The relationship between Ben Novack Senior and Bernice Mildred was quite toxic. The man lived surrounded by celebrities and prominent personalities of the time, so infidelities and love difficulties were recurrent. This led to a separation that, in any case, did not last long.
But 10 years later, it was Bernice who had a lover and Ben did not forgive her. They divorced in 1966. Since then, Ben Junior lived with his mother. The hotel empire continued to grow, but without Bernice’s control, the magnate began to make financial mistakes. That was the beginning of the collapse.
In 1976, Ben Junior met Jill Campion, a former showgirl with a striking demeanor, tall and beautiful. By lying about a job interview, he got a meeting with her, which began their relationship. At that time, the young man put a lot of effort into hotel work and began to form his own business career.
By 1977 the financial problems increased, so they had to sell the legendary Fontainebleu for 27 million dollars. Since then the tycoon began sending money to tax havens.
Like his father, Ben Junior did not give up. He started working at Amway and followed the loving steps he learned. Infidelities, parties and drugs. He demanded that his wife always be thin, so he made her take pills. Although Bernice did not love her, the couple moved forward and in 1979 they married.
They lasted only 2 years. Due to Ben’s recurring lies and his mother’s influence, they divorced in 1981. Once divorced, he bought property and moved in with his mother. In 1983, he met a stripper in a nightclub who caught his attention. She told him her name was Sylvia and she came from Ecuador.
Her real name was Narcisa Veliz Pacheco, they called her Narcy, she was born in Ecuador in 1956, she was separated and had a daughter named May Abad. He had been born in extreme poverty and with his brothers they had begun to emigrate from their country to the United States to look for a future.
In 1984, Ben Novack Senior was very ill. Despite being separated, Bernice took care of him. And before he died, he signed a complete power of attorney for his son. He died at the age of 78, on April 6, 1985. From then on, his son began to enjoy his money.
He began a relationship with Narcy, who went from total poverty to living in a house valued at 2.4 million dollars. In any case, before the marriage, he demanded a prenuptial agreement. If they divorced before ten years of marriage Narcy would get nothing at all. After that date, he would receive $65,000.
They married in 1990. Bernice obviously hated Narcy for her poor and uneducated condition. In 1994, they both moved to Fort Lauderley to live with her. The empire was reborn, and the whole family worked on it. It is said that the matriarch kept close tabs on her son’s wife.
History seemed to repeat itself. She suspected infidelities and he did not help those fears disappear, which caused violent fights and excesses of jealousy. By 1999, both Bernice and Novack had ended up hospitalized suspected of poisoning carried out by Narcy.
In 2002 an event occurred that would change everything. 3 men came in to steal who were clearly in cahoots with Narcy. They kept him tied up for more than 25 hours and ransacked the mansion. She threatened to cut off his penis and throw him into the sea. While the men stole, she packed her suitcases with clothes and money.
Ben was so terrified that when the police arrived, he didn’t want them to investigate. As if that were not enough, she reported him for domestic violence, with the aim of having him evicted to live there.
Incredibly, the couple ended up reconciled, and would remain together for 7 more years. In 2006, Ben wrote a will where he left everything to Narcy and even explained that they wanted to be buried together. But if he died before her mother, Bernice would inherit $200,000 and half of the profits from the properties.
What Ben did not understand was that with this will he was signing his mother’s death, in addition to his own. So, when she discovered his new infidelity, she carried out her most macabre plan. At 87 years old, Bernice Novack was found dead in her home with multiple blows to the head, a broken jaw and a broken finger. The indolence of the detectives was suspicious, they did not take DNA from the body and concluded that it was an accident due to his advanced age.
Just 3 months later, Ben was found dead at the Rye Town Hilton Hotel in Rye Brook. The body was on the floor of the large room, in his boxers, with his face covered in duct tape, with his arms tied behind his back and his legs wrapped with tape below the knees. His head was pure blood. His killers had gouged out his eyes with a knife and hit his skull with weights.
Narcy Véliz.
Narcy Veliz She was arrested by the FBI on July 13, 2010, almost a year after her husband’s sinister crime. Her brother and the other three accomplices fell with her. She was accused of being the mastermind behind the crime and that is how the investigation into Bernice’s previous death was activated.
One of the key witnesses was that woman who Ben Junior, according to Narcy, should never have looked at: Rebecca Bliss. She said that Narcy herself had offered her $10,000 to get out of the way and had told her: “If I don’t have it, no other woman will.” I had that fixed idea.
Source: Ambito
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