's three stars. I love the beaches in East Hampton. They are beautiful and are always protected by lifeguards in the summer. Imagine what these people pay in taxes. No shit.
Starting point is 00:08:16 There should be a lot of lifeguards. Teams should be the old like Baywatch teams. Yeah. Just smoking hot chicks and bikinis and big muscular guys. How many beaches you've been on in the West Coast? Have you ever seen a fucking lifeguard? I'm a beach guy. No.
Starting point is 00:08:32 I like a rocky beach. I like a hoodie. hoodie wear and beach. I never see those I mean those towers are everywhere. I guess they've never got a person. No no here they do. Here they got them here they got teams. Wow. So you always feel safe going into the water. Although the traffic is crazy since summer, since summer it's always hard to get around. Yeah. All right. Okay, people in this town here we go. Population of East Hampton is 27,626 in East Hampton Village. It's about 1500. Wow. That's like kind of the southern part of East Hampton.
Starting point is 00:09:05 More women than men, because these are a lot of wealthy people, too, that the women will outlive the men here. It's 52% women, 52.2% women. Median age is older than the norm. It's 46.7. Again, money usually takes you longer to make it. That makes sense. Is it the south side of the island? The East Hampton Village is.
Starting point is 00:09:25 East Hampton itself is just kind of the end of the island there. 59% married. Wow. So all these stats. It's so. rich basically. Very few people are single with children. It's too expensive to get a divorce here. Yeah. It's just too expensive. It costs you half. Half of what I had when I got divorced wasn't a lot.
Starting point is 00:09:45 No, this is like half. They're like, we're just going to stay. The house is pretty big. You take that side. I'll take this side. We're living in a 6,000 square foot house. We don't need to get a divorce. Half of that fortune is five times what one person dreams of making. Yeah, exactly. A race in this town, 73.7% white, 2.5% black, 1.9% Asian, 20.9% Hispanic. The religion here, 72.6% religious. I guess if you had millions of dollars, you'd believe in there must be a god. They're providing for me. I'm being provided for.
Starting point is 00:10:20 And a whopping 60% of the people here are Catholic. Is that right? As we know, Catholics are the Baptists of the North. There we go here. average unemployment rate here. Median household income here is 125,861. They're doing great. They're doing great.
Starting point is 00:10:39 But that's not even, that's not like the summertime residents that make the millions and millions. That's the people that live here. Cost of living, though, is tough. That's the problem. Cost of living everywhere in the country is at 100. That's average. Here, it's 147. Golly.
Starting point is 00:10:55 The housing is, this is out of 100 now. 100 is average. 623. Median home cost here, $1,237,400. Oh, dear Lord. And I think that's actually low when we do this because, you know what?
Starting point is 00:11:11 If we've convinced you, damn it, you've done well in life. Your hedge fund is really cooking and blossoming. And we have for you the East Hampton, New York, real estate report. Average two-bedroom rental here. You need some roommates. $820.
Starting point is 00:11:36 Oh, God. Which is like Manhattan prices. $3,000 a month. Here is a one bedroom, one bath. $360 square feet. It's a room. It's a big room. It's a condo, a very tiny condo.
Starting point is 00:11:52 Sort of near the water, but really tiny. $595,000 for that. $360,000. I guess that's just a getaway for somebody? No, no, that's for someone who works there. Nobody who has money would go stay in this hole. It's literally a fucking depressing room. It looks like one of those places where like if you're in like a foreign country but you're like a dignitary or something but you get arrested, they don't put you in jail.
Starting point is 00:12:19 They put you in like an office room. Like that's what it feels like. I'm not allowed to leave, but it's not like prison. There's a real bed and a TV, but I can't leave. 10 by 30 seems big enough to like dress it up and make it, you know what I mean with a bathroom and a small kitchen in there. You can make it a little like a cabin, I guess. That is rough. Here's a two-bedroom one bath, 665 square foot.
Starting point is 00:12:42 Twice. Little tiny house. Two times that other one. Nice inside, but little tiny house, and it's like among mansions. Someone had a little tiny property that never sold it. $1.3 million. For $600.65 square feet. Built in 1940 this house was back when they were built in cottages.
Starting point is 00:13:01 So it's an original. Then finally, eight-bedroom 12 bath. Tea bowl for each and every beehole. Invite some beehole friends over. 13,176 square feet. Wow. On 3.6 acres directly on the water. 3 acres of the water.
Starting point is 00:13:18 3.6 acres directly on the water. Private beachfront. Gorgeous, insane. $84,000. $84 million. Billionaire housing, that is. That is, I have 300 fucking billion. I'm going to buy that.
Starting point is 00:13:35 That's crazy. That's insane. That's absolute insanity. Think about that. I can't wrap my head around. I can't either. $84,900,000. Holy shit.
Starting point is 00:13:45 It feels like you should be able to buy a basketball team for that much, right? But you can't anymore, but still. But the guy that owns that probably owns a basketball team also. You have to. That's who lives here, people like that. I mean, who the hell can buy $85 million for a house? That's crazy. I can't even wrap.
Starting point is 00:14:00 I can't. That's like the gross domestic product of Luxembourg. Just your house. That's ridiculous. I can Google that. That's a fascinating thought. Oof. Things to do here.
Starting point is 00:14:10 Okay. We have the, first of all, the film festival. Right. They have a East Hampton film festival, the Hampton's International Film Festival. I'm tired of going to Tribe back up. I'm tired of this. Two hour drive. We're out here.
Starting point is 00:14:22 Entertain us. It's held over five days in mid-October. So maybe they hold it to try to get some of the people to come back for October a little bit, maybe for the business there. They have kind of stuff like that. They also have the Tuesdays at Maine Beach music series. Okay. So every Tuesday you show up at this beach and they have a different...
Starting point is 00:14:40 In the summer. They have a different band. Yeah, this is all summer long. We have, let's see, starting in... What is this? Oh, yeah, starting... They're getting good acts. Oh, no, they're not.
Starting point is 00:14:49 No? Well, maybe they, I don't know any of these acts. Jetty K-O-N. Nope. K-O-N. With hot lava? Yeah. No.
Starting point is 00:14:59 No? Lynn Blue Band? Nope. How about the Congo Cartoon? hell. There's a problem. These people have so much money. Why are they hiring this?
Starting point is 00:15:07 I don't know why they don't. I mean, I'm sure we know ludicrous is available. If you're having a county fair, he's Nellie, get Nellie in there. Sarah Conway. No. Maybe Conway Twitties. Jimmy Conway's kid. I don't know.
Starting point is 00:15:23 Loan sharks, not like they're loaning you money, the L-O-N-E. Loan sharks. Plural? Plural loan. Make it makes sense. Our new gang is called the lone wolves. That's what it is. We're getting their jackets, man.
Starting point is 00:15:40 Lone wolves, baby. That was the joke in airheads that they were the lone rangers. The lone rangers. That's the point. That's the dumbest thing ever. Four track. Maybe they're just very old. Is it four of them?
Starting point is 00:15:52 Maybe. Nancy Atlas. Okay. Nope. Holiday Ramblers. I can't fucking believe this. This is crazy. The holiday ramblers.
Starting point is 00:16:00 Hello Brooklyn, which is a Beastie Boy song. Um, who do loungers. Who do? H-O-O-D-O-O. Who do? Who do loungers. And, and then a obvious saved by the bell reference also. The Bayside Tigers.
Starting point is 00:16:17 Is that right? Which is the saved by the Bell High School. That's hysterical. I like that one. That's pretty funny. Reeb, R-E-E-B, which is, I think, like, Reba McIntyre's new rap act she's trying to put together. Just Reeb, shortening it up. So the kids watch.
Starting point is 00:16:35 The attention spans. The attention spans are low. Reba back. Too much to say. Too much. Just rebe. The inner roots will be there. Oh. You know heard of them?
Starting point is 00:16:45 Nope. Nope. Okay. You said up. I was like, yeah, maybe. We're getting close to bands. Something. Dirty organic.
Starting point is 00:16:51 Uh-huh. And the rum punch mafia. I seriously can't believe this. So they have the rum punch mafia and the Kanga cartel. They should put them together. They'd fight probably. Yeah. Then the cherry bombs.
Starting point is 00:17:03 Also, we'll be there. So they're doing some punk rock or something? I guess. Someone called Winston Iri, which I assume is a reggae act. That's all I can think. And Rubix with an X, cube with a K. No. Cool, man.
Starting point is 00:17:17 Stop. All caps. That's got to be techno. That sounds like electronic shit, definitely. I'm so mad. And then hot lava will be there. They opened the show. Oh, yeah, hot lava's there.
Starting point is 00:17:28 That's right. They're going to do both. Crime rate here, what we're interested in. I'm beside myself. That's all summer? That's all summer long. But that's probably for like local beach trash. You go.
Starting point is 00:17:40 Rich people aren't going down to mingle. No. Yeah. So this is like, we're making Billy Joel play tonight. Yeah, forcing him. I'm knocking on his door. Get out of you.
Starting point is 00:17:49 He's probably playing at some party somewhere anyway and go to go to there. Reeb's annoying me, Billy. Get out of here. Crime rate in this town, what we are interested in. It should be non-existent in this town, really. Property crime is about one third under the national average. Still too hard.
Starting point is 00:18:03 There's a lot of shit to steal, though. That's one thing. Violent crime, murder, rape, robbery, and of course, assault. The Mount Rushmore of crime is less than half the national average, as it should be. There. So that said, let's talk about some murder here. This is wild stuff. Okay.
Starting point is 00:18:19 Let's start out with a man. Let's talk about a man here. Robert Theodore. I know. I know what you're thinking. Not Bundy. No? No.
Starting point is 00:18:28 You saw Jimmy's face. He's like, oh, shit. Yeah. Robert Theodore. A-M-M-O-N. Goes by Ted. Oh, yeah. Why not?
Starting point is 00:18:38 If you're Robert Theodore, you're Ted. Yeah. Almost a similar age, too. He's born August 30th, 1949. So similar. I think Bundy's born, about 44. Was he that? Was he that?
Starting point is 00:18:50 I want to say. Was he older then? I want to say 44, 45. He was born, something like that. So same area, same generation. His parents are Robert, not senior. They have different middle names. And Betty Lee is his mom.
Starting point is 00:19:02 He's got a sister named Sandy with an eye. Yeah. That's important. Sandy with a Sandy. His dad was a sergeant in the U.S. Army during World War II. Oh. So he was born to... No one's out of shit.
Starting point is 00:19:17 Dad was in the war type shit. Well, at least also, dad's seen some shit. Yeah. That could be... Usually those guys are tough. Dad gets some grace around here. Yeah. Dad has a couple drinks when he comes home.
Starting point is 00:19:28 It might smack somebody once in a while, but he had to fight Hitler, so he let it go. So we let him have the big thing of chicken. We let him go. Yeah, he gets exactly. He gets the old Chris Rock joke there. And the last piece of beat. So he gets everything. That's all. You got to give it to dad.
Starting point is 00:19:40 Now, Ted is born at the Allegheny General Hospital on the north side of Pittsburgh. Oh. That's right. His dad was a steel executive, but not a hugely, back then a steel executive, unless you were like one of the top. Few guys didn't make the kind of money that executives make now. Executives used to make five times what the average worker made. Now it's 7,000 times. He's doing fine, but he's not Carnegie.
Starting point is 00:20:05 No, no, no, no. He's still blue collar. He's still blue collar. I think he worked his way up to this, too, like a higher job in there. Now, Ted, when he's in the eighth grade, his father is transferred to East Aurora, New York to run a whole steel plant. Now, East Aurora is just outside Buffalo. So that's going from Pittsburgh to Buffalo. Snow to more snow.
Starting point is 00:20:29 Not a far move. It's really not. So Ted's father wanted him to follow in his footsteps, get a job in the steel industry at one of these companies and work his way up like he did, which is fine at that time. But if Ted chose to do that, it would all fall in apart for him. Because by the mid-70s, the steel industry was falling apart. And nowadays, they're finding a job in the steel industry in America.
Starting point is 00:20:53 It's not real easy to do. So that's kind of, he's lucky Ted that Ted wasn't interested in that because he would have found nothing but pain. Is there a lot of steel being produced anymore? Not like there used to be. No, no. Otherwise, it would have just been Allentown, basically. The Allen, Billy Joel again, Allentown song is what ended up happening to all that shit to coal and steel and everything.
Starting point is 00:21:14 So anyway, that's what he wanted. Ted, though, wanted to do something else. He wanted to, he had ambitions. He wanted to make money. Uh-huh. He wanted to make money. And the blue collar thoughts aren't for make lots of money. No.
Starting point is 00:21:29 Go get yourself. a good living. Look, I have a house, we have two cars. You'll never starve. I'll be able to retire. That's what you need to do to yourself. And that's especially that generation of the Depression and World War II and all that. They really thought like that. And the kids that came up after that, the baby boomers were like, well, I'm going to make money.
Starting point is 00:21:44 They had a different thought. So Ted would come home from school, do his homework, eat dinner every night at 630, exactly, on the dot. Dinner had to be ready. His father coached his little league team, which is interesting. Ted's a tall guy.
Starting point is 00:21:59 It's going to turn out to be 6-4. Hell yeah. Kind of a muscular, lean but muscular, 6-4. He's a swimmer. Yeah. I'm a swimming team, and he plays lots of sports. So, you know, he's doing well. Now, they would go, their family during the summer,
Starting point is 00:22:16 they had, there was a family-owned New Jersey Shore House, so they go to the New Jersey Shore for a while. They'd also go to Ames, Iowa, where they had family, and they would spend a couple weeks on their grandparents' farm sitting in the the country. So Ted had a very much leave it to beaver kind of a life. Yeah. You know, dad came home with a tie-on at five o'clock and, you know, mama at the house tidy and very black and white, very leave it to beaver type of thing. I think he's about Beaver's age too. Wow. Yeah. In high school, he's on the football team and the swimming team. He's a real popular guy, got tons of pretty girlfriends.
Starting point is 00:22:51 All right. He's a charismatic, successful, tall, athletic guy. What else is that? I mean, you're going to get, You're going to get some trim in high school if you're like that. Sometimes that all falls apart for people later on, but Ted's ambitious. Now, Ted was like to work on things. He's like, he's their house is handyman. Man's man. He knows what to do. He likes to figure out how things work.
Starting point is 00:23:16 He's real smart. That's so fun. Likes to take things apart, put it back together, figure out how to repair them. Well, the take apart's easy. That's the easy part. Yeah, anybody on a quarter gram of meth can do that. It's putting the duck together is the hard part. So, yeah, his mother and father were very proud of him.
Starting point is 00:23:33 They said he would take a lot of pride in doing things without being told. Oh. So, you know, they wouldn't have to tell Ted to do things. Trash is the thing. Son of a bitch. Of course, Ted. By the way, there's some stuff from a book here and some stuff from a very good investigative article also. I'll give the names and titles and authors and all that later on, too.
Starting point is 00:23:53 Give them their due. so he didn't even like instruction manuals, Ted. He didn't want to do it. He said, well, that's no, that's cheating. No. That's cheating. You got to figure it out yourself. That's how you put it together, right?
Starting point is 00:24:06 So that's more fun to learn it on your own. If I don't read those, that's how I return shit. I can't put shit together with instructions. You give me an IKEA desk in the instruction six hours later. I'm taking it apart because I put it back. I put it together backwards and I don't know what I'm doing. I can't put shit together. I don't know.
Starting point is 00:24:24 the top is upside down. Oh, I'm so bad. It took me like 12 hours to put a desk together one day. I bought this is ridiculous. I bought two cabinets from Wayfair. And those instructions are just as fucking hard. They're ridiculous. I built it and I'm like, it's upside down.
Starting point is 00:24:37 And then all you have to is flip it over. Yeah. I'm like, that's not right. Okay, that's. It doesn't even look like the fiction. That certainly isn't Wayfair's fault. I think that is, that's your fault. That's a problem.
Starting point is 00:24:53 It's upside. It's definitely a problem. Jesus Christ. But it's not, I couldn't recognize why there was a problem. And that, there's the problem. How many beers under the night were you? Please tell me. This is 11 a.m.
Starting point is 00:25:06 Oh, no alcohol. This is just stupid me going, why is it back? Oh, no. Okay. I was going to, I'm giving you all the outs I can. Blame alcohol? Nope. Anything else?
Starting point is 00:25:19 Stupidity. Just an absolute moron. That's fair. That's fair. Jesus Christ. He liked doing shit that he thought people thought was impossible a lot. It is impossible to put it together without him. Took it as a challenge.
Starting point is 00:25:33 He was chosen to be the anchor man of the swim team. So he's good at that. He ends up going to Bucknell University. Where's Bucknell? I'm not sure. I think it's in Pennsylvania or New Jersey. I can't remember. But I know every once in a while they make the basketball tournament and don't do very well.
Starting point is 00:25:50 But they make it. I think they're a smart school. Ten majors in economics. at Bucknell University, which is nothing like what his dad said to do. Go get an entry-level job and work your way up. He joined the Fide Gamma Delta frat, starting in his sophomore year. He's playing on the varsity lacrosse team. Knee deep.
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Starting point is 00:28:29 And England. Without going to law school. I mean, the bar, it cites precedent. People that go to law school have to take it two, three times. He didn't go to law school and just pass these tests. I've heard of people doing that before, but you've got to be pretty smart. You've got to know what you're talking about and be learned. Absolutely.
Starting point is 00:28:49 He works at a couple law first. He's kind of restless there. He marries a woman. He finds a woman named Randy Day. So you can get a law license without going to school? As long as you can pass the bar. That's all it is. Just pass the bar.
Starting point is 00:29:03 Yeah, you pass the bar. I mean, it's going to be hard to get hired somewhere. If they go, where'd you go to law school? And you go, I didn't. I just read a book. I just brushed ass in this fucking... That's more difficult. This test was stupid.
Starting point is 00:29:12 But if you're really smart, they might take that as, you know, you're like a will-hunting type of deal. And they might want you. So Randy with two E's, Randy Day. They're married for about nine years from the early 70s to about 1980-81-ish, and then they break up. Pretty amicable. They both got married pretty young in their early 20s and grew apart. They didn't have any kids.
Starting point is 00:29:35 You don't have any kids that divorce is easy. Especially if you don't have any kids and you don't have like tons of assets to break up. You just go, so I get my shit. Can I have the coffee table, I guess, gal? You get the TV. That's it. You break up. It's pretty great.
Starting point is 00:29:51 can do it amicable. That's the thing. With no kids, it helps because that's where the acrimony comes in. Well, there's that, and then the one's still in love and the other one's clearly not. If you have that, these two just grew apart. That's great. They were like, yeah, this isn't working, right? So in 1979, he's 30, he joins the firm of Colberg-Cravis Roberts. Sounds like it, yeah. Yes, and this is where they're going to do. He's doing a bunch of investment stuff now. He's going to get into like investment banking, which is where the money is. Is it? That's where everyone in the Hamptons is. Investment bankers, hedge fund managers, all those guys, all that money shit that I can't figure out.
Starting point is 00:30:29 I don't know what one is, but I've heard hedge funds are amazing. I don't know. I don't think we're rich enough to know what that is. I don't think we have nearly enough money to know what a hedge fund is or to know how it works even more. It just sounds like somebody that manages it and gets all the money. No, shit. So he's a big, tall, successful, handsome guy making good money at this point. 1983, he becomes one of the youngest partners at Colberg, Kraviss, Roberts, and company in their history and was involved in a RJR Nabisco buyout.
Starting point is 00:31:00 He was part of the negotiations of a $38 billion buyout merger type situation. So, huge deal. That's one of those, if you make a big deal like that, everyone in that industry knows who you are. They know your name. They see it in the magazines. And you just made a giant pile of cash. Yep. So he's made a big pile of cash. He's a partner. He is looking for a suitably... Where do I live? That's the thing. A suitably up to his standards apartment in Manhattan at this point.
Starting point is 00:31:29 Oh, get a 300-square-foot joint out on the island. I got a place for you. Now he's going to move down to the village. It's still a shooting gallery down there. He's still going to move down there. He really wants to live with junkies in a hovel. No, he's looking for a real nice midtown around. the park type of rich guy joint. Nice. So he sets up a call with a real estate agent to go look at some stuff here. Real estate agent is Generosa, Joe Marie, Legay, Rand. That's her name.
Starting point is 00:32:01 That's a woman's name. Generosa. Wow. G-E-N-E-R-O-S-A. Generosa. You said several other words. This Joe Mary is her middle name. LeGay, which is a family name.
Starting point is 00:32:13 And then Rand is also part of her name. So that's part of her name. Those are two family names at the end. She's born March 22nd, 1956. That's seven years younger than our guy, Ted, here. So they made the appointment for the early evening hour, like right after work, to look at an apartment in the low 90s, not in terms of price, in terms of street location.
Starting point is 00:32:34 On the east side of Manhattan. So upper east side he's looking at right now. Right by the park. It's a little high, but it's still the park still there. The park ends, what, one-tenth or whatever. So it ends up one-tenth? before that, but it doesn't matter. It's, it's, it's, upper east side,
Starting point is 00:32:50 kind of old farty money type of place, but that's where nice stuff is too. Yeah. So he didn't show up for the appointment. He's busy and he forget shit, basically. So the next morning, he got a call at his office from the real estate agent,
Starting point is 00:33:05 Gena Rosen. She's pissed off. Yeah. She said, listen, this is bullshit. Yeah, number one, don't waste my time. Yeah. I'm a busy person. Number two, it's rude to do that.
Starting point is 00:33:15 Number three, you left me standing outside after dark in New York City in 1983, which is not safe to do for a single attractive woman, too. She's like a blonde, attractive 27-year-old or something. So she was pissed. She's like, this is ridiculous. So he heard all this, and he's getting lit up on the phone by some lady he's never met before. Never met her, never saw her before. But he said, you want to go out on a date with me? I'm in love with you.
Starting point is 00:33:42 Because I like your attitude. He liked it. He said, you didn't just say, hey, you know, you want to come? He said, hey, fuck. She said, fuck you, by the way. Will you leave these messages on my phone for the rest of my life, please? I like getting my balls broken with someone. She didn't take the shit.
Starting point is 00:33:55 And he said, I like that. And he said, let me take you out to apologize. Let me take you out on a date to apologize. Like I said, he never saw her before. So he has no idea what she even looks like. And then he meets her, and she's slim and blonde and a little younger than him. A smoke show. Yeah, he's like, shit.
Starting point is 00:34:12 Boy, did I make the right choice. Great. That's why she's got attitude. I guess he figured anyone with that attitude must be hot. She's like, I'm not hot enough to have that attitude. I don't know who is. She must be really, really confident in herself. So she told him, you know, number one, she's very opinionated, very passionate person. She told him that this rental agent shit that I'm doing here, real estate stuff, this is just my day job.
Starting point is 00:34:36 Yeah? I'm an artist. Oh. That's how it really is. I'm really an artist. But that doesn't pay fucking bills obviously. No, obviously. So now a little bit about Generosa.
Starting point is 00:34:46 Let's tell her a little of her story here. She's got some backstory to her boy. She is not from a stable environment like Ted is. Ted's from a very stable. Leave it to Beaver. He is. I mean, think about that. So now she said that her and her older sister were raised by their single mother for a while.
Starting point is 00:35:06 Anyway, we'll talk about, who is a church secretary named Marie-Therese Laguer. That's where the LaGay part comes in, and Randall be her husband. Now, she says she was raised in Laguna Beach, California, but that's also kind of at different times. When she was 10, her mother died of brain cancer. Dang. I think she had breast cancer and brain cancer. Now, I guess when she was going through her mother's photo albums,
Starting point is 00:35:33 she came upon a photograph of a blonde sailor. Oh. Not an American sailor. What? Somewhere else. Okay. On the back of the. picture was one word written.
Starting point is 00:35:44 My love. Generoso. No idea. That's two words. And I think I was going to tell you in the next breath what it was anyway. I assumed it was going to be like her dad. Wait. Generoso.
Starting point is 00:35:56 Yeah. Yes. If you just wait at a second, you'd have got that. I wouldn't have even put that together. No. Generoso is the man's name. Oh. Which is also her name. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:36:07 So she goes, wait a second. Yeah. How the fuck do we have the same name? And her older sister said, Okay, didn't want to tell you this, but our mom banged a guy in Italy, guy in Italy named Generoso. She realized she was pregnant and decided to keep the baby anyway. Wow. So that's your, you're a quickie Italian sailor affair, who she named after the man.
Starting point is 00:36:29 Amazing. Amazing. Yeah. So, yeah, apparently he was in town and at her Long Beach apartment. They had a very passionate week-long affair. Wow. So she went to see him off at the dock. and, you know, all of this.
Starting point is 00:36:44 And he had the photo of him in the uniform and gave her an address the next month. She's pregnant. She wrote him. He never answered. Wrote him over and over again. Never received an answer from him. So either he drowned in the Italian Navy or he's just like, I'm going to not talk to this lady. Can they enforce the child support them from Long Beach?
Starting point is 00:37:10 No. All right. Hey, you see you crumple, crumple and in the garbage. There we go. All right. Ah, it's so good. He doesn't give a fuck. Poor lady.
Starting point is 00:37:22 Singing time to say goodbye to him. So, yeah, so there she was. Generosa was born. Yeah. And she gave the, she was married her mom. Oh. So she gave the baby her husband's last name, Rand, because it was just easier, basically. Wow.
Starting point is 00:37:40 He's a married woman and, you know, she doesn't live with her husband. Yeah. But it looks better if it looks like her husband knocked her up, especially in the 50s. Sure. You know what I mean? So she started raising the daughter, but she's a big hard partier. And because she already had three kids. Right.
Starting point is 00:37:55 She was banging Generosa in the apartment. So the family didn't use Generosa's first name, which is interesting. They always called her Joe. Oh. Her middle name is Joe Mary, one word. J.O. Mary. And they just called her Joe. Okay.
Starting point is 00:38:13 Her old family. But then everyone else calls her Generosa later on. So her and her sister become very close. And they have to be close because their mother would go off for days at a time and just leave them alone. So they had to cuddle up and figure it out for themselves. So but then when she ends up dying, she says that, you know, she felt abandoned by her mother. Yeah. Not only because she died, but because she was abandoning all the way up.
Starting point is 00:38:40 diet. She believed that her mother had resented her from birth because she was illegitimate and kind of put a cloud over everything. She had to give her a different last name and lie about where she came from and all that. So she always thought her mother didn't want her and also didn't protect her. Generosis said, I'm not going to be like that. I'm not going to be some fucking bum lady who's looking for some guy to take care of her. I am going to make money. I'm going to do, I'm going to be a somebody. I'm going to be a somebody. Good for her. So yeah.
Starting point is 00:39:12 It's amazing to get that life lesson out of that. If I have kids, I'm not going to be a shitty mother, she said. Imagine living. Protect my kids. Imagine living a very repressed life and then dying of all those cancers together. At least that lady seems like she lived it up for a minute. I was going to say, I don't think she lived a repressed life at all mom. Yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:39:28 Good for her. Yeah, mom lived to the fullest. She had to. She didn't even know she had to. No, she did it. Otherwise, yeah. She decided basically later on that her mother's death was actually a good thing. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:39:40 She said later. She would tell people later on that it was the best thing that ever happened to her, her mother dying, which is insanely weird. I mean, being content with it and closure is fine, but don't go with that. She said it actually, quote, was the answer to her prayers. Oh, my gosh. She didn't want to be part of that. Now, within a while after this, her uncle and his new wife ends up taking them in. She's about 10 years old.
Starting point is 00:40:08 They go to live with the uncle and aunt I guess their aunt was a lawyer The uncle is the relation The aunt is just married to the uncle here This is to go in Emerald Bay Which is a community on the coast Just north of Laguna Beach Nice
Starting point is 00:40:24 And we were just there for the show The Irvine Impro that's a really nice area Because we stayed in Laguna Beach It was gorgeous So really nice houses It's beautiful, the views of the Pacific Ocean They're crazy Problem is
Starting point is 00:40:37 During this And we don't know what the truth or whatever, but apparently the uncle has started, uncle, the aunt, both of them, there was molestation going on in this house, like repeated molestation going on here, which is not great. At the same time, after a little while,
Starting point is 00:40:59 they end up being in a foster home after that, which makes it better than being molested. So were they, hmm, oh, that's a fascinating development. Yeah, her and her sister, because there's four kids, but her and her sister are the ones of this around the same age. So they get shipped around together. Her and her sister, Dolly.
Starting point is 00:41:14 By the time she was 17, she told her friend, well, when she's 17, she'll later tell a friend that her older sister was killed by a hit-and-run driver. Is that right? That's what she'll say. Yeah. She said her sister was her only protection against an abusive home life. She said her sister was older and was a little more would protect her. So she ends up enrolling in college.
Starting point is 00:41:38 actually. She goes to the University of California at Irvine and just basically doesn't talk to the adopted family anymore where there was may or may not have been molestation. She graduated in 1981 from college and came to New York all by herself and found work as a real estate apartment agent. So that's what she was doing. You get molested near the beach. That'll make you hate the fucking beach. Yeah, I guess so. I'll move in a minute. She pulled her opposite. Yeah, the smell of salt water is going to really give you bad fucking vibes going on. So this is starting out on the low part of the ladder here to be a rental agent in New York.
Starting point is 00:42:14 You want to be selling big apartments. That's where the money is. So anyway, that's who Ted has found. Unbelievable. Generous. And he likes her. So he likes her so much that in February of 1986, they get married. That, well, yeah.
Starting point is 00:42:29 He was ready to go three years. Three years. It's not bad. Oh, yeah. Yeah, 83 they met. They lived on Fifth Avenue at 75th Street, which is. Wow. Park, right on the park.
Starting point is 00:42:41 Fifth Avenue. That's beautiful. I mean, that's the spot you want to live in if you live in New York, man. Then they bought a townhouse on East 92nd Street between Fifth and Madison Avenues as well. Eat your heart out, mom. Yeah, upper east side. That is nice shit. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:42:56 So that's within the park. Yeah. So the 90s is still the park and all that shit. Awesome. It's not bad at all. Ted starts making huge money. That's what he's doing this whole time in the 80s. All this go.
Starting point is 00:43:07 go-go yuppie 80s investment banking bullshit he is i mean he he jumped on a train that was moving was like where are we going to fucking moneyville yeah oh shit really you didn't even know it was going there there's no way to know that but that's where he is right that's where i wanted to go great oh money town perfect so uh and he he was very successful at kkr the company going from deal to deal and crushing shit one of his colleagues said about ted he has seven ideas at a time. 697 of which are completely ridiculous and three of which are totally brilliant that no one thought of yet, which is, that's kind of how people are.
Starting point is 00:43:48 Successful people. They said that he seemed, it wasn't even the money that was the end game. He had a ton of money and was doing great. So at this point, it was the way you put a deal together is what he was into. He was into that. He's into the nuts and bolts and details of all that kind of shit. And then at the end, you get a big fat paycheck, too. It's pretty nice.
Starting point is 00:44:06 It's pretty cool. They said that even when he became the company's point man for R.J. Reynolds, after the mother of all, what is this? Oh, the mergers here. After the RJR Nabisco takeover, because it was those two things together. Yeah, he became the point man for that. That's when he really made all the partners millions of dollars and they love him. When you said R.J.R. a minute ago, I was like, I know what that big company. I know that. What is that? R. J. Reynolds. Yeah. Now, Generosa, she doesn't have to show apartments anymore. No. So she is into art now.
Starting point is 00:44:42 Yeah. She is going to be the Upper East Side Art Lady, basically. I'm going to make art. I'm going to get into the art community. Okay. And she's going to be a cool New York art lady. That's what she wants to be at this point. So she created wall sculptures from string and paper and shit she made to put up in her heart.
Starting point is 00:45:03 in the house and she would fill the walls of their townhouse there. The problem is, if you're an artist, the walls of your townhouse is not where you want your work to be exhibited. No, you want it in a fucking place. You want it in a gallery and no gallery will exhibit her work. Why not? Because it's not very good. It's shit.
Starting point is 00:45:22 I would think. Yeah. If you're a real rich lady with connections and you're making art and nobody will put it up, it's because it's really bad. It's bad. Because otherwise, if they would put it up, she'd probably make donations and everything else. One of her friends said she never did get her art shown anywhere. Oh, no.
Starting point is 00:45:38 Nope, but still, Ted buys her a huge fucking loft in Soho. Now, back then, a huge loft in Soho was worth nothing. It was worth nothing. Nowadays, that's millions and millions of dollars. But back then, that was just a fucking junky neighborhood by the water that nobody was terrifying after dark. That's all. So this was on West Broadway and Soho for an art studio. So she has this giant art loft.
Starting point is 00:46:05 She can just put strings together. Yeah, this is back in the day where that's where people were squatting. Was in old Soho lofts and old factories and turning them into art lofts and having parties and all famous things in these abandoned buildings. People would squat and have big art things. But she actually, you know, was paying for. It's hers. Yeah. One of her friends said she would play the role of the downtrodden artist.
Starting point is 00:46:27 But she was in this glorious double loft with windows all along the side. She's in like Tom Hanks has played. This is place from big. Bitching. Yeah. She had a pinball machine. This is crazy. What the fuck, man.
Starting point is 00:46:40 You got a basketball loop up. It's 10 feet, too. This is wild. Her friend said it was like Marie Antoinette with her sheep. Okay. Now, she would mingle with the other artists, people that were very cool and thought of, you know, as cool in the art world because that's what she wanted to be.
Starting point is 00:46:55 Yeah. She wanted to be cool. Sure. That's it. And then she would invite like these actual real, like, dirty art people from down in the village and down in Soho that actually do art and her in the community. She'd invite them up to the Upper East Side Townhouse for dinner, you know, which is a very different clash of environments.
Starting point is 00:47:13 Oh, fish out of water. Yeah, but she wanted to impress them. But at the same time, that's not what impresses them. No, it's talent for art. That's what impresses them. Or just a coolness or a weirdness or a quirkiness. That's that New York art world's weird back then. And even like the, even like Studio 54, which wasn't the art world, they liked weird people.
Starting point is 00:47:32 If you came up dressed like a freak with all they'd let you write in. That's great. They love that shit. You know what I mean? I would dress like a bird just wanted. Yeah. I'm in a suit and I can't get in. No.
Starting point is 00:47:40 This 85 year old lady just showed up. Let her in. You know what I mean? Weird things like that. They like weird shit. She's not. She's not. Shit you can just buy isn't cool.
Starting point is 00:47:49 Right. That's why it wasn't, you know, they didn't really kiss like investment bankers' asses in Studio 54. They kissed Star's asses. Yeah. People that had talent and shit like that. You can't buy. You can't buy that. Her friend says,
Starting point is 00:48:02 on the one hand, she wanted to be part of this artistic group, but she also wanted it known that she was the wife of a rich guy and could pull the strings. Yeah. Can't have it both ways, babe. That's the problem. Hi, I made this art. Great. It's terrible. Yeah, well, my husband's rich.
Starting point is 00:48:15 Can you put it in your gallery? No. Absolutely not. Meanwhile, everybody else is like, if I don't sell this painting, I won't be able to eat. Right. So it's different. They're doing this to get rich. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:48:25 They're already rich. They're doing it because they love art. And then they also, you know, that's their thing. And also, they want to be cool. They want to be popular Picasso. They want to get a fucking weird haircut and have everybody kissed their ass while they smoke cigarettes. That's all they want, really. Weird triangle glasses.
Starting point is 00:48:39 That's it. I'm convinced. I've never met an artist who that's not their angle. Just to sit look weird and have people say how wonderful and quirky they are. That's what I feel like. And that's because we have no artistic talent. Yeah, because I can't draw shit. Can't draw shit.
Starting point is 00:48:54 Can't play a lick of music. Comedy is not art. Stop saying comedy. It's not. Number one, if it was art, you'd stop bitching about it. So it's definitely not art. And number two, it's more like, comedians more like being a chef, I think.
Starting point is 00:49:07 There's art to it. You have to create recipes, things like that. But in the end, you're a craftsman that's got to make something for the people that they like or they ain't coming back. Or they're coming back. Right. So at the end, the end, you're kind of like a chef. There's things that people love a specific artist.
Starting point is 00:49:23 And there's paintings that that person is painted. They're like, I don't like that one. Absolutely. And that's kind of what it is. But the vibe of an artist is also. You'll still come back for this shit. Yeah. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:49:33 The vibe of an artist is what makes them popular and what makes things. It's not just the work. That's the thing. It's the whole thing. The aesthetic. The scarf. So it's your scarf. It's your, how quirky are your glasses?
Starting point is 00:49:47 What kind of clove cigarettes are you smoking? And are you doing it through one of those holder things? Because they look pretty cool. And that hole in that hat is in the perfect spot. Perfect spot. Tilted just to the left, just right. So this person said, I always found it strange that. for a couple who was their age and with their money, they had this need to create a group.
Starting point is 00:50:07 It was as if they didn't have real friends. They were always saying, invite anyone you want over. So they were trying to be cool and trying to get into a click where it's like, buying their way in. You're just, just be yourselves. Go have fun and be rich people. Also, Generosa gets a bit snippy with people. Uh-oh.
Starting point is 00:50:25 She gets a little upset. Friends say here that she seemed to get angry at the slightest. provocation. Little bits. Little bit. She's a definite Goldie Hawn and overboard situation here where that's how she acts. She's mad at everybody. Was this beluga? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:50:43 So they usually said anything suspicion that someone was betraying her or rejecting her. Her friend said the minute that she felt rejection, she was like a woman out of control. A fear arose in her. It was almost like there was a trigger. Yes, she's got a
Starting point is 00:50:59 abandonment issue. Yes, exactly. And now she's got that and she's got this giant ego of, I have money. I deserve the affection. You can't be mean to me because I can buy and sell you. It's like that doesn't mean anything in social interactions. And you didn't do that. No. She said she would, her friend said she would freak out.
Starting point is 00:51:20 She said, quote, we've all been upset. But when she does it, physically she's in your face with this kind of I'm going to get you. And there's no talking to her about it. she would become they would get couple friends yeah and as you know being a couple it's hard to find couple friends yeah because you both have to get along yeah it's difficult four people they got to get along that's tough yeah so these couple friends they would make they you know ted is an easy going kind of guy and they liked him and stuff but then she would cut them off oh generosa would would cut them off they described it as feeling iced out one couple said uh they said that one
Starting point is 00:51:56 friend said she provoked an outburst from Generosa when she declined Genarosa's invitation to be a summer long house guest at one of their houses. She had other shit to do. Yeah, come stay at our summer house. I can't. I got other stuff to do. Then get out of my life.
Starting point is 00:52:13 You piece of shit, traitorous, treacherous bitch. I never want to see you again. That's what it was. One friend that talked to her almost every day said suddenly the friendship was over. Every day they talked. Wow. She said a year or a little, year or so later, just after they'd stopped talking, she saw Generosa at a benefit and approached
Starting point is 00:52:33 her to say hello, just because she knows her. She said Generosa freaked out and said, get away from me. You get away from me. She just chose something that she was mad at her for. That's it, forever. This lady didn't even know why. Yeah. She didn't understand it. They said that her friends would wonder, why the hell is Ted put up with this shit. Yeah, that's why. She must be much different to him, but then also people would say that she seemed manipulative and controlling with him too. One said, I think because there was a vulnerability to her which he could see and that made him feel more secure. Now, Ted also described to his friend that living with her was like walking on eggshells trying to avoid the next explosion. So he's just trying to keep her happy.
Starting point is 00:53:16 Uh-oh. Which when someone constantly is bursting into flames, it's tough to keep putting them out. It helps if you have millions of dollars. Oh, that'll put out some flames here and there. You can put it, blah, blah, blah, blah. Hey, look for a new fucking loft. And so, yeah, go buy that. Go get whatever.
Starting point is 00:53:29 Oh, yeah, a new car. If that's what they're into, then you can, you know, kind of placate them with that, I guess. They would spend weekends in Bedford, New York, which is north of the city. You pass it when you go to Terrytown down there and stuff. It's very nice, very wealthy. I spent about a week there in high school because one of my friends went to a private school because he played hockey. Oh. And he got to.
Starting point is 00:53:52 He got a scholarship there. One of his friends from school, his parents went away for like two weeks, so we just all stayed at this kid's fucking mansion. Wow. It was wild. It was the first time I'd ever been to a house with more than one refrigerator. And I was like, this is the greatest. You got food in both of those?
Starting point is 00:54:09 Dude. I was looking in the fridge and he goes, there's another one in the basement. I went, huh? What's down there? He goes, no, there's a big-ass fridge and it's full. And we and my friend looked at each other. We ran down to the basement and opened. We were like, oh, my, there's more food here and there is up there.
Starting point is 00:54:21 This is more food that I heard in my house for fucking years. And we had food, I mean, but it was like, this is awesome. That was the greatest thing. They had a pool. It was so fucking cool. It was great. Couldn't even, like, they had rooms or it wasn't even like anyone's bedroom. It was just a room.
Starting point is 00:54:36 It's like, this is amazing. No one even. There's space over here. No one sleeps in here. This is crazy. This is warmed and cooled in the carpet. No one farts this up in the middle of the night. This is awesome, man.
Starting point is 00:54:46 You just, you just climate control, a whole room for nothing. It was crazy. We were just like, this is insane. man. So they would spend weekends there, outside the city, where Generosa becomes a serious horse rider, winning some ribbons. Oh, here we go.
Starting point is 00:55:01 Now you found your talent. You're good at this. She participates in shows all the way down in Florida. As we know, Florida from the one episode. Drisage and shit. Drisage capital of the world. By a point here at late 80s, Ted and I guess together with Generosa are worth more than $50 million.
Starting point is 00:55:18 Oh my God. In the 80s? In late 80s. Wow. Stacking. Doing great. Doing great. They had a Fifth Avenue apartment.
Starting point is 00:55:27 They buy a giant estate in England. Like they're fucking Paul McCartney or something. It has a name. What? They buy a named English estate like in the countryside. It's like a fucking castle. It's like one of the Downton Abbey houses. It's ridiculous.
Starting point is 00:55:44 It's crazy. By the way, and he becomes he starts really donating lots of money to charity. He starts working to. save Manhattan landmarks, historical shit, as we'll find out, he'll donate a shitload of money to Bucknell University. Yeah. He does great. 1992, Ted decides, damn it.
Starting point is 00:56:03 Yeah. It's nice to be in this firm and everything, but I think if I start my own investment firm, I can make all the money at that point. What do you say? Because now he's just a partner getting partner money. Which is great. All the partner money. But he wants even more money because I can make even more if I do it.
Starting point is 00:56:21 So he starts his own investment firm. The partners at the company were like, what the fuck are you talking? You're, you are integral to this whole thing. But he said, nope, he told them, this is what he told the Wall Street Journal. By the way, he was quoted in the- He's so successful. When he quits his job, the Wall Street Journal calls him to get a quote. Why did you quit?
Starting point is 00:56:42 Imagine that. I've had a lot of shit jobs I quit. No one ever called for a quote. And it would have been like, well, that guy was a fucking asshole. That would have been my quote. Whereas his quote to the Wall Street Journal is, quote, When I wake up in the morning, I want to look at a different range of mountains. Holy fuck.
Starting point is 00:57:01 Ted. Oh, my God. My God, Ted. Live in a valley and have a room on either side of the house, I guess. Holy shit, you silver tongue, son of a bitch. So he said he knew he could double his money quick if he stayed, but he wanted the challenge of starting his own firm. Fascinating. So October of 92, by the way, they've started their own firm.
Starting point is 00:57:24 They have all this stuff going on, all this money. They decide, they've been trying to have kids. Yeah. And that's another reason why Ted thinks that Generosa might be a little grumpy as they've been trying to conceive and can't for years. And that'll get on you after a while. Especially they don't just, you know, fucking wait for a pregnancy test. Like they do in vitro, they go to the doctor. He's jerking off in cups.
Starting point is 00:57:48 She's getting poked and prodded. So when you go through all that and it doesn't work, well, it's hard on your relationship. And if it's the woman who really has a biological, we don't care. But if it's a woman who has a real biological need for this and want for this, it's tough on them. So they decide, since they can't make a baby, they decide they need to adopt a baby.
Starting point is 00:58:13 Oh. So they end up. Oh. Yeah. They are like the family that all these kids in these. They dream. They're all. They're trying to show up.
Starting point is 00:58:27 Oh, shit. Those little kid cars you can drive. They're going to be like this is crazy. It's going to be like the toy at this house. It's going to be nuts. These kids, it's going to be a talent show for which ones that these parents will pick. I can do back with. I can sing.
Starting point is 00:58:41 She was at her doctor's office and behind his desk was a picture of two babies. And she said, who are? these kids. And he said, those are kids that are orphaned in the Ukraine. And that started the process. She said, well, I'll take them. Yeah. They look good. I'll take them both. Pass them over. They were toddlers at the point at that two, three years old, Gregory and Alexa and their twins. That's how she got them. Little blonde-headed twin Ukrainian kids. Ukrainian kids. Yep. Gregory and Alexa, and she adopted them. Oh, they didn't even know that she was shopping. Give me them. I don't care. hand them over.
Starting point is 00:59:18 Best day of these kids' lives. Can you imagine? Yeah, just from their picture being there. That same year they are going to purchase a home in the Hamptons that we'll talk about here. When they went there to the, because they had to go pick them up from the Ukraine there, one friend said that Ted was deliriously happy upon their return. A kid on each arm. He was like, yeah, did it. They adopted them from the village of Medvedisti in the Mukachivo, Reefi.
Starting point is 00:59:44 in the Mukachivo region of the Ukraine. Sounds like a tough one. It's where Jimmy and I have a show there next. It's tough to sell tickets, but that's our... It's on the next year's tour schedule over in the Medvedisti, in the Mukachivo region of the Ukraine. I'll have a lot of... I'll have a large...
Starting point is 01:00:06 I want the Medevadisti. I'm going to have that. That sounds like it's sweeter a little bit, yeah. So they said Generosa's reaction to the kids was odd. Yeah? One friend said, I'd asked if she wanted kids. She did not. She spent a lot of time in an orphanage, she said, and she'd been abused there.
Starting point is 01:00:28 The whole prospect of children was too painful for her. But yet she was going through in vitro treatments and everything else. Taking all kinds of Ted load for nothing? It makes no sense. Well, and injected it anywhere for another. I don't know if that's what Ted wanted. So she was saying that's what she wanted. So I don't know what it was.
Starting point is 01:00:44 But another friend said that Generosa with the kids, quote, was stressful to watch. She wasn't good with them. It was stressful. Yeah, she wasn't good. She seems kind of like also she's very kind of a selfish person. And that's difficult if you have kids. You kind of have to give to them. Kind of want to have to want it.
Starting point is 01:01:03 Yeah. And I don't know also if you feel different because it's a different biology. If you have the kids yourself, do you have like a, is there more oxytocon? Hocin released around them. Like, I'm just talking about like biologically, not even mentally or anything like that. I have no idea. I don't know. Seems like a lot of women who have adopted kids really take them.
Starting point is 01:01:23 Angelina Jolie seems to be real jacked about it. Yeah. Yeah, well, I don't know about that. That seems pretty easy for a lot. I don't know what the hell those people are doing. Yeah. When you have nine o' pairs, does it really matter at that point? It's pretty easy, right?
Starting point is 01:01:34 And I don't know. Anytime movie stars, let's adopt nine kids from all over. I mean, that's a nice thing to do in all, but I feel very selfish. That seems like. a lot of look at me. Seems pretty performative, but I mean, nice thing to do. Don't get me wrong. Now, the business, his own business here, he started buying up a, he bought up a company that produced newspaper advertising inserts. Those little color inserts with all the ads in them and shit in the middle of Sunday paper. He bought that company? This is smart shit. This is, this is why we're
Starting point is 01:02:06 bad at business. Like a guy that I rented my house from in Arizona made a fortune. He would start companies that do shit like this, build them up, and then sell them and make a bunch of fucking money, and then move on to the next one. He made tons of money. He made paper cups at one point. That's what he's making.
Starting point is 01:02:23 Like the little guys that rinse your mouth? Nothing glamorous. Yeah. Nothing anything, but built it up and then sold the company, made millions of dollars. Boring shit like that makes money. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:02:34 You know what I mean? The twist tie guy lives in Arizona somewhere. Those little fucking twisty things. Yeah. I mean, he invented it, but, and had the patent for it. But he just sold it all. Yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 01:02:44 And he was just millions and millions of dollars. Oh, yeah, of course. Yeah. Who the fuck? It's great. You got to have an idea, though. I mean, but that's an idea. This isn't even an idea.
Starting point is 01:02:54 This is something that exists. Yeah. And he's like, I'm going to. Yeah, you could, this isn't even like, I made it better. Like paper cups. It's not a brilliant idea. It's just, there's a market for this. And I'm going to do that.
Starting point is 01:03:03 It's just very business smart. So that's what he did. Now this is not glamorous. No. But he knew this is where he could build a lot of money. He could build this into a big powerhouse, established ties with newspapers everywhere, and, you know, then find other products to sell them and shit like that. He called it Big Flower Press. He told a friend that, you know, that's how that's, that was a good name for it here.
Starting point is 01:03:27 They passed a field of sunflowers one time, and the children called out Big Flower, and they went, Big Flower Press. That's cool. Some Ukrainian child going, Big Flower. Big Flower. That's terrible. And he said, Big Faler. And he said, big flower press. It doesn't matter with the name of the company.
Starting point is 01:03:43 So he's also serving on the boards of the municipal art society and the YMCA. He attained the title of chairman at jazz at Lincoln Center. So when they do jazz there. And he works closely with Winton Marsalis, the horn player. Oh. Wasn't he in the Tonight Show band or something? I don't know. Like in the 80s or something.
Starting point is 01:04:04 I'm real bad at names. He's a black guy, trumpet player, horn player, play some kind of horn. I don't fucking know. Winton? Winton. Now, this is also when they buy this house in the East Hamptons. They buy a house at 59 Middle Lane. That's the address in East Hampton.
Starting point is 01:04:21 They paid $2.7 million for it in 1992 money. Oh, boy. Okay. And at the time... Did you look it up? You did. No. What do you think?
Starting point is 01:04:31 How many of these episodes are we done? Do I usually look shit up? I said, look it up. Yeah, I said, fuck it. I just said that's a lot of money So yeah 2.7 million It's a long kind of one story Like a raised ranch type of thing
Starting point is 01:04:47 That's not what it's going to look like after they get done with it Oh no no this is they're buying this for the bones They're going to level it They're going to make it huge is what they're going to do It's owned by Mr. and Mrs. William Lord Who is an old family that's lived there forever Now their daughter-in-law Pam Lord People they bought it from
Starting point is 01:05:06 is a nationally renowned gardener, which I didn't think that existed. You could get nationally? I didn't know how they would know. The way you plant your flowers thousands of miles away. She agreed to help them landscape the property. She's buying it, and they're going to buy it from her
Starting point is 01:05:22 and she'll landscape it. Well, she bought it from her. This is their niece or something. So she's just, she knew, daughter-in-law. She just knew that she had done it before, so they said, yeah, you want to be the gardener, you can be the gardener. So, or at least the landscape here.
Starting point is 01:05:35 designer, yeah. Generosa announced that she wanted all yellow plants in the front and all blue plants in the back. Oh. That was her thing. So Pam Lord said, I'm not doing this. This is ridiculous. That's no way. I'm out of here. So she fucking took off. Okay. I'm not working with you. Yeah. If you're going to be crazy. Yeah. One artist said, quote, the homes around here start at six million and go all the way up to 30 million. Try 84 million, as we've found. He said, you've got Steven Spielberg, Martha Stewart, Calvin Klein. P. Diddy, this is back years ago, Ralph Lauren, Carolyn Kennedy. This is the land of the rich, famous, and infamous. So the house, they're renovating the shit out of it. They're making it from a
Starting point is 01:06:18 one-story kind of low-key affair to a two-story English-style home. Very, very fancy. Look like an English country manner is what they were looking for here. They wanted to have twin front gables, an overhang roof, all this type of shit. They wanted to, wanted to have the spirit and look of a thatched cottage. Sure. It's only rich people even know what that is. He said a lot of nice words that sound amazing. In a real estate listing, it sounds great.
Starting point is 01:06:48 So she fights with one contractor after another because she's not easy to work with. One is Jeff Gibbons. He's an architect and he goes out on his own from his company he worked at and the Ammons are his first clients. He recalled the situation thusly, quote, She basically left me crumpled up on the side of the road. That's not good. He means that figured him.
Starting point is 01:07:12 He said after three years of bullying from her, the end came when Generosa heard him casually explaining to a third person what he'd done to the house. They were asking about it. She freaked out and said, you're not telling people you design my house, are you? And he said, well, tell him what I did. He said, who did? And she said, I did. you only copied things out of books. Oh, boy.
Starting point is 01:07:37 He's an architect. He designed this, you know. So he said then she would stiffed him on his last bill. And when he talked about it, she threatened to put him out of business with her lawyers. So he had to eat shit, basically. That's what sucks about working for rich people is they fuck you over. And then they'll make you sue them to get paid 20 cents on the fucking dollar. It's a classic rich person maneuver.
Starting point is 01:08:00 They all do it. So there's another poor son of a bitch here. landscaper Peter Cicero. He started his own business based on them being their for his first clients as well. One day he went with Generosa to a nursery to choose tulips. Uh-oh. Okay. They don't have yellow ones.
Starting point is 01:08:18 You know, he said, now you know tulips look one shade in the morning light and a different shade in the evening light. That's how tulips are. Yeah. You can't make new tulips. That's nature. You're right. So he planted 600 tulips of the shade that she chose. Right.
Starting point is 01:08:33 He said that the weekend, that weekend, he drove up to find her in the garden. He said her hair all in a mop, pulling out the 600 tulips, quote, like a wild boar. 600, you know, expensive 600 tulipses, by the way? I can't imagine, yeah. She said that they were the wrong shade. You fucking idiot. Wow. He claims he was ordered to pay for the tulips himself.
Starting point is 01:08:58 That's on you. He said she was always invoking Scadden art. which is a law firm that she, that was her retained law firm. He said he had to pay for the yellow roses that are the yellow tulips that she ripped out along the front, the yellow roses that she ripped out along the front fence too because their shade was wrong. Oh my God. I can't make flowers in the shade you want.
Starting point is 01:09:22 This is what nature has given us. Do you like it or not? This is called photosynthesis. They do what they do. You can't fix that. He had to remove all the trees he planted by the front door also at his own expense when she learned they didn't grow red berries like she wanted them to. God, Jesus.
Starting point is 01:09:38 Once, he said that she called his bookkeeper at 5 a.m. to rant about bubbles in the pool. Uh-huh. The bookkeeper said, what's, what's wrong with them? I don't understand. And she said, they're blowing the wrong way. The wrong direction. The bubbles in the pool are blowing the wrong. It's his fault.
Starting point is 01:09:56 Imagine that. Other contractor, here's another one, had another problem. but he tried to look at the positive side of Generosa. He said she did have vision and she was genuinely creative. He said she remembered a particular mosaic she designed in the bathrooms. He said, I sort of admired her as a woman. She was really powerful. He said, it could be a little scary though.
Starting point is 01:10:19 He said one time when she was angry at me, she told me, quote, that my mother died of insanity and that she'd had to struggle to be where she was and that she'd be damned if anyone was going to take that away from her. Her mother's right of it died of insanity, which is a, wow. I think she died of cancer. I was to say insanity, otherwise known as cancer. Yeah. So another friend said she's a little just in public and socially.
Starting point is 01:10:46 She's a little rough. One person said of her talking about Ted saying she used to correct him in front of people all the time. At a parent teacher function, one friend said one of the mothers was talking to Ted, as parents do. when Generosa came over and screamed at the woman to stop flirting with Ted. Oh, my God. So that's rough. Same thing socially in the Hamptons kind of happened as in the city. One friend said the clubs and socializing weren't really his thing.
Starting point is 01:11:15 He wasn't really into it, basically. One couple that traveled with them said that Generosa had become a, quote, rough blade. These rich people have really weird phrases and idioms. I don't get it. Another people said that if you called Ted at home, Generosa would yell at you. So that was with like professional people calling him to, you know. Call his home?
Starting point is 01:11:41 Crazy. So now they announced at one point that for the sake of the children they were moving to England where they bought that crazy estate where they would live full time. Didn't really happen that way. No, he comes back, lives here, he has business, then he goes over there, and she's setting up the state. over there, pretty much. I want to get you out of this fucking country.
Starting point is 01:12:02 In 1996, without being asked or anything, he gifts Bucknell University with $15 million. Whoa. They were like, damn, that's cool. Why would you? You get your name on a building for that. Yeah. That's pretty good. So by 1999, his business is booming.
Starting point is 01:12:19 He was right about Big Flower Press. They're publicly traded, I guess. They had nearly two. billion in gross annual revenues. My God. He's doing great. Now he said this is the time to sell. He wants to sell.
Starting point is 01:12:35 So he approached a Boston financier and suggested a buyout. Maybe you want to do this. So this guy ended up doing that and taking the company private with the help of another investment banker who's a close friend of Ted's and his neighbor on 92nd Street. So Ted spins off a piece of the company and used it to start Chancery Lane Capital. which is an investment firm, kind of like the one he worked for, KKR, but, you know, mom and pop shop. That's what he liked the best, was looking for deals. So now he sold that. He's still very, very rich.
Starting point is 01:13:12 He's doing wonderful with everything except not doing too great with his marriage here. He stayed in New York to sell the business. So he's barely getting over to England. He lived at the Lowell Hotel at East 63rd Street on weekday. days after the 92nd Street townhouse was sold, and he'd spend weekends in England. So he's commuting from England five days a week. They have a manor house in Surrey, which Generosa had done over, of course, and the way that she does things.
Starting point is 01:13:45 Now, the fact that he's in New York and she's not leads her to be very suspicious of him during the week. She hires many multiple private investigators to keep an eye on, Ted. private investigators. Private investigators. And they later became, or she became to believe because of these investigators that Ted was involved in an affair with a very, very attractive blonde New York investment banker. Okay. So who specialized in leveraged buyouts, you know, like we did before we were in podcasting.
Starting point is 01:14:19 We specialized in leveraged buyouts. We don't deal with regular buyouts. No, fuck, it's got to be leveraged. Leveraged is the only way. It's the only way. I won't participate other. Otherwise, I won't. I won't be a part of this, Jimmy. One colleague describes the banker as, quote, a little older version of Gwyneth Paltrow, a willowy blonde. This is in like 2003. So basically, Gwenith Paltrow 10 years ago. Yeah. Is who they're describing. Her looks are excellent, but are just part of the package, the friend said. A friend of Ted called her a bright New York sophisticated, very savvy girl, the very antithesis of Generosa. Oh.
Starting point is 01:14:56 Yes. She earned millions of fucking dollars a year or two. She killed it. She had her own house in the Hamptons. Looking like a power couple. Looking like a power couple and looking like a power couple because she has a baby. Oh. And so Generosa believes that's Ted's fucking baby.
Starting point is 01:15:13 Yeah. More on that later. But she thinks not only is he banging some hot investment banker, he's knocking her up and everything else. So by 2000, Ted is worth more than $80 million. That is insane. sanity. Holy crap. And this is after hemorrhaging money doing all this crazy shit. Then summer of 2000 comes along. And Generosa comes back from England in the summer of 2000 with the children to initiate divorce proceedings. Oh, she wants out. Now she wants out. She said, yeah,
Starting point is 01:15:45 and they said a couple's mutual friends said she was rough. One former friend said all you had to do was say hello to Ted and that was that. Really? She didn't want anything to do with you forever. You're on his side now. You're done. If she heard that Ted had dinner with mutual friends, she'd call the friends the next morning and tell them she never wanted to talk to them again. How fucking dare they betray her. Enjoy.
Starting point is 01:16:08 Listen. Listen. Yeah. We're friends with everybody. How dare you fucking eat dinner with my husband? One friend said she cut everyone off. She didn't have a friend in the world. Now, at this point, he's set to lose a shitload of money in the divorce.
Starting point is 01:16:25 But he doesn't care. He doesn't care. He'll have enough money. He'll make more. He doesn't have to deal with the wife that he doesn't like. So great. Not an easy divorce, as you might imagine, with these two. Too much money involved for it to be clean and easy.
Starting point is 01:16:38 Yeah. And when you propose something, when you got an asshole, they'll propose something. You go, fine. And they go, no. And then they make it worse. Yeah. She would hire and fire divorce lawyers one after the other. She made crazy demands, too.
Starting point is 01:16:53 This is not like I want half. This is, according to one source, she claimed that Ted was worth more like $300 million. Oh, God. So she wanted like $150 million. He's like, I don't have $150 million. Yeah. So I can't give you $150 million. He ends up having $100 million.
Starting point is 01:17:10 But by the time this is all going, but not $300 million. She later explained here that, quote, Ted wanted an amical divorce in which everything would be shared. But thereafter, he took the very different course of both. hoarding income and assets and concealing assets even after repeated disclosure orders by our state Supreme Court. That's from Generosa. She said that. One person who was very knowledgeable to the situation, I think one of Ted's legal team, said that Ted was in full compliance and his legal team provided $45,000 worth of, or $45,000 pages worth of financial records and discovery. That's as much as you need to disclose. I don't think that's a lot. They said that the, the, the, The main thing that is the sticking point is he had some stocks that were up and down.
Starting point is 01:18:02 So his value would go up and down. One, he had a stake of about 1.7 million shares in a publicly traded internet advertising firm called 24-7 media. At its peak, the stock was trading at $69 a share. But it's a dot-com thing. So as we know that, oh, everybody. Tomorrow, it could be worth nothing. It could be worth nothing. That stock went from gold to toilet paper in a day.
Starting point is 01:18:27 Real fast. So they said that at that point that made him that investment worth $113 million for him. But then when dot com started collapsing in spring of 2000, it plummeted and wasn't worth shit really after that. So definitely wasn't worth $100 million. So these are her demands. Okay. She wants $50,000 a year for a bodyguard, for a bodyguard. 50,000 a year for a housekeeper, 50,000 a year for a chef, 50,000 a year for a driver, 30,000 a year for a gardener, a hundred thousand dollars for a personal assistance, 60,000 dollars in, quote, residential maintenance.
Starting point is 01:19:09 That's just for the New York. That's just for the New York place. Then, coverwood, which is the name of their manner in Surrey, she said she needed an additional hundred thousand dollars of maintenance a year on that as well um she basically demanded about a hundred eighty thousand dollars a month in basic living expenses uh two and a half million dollars a year exactly two and a half million dollars a year um that was even that was after she he gave her half yeah fuck you 40 million dollars and two and a half million dollars I think you can fix up your house with the $40 million I gave you,
Starting point is 01:19:57 I think you'll be all right. I think you'll be fine. That is wild. Holy shit. That's fucking crazy. Yeah. So that's nuts. At this point, they got Coverwood.
Starting point is 01:20:08 They have the East Hampton House. They have a West Broadway loft. That's the one that's her Soho loft. And her new home, which is a townhouse at 10 East 87th Street in New York City as well that she buys. This is unbelievable. This is fucking crazy. She wants everything and wants him to be. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:20:26 Well, yeah, yeah. And payer. I want everything and it's the arrested development. Why can't I have everything? Why can't I have hair and money and he have nothing? That's what it is. Why can't I have hair and money and he have nothing? That would be what's all I want.
Starting point is 01:20:41 She wants. See, yep, the summer of 2000, Ted had bought a 10th floor apartment at 1125 Fifth Avenue, thinking that Generosa and the children might live there. but she didn't like that place, not good enough for her. I don't even like the place. Nope. So she preferred a townhouse that she found off fifth. So Ted moved into the apartment.
Starting point is 01:21:01 I'll fucking live there. You get the townhouse. I don't care. He paid $9 million for the townhouse, by the way. I don't like a $9 million. No, no, no. That's the apartment. So he bought her a $9 million townhouse because she didn't like the apartment on Fifth Avenue that he bought her.
Starting point is 01:21:14 Unbelievable. Whoa. That's crazy. A renovation budget for this. $9 million townhouse. They agreed that she could spend a million dollars renovating it. Fix, changing it into whichever way she wanted it. Which is crazy. So work begins in September of 2000. So it's all under construction. So as a temporary fix, she moves into the Stanhope Hotel on Fifth Avenue, which is not Doug Stanhope's hotel. No. No. It's a real classy, elegant place. It's not painted crazy.
Starting point is 01:21:49 Not paying it crazy because not a trailer in the Bisbee Desert. A bald woman is your fucking concierge? None of that. None of that. So, by the way, they said by now she has an entourage of servants wherever she goes. So it's her, the kids, two nannies, a bodyguard, a driver. This one, that was like eight people in the whole room here. You're not important enough to have a bodyguard.
Starting point is 01:22:11 No one cares about you. So at the Stanhope, she takes a $1,500 a night suite. Of course. She stays in. Then a large room for the nanny and the children. Then at least two more rooms for members of the townhouse work crew that she has to work with. It's insane. She's just blowing money.
Starting point is 01:22:33 Yeah. One of the guys that ends up kind of being at her sweet an awful lot is Daniel Pelosi. He's the electrician. That's not just his poor nickname. He's the electrician. He's an actual electrician. He's actually showing up to do electric. He lives out on Long Island.
Starting point is 01:22:49 Not in East Hampton, a more reasonable area. He's married with three kids. Okay, he's a high school dropout. Drug and alcohol abuser over the years. Big rap sheet, lots of drunk driving charges and like bar fights and he's a dip shit. He's living it up. He's a Long Island mook is what he is. He's a Long Island fucking, you know, just one of these like mook, guinea fucking idiots.
Starting point is 01:23:16 That around his whole life. I know a million guys exactly like this. Put it that way. That's why I'm so tuned into this. I know this guy. He is handsome, though. He's a handsome guy. But other than that, he's going to have a lot going for him here. He apparently acknowledged at one point when he filed a suit, a lawsuit after a work-related incident claiming a back injury, he said that's what led to his drug addiction. Was that, which happens. He married pretty young. He married a 19-year-old at the time. He was like 20. or 21 and they ended up having three kids. That's Tammy. We'll talk about her. A little bit about Danny's background, just to give you who he is here.
Starting point is 01:23:58 Grew up very different than both of these people here. On the first day of sixth grade, he's in a new school and he got into a fight with a boy and was disrespectful to a teacher. Which, I mean, sixth grade, it's kind of the meeting of boys will be boys there.
Starting point is 01:24:15 They're going to fight, they're going to tell a teacher to fuck off, and then they go home and their dad yells at them, and they say they're sorry and that's how it works. So his dad gave him a good spanking. So he settled down a little bit. He joined Little League. He was trying to get his shit together. Then he misbehaved at school again.
Starting point is 01:24:29 So the teacher hit his knuckles with a yardstick, Catholic school style. Danny went home and told his father. His father was pissed off. I hit my kid, not you. That's what he said. So he went to the school to see the teacher picked up the fucking yardstick and said, is this what you hit my son with? and the teacher said, yeah.
Starting point is 01:24:50 So he whacked the teacher with the yardstick and said, how's that feel? And then, quote, the only one who hits my son is me. I'll beat his little fucking ass, but you don't touch him, all right? Oh, boy. Wow. And that is Long Island Italian back in the day. He said, how does that feel? So one night when he was 13, Danny and his buddies got shit-faced, raided the liquor cabinet,
Starting point is 01:25:14 got drank everything they could. They're drinking fucking crem to menthol, whatever they can get their hands out. whatever's in there. They don't care. Peach schnops, it doesn't matter. Danny got real sick and didn't want to drink anymore. He got the shit kicked out of him for it also. He got punished for sneaking out on his motorcycle, stealing his father's boat. Oh, boy. Things like that. He's a tear away. But he grew, he used to be kind of a short wimpy guy, but he turns into a big tough guy, ladies man. He gets into boxing. He does golden gloves and stuff. He hung out with bad kids in school
Starting point is 01:25:47 basically. He hung out there the bad kid group. From this book, they say, and this is an interesting sentence,
Starting point is 01:25:54 strangely, he chose to begin speaking in a crude, uneducated way, unlike his parents. He wanted to be a different guy. Yeah, exactly.
Starting point is 01:26:04 That's what he was looking for. They said his teeth were crooked. Oh. He seemed to chew his words when he spit them out. That's what they said.
Starting point is 01:26:11 And he's hanging out with rough kids from blue collar backgrounds and using their profanity-laced dees-dem Do's brand of speech, you know, the old fucking New Yorkie style. So he felt he had to be strong and tough.
Starting point is 01:26:25 He needed to protect his family and all that. He and his friends got in trouble for stealing a case of beer. That was the first time he was like arrested. Danny's parents were embarrassed, but they hired a lawyer and stood by him and all that kind of thing. His dad is a stand-up guy, I will say, later on. February 1980, he gets kicked out of high school for trespassing on school grounds. this off hours maybe.
Starting point is 01:26:49 Okay. Yeah, not supposed to be there. Otherwise, you know, you're supposed to be there for a certain amount of time. He tried to take five girls to the prom. Nice. That's a crazy move. You have to run a limo for that. Crazy move.
Starting point is 01:27:04 He didn't. No? No. Just walk them there? He picked them all up separately. Uh-huh. And basically picked them all up separately, dropping them off, making an excuse, and picking up another in his father's new Cadillac. which is very weird
Starting point is 01:27:18 pick one up, drop them off, I gotta get my friend I'll be back, getting five girls? Five girls like that. Then he crashed the car. Oh my God. Like an idiot. So the next morning he didn't come home. His dad found his new car and Danny at a repair shop with the front end all fucked up in the hood all bent, smashed windshield.
Starting point is 01:27:37 What? And there was a girl just passed out in the back seat. Like, hold out a minute here. In the shop. You are having way too much. fun. She's up on the lift and everything. Hey, yo, Kathy, when you wake up, don't just try to step out of the car. You got to let us know
Starting point is 01:27:54 we'll lower you, is it, right? Because it's going to be you're going to have a nose bleed up there. You're going to fucking tumble to your death probably. Let's help you. So he said, Danny said, wait, wait, I could explain and was running from his father around the car. Finally, his father told him, you know what?
Starting point is 01:28:10 I'm not going to chase you. You got to come home sometime. You betcha. That's how it was. He met his future wife, Tammy. at a graduation party the summer after senior year. She was still going to graduation parties a year after he graduated. Now, she was totally different than him. She was a good student, was on the volleyball team,
Starting point is 01:28:27 a member of the leaders club, on the prom committee. She does like extracurriculars and school shit. She wasn't into Danny. No? Nope, absolutely not. These wheeze and dems is so good. Not too rough for her. It wasn't a thing here.
Starting point is 01:28:42 So that's interesting. Now, she was at the boyfriend, at the party with her boyfriend, who was a big asshole guy. They had an argument, and this asshole guy slapped her in the face in front of everyone at the party, which is crazy. That's insane. Oh, my God. So, Danny came over and slapped Ralph. This is the guy, the boyfriend, and said, try me out. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:29:07 You asshole, let's see what you got. A fella. Someone in your own size. So they ended up going outside, and Danny beat him up. He was a boxer, so he punched him a few times, knocked him out. So then he went over to the guy who was knocked out and said, from now on, she's dating me. I won her.
Starting point is 01:29:25 She, this isn't a fair. You didn't knock down all the bottles and now you get the girl. Like, what are you doing? He just hit the three-point shot on the bent rim. He just did that. He took that big mallet and went all the way up to you get the girl. Ding, it rang the bell. And he's like, she's mine now.
Starting point is 01:29:40 I didn't date her now. And he took her like a giant, like a giant, like a giant. penguin stuffed animal off to the he won her in a fight that's great then he turned to Tammy and said hey from now on you're dating me uh huh and she said no no no but then he kissed her and she went all right I guess I went out with it this is the craziest most long island
Starting point is 01:30:03 story I've ever heard of my life this is insane won her in a card game one her in a fucking in a card game so Pelosi that's this is the guy we're coming from here. He is the head of the crew and the electrician here. Now, he starts recommending all these elaborate, expensive things to her to do to the house and all of that kind of shit.
Starting point is 01:30:26 The pipes that have to be replaced. Yeah, because I need money. We got to move these eye beams. Move eye beams. Yeah, your fucking mind. So they're gutting this townhouse here. And Generosa liked that because she said spend as much as you want. Yeah, it's all his money.
Starting point is 01:30:44 And she also said, you're kind of cute. Uh-oh. Absolutely. He's married with three kids. Well, so she. Married with two kids. It doesn't matter. They're both, uh, guy, and he's blown away by living in a nice hotel and having all his money.
Starting point is 01:30:57 And gets to fuck the hot boss. Yeah. And she said that Danny's everything that Ted isn't. Okay. You know, he's rash and he's, you know, an idiot and, you know, all that stuff. Yeah. Poor, you know, all the things that he's not. An alcoholic.
Starting point is 01:31:12 Yeah. In and out of jail. Things like that. Danny said it was the princess and the pauper. That was the relationship. She came from a world of enormous wealth. Been to every continent. And I've been to Florida.
Starting point is 01:31:28 You fucking move. I've been to Florida. And I've been to Florida. These two are a weird couple. Funny. So the $1 million agreed upon renovation soon becomes $4 million. $4 million. A renovating.
Starting point is 01:31:42 Half the price of the price tag of the place. That is insanity. Wow. So Pelosi, Danny, says, I ended up staying at the job instead of driving all the way back to Long Island. Yeah, why go home when I can get plusie here? Nobody commutes from the city all the way to the middle of Long Island every day. Oh, wait, no, I'm sorry. Hundreds of thousands of people do that.
Starting point is 01:32:03 All day. They have a fucking train that goes right there. It's all right, the expressway. It's all happening. He said one morning, Generosa showed up. and found me sleeping in the truck, in the truck. And she said, none of her workers sleep in the truck. She said, you're going to stay at the stand hope.
Starting point is 01:32:21 I'll get you a room at the stand hope. What? Yeah. He said, of course I knew. Of course I was flirting. Yeah, I was in the middle of a divorce, you know? Things with Tammy were rocky, mainly because he's staying in Manhattan, fucking some rich lady. He said, and this was a very attractive, elegant lady who told me she was getting divorced.
Starting point is 01:32:39 She told me she hadn't had sex in two years, you know. Why would she tell you? that. Two years. Why are you on that conversation? So I figured I'm going to bang her out a little bit. How did her distance between now and sex come in between a circuit that I'm running for the fucking lights in the bathroom? Hey, that
Starting point is 01:32:56 I mean. I don't like the location. If you move it three feet over to this way, how long has nobody been up inside you? You know what? I'm fucking you now. How's that? What do you think of this wallpaper? What's the last time you got your ass around? I mean, really good. I mean, balls against your asshole, pound that I'm talking
Starting point is 01:33:15 about. Really a good shot. One of these were you're like, oh, Mar-on afterwards, I got to take a break. You know what I'm saying? One of those. It's been a while, right? Wow. So, he said, quote, just to think she wanted something to do with me blew me away.
Starting point is 01:33:31 It was the biggest ego trip in the world. Every guy on my job begged me not to fool around with her because they were afraid I'd get fired and we'd lose our job. It's her all getting paid. Like, this is crazy. We just suggest shit and she pays for it. We make extra money. Awesome.
Starting point is 01:33:45 They were all worried this would go away. You know, like happens when people get involved. No, he was going all the way to the bar car to the gravy train. Yeah. To fuck the bartender right in the face. Go, what do you think about that, huh? It's my gravy train. So he said, the next thing I knew it, I was driving around in a limousine.
Starting point is 01:34:05 Putting the wine menu in front of me, that's not even written in English, you know. I drink Bud Light. It's that easy. Yeah, because you're the electrician. Yeah. I don't know what these are. Yeah. So 2001, Pelosi is now living with her. Danny and her are living together at the Stanhope here, which is across from the Metropolitan Museum.
Starting point is 01:34:24 That's important in a minute. Don't worry. Yeah. That'll come in to play here. So they took, I guess the Ammons here, Generosa and Ted, took turns sharing the East Hampton House on the weekend. They rotated weekends. You get it this weekend, I get it next weekend. True, like the kids.
Starting point is 01:34:43 Exactly. Well, that's whoever had the kids would get the house that weekend. That's how it was. They said that summer, Danny became a fixture in the Hamptons. And a fixture with Generosi said, I absolutely fell in love with her. Yeah. I fell in love with her. It was something about I couldn't put my finger on it.
Starting point is 01:34:58 You know, something. Couldn't possibly be all the pussy and money. Just, you know, I mean pussy money. Those are good. Those are good. So now, the Ammons here, they, They have, they're trying to work out a settlement, Ted and Generosa, and the kids are really in the middle of all this mess. These two poor adopted kids who've seen enough strife in their life.
Starting point is 01:35:20 Right. Danny said the parents were so involved in the divorce, they forgot about the kids. It wasn't fair. I mean, it just wasn't right. You are the one causing a distraction, though. You're making this real difficult. Yeah. You are rectifying their mom's lack of sexual activity on a daily basis.
Starting point is 01:35:39 Now, this shit is expensive, by the way, all the shit she's doing. They would start out, this is just a day of Danny and Generosa here. They'd start out with breakfast at the hotel each morning for the whole entourage. That'd be about $500 a morning. They tip the bellman $50 to walk the dog each time. Oh, boy. Dogs piss a lot. A lot.
Starting point is 01:36:02 Yeah. Three, four times a day. A hundred dollars tip from bringing the car from the hotel's garage. That's in top of the $38. dollar valet fee anyway so $100 to that guy all of this and the bills would just be forwarded to Ted totaling about
Starting point is 01:36:16 $70,000 a month in bullshit Oh my God. They hung out at the bar all the time Danny and Generosa. At dinner Danny would leave tips of $100 sometimes $200 This is not his money. Danny's spending throwing it around like fucking water. Holy shit. They said
Starting point is 01:36:34 that the tips didn't quite compensate for what one of the people described as the couple's boarish and abusive behavior. Oh, they're a nightmare too. Well, she's an asshole like this. She thinks everyone's her servant, and he doesn't know any better. So if that's how you treat people,
Starting point is 01:36:48 based on how she's treating people, he thinks that's what you do, because he doesn't know. He's a fucking idiot from Long Island. So anyway, if Generosa saw a hotel employee talking to Ted when he picked up the children, she would get mad and try to get that employee fired
Starting point is 01:37:04 because she would say that they were a spy for Ted. Ted is paying for this lady Yep in the bar at the At the hotel sometimes she would just yell at random people and say I know you're a spy for my husband What is going on with her? I'm in town from Des Moines I have no idea what you're talking about I have a meeting I have to go to My company set me here
Starting point is 01:37:25 I sell shower rings This is crazy yeah what the fuck these are very light They have helium in them So on New Year's Eve They're watching the TV as people do on New Year's Eve. Everybody's watching the TV. She shouted,
Starting point is 01:37:40 turn the television off. I want it off. That's what she said. And they didn't know what to do. And Danny would tell people all the time, I know guys in the mafia, you know. Oh, boy. You know, I talk like this,
Starting point is 01:37:54 so obviously I know mafia guys, basically. So one person said that Ted's paying these enormous bills and it would piss him off, especially the town home renovation, quadrupling and price. And he was really, pissed off that Danny's always with his children. He said, one of his friends said, that made him
Starting point is 01:38:11 fucking crazy. He'd love him lose his mind, which anybody would. Especially if he's a bum. And I'm paying for him. I'm paying for him. Now, Pelosi's, this is Danny's wife, Tammy, said that Danny went to work for Generosa and soon after
Starting point is 01:38:27 he was never home anymore. He was gone all the time. She said how excited her husband had been when he first landed the contracting work year. But they found themselves for a while with more money than they ever had. Her bank account was full, Tammy's, but she said that at home, he was never home.
Starting point is 01:38:45 He'd spend less time with the family. Something was wrong, is what she said. So she said her husband began receiving lavish gifts from Generosa. He soon moved out of their home and went to live in Manhattan in the high rise, as we talked about. She said, this is his wife, said, he still took care of us, I guess because of the guilty felt. He kept making improvements on the home and giving me gifts.
Starting point is 01:39:09 And I said, I don't want gifts. I just want you with the kids and our lives back. He was like, ah, nope. So one person said also that Generosa reneged on the initial pledge of joint custody with Ted with the kids. Now she wants all custody. Soul custody. Absolutely. Ted told friends that she repeatedly failed to produce the kids for scheduled time with them.
Starting point is 01:39:31 One weekend when the children were supposed to be with Generosa, He went to a theater with friends. It's not his weekend. Yeah. So doing what he wants to do. At intermission, he made a phone call and his friend said he looked real worried. He said, shit, I have to go right now because Generosa decided on a whim she's going to the Hamptons with Danny and dropped the kids off with the doorman at the building. At his building he's living at 1125.
Starting point is 01:39:57 My kids are standing out front of my house. They're sitting with the doorman with their fucking luggage and backpacks and shit. So he had to drive to the, he had to leave the three. theater and go do that. He said that also that she was poisoning the kids against him. She told them that their dad had mob connections and that's why he made
Starting point is 01:40:14 money. She told them that the kids that he'd stolen money, told the kids that he'd had their phones bug because he was spying on everybody. According to one person, Ted claimed that Generosa even told the children that a big set, this is a thing that the kids remember later,
Starting point is 01:40:29 the big satellite dish on top of the Metropolitan Museum of Art across Fifth Avenue from the Stanhope, she told the kids that Ted had that installed as a means to spy on them. It's a listening device. Yeah. Ted said he had to take the kids into the museum
Starting point is 01:40:45 and get the curators to explain the dish and what it does and that Ted didn't put it in because they were convinced it. They were spying. Then she thinks he's having an affair, like we said with the investment banker, which really pisses her off. She later said, and I quote,
Starting point is 01:41:01 Ted had taken up with a woman from his past and was also having an affair with another woman by whom he had a baby. The difference is, I guess the blonde investment banker, was living with another guy, a very well-known Manhattan businessman. And the reason that Ted was with her all the time, Ted was working with her, but that guy was having an affair with her. Ted was being a wingman. Outta boy.
Starting point is 01:41:28 The baby is this other guy. Ted never fucked this lady. It's not, he's as some other girlfriend. but not her. Yeah. He's got a girlfriend, but it's not just some fucking affair. Yep.
Starting point is 01:41:38 One close friend said it was my impression that if there had been a romantic involvement, which he never once fessed up to, that it was sort of past. And in recent times it was my impression that she was just a real good friend of his. I would be astonished if that child was actually his. Wow. And it was later proven that the private investigator just said, I saw them together must be them.
Starting point is 01:41:58 Yeah. Ted never had an affair with her. And the baby she had wasn't his. It was one of Ted's colleagues. that's who he was having an affair. She hired shitbag PIs and they got all the money in the world. Couldn't get it right. So then there's courtroom confrontations.
Starting point is 01:42:13 Generosa would arrive with her entire entourage, including Danny. Yeah. And they'd all yell at Ted's lawyers in the hallway and yell at Ted, which is wild. Her own lawyers had managed to persuade her that Ted's representations of his net worth were correct. They said, listen, he's got less than $100 million. doesn't have $300 million. We can't get $300 million because he doesn't have $300 million. So they said you're going to get between $20 and $25 million and your house and some other
Starting point is 01:42:42 properties and shit like that are going to be sold and you're going to get pieces of that. That's how this works. She wanted full custody of the kids and the judge said, no, one week for you, next week for 10. That's how this works. She was real pissed off, but she said, fine, drop the fucking papers and we'll get it over with. Let's do this. October 2001, the divorce is almost final. Papers are being drawn
Starting point is 01:43:07 up by the end of the month. This shit will be signed, sealed, and finished. God, I'm lucky I was the brokest person in the world who didn't even have a fucking checking account when I got divorced. This is insane. Made it a lot easier. She thinks that she just gets to keep everything. Everything. That's not how divorce works.
Starting point is 01:43:25 No, you're not living the same. You'll get some. It generally gets split down the middle and then financially he takes care of anything. And they built their empire together. That's fine. I'm not saying it. She didn't come in at the... Sell it all and split it. She didn't come in at 1159. No, no. She helped build it. It's fine. But you don't get more than he has.
Starting point is 01:43:42 Right. So October 17, 2001, one of Ted's longtime house servants filed suit against him. Oh. Okay. For several large sums owed to them, they say. This was Stephen Guderian and Bruce Rydener, a pair described by a former family friend as Laurel and Hardy. one tall and gaunt, the other short and heavy set. They worked for the Amunds for almost a decade and as mainly as close to Generosa as part of her entourage there. Now they're pissed off. They said Ted went back on a promise to pay the costs of their relocation back to the U.S. from England when they were all one over there. Some they claimed to be $137,690.91 cents. That's what their move cost?
Starting point is 01:44:28 That is, I've never heard of that before. What did they move? Yeah. What did you move? Buckingham Castle? What the fucking are you taking over? The London Bridge? Are you the people who brought it to Havasu?
Starting point is 01:44:37 What are we talking about? The shipping fees? Yeah. What are we talking about? The Statue of Liberty? Did you bring the statue over from France? They said that Ted had promised to buy them a home upon the termination of their employment
Starting point is 01:44:51 and to give them at least $2 million in cash or security. To do what? To be fired? I don't understand. That's some kind of severance. For what? What did they do? They were servants?
Starting point is 01:45:01 Yeah, I guess they, that's crazy. Sign me up for that, John. Fuck, they said that they had paid family bills totaling nearly $25,000 out of their own pockets that had not been reimbursed. They said that money's advanced to security guards, $3250, equestrian bills, $2,898.67, etc. Poor stuff. Shit that they had to, whatever. I'm surprised they didn't have a credit card for the family. So they said that Ted had cheated them out of at least $7.50.
Starting point is 01:45:31 $50,000 in internet stock as well. They seek more than $7.5 million from Ted. Cheated them. Cheated them. People let know Ted said he laughed at the lawsuit and threw it to the side. Stupid. This is ridiculous. So Ted still has deals working.
Starting point is 01:45:47 This is when he becomes the chairman of jazz at the Lincoln Center in 2001. He played jazz music as a kid, too. He was big into jazz and big into music. He just began helping plan a temporary moment. Memorial at the World Trade Center. This was October 2001. Big deal for the Municipal Arts Society. One of the society's
Starting point is 01:46:11 chairman said Ted was just in fact finding his civic roots. So he was doing all sorts of charity, shit like that. Ted told another friend here that his daughter, Alexa, had broken down in tears in front of him and was so sad about everything. And he said that he just couldn't wait for the papers
Starting point is 01:46:29 to be signed so he could start spending more time with his kids and start healing this whole mess. He thought paper sign, everyone will chill out. All the claws will go back in. It's all back. You know, Saturday, October 20th, 2001, Ted decides he's going to come out to the East Hamptons that weekend and stay at the house. And he drives out there in his silver Porsche. Oh, boy.
Starting point is 01:46:53 Living it up, man. God, he's having a great time. So he decided to spend the house there, and it's something the weekend there at the house. It's something he did all the time. And sometimes if he said I'll be back Monday morning, sometimes he wouldn't be back till Tuesday. Yeah. He's too rich to be held to a schedule like that. Sometimes you wake up on Monday and you're like this line hangover is no good.
Starting point is 01:47:11 I hear the ocean. I'm not driving like this. I hear waves breaking. I'm going to sit around. That sounds good. So this is Monday, October 22nd, 2001 here. Not unusual except they had a big meeting that was for a big money thing and he missed the meeting on Monday. So nobody was really concerned anyway.
Starting point is 01:47:29 He could still blow it off and make it. up for it and all that kind of thing. And he would flake on appointments all the time. That's how he met Generosa. Flaking on an appointment with her. Sometimes it pays off. So yeah. Then his business partner, Mark Engelson, he started to worry. He said, because he's trying to get a hold of him and he can't get a hold of him. And he said he might miss a meeting or an appointment, but he does not ignore phone calls and messages completely. That's not Ted. So they found out that it was Ted's week to have the kids and that Ted hadn't made alternate arrangements to pick them up due to his extent. Day in the Hampton.
Starting point is 01:48:02 So they're like, he wouldn't blow his kids off either. He'd pick him up on Monday morning. They said he might be unreliable some areas, but never when it came to his kids. That was, he was always, if he had a place to be with his kids, he was, it's 505. I got to go now. I got to pick the kids up. So they get, so this guy, him and Ted's chauffeur, fly out to the East Hampton Airport on a corporate helicopter.
Starting point is 01:48:25 Nice. Not bad. Arriving a little before five. They take a cab to 59 middle lane. and see Ted's portion the driveway. Like, what the fuck is going on with the sky? Yeah. So, Mark Angelson and the chauffeur enter the house, and they're greeted by
Starting point is 01:48:41 the three dogs, two golden retrievers in a chocolate lab. Those are three good pedible dogs right there. Those are lovable. The dogs seem to be acting funny. They're not, they're not. Not so lovable. They're just acting weird. Yeah. They're like running in weird spots. I agree. What the fuck is wrong with the yeah? That's what they're trying to figure out. So they're calling
Starting point is 01:48:57 Ted, Ted, Ted, Ted, what the fuck? Then they see a trail of blood on the stairs. They follow the trail of blood as one does. And they head up to the master bedroom where they find Ted. He is sprawled out on the bed, completely nude, covered in blood, head beaten in, wounds all over him. He wet up the stairs like that. Just absolutely looks like he's been killed five times over. It's horrifying. It's 519 p.m. they call the East Hampton Village police department. Three policemen respond within minutes because they got nothing else to do in this town. And again, a lot of taxes. Billy Joel's on tour. Yeah, exactly. So that's Seinfeld's block.
Starting point is 01:49:40 We've got to get over there. And they went around confirming there's no one else in the house because it's a big, like 7,000 square foot house. You've got to inspect the house. They also discover later on that Ted's the security system here, which is a big, elaborate security system that had nine individual cameras. in 2001. Now, anybody's trailer has nine cameras. But back then,
Starting point is 01:50:03 nine cameras was like the stash house for the, you know, for a local cocaine syndicate would have nine cameras, nobody else.
Starting point is 01:50:11 So Walmart didn't have nine cameras. So they said all these cameras and the system had all been turned off. Everything is off. So they seal the house. They wait for the Suffolk
Starting point is 01:50:22 County homicide, which takes an hour to get there. They go room to room thinking that burglar does not appear to be the motive because nothing is ransacked. In a house like this, you'd expect to see certain areas of ransacking. So they determined that just tentatively by looking at him that he probably died at least
Starting point is 01:50:40 or was partially killed by blunt force trauma from several blows to the head, although they also said his body was severely cut. Okay. Now, they said the blood, we understand, started downstairs and came upstairs and was even in the shower where it looked like the perpetrator or perpetrators may have tried to wash themselves off. Oh, they cleaned up. Yeah. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:51:05 Covered in blood. They said the trail of blood is present downstairs on the terrace. And the blood trail goes upstairs, goes into the bathroom, and in another room where it looks like Ted may have been trying to get away. So they're like, these clues don't help much. Right. They help show kind of what happened maybe possibly, but there doesn't, there's no clue to who did this at this point is the problem. So they said his body had multiple cuts. The coroner would determine that before Ted was fatally beaten, he'd been incapacitated by a stun gun several times.
Starting point is 01:51:41 They can't figure out an exact time of death. They said he could have been killed as early as Saturday night or early Sunday morning possibly. But he's a body as room temperature at this point, they said. The wounds, he had been struck 35 times. with what the coroner said was either a baseball bat or a flashlight and wounded several times by a stun gun. Neither weapon is in this house. Oh, took them with him. Took them with them.
Starting point is 01:52:10 And there are, it's so hard when you get to this, there are rumors flying around, and I haven't seen an actual autopsy report, and I couldn't find that. But there are rumors around that Ted had his dick cut off. That was one of the rumors. That was part of the many severe cuts that they were talking about. But I can't confirm that. So I'm not sure. Later on, someone says that that may have knowledge of it. So I kind of believe it.
Starting point is 01:52:35 So they say, yeah, time of death is difficult. They said the house guest of an immediate neighbor recalled that on Sunday he was painting a watercolor by his host back on. This guy's got an easel set up out of the yard. Get the fuck out of here. Just that I was painting. Does that I was painting a water? Oh, God. How rich are you?
Starting point is 01:52:55 I don't know what kind of paint it is. I don't need to know that. It was oil-based. Shut up. I had a water color coming. He said he heard several cars crunching over the gravel in the driveway of Ted's driveway. So we don't know who that was or when. He just heard gravel crunching.
Starting point is 01:53:12 Didn't wasn't goodly enough to paint a picture of the car that he saw. The watercolor was going to drop. He had to do stuff, man. So they said, whoever killed him, they think stole his underwear, his bed sheets, and a computer hard drive that controls the elaborate video security system. Bed sheets and underwear. That's interesting.
Starting point is 01:53:34 It's a weird thieving. So I'll put it this way. This is crazy. In this town of East Hampton, this shit does not happen. No. Period. And if it does, it has solved yesterday.
Starting point is 01:53:44 Right. So the East Hampton mayor, Paul Rickenbach, used to be a cop. And he said that's the first murder they've had in 19 years there. Last one was in 1982. And not exactly a whodunit. A guy got shit-faced in a bar and picked a fight with some other guy who they got in a fight. And the other guy had a knife and stabbed him to death, which is A to B and cuffs.
Starting point is 01:54:08 And there you go. And he got his wife. Yeah. There you go. And he said, you're dating me now. Well, so that was that. They said the only other murder in the village that they could remember was in the 70s when a reclusive gay guy who was a theatrical. theatrical set designer died in a suspicious fire and they wrote it off as an arson suicide.
Starting point is 01:54:32 Oh my. So, yeah, which is interesting. Now, the other thing, though, with Ted here, there's defensive wounds to the hands and arms. He's a big guy, too. He's in a fight back. And he also seemed to have severe cuts as well, like we said. They said, was it a knife or the edge of a weapon that's a blunt weapon that had an edge on it somewhere else? blood had soaked into the rug spattered on the walls everywhere.
Starting point is 01:54:58 There's blood outside the bedroom like we talked about, base of the stairs, the living room rug, and even out on the rear terrace as well. They said that the killer would have been covered in blood. Absolutely. Absolutely covered in blood. And that's why they said maybe they took a shower. So they said the plumber's traps and the drains are going to have to be open
Starting point is 01:55:16 to search for those and do all of that to see if anybody washed there. Maybe they get hairs, something. They said the body was roomed. temperature, so it likely occurred the murder sometime before it was discovered, you know, because it's had time to cool down a room temperature. No murder weapon found on the scene. The area's got to be searched. They call out all the cops they can get to look all through the bushes and the pond in
Starting point is 01:55:40 the backyard is dredged and everything to look for anywhere where you would throw a weapon, you know, just to get rid of it. There's no witnesses, obviously. They said an autopsy, hopefully will narrow things down, but it's going to be hard. It's really hard to determine time of death. It really fucking is. So they said to the right of the living room fireplace stood a black, wrought iron stand. You know, your fireplace and stuff.
Starting point is 01:56:04 Yeah, and irons and all that shit. So he said it was conspicuously empty. They said, where was the heavy metal poker and the shovel? Both of them are gone. That's the two you use the most. You scoop the ashes out, the shovel. You got to move the poker around. I was just doing it last night.
Starting point is 01:56:20 They said were one or both of them the murder weapon. is there more than one murderer? Yeah. What the fuck? They have no answers. They go around to neighbors. They said that the one neighbor said they heard cars either coming or going, just crunching on gravel. He distinctly remembered the sound of tires crunching.
Starting point is 01:56:40 They're like, okay, so a car was there yesterday. Great. That could have been literally anybody. Could have been delivery. Could have been anybody. Yeah. So they said no one, preliminary canvas of neighbors, no one heard anything or saw anything. one woman wondered how Ted could have been killed without any noise.
Starting point is 01:56:58 She said, why didn't I hear the dogs barking? Right. Would I heard the dogs. Over the next couple days, as things happen in a small town, it just turns into little clues turn into rumors that turn into insane shit that people, they know what happened now. Oh, they solved it. Yeah. Okay. Aliens came down and sucked his dick off.
Starting point is 01:57:18 That's what it had, ripped it right off from them. Now, the problem is they, the. cops are saying nothing. No? So people have to make up their own shit, apparently, because they don't have any answers. Yeah. So they were saying that rumors are swirling. People are saying it's a crime of passion.
Starting point is 01:57:34 Had to be somebody who he fucked that night. Yeah. Look at what happened. The dick thing and all that. They said, how could a stranger have entered his house without tripping the alarm system and pissing the dogs off? Yeah. So they said that, you know, a police report, they also found saying a naked man had been reported
Starting point is 01:57:50 running down middle lane that weekend. Oh. Yeah, they said that's it. So the people said, naked guy running down the street. He's in bed, naked, dick cut, cut. He's a closet gay guy who hooked up with the wrong hustler. And that guy took his dick. Took his dick with him and stole and robbed him.
Starting point is 01:58:09 That's what happened. They said, yep, you got some rough trade. The old, the old, dick's underwear's and bed sheet murderer. That's it. That's all he wants. It's a caper. Well, you got to wrap the dick in something. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:58:23 So they said that, you know, they said also a mile or so from the house is two-mile hollow beach, which is where gay dudes go to hook up. Oh, for fun. That's the local hookup spot, they said. So, I mean, they go off into the dunes and blow each other. They said, and before long, that's what everybody said. Oh, yeah, absolutely. It's gay. Oh, my God.
Starting point is 01:58:44 It's all this big gay thing. So they said the problem is the strange events that had happened recently, the series of crimes by a local man, a name. naked man. That's totally not connected to death. They said that he'd been exposing himself to women in the neighborhood, which doesn't line up with that. Also, they said he'd been in the vicinity of Wyborg Beach on foot and in a red car, flashing females masturbating and then running or driving away.
Starting point is 01:59:12 But they said the naked criminal had been spotted 11 o'clock Friday morning. Oh. So he was gone before. Yeah. Yeah, he was gone before Ted was even in town. So they go, that's not him. Him running down the street wasn't running away from Ted's. Whatever.
Starting point is 01:59:31 So Ted's friends said that that all seems like complete bullshit. They go, first of all, he wasn't gay that any of us knew of, number one, and just make that up and say that a guy killed him. It's wild. One guy said that he'd always known Ted to be strongly, quote, even aggressively heterosexual. even aggressively. If you got a vagina, his fingers go right toward it.
Starting point is 01:59:55 It's just he's real aggressive with it. Borderline rapists. I mean, honestly, he is a little pushy with the ladies. He really, really likes it. Aggressive heterosexual. I mean, they said, you know, anybody could have a life that nobody knows about. But they said the naked man apparently, like I said, but it was reported on Friday at 11 a.m. While Ted was still in Manhattan.
Starting point is 02:00:19 And at least one other occasion at a nearby beach. a man matching the naked man's description had exposed himself in other places. So it doesn't work. And cops don't buy the gay theory as well. They said it seems much likely or that the murder had been committed directly or indirectly by someone that Ted had really had some intimate knowledge with, known for a long time. This is a crime of a lot of violence. Just robbing a guy.
Starting point is 02:00:43 It's violent passion. It's not just passion. It's violent passion. And you don't get your dick cut off by just a randow. Not usually. And like I said, that's if that has. happened for short. Now they said that also he managed to, he's angered a lot of people in his life, being a cutthroat business man, especially. Police try to talk to Danny and Generosa, obviously.
Starting point is 02:01:03 Yeah, they arrive at the Manhattan apartment where they lived. Danny told the investigators that they couldn't talk to Generosa because she didn't know Ted was dead. Don't. Well, we'd sure like to tell her. Oh, don't ruin her day. Don't ruin. She's going to be all pissed off. And he explained Generosa's divorce lawyer had advised them to get criminal lawyers. and one of the detectives said, why would you need a criminal lawyer? We're just trying to find out some background information to see if you know anybody that pissed off at Ted.
Starting point is 02:01:30 Trying to solve a dead guy. And he said, were you involved in the murder of Ted Ammon? And he said, no, I wasn't. And they said, what the fuck you need a lawyer for them? So but rich people get lawyers for everything. Later on that day, Generosa went to Ted's apartment to get the kids who'd been dropped off there after school.
Starting point is 02:01:47 Nobody knew. So they were with Ted's housekeeper. and Generosa told them that their father had died out at the beach house over the weekend. She said, quote, your father took too much medication and drank too much. Why do you want to say that? Later, when it became public, she told the kids, quote, maybe one of your father's boyfriends killed him. Oh, Jesus.
Starting point is 02:02:09 Yeah, she loves poison in the, I mean, this is after he put a satellite dish on a museum, to spy on them. So the cops knowing about the alarm system, it's called the rapid eye system. That's the system. So they contact a burglar alarm guy that knows about this shit and asked him, well, you come to the scene and explain this shit to us because we don't know what we're looking at here. It's a new technology and everything. So they said there was a secret video surveillance system with each camera taking one frame per second on a 90-day loop.
Starting point is 02:02:41 They said someone, even the killer, could be watching them at that very moment as they investigated the crime scene if everything was hooked up the right way. Yeah. That's how it is. So they said a police technical team shut off all the phone lines to the house just in case somebody had been surveilling this. They said that the rapid eye system was hidden behind a wall in the secret safe room under the eaves of the house. He told him that it worked off Ted's fax phone line. He offered to show them, but they wouldn't let him touch anything, obviously. So the detectives located the concealed door and entered the safe room.
Starting point is 02:03:17 Inside, they had a Mad Hatter's tea party still set up from the daughter. Oh. You know, daddy-daughter tea party action here on a long table in the middle of the room. They said there was monopoly money scattered all around. Just games. Fun. Kid shit. They found piles of what looked like cotton candy on the floor.
Starting point is 02:03:37 Awesome. Not so awesome. It's actually fiberglass insulation. Oh, shit. This is delicious. Oh, don't eat that. Owen Corning's fucking. That's been.
Starting point is 02:03:47 Panther. Stop eating that. Big Panther killing shit. This is bad. So, yeah, they said inside the, it had all been pulled out of the wall nearby. Uh-huh. Not good. Inside the triangular hole where the rapid eye system had been, a bundle of black wires that had been connected to a power source and the cameras led off into the dark innards of the house.
Starting point is 02:04:08 The video system had been ripped out and taken away. Uh-huh. He said it was a good bet that the killer must have had inside knowledge that the system existed. and know exactly where to find it. A random robber would not know in a 7,000 square foot house how to find this fucking system and get it out of here. It's by the Tea Party set. They always are.
Starting point is 02:04:26 It's always in there. It's a secret door. You'd have to know where that is. So they went back downstairs to talk to the guy again. And they said, who put the cameras in? And he said that John, this is the electrician, said me, or the burglar alarm guy said, me and a workman installed. And they said, well, who knew about the system?
Starting point is 02:04:49 He said, me and one of my guys put it in. They said, well, who knew about the system? He said, me, my employee, Generosa, their lawyers, and Danny Pelosi. That's who knows about it, which is interesting because Danny's friend had recommended this guy for the job of installing it, which is interesting. They said that also there's Stephen the Butler, Bruce the Cook. They'd been there during the installation and also had knowledge. And they said, did Danny know how to unplug the system? And he said, oh, yeah, totally.
Starting point is 02:05:17 Yeah, he knew that. So the main drive, hard drive of the spy system, this call elaborate thing, could not be changed once the photos had been taken, they said, at least not without leaving a trace in the computer that erasures had occurred. Cameras could be shut off remotely using the laptops or one or all of them, camera-wise. But again, they said the main drive and the separate laptop hard drive would have a record of that. Sure. So that's what they need. But that hard drive has been taken. That's the fucking problem.
Starting point is 02:05:49 They said that they never, the burglar guy said he'd never shown anyone how to shut off the cameras, though. He said if that hard drive was changed, it would have had a different serial number from the original. Ah. So you can check that. He said that meant they had to clear this guy, the burglar alarm guy, because he knew how to do all this shit. He had all the expertise, but he had no reason to when he has an alibi. So it's not him. He said the system could also be foiled by someone with a work.
Starting point is 02:06:15 knowledge of electricity. You know, like an electrician. Even an unlicensed one like dipshit Danny, which by the way, he has no license. He's not licensed to be an electrician. He said you could pop the electrical meter outside the house before going in. The power cut off would shut the system down, but there would be a record of a power interruption than rebooting on the hard drive. There would be a time difference in the system clock.
Starting point is 02:06:38 The difference between that and the actual time would reveal the length of any possible loudage. Also, a burglar alarm keypad in Ted's room would have started beeping as soon as the power went out. It might have awakened him so they didn't think the power went out. So no one turned the power out. Now the funeral for him, more than a thousand
Starting point is 02:06:56 people attend Ted's funeral. At the Alice Tully Hall, which is the home of jazz at Lincoln Center. Generosa's lawyer is also representing Danny, who refused to talk to the cops. They said they need the lawyers who specialize and representing people in this situation.
Starting point is 02:07:13 This is a divorce lawyer they had before this. She said she didn't want to hire any big name Manhattan people because she didn't trust them. Yeah, and it's expensive. Yeah. No, she didn't trust them. Money's no object here. Are you kidding me? But it's his money.
Starting point is 02:07:25 We'll talk about that. She said, I don't want anyone who has anything to do with the major law firms because they're all hooked in with each other. They're all in Ted's pocket. Okay. Ted's dead. Yeah. There's no more pockets anymore.
Starting point is 02:07:37 His pockets are cremated. Yeah, they were burned up. Yeah. So they hired Manhattan lawyer Mike Shaw, who had represented a woman who shot and killed her husband in 1996 while he slept in bed. Oh, boy. Oh, okay. He issues a statement where they deny everything. Now, Danny has to go to court to face charges of driving while intoxicated.
Starting point is 02:07:58 Nice. Yeah, this is fucking fun. The DWI that he got, his car had been cited weaving on the road less than a mile from the middle of the middle. Lane House in the Hamptons at 3.43 a.m. Almost four in the morning. At September 6th. When he saw the lights flashing, he quickly pulled over and jumped in the back seat and pretended to be sleeping.
Starting point is 02:08:23 And he's like, oh, what are you guys doing here? I pulled over to go to sleep in my car. I didn't pull over because you guys were pulling me over. I'm tired. That's all. They said, get the fuck out of here, bro. Get out of the goddamn car. You crazy?
Starting point is 02:08:37 So they said that he failed several roads. side sobriety tests, refused to take a breathalyzer, and they had to arrest him. So he's coming out of court for this, and one of the detectives says to his lawyer, tell him not to be afraid. We just want to ask him about the security system, and the lawyer declined to let Danny speak to the detectives about that. So where the fuck was he? Well, Pelosi, Danny tells people that he and his friend, Chris Perino, who, he and his friend,
Starting point is 02:09:09 went out to buy beer in the early morning hours of October 21st around the time when Ted was assumed to have been killed. So he said, yeah, I went out, but it was with my friend to buy beer. We didn't kill anybody. That's crazy. There was also, and so that's his alibi. Generosa has an alibi as well. She's with the kids.
Starting point is 02:09:28 So they don't know what to do with that. They also want to look at Ted's first wife, also his girlfriend that he's seeing now as well. Any men around them. anybody that might be there. They said, though, but they particularly were focused on Danny because he's one of the few people who knew the code for the security system. Right. Others included Ted, Generosa, and some hired help. They said, Mr. Pelosi, this is from the lawyer, absolutely denies any involvement in the murder.
Starting point is 02:09:56 They also referred to his defense lawyer and say, if you want to fucking talk to him, you talk to them. There are other suspects. Yeah. There's a business partner, the guy Mark who, who, a charterer. the helicopter. What about the people from England that were suing the shit out of him? Well, let's go down the list here. Here it goes. There's one executive at Ted's firm that had been fired after a dispute with Ted. The split was so acrimonious they had changed the office locks. Oh, wow. A second executive also had a falling out with Ted and would have to be checked
Starting point is 02:10:26 out. A group of investors got burned when a stock that Ted recommended tanked about a year and a half before the murder. They lost millions and were pissed off at Ted. Millions is a reason to kill. a few in the group could not afford to lose what they had lost, so they really were fucked. He also had business disputes with several other people. He'd arranged to sell his home at 1125 Fifth Avenue for $9.5 million to a second bidder. When the first bidder tried to back out after the 9-11 attacks, Ted wouldn't let him. And according to their contract, Ted kept his $1 million non-refundable deposit. Yikes.
Starting point is 02:11:03 So the guy sued Ted. Is a million enough to kill over? I mean, people are killed for, we've had ones where someone got killed for $3. For nothing, yeah. So, who knows? He's also battling the board on his Fifth Avenue co-op building, which is headed by actor Kevin Klein, by the way. Is that right? I love Kevin Klein.
Starting point is 02:11:23 Yeah. He's one of the greatest actors, so funny, so likable. Yeah, yeah, he's getting that fast times at Ridgemont High poolside titty every night. Unbelievable. That's crazy. So I don't know if he's battling Kevin Klein's going after him or not. apparently Ted had sued them because they would not approve his sale to the second bidder. So who know?
Starting point is 02:11:46 Maybe Kevin Klein had him murdered. Watch out for Kevin. Ammon's first wife, Randy, whom Generosa suspected of having an affair with Ted, had borrowed a million dollars from him. Wow. That's an amicable divorce. If you can borrow a million dollars from your ex, it's like the money pit storyline. when fucking Diane from Cheers. Shelly Long borrows the money.
Starting point is 02:12:09 A million dollars. A million dollars. Also, her second husband was a... Randy Day, the first wife's second husband was a Greek shipping magnate who had his head blown off with a shotgun in July 1998 while they were in the middle of a nasty divorce. She is a bad woman, maybe. So they're like, that doesn't look good.
Starting point is 02:12:29 This is a possible murder-suicide occurred while the husband was in Greece with his girlfriend, with whom they had a child. He had a child. Now she, Randy Day, was in Connecticut at the time of the murder. Under the provisions of this guy's will, everything went to Day's son, but her alimony and expenses were cut off.
Starting point is 02:12:48 So they were saying, did they think maybe that Day, who's a banker, had taken out a murder contract on her estranged husband and, you know, so she didn't have to pay back the million dollars. Is that it? Also, there's the cars. A guy, there's a,
Starting point is 02:13:03 an auto body shop, and on Monday morning, October 22nd, he saw a blue 1999 Audi when he came in to open his auto detailing shop. The keys have been dropped through the mail slot. He didn't even know whose car it was or what he was supposed to do with it. It didn't need any body work, and no one had made any arrangements to drop it off. So he asked his staff, nobody knew. He did a license plate check to reveal that it was owned by Ted. So he said, I don't know, he just shrugged. the car had been left there Monday morning by Danny's nephew. By the way, that car is back in the driveway by the time the friends get there. There's a blue Audi back in the driveway.
Starting point is 02:13:44 So Danny's nephew dropped this car off, then parked it back in the East Hampton driveway. It sat there for two days until the owner was informed that Danny wanted new brakes installed. He wanted it detailed inside and out and all that kind of thing. washing and waxing, cleaning, vacuuming, shampooing the rugs, chemical treatment for vinyl services. A lot of work. All sorts of shit. The guy said it didn't even need new brakes, but he was asked to install a new set anyway. So he said, sure. Then he sent the car out for detailing. Also, he gave a taser stun gun to Tammy. Remember stun gun marks all over him? Danny did. He called his younger brother, Jim, who was an NYPD cop, and asked him if it was, was a violation of his probation to have a taser.
Starting point is 02:14:32 He said, his brother said, they're going to violate you, stupid. Yeah, fuck yeah. That's not good. So Danny said, can you get rid of it for me? Because I don't want to carry it around if I get pulled over. So he said, yeah, I'll put it in the drop box at work. There's a box that the NYPD has where he can just drop any weapons, no questions asked. They run them for shit and then destroy them.
Starting point is 02:14:51 So they called, Danny called his ex, or called his wife Tammy, or ex-wife at the time, or whatever, who called the brother and asked him to come get the taser because she didn't want it around. Jim, the brother picked it up and drove away with it. Okay. Now, the detectives at that point started questioning Danny's family.
Starting point is 02:15:14 Danny offered to get his father and other family members' lawyers. Several accepted the offer, but his father and several siblings said, I don't need a fucking lawyer for this. I don't know anything. So the next Saturday after the murder here, Danny took
Starting point is 02:15:29 the kids, the twins, to go have some fun. So they drove into the city. Danny drove to the apartment of one of Generosa's lawyer and gave him a laptop computer on which he had watched Ted and his girlfriends at the beach house. This is evidence that he was doing shit at the beach house. After dropping off the computer, they went to Six Flags Great Adventure in Jersey and the kids had fun. After a week, the police are finished going through the beach house. and Generosa hired a cleaning company to replace all the rugs in the bedroom and living room that had sections cut up and removed.
Starting point is 02:16:05 She was pissed at the $30,000 and damaged under her house. You bastards. So before the cleanup, Generosa and Danny's lawyers hired top private detectives and forensic investigators to come in and do their own investigation and do after-crime scene photos. That investigation doesn't count for anything. It doesn't matter. Yeah. You have no standing there. You're worried about pissing away 30 grand.
Starting point is 02:16:29 You're pissing away more now? I can't go into a Taco Bell and go, I'm going to inspect your back for my inspection doesn't count for anything. I can't, like, write you up a health code violation. It doesn't matter. So on November 6, Danny had his first encounter with the press. He was driving Ted Station Wagon from the Beach House, and he went to check on a few things with Tammy and his kids.
Starting point is 02:16:52 When he pulled into the driveway and got out of the car, a reporter called, hey, Danny. and Danny turned, so the reporter knew it's Danny. So he said, you know, I want to talk to you. And he said, did you kill Ted Ammon? And Danny smirked and said, call my lawyer. Oh, that's not the yes or no. I'm in the press, not the cops.
Starting point is 02:17:12 Yeah, that just means I'm going to put in the paper. You said, call my lawyer, which is bad. That's not good. So the reporter had gotten the license plate of the vehicle, which was still registered to Ted. So the next day the newspaper headline was, other man drives dead mogul's car and says call my lawyer call my lawyer then the will comes in oh okay ted had never changed his fucking will since 1995 he was going to change it after the divorce was final never got a chance to change his will generosa inherits 81 million dollars oh my god
Starting point is 02:17:46 81 million dollars everything all the property yeah the stocks all the cash all whoa 81 million fucking dollars. Nothing to the kids. Everything to her. Yeah. Literally. Well, no, I guess it's all financial assets. There's a tax exempt gift of $675,000 to his kids, which that's all that tax trust shit.
Starting point is 02:18:07 And all the personal property and effects go to her, though. The will was dated August 22nd, 1995. Oh, boy. Throughout the whole year-long proceeding, he never had it rewritten because the divorce papers hadn't been signed. And she was his lawful wife. Still, the entire estate passes to her. her tax-free. Wow.
Starting point is 02:18:26 Because they're still married, so she technically owned it. Yeah. So she gets all of it. You've been pissing away your own money, you dumb shit. Yep. $80 million. And also, after all these interviews, the detectives learned that Danny had Ted's cars all cleaned after the murder.
Starting point is 02:18:40 That was suspicious because you could erase, you know, trace evidence, shit like that. Their suspicions were deepened when they heard about a supposed red stain on the passenger side rug of the car that was cleaned and a bad smell. Could it have been blood? They don't know. So they approached the guy at the shop that does all that and asked him about the cars. And yeah, he said that there was a red stain. He thought that, you know, when he heard all this, the red stain and all this, the guy was putting it all together.
Starting point is 02:19:11 And he said, holy shit, Danny did this. He said, if the cops are right, his shop had been part of this cover up. And he was clean blood. He was used to cover up a murder and he was pissed off. They asked who had done the detail. and he gave the name of the place. He told them that he didn't notice any stain on the rug, but he might have missed it.
Starting point is 02:19:28 I wasn't looking for that. He said he told me, this is the guy at the shop said about Danny. He told me when this guy was killed, he was at a wedding. Then he told the detective something else. He said, Danny told me that he heard the man was hit in one room and found in another room.
Starting point is 02:19:45 He said there was a lamp missing and they thought the lamp was the thing that was used. They were like, how the fuck would he know that? Yeah, why do you know that? So when asked for the exact words he heard, this guy said that Danny said, quote, allegedly he was bashed in the head, murdered, and dragged into another room. They said they noticed that he, this guy said he noticed that Danny had prefaced his remarks by saying that the private detectives that they had hired had told him this.
Starting point is 02:20:10 So they might know police people to be able to get into the report. So, because a lot of most of those guys are ex-cops. So they said that, he said that Danny had asked him if he could fly him out of the country, but he told him, that it was just a joke. He was talking about this guy. They asked this cleaning guy, this car guy, if he'd be willing to testify before a grand jury, he said, yeah, sure.
Starting point is 02:20:33 He said that he told Danny then that the cops had been around asking questions about him and his cars. And Danny said, yeah, yeah, yeah, I get it all the time. He said, just told this guy to tell the truth and give him whatever they want. I got nothing to hide. All right. Which is the right way to do it.
Starting point is 02:20:50 Investigators spoke to the man who said they saw too men leaving Ted's property on Sunday afternoon after the murder. They said, was it Danny and a friend of his? You know, who was it? The detectives showed the witness a photo array, which included a picture of Danny, but he didn't pick out anybody. He said, I can't pick any of these people out for sure. A lady Danny knew well, basically tried to extort him.
Starting point is 02:21:15 She said, I want money to not tell my story. Give me $10,000 or I'll go to the New York Post and say you did it. Danny replied, suck my dick, get the fuck out of here. So Danny told her he didn't kill anybody and the cops would never believe her. And he told her that they would see it for what it was extortion. So she said, how about a thousand dollars? I need a grand. And he said, I'm not paying you a dime.
Starting point is 02:21:38 She said, well, could you lend me $380 for my car payment? What? That is a real switch. Now, J.P. Morgan Chase. This is interesting. A petition is filed by J.P. Morgan Chase, the bank's as a co-executor with Generosa of the will. Under normal circumstances, the bank would simply facilitate the transfer of a deceased estate to his spouse as the will directs. However, this is a little different.
Starting point is 02:22:06 After stating that Ted's estate totaled $81.4 million. Now there's suspicion. Wow. Investments and partnerships, $30.5 million in real estate, $22 million in cash, $14.5 million in other investments, $10 million. in securities brokerage accounts, 2.4 million personal and household effects, 1 million in artwork, a million that the bank noted that a homicide investigation was pending and that no assets were to be transferred until it was concluded. They also requested the name to be named sole executor, the bank did. They said the bank has decided to, Generoso said, the bank has decided
Starting point is 02:22:44 to take sides here, which is very unusual. So they filed a petition to have her remain as co-executor, yada, yada, yada. Her advisor said, because the bank is hostile, Mrs. Ammon is getting no money. She's out borrowing money. She was getting $50,000 a month and basic expenses from the Supreme Court. The court was entertaining a request
Starting point is 02:23:05 to provide a lot more to complete the construction of her new home. She's not a money person. She's just had no money to pay basic obligations for her family. The hostility of the bank in this regard is just horrendous. So, yeah, that's what they did.
Starting point is 02:23:20 But anyway, she ends up getting the money. $5 million. Now, the detective said they were close to solving the murder, seemingly. They told the advisor that they're closing doors and said, quote, I think the person or persons who killed Ted will either prove to be an enraged creditor or an enraged boyfriend. That's what Generosis, the advisor told her. Now, it's interesting. the only reason this guy suspects the boyfriend angle is because of what Generosa told him.
Starting point is 02:23:55 Generosa had said that in the last couple months together, Ted became impotent with her, and that was unusual. He clearly appeared to be losing affection. So that means he's gay now. He's not interested in pussy anymore. That means he just didn't find a piece of ass he liked better. That means you don't have a penis. You don't have a penis.
Starting point is 02:24:12 You don't have a penis. No, no, no. And he's been able to get it up for 20 years before this, but now all of a sudden he's so overwhelmingly gay in his mid-40s, he can't help it. Couldn't possibly be that I'm in a... No, or 50, 52 years old. Yeah. Other people just all of a sudden
Starting point is 02:24:29 they, I can't get hard with a woman and only guys. I'm 52. So then they're in England at one point and an English reporter knocked on the door of the manor house and Danny answered and said, get the fuck off my property now. Just go away. So the
Starting point is 02:24:44 headline on the story over there was he's the Lord of the Manor. It's evidently his property now, guys. Wow. He said, we want to calm down for the kids. The bottom line is bad press. It was coming to the kids and had a large emotional impact. There were horrible things written about their father,
Starting point is 02:25:01 and they were bullied at school because of that. That's why we relocated. Generosa said she wants to move on with her life, but she's still mourning her ex-husband. She's been under a lot of stress lately, you know, that is. Yeah, and they said, are you a suspect? And Danny said, I wouldn't be here now if any of that were true. They wouldn't let me go to England if I was a suspect for murder.
Starting point is 02:25:22 Meanwhile, their lawyers had decided to cooperate more with the murder investigation and advise them to do the same. Listen, if you want to clear your name, you have to do something. You've got to talk to them. They said, you've got to provide fingerprints and DNA samples and shit like that. So they did that. They did all the DNA shit. Lab tests isolated, Generoses and Danny's DNA configurations. And they're compared to shit from the house.
Starting point is 02:25:46 But they lived there every other weekend. So there's going to be DNA everywhere. DNA's all over the place. So there's traces everywhere. Usually they left one of their fingerprints. They said unless somebody left their fingerprint in Ted's blood, none of the shit matters. Fingerprints or DNA doesn't matter because they're all, it's all everywhere. They had isolated several fingerprints and one blood sample in the mansion that matched neither Generosa nor Danes nor any of the samples people who had known access to the home had as well.
Starting point is 02:26:14 They said, is that the blood of the killer, injured during the murder? or in the many, many, many, many, many guests and parties they've had at this house. Did somebody cut themselves one time? Sure. Who knows? Danny told the reporter, here's a headline for you. The DNA does not equal D-A-N. Dan.
Starting point is 02:26:32 Hey, Danny. Me. Nice job, Dan. God, he's a moron. He said, I can spell three-letter words. Good guy. I'll rearrange him, too, because I'm smart. People have some other DNA in the mix, and it isn't me.
Starting point is 02:26:45 The big picture's far away from me. me. I would look at me if I were the police and anyone reading the papers would look at me, but enough already. That's good. And then they said, he called, no more suspicion of me. And he's, by the way, this is coming out of Courtney, he had a suit and tie on. He ripped the tie of the tie off and said, I'm blue collar. This isn't me. Okay. You know, so January's 2002, Generosa and Daniel get married. Hey, hey, look at this. Half hour ceremony at Queensborough Hall. They then went to the estate in England. By the way, 22-room 17-acre estate.
Starting point is 02:27:22 Oh, my God. Yeah. So then he had to come back, though. 17 acres of England? Yeah, it's a lot. Wow. Danny had to come back because he's got some driving under the influence charges. And he's got to serve four months in jail for that.
Starting point is 02:27:37 That snooze in the back seat. Because of four months. A little bit. Danny, by the way, still banging his ex-wife when he comes back to the states. Yeah, why not? Tammy has a weird soft spot for him. Yeah, she does. So now they keep going back to the security system.
Starting point is 02:27:50 They said they found out through investigation that Pelosi hired a contractor to install the surveillance system that we talked about before. He was the guy doing it. The system allowed them to watch whatever was going on inside the house, even private moments by logging on to any remote laptop. They said if they were like in a hotel on vacation, in a plane anywhere they would like, they could look at that. So they were like, did they see Ted was at home and knew to go make a move because they didn't know he was going to be out there even. Danny's cop brother Jim, remember him? Okay. Well, the Suffolk County Homicide Squad and NYPD Internal Affairs Bureau detectives stopped by Jim's precinct to have a little chit chat with him.
Starting point is 02:28:33 He said, my brother might be a fuck up, but he's not a murderer. Okay. But they told him that Danny had bought a taser, ordered a second taser, and had tested one of them out on a construction worker that he knew. Tazers had serial numbers just like guns and could be traced. They told Jim that Ted's body bore stun gun burns on the skin, evenly spaced round red burns like the marks of a vampire. Then the detectives said another thing. They said the probes on the taser model Danny had were the same exact distance apart as the double marks on Ted's skin and autopsy. photos.
Starting point is 02:29:09 So, now Jim had been asked to get rid of a taser. Do you remember that? Drop it in the box. Jim didn't mention that at this point. Uh-oh. He's withholding some shit. Oh,
Starting point is 02:29:19 as they ticked off the version of their case against Danny and all this type of shit, they kept saying the stun gun's missing. Uh-oh. This is not good. Now, Danny had this system installed and all that. So Jim called Danny after all this. and said, we got to talk. Either your alibi is full of shit or they're full of shit.
Starting point is 02:29:40 Somebody's full of shit. He said, I don't believe you're a murderer, but maybe I'm wrong. He's thinking in his head. So there's rumors circulating. Danny denied the rumors and said he only had one stun gun, not two. He said, even if Danny was innocent, Jim might be charged with destruction of evidence and his career could be over. He could go to jail for this shit.
Starting point is 02:30:00 It was his pension. Yeah. They said, if the stun gun had been destroyed, it would look like Danny, and he destroyed it because it was used in a murder. Exactly. So Jim was kind of fucked here. He didn't want to hurt his brother, but he also didn't want to lose his house. So Jim drove to Long Island, called Danny and arrived outside the murder house, where Danny was supervising a crew of workmen who were cleaning up the mansion.
Starting point is 02:30:22 He told Danny he wanted to talk to him, and he said, this is serious. It could cost me my job. Jim said, get in the fucking car. They drove to a beach and parked, and they got out and walked. And he said, Danny, you've got nothing to worry about with the fucking taser. have you. And he said, I got nothing to worry about Danny said. So Jim said, I'm going to ask you something and I want you to tell me the truth. Did you do this? Did you stun Ted? And he said, what the fuck are you talking about? And Jim said, the detectives were in my office with my
Starting point is 02:30:52 sergeant. You get it? Like, this is bad. They're dead serious. He said the detectives told him the marks from Ted's body from the stun gun were the same stun gun you had. Not cool. And he said, I don't care. It wasn't for my gun. I swear on my kids. So Jim said, yo, if you did this, come clean, get it off your chest, and at least I'll bring you in. Yeah, and I'll be the hero. You know, at least I'll look like a decent guy and you don't have somebody who'll drag you in there and treat you like shit. So Danny said, what are you fucking nuts? And he said, you'd rather bring me in than, he said, you'd rather have me bring you in than the detectives bring you in.
Starting point is 02:31:28 And he said, Jim, I didn't do this. This is crazy. So they're arguing out on the beach. He told Danny the detectives also told him that the taser came with three dark. cart cartridges and there were only two with the one that Jim had taken from Danny's house. Where's the third? Danny denied that he had fired one of the cartridges into Ted. He said, but there's three darts, Danny.
Starting point is 02:31:48 Where's the third dart? And he said, it wasn't there. Maybe the guy I got it from must have used it. Okay, this is looking ugly now. He said, you're a fucking liar, Danny. They're going to fucking have it. This is the thing. And Danny said, Danny said, the dart cartridge wasn't there when I got the gun.
Starting point is 02:32:04 And he said, you better hope to God, Jim says, if you did. did it, let me arrest you. He said, I didn't do it. I didn't do it. He said, you dropped it in the box, the precinct, didn't you? And Jim said, never mind where it is. Jim. So Danny wondered whether Jim still had the taser, and if he did, what the fuck's he going to do with it?
Starting point is 02:32:23 Yeah. So the next Thursday, Jim played golf with his father before going to work. And he told his father he'd been about to be made detective when Danny's stun gun mess came up. And now he feared that he'll never get the detective shield. Never going to be a detective. So he was afraid that the best that could happen was he'd remained, you know, a fucking cop, a beat cop. Right.
Starting point is 02:32:42 He said, Dad, I'm afraid I'm going to lose my job over this. And his dad said, don't worry, you know, even if you do lose your job, we'll set you up in business and all that. And he said, no, I wanted to be a cop. I'm not what I'm doing. I like my job. He said, if I find out Danny did this, I'm taking him in. So early 2003, Generosa is diagnosed with breast cancer. Oh.
Starting point is 02:33:02 Oh, yeah. It's not good. No? It's bad. It's not metastasizing and in bad shape. Oh, it is stage four. Just like her mother. She's in trouble. It's going to go brain. And this is at the same time her and Danny's relationship are falling apart. She's on pain medication all the time and also she's drinking. Oh, no. And yeah, she said she was telling the kids, we're not going to have any money for food this winter. Winter. You got $80 million. Weird shit like that. They said she just started smoking twice as many cigarettes because she didn't care anymore. thought she was fucked.
Starting point is 02:33:37 Yeah. Danny brought his lawyer home and introduced him to General Rosa, and he politely said, how do you do you do? And she said, how the fuck do you think I do? And then said, I hate lawyers. I hate bankers. Get him out of here. All right.
Starting point is 02:33:52 Later on, she warmed up to that guy and appreciated his manners, but she's always on pills and booze and she's a mess at this point. She's even meaner. She snaps all the time. Oh, she snaps. She sometimes hallucinates. Oh, yeah. One night she saw a ghost and grabbed a butcher's knife from the kitchen counter to defend herself and was stabbing the air.
Starting point is 02:34:11 Oh my. Saying, quote, Ted, you fuck while she did it. Ted was haunting her. Danny said, honey, it's me. And she said, get away from me. And Danny said, okay. And then she sobbed and said, you've ruined my fucking life and slash Danny with a butcher knife. Oh, Jesus.
Starting point is 02:34:29 So that is wild. Then she said she was sorry. and I don't see the ghost anymore and I feel okay now. And he didn't want, he wouldn't go to the hospital because he knew the press would find out about it. It would look terrible that his crazy wife stabbed him. Now there's also a nanny. Now, not what you think.
Starting point is 02:34:45 Danny ain't banging the nanny. The nanny hates Danny. Really? Oh, yeah. She didn't like Danny. She said, quote, Danny came from a bad gene pool. She criticized him for his crudeness. His crudeness, his gambling, is womanizing,
Starting point is 02:35:01 all this shit. She knew that Danny's passed and she said she's making this poor cancerous woman feel bad here. Then she said she was relaxing with her friend at one point. She had referred to Danny as shady a whole bunch of times. She's hanging out with her friend and she said, quote, Danny told me that he killed Ted. What? The nanny said. She said that Danny confessed that he had sneaked into the beach house, put down a plastic sheet in a living room, beaten Ted to death, then cut off his penis.
Starting point is 02:35:30 Really? Yeah. They said, well, why would Danny do that? tell you that he killed Ted. And she said he would never be that stupid to make a statement like that. Do you actually believe he killed Ted? And she said, no. And they said, well, why would he tell you he did it if he didn't do it?
Starting point is 02:35:44 Nobody in their right mind would make a statement like that. I don't think so. No, I don't think he would ever tell you that. You can sit here and say that you think he killed Ted, but, you know. The penis thing is weird. Yeah, it's real weird. July 2003, Generosa dies. Gone.
Starting point is 02:36:02 Dead already. quick. Two years. Not even. Six months. No, no, I mean, two years from him being here. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Whoa. It's wild. Now, she had updated her will. Uh-huh.
Starting point is 02:36:13 She left Pelosi, Danny, $2 million. Uh-huh. And the rest of her money at this point, more than $30 million, because it was like $20 million in fees and all the other shit to the twins. Great. Yeah. So that is. Oh, he's going to be pissed. Oh, he's a little upset.
Starting point is 02:36:30 Yeah. Immediately after she's. cremated, he takes her ashes to the Stanhope Hotel bar, where he ordered her favorite drink a Cosmo and toasted the ashes with a beer and chatted with a New York Post reporter. Okay. He said, I'm not saying I'm the most normal guy in the world. I do spontaneous wacky things. My wife had just died.
Starting point is 02:36:51 I'm not entitled to be a little wacky. You're drinking with ashes. Inappropriate. Also, he's contesting her will in court. Of course he should get more. He's going to try to fight the money from the children. That's fucked up. He's also fucking up.
Starting point is 02:37:02 Yeah. He's been in and out of court for drunken driving. He'd been jailed for four months. He also faces charges of illegal billing for electrical work. And they claim that he had rigged an illegal meter bypass at his house with Tammy and had been stealing electricity since 1996. Uh-oh. Whoops. Yeah.
Starting point is 02:37:20 By the way, Aunt Sandy, Ted's sister, she wants custody of the kids. She lives in Alabama down there. She wants the kids to come down there. She's her husband's a doctor. They have three. Grown children. They don't need the money, but they'll, whatever. They'll keep an eye on and make sure nobody fucks over these kids.
Starting point is 02:37:36 You know what I mean? Now that Generos is dead, people start to come forward. They were terrified of her. Yeah? Her death sparked a floodgates open of people willing to talk to investigators now. Multiple people come forward claiming that Daniel confessed to killing Ted to them. Really? Multiple people.
Starting point is 02:37:53 Yeah. He denies it, but no, they said it was, that's what it happened. All these people were afraid of her and him that they'd kill him too. Several witnesses said Daniel had bragged about the murder to them. And even those people are even willing to testify. Even his own father is willing to talk to the cops and testify against him. They're like, holy shit. His father told the cops how his son had called him asking him how to dispose of something so that it wouldn't be found on the night of the murder.
Starting point is 02:38:22 What the fuck? Yeah. A co-worker testified that Danny had told him a year earlier about his plans to get Ted's money by romancing the wife and then kill. killing him. Whose idea was this? Close, he told the guy, quote, I'll bash in his brains while he's sleeping. And cut his dick off.
Starting point is 02:38:39 Cut his dick off. Take it with me. Wow. Now, the police go start arresting people. They arrest Danny's friend Chris Perino, who we should have had more time to talk about him. He gets surrounded by cops as he drives away from his home, saying, we're taking you in for murder.
Starting point is 02:38:55 And he's like, what the fuck? And they're like, well, you know, come on in. You're going to talk to us. he I guess Danny they told Danny that he blabbed about the killing in jail which was not true but they said basically Danny already told us that he did it yeah so they told him your life is over man we know you're involved in it and he said no no I didn't do anything I gave a written statement and all this type of shit but um they said you know what you did you know what you fucking did you've been just told him what happened you got ratted out uh Danny's pal Alex a 40 year old electrical work also was taken in a gunpoint. He told the police that he, an assigned statement from, that, that, uh, he was told that police had a signed statement from Danny's sister that Alex
Starting point is 02:39:42 had been captured on the video system at the beach house peaking on Ted the weekend of the murder. Sure. So Alex said, nobody told you that because it didn't happen. So he said, bullshit. So they said, all right, we tried it. Um, they rounded up another real estate friend. He had nothing.
Starting point is 02:39:58 Nobody cracked, basically. Really? Nobody. But he's the suspect. There's a surveillance, obviously the system of surveillance cameras through there that he was able to access remotely. He's the only one. Basically, he's the only one where all of these factors could do this and has the physical capability to commit the murder. He said, on the night of the murder, the panel concealing the system was pried open, hard drive removed, never recovered.
Starting point is 02:40:25 Yeah. Now, Danny said he drove out to his sister's night that night, that house. that night to leave a laptop with her so that she could access the remote cameras. He said he arrived at 120, accessed the security system for about 16 minutes. According to the prosecution later, Chris Perino met him there, drove him in the 1999 Audi there, and that his sister, that night, his sister told the cops he had, she had hugged Danny on his way out and felt a gun under his jacket, essentially, something hard. hard object under his jacket. Perino later on will admit to disposing of the leather jacket. Why?
Starting point is 02:41:08 With blood on it that he was wearing because Danny had a new leather jacket after that weekend. Interesting. And that's the Audi that was detailed and shampooed. 2003, he gives an interview to ABC News. Danny does. Yeah. He says, I did not murder Ted Ammon. He said, I've been trying to scream it since day one.
Starting point is 02:41:27 No, I did not murder Ted Ammon. If I knew who did, I probably wouldn't be sitting here. He said, I went from a guy who walked into an electrical job to become the boss. I thought I hit the lotto. I really did. Fucking mook. All right. Why does he talk to the news about it?
Starting point is 02:41:43 February 27, 2004, he is charged with first degree assault for punching a man on a boat in Maui. He's in Maui. He's on a cruise, and a crew member decided to stop serving alcohol to a woman he was with. about aboard the Maui princess. Crew members were helping passengers board the shuttle to take them somewhere else. When Pelosi grabbed this guy by the neck, complained about the alcohol decision, this guy pushed him away, so Danny punched him in the face. This guy was treated for facial fractures.
Starting point is 02:42:15 Danny is ordered to stay away from alcohol until his assault trial begins here. He hit him hard. He hit him real hard. They even gave him until Monday to dispose of any alcohol in his home and saying at one point, that he could tell by Danny's body language that he did not agree with the condition. He's drunk. Danny said it's sad the prosecution in the state of Maui
Starting point is 02:42:36 is working with the prosecution in the state of New York. The state of Maui. He's a genius. God, he's a fucking dummy. I bet he builds cabinets. Oh, you know it. Actually, this guy knows how to... He can install security systems that are complicated.
Starting point is 02:42:52 He's way smarter than both of us. State of Maui. State of Maui. March 24th, 2004, they arrest him. Yeah. He is going to be taken in on the murder charge at this point. He surrenders.
Starting point is 02:43:07 They told him, they called his lawyer and all that kind of thing. A grand jury returned an indictment. Here we go. Single charge of murder in the second degree. He pleads not guilty, is held without bail. They said the killer applied a stun gun to the victim's back and neck. The fatal assault inflicted defensive injuries in the form of fractures to his hands, arms, and other places.
Starting point is 02:43:29 He also suffered fractured ribs, punctured lungs, 30 blows to the head. They said that the defendant had purchased, meaning Danny, numerous stun guns before the murder. After the slaying, he made statements implicating himself
Starting point is 02:43:42 as well as others in the killing. On the night of the murder, the defendant had the capability to look inside the house for 21 minutes at approximately 2 o'clock in the morning. He was the only one who knew how to unplug the secret surveillance system that spied on Ted,
Starting point is 02:43:55 and one of the few who knew it existed behind the wall. The rapid eye unit was hidden within the recesses of that home in a location that was known to very few people outside of the installers. Only individuals that were aware of the location of that hard drive unit as well as
Starting point is 02:44:11 the power source, which was a simple plug, was Daniel Pelosi. After the killing, the unit with its hard drive containing thousands of photos was removed from the mansion, a key piece of evidence that strongly points to the guilt of Daniel Pelosi. So, they said,
Starting point is 02:44:26 that he, you know, that's what they think. They said, they said that Danny cared more about his freedom than his money, since it wasn't his, they talk about here. And he said it's not, the prosecutor said it's not his hard-earned money. It's really the money of the victim who he's accused of murdering. His defense says, they had a weak case, circumstantial. The lawyers are going to fight here about this. Pelosi's saying he knew about the system, but his attorneys deny wildly report,
Starting point is 02:44:56 published reports that he widely were published reports that he installed it, because we know he was just in on the installation. They said the reason it took nine months to bring him in is because the defense in every step of the grand jury investigation obstructed in any way they could. It's been with the grand jury for nine months to get this. So the defense attorney says the case is weak. He says when a prosecutor walks into court and said, we've been investigating this case for two and a half years, grand jury investigations for nine months, and we have 50.
Starting point is 02:45:26 51 witnesses, you know what that means. They have a circumstantial evidence case, and I suggest it's a weak circumstantial evidence case. Nothing about fingerprints, nothing about DNA, nothing about hair samples. They claim a stun gun was used. So pre-trial, Pelosi is engaged again. Is that right?
Starting point is 02:45:45 Danny's got another lady, and he is having a kid with her. She's pregnant. Oh, he knocked her up good. Dang. So before this, trial starts here. this is fucking crazy apparently they're accusing him of threatening the lead prosecutor's children
Starting point is 02:46:05 and tampering with a juror and admitting to the crime the prosecutor said I don't have to have a defendant threaten my own children so now he faces additional charges of attempting to intimidate and tamper with a prosecution witness and they said there's also evidence
Starting point is 02:46:21 that he made efforts to reach out to a juror wow Alexa, the daughter, said, I don't know how Mr. Pelosi lives with himself after what he has done to our family. Honestly. I hope he rots away in jail. Oh, shit.
Starting point is 02:46:34 Trial comes up. Prosecution poses him as a hard drinking, hard gambling, hard luck thug who had romanced Mrs. Ammon. Hard fucking. Hard fucking. Yeah. Knocked, put some cancer in you.
Starting point is 02:46:46 The lead prosecutor scowled at Pelosi and called him a sadist who enjoyed beating Ted to death. She said, This is not a whodunit. It was that man, points to him. That's how it goes. Now, the defense said, you know, this is bullshit, basically.
Starting point is 02:47:04 The police, Pelosi maintains his innocence. There's a million other suspects. They don't have any evidence. Give me a break. At one point, the defendant's lawyer here said that the Pelosi family believed that the Generosa, believed that Generosa cast a mystical spell that caused the death of somebody. Dang. So that's all these stun guns and wounds. Just from spells?
Starting point is 02:47:27 It's a mystical spell. The defense began a Generosa could have done it strategy. That's their whole thing. So yeah, they said that they had an uncollected hair visible in crime scene photos that could have been left by a gay lover of Ted's.
Starting point is 02:47:44 That's where that hair came from. Jurors learned later that the hair was not collected according to police reports because it was determined that the hair was actually growing from Ted's body. There's a hair here. Not his lover.
Starting point is 02:47:58 So his own father testifies against him. He recalled talking with his son at a wedding on October 21st the day after. They think that afternoon after the night he was beaten to death. And Daniel had asked him if someone wanted to get rid of something, what could you do? So later the father asked what happened to that stuff he'd wanted to be rid of. And he said that he told him a friend took care of it. Throughout the testimony, Daniel sat stone-faced at the table, whispering and writing notes. He wouldn't look at his father, even when his father called out, I love you, Danny, whether you know it or not.
Starting point is 02:48:34 Whether you didn't or not. Your own fucking good. So he said, Danny disappointed me. He disgraced the name Pelosi, a very proud name. He said the tension between the father and son boiled over when his lawyer, Danny's lawyer, accused dad of breaking his son's nose. And he said, what? He said, he looked over at his son and he said, shame on you. I broke your nose.
Starting point is 02:48:59 I punched you in the face. Fucking break your nose. Yeah, he said that Danny's face reddened and said, you couldn't. And his father said, what does that mean? The fucking challenge? Let me come down there and break your fucking nose? I will. Get over here.
Starting point is 02:49:12 I'm your father. And Danny said, you know what I mean. So this is a big stir in the courtroom. The judge had to stop them and like the bailiffs came out and everything. else and said we're not going to have you two flight in court. His sister said that he driven from the city to Long
Starting point is 02:49:30 Island that night to retrieve items from her house and that's the only reason he was there. He said he returned between 3 and 4 a.m. Danny testifies. He said yes he did recently buy two taser guns. He used them on his workmen as an initiation to their working
Starting point is 02:49:48 for him. It's hazing. I buy $800 pieces of equipment. to make you earn your job. He said he hadn't tasered Ted, though. It was just a coincidence that the taser marks were on Ted's body. You know, he said also, Ted was found naked. What does that have to do with me? Nothing.
Starting point is 02:50:04 So who cares? Now, during the trial coverage, the New York Times reported that the prosecutors had no eyewitnesses, no damning physical evidence, and no confessions to the police to tie Pelosi to the death. They said three people did, however, testify that Mr. Pelosi told them he had committed the murder. prosecutors offered no evidence during the trial to place Mr. Pelosi in the East Hampton House on the night of the murder. Three days of deliberations, long deliberations.
Starting point is 02:50:32 You got to think about this. And they finally come back with a verdict of guilty of second-degree murder. So during sentencing, Pelosi's lawyer told the court that he was not in a position to ask for leniency for an innocent man. And that's it. So Daniel's going to talk now. and he said to the kids. He turns to the kids and says, you know how mom was.
Starting point is 02:50:56 You all know the truth here. It will all come out, meaning your mother did this. Come on. He called himself in court, quote, this is during his sentencing for murder. A victim of the media and circumstance.
Starting point is 02:51:08 Holy shit. Then he said to the kids, I never lied to you. I'm telling you to your face. I didn't kill your father. I'd say I'm sorry, but I did nothing to be sorry for. Whoa.
Starting point is 02:51:19 He said, I feel the jury made an error. I did not kill your father. I've been the victim here of medium circumstance. I will not until the day I die. Stop fighting to prove my innocence. Well, you got some time now and some lots of free time. You, sir, may fuck off maximum of 25 to life.
Starting point is 02:51:37 Holy shit. April 2005, he also pleads guilty to save his wife Tammy some trouble. This is also his fiancee because they're in charge. trouble. One's in trouble for helping witness intimidation and the other's in trouble for stealing electricity. Yeah. So he says, if I plead guilty to both these things, leave them alone and they said, okay, fine.
Starting point is 02:52:00 2005, there's a movie. Tammy doesn't know that she didn't have an electric bill for fucking 12 years? Yeah, like she didn't know what was going on. So 2005, there's a movie called Murder in the Hamptons there. That's how that goes. The ex-wife, Tammy
Starting point is 02:52:15 said, I just cried when I saw that movie. They made me out to be trailer trash. Traylor trash. It's easy. Tammy from the, yeah. 2006, Chris Perino, his buddy, admits to disposing of the jacket and pleads guilty to obstructing an investigation and his sentence to six months in prison.
Starting point is 02:52:35 He said that he'd gone to middle lane where Danny came out of the house, quote, disheveled and had blood on him, some of which got on the car. He said, I asked him what happened, and Danny said, I had a fight with Ted and I think he's dead. That's it. What the fuck, Chris? And he said that's when he had the Audi's interior. 2006, wrongful death suit against him. Yeah.
Starting point is 02:52:58 The administrators of Ted's estate obtain a $46.7 million wrongful death suit against him. Yeah? He doesn't have that money, but that's fine. But eventually, his home is seized when they stop making mortgage payments on it. His home is seized, the one with his wife in Long Island, and they sold it off and they eventually got a $143,000 surplus that they gave to the kids. So the kids get that from him. That's how that goes.
Starting point is 02:53:28 2009, Daniels X writes a book. Tammy writes a book. Yeah? I am not trailer trash. It's called. Don't live in a trailer. Yep. She said that during this whole thing, press were all over her.
Starting point is 02:53:40 She said they were in front of my house. They were at my job. They followed me in the car. So I hid. I did a lot of hiding. and yeah she said no one cared about Tammy or what was going on at the time they just wanted more dirt on Danny
Starting point is 02:53:54 nobody cares about Tammy Tammy it's called pennies from an angel innocent lives behind a crime I didn't do anything and I'm not trailer trash oh man that's fucking funny so she says also they say well how did you why did you stay with this guy and she said that it was part of an addiction problem
Starting point is 02:54:14 she had She said he was my addiction. Some people choose cocaine or alcohol, but Danny Pelosi was my drug of choice. That devil dick. Wow. There's a lot of people that say that that's a thing. That's a thing, yeah. 2011, Danny, all class as usual.
Starting point is 02:54:29 He was placed in solitary confinement for 50 days in September 2005, three months after he was putting here, after a correction officer witnessed his inappropriate conduct in the visiting area of the Clinton correctional facility in upstate New York. He was probably getting fucking jerked off under the table. In August 2008, he was placed in solitary for six months for using other inmates' pins to place unauthorized phone calls, stealing from them. And then in May 2009, he served 30 days in confinement again for phone misuse, which is fun here. He's a scumbag. Back in solitary confinement now for making threatening phone calls to an unidentified woman. Wow, that is crazy.
Starting point is 02:55:10 I apparently called this woman from Elmira and left a voicemail, threatening her, telling her this is the last vacation you'll ever take. I'm sending some people over to your home. No, you're not. He admitted he made the phone call. As a result, he was sentenced to disciplinary confinement for 23 hours a day and no longer allowed to make phone calls or receive packages. Take that.
Starting point is 02:55:31 Also, no more commissary purchase privileges. Got to eat the shit food from the jail. Yeah. So he was placed constantly. He's in trouble in there. 2012, Greg, the one kid, brought out a documentary. in 2012 about this whole thing.
Starting point is 02:55:48 And the Alexa also studied film and graduated from USC in 2017. Wow. 2013, that's when the kids finally get the $143,000 for the foreclosure. He owes them like $47 million. They should just blow it on like a cruise. That'd be great. Just piss it away. Have a party.
Starting point is 02:56:08 Rent the whole boat. Don't let anybody on it. So, yeah. As of 2015, Danny was incarcerated. in Greenhaven, which is not far from where we sit now. And that's where my mother worked when I was a kid. I visited Greenhaven. It was terrifying.
Starting point is 02:56:22 Not eligible for parole till 2031, which is pretty fucking close. That's way too close. He says in a 2020 interview, bottom line is I did not kill Ted Ammon. Generosa did not kill Ted Ammon. She had him killed. Oh. Yeah. Generosa wanted revenge, he says.
Starting point is 02:56:39 She wanted revenge because of that baby. That wasn't his, remember? She went berserk, berserk, out of this world in six. white hatred psycho killer. Uh-huh. So she says that Generosa came up to him and his crew while they were renovating the townhouse and offered $50,000 to anyone who would beat her husband up. Several men said, I'll do it.
Starting point is 02:56:58 Yeah. A bunch of fucking electricians. And he said, I got regular guys working for me, $50,000 to go throw somebody a beating? I'm sorry. Everyone was interested in the job. He said Chris Perino took him up on it. Oh, he's going to throw Chris under the bus. Yeah.
Starting point is 02:57:14 Yep, he said, Pelosi said, because he didn't want that to happen. He said, he volunteered, Danny did to beat Ted up himself, saving his girlfriend time and money. He said, but she stopped him because he was on probation for DWI. He said, I was going to get a year in jail for smacking this guy in the face. It was guaranteed that he was going to call the cops, and that's why Generosa stopped me. So then they said that Chris met with Generosa without even Danny's knowledge behind my back. And he said that they were going, we'll keep this away from Danny, huh? Because Danny's going to have a shit fit when he finds out about this.
Starting point is 02:57:51 That's at least self-explanatory because if you tune up Ted, they're coming for me. Pelosi said he was transferred the balance, that he transferred the balance of Perino's payment from Generosa to Perino after the attack. He said, I'm not innocent in the things that happened after the murder. That's why I never told my story. But now he is. So he's saying, he paid Chris for this? He helped, yeah, Generosa made it all, but he just paid him the money after that he was promised. Perino completely denies that and said he came out of the house covered in blood and I helped him do the car thing and get rid of his jacket.
Starting point is 02:58:25 2015, he wants a new trial. Really? Absolutely. He's appealing for bullshit, basically. What is it? The defendant's contention that certain allegedly improper conduct by the prosecutor during his cross-examination of him and throughout her summation had the cumulative effect of depriving him of his right to a fair trial. They said, that's not what we do here.
Starting point is 02:58:47 She was too good. It's not fair. Not fair. She had all this evidence. She was asking me shit and I was answering. She can't be that mean to me when I'm answering stuff. 2017, the kids list the house for sale. Originally listed at $12.7 million, went to $11.7 million and finally sold for, I believe,
Starting point is 02:59:04 oh, they listed it again for $10.995 million. It rents for $250,000 a summer. Wow. Three months. $150,000. What the fuck? Yep. They said that they weren't ready to sell it when other people wanted to buy it.
Starting point is 02:59:19 So they're renting it? No, no, no. They said that had been being rented up until now. He said 50% of the people would rule out buying it just because of the history of the place. Some people wouldn't even go inside of the place. They said somebody ended up getting an incredible deal on the house, 8.35 million, which is a steal and a bargain for that house. And they said the buyer was one of several tenants that fell in love with the house while they were there. they want to gut and renovate the house and start anew.
Starting point is 02:59:46 She's going to be furious. Again. Greg also has access to the big flower brand and was operating an apparel and a shop that was in the East Hamptons as well. That's closed down. There we have 2021. Greg in a social media post says, since your murder, talking about his dad, the lines in the story have been drawn, twisted and manipulated. Fingers have been pointed. Narratives have been formulated and confusion forced while judgments have been quickly passed.
Starting point is 03:00:12 To most, our story has already ended or they aren't aware of a beginning. The groundwork of your legacy was set in glass, not stone. I will break through it and shine light on your truths. Smart kid. October 20203, Danny says he's innocent and he can prove it. Pierce Morgan, he tells. He said, I didn't do it. I did not do this murder.
Starting point is 03:00:36 I did not kill Ted Ammon. Ted fathered a child and Generosa had received DNA results that Ted That was Ted's child and that was the straw that broke her back. We don't even think that's true. That's not true. She said she'd be in a conversation with people saying, I'm going to kill that son of a bitch and goes on and on and on. By the way, 2023, there's a new festival, the Hamptons Houdnett Festival. It's called like the Ted Amin'Hoodnett Festival.
Starting point is 03:01:01 What? It's for Hampton Mystery and Crime Festival they have now. That's fucked up. We know who done it. Weird. Yep. And then you got the million dollar murder. Sources for this, by the way, Vanity Fair, murder in East Hampton.
Starting point is 03:01:12 Michael Schneiersen that had a lot of good investigative reporting and the book is Almost Paradise the murder of multimillionaire Ted Ammon and the Hamptons, America's Playground for the Rich and Fames. Shorten your title, Kieran Crowley. Either way, there you go. There is the
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