The Prince of Paradise: The True Story of a Hotel Heir His Seductive Wife and a Ruthless Murder

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Ben Novack Jr. was born into a life of luxury and opulence. Heir to the legendary Fontainebleau hotel he spent his childhood surrounded by some of the worlds biggest stars including Frank Sinatra and the Rat Pack Elvis Presley and Ann-Margret who performed regularly at the Fontainebleaus La Ronde Room. He sat by while his parents entertained presidents and movie stars as they reigned over Miami Beach in the 50s and 60s and when the family business went sour he became wealthy in his own right founding a multi-million dollar business using connections he made at the Fontainebleau. But Ben Jr.s luxurious celebrity-studded lifestyle would end in another hotel rooma thousand miles away from the one where he grew upwhen police found him bound up in duct tape beaten to death. Seven years earlier police found Novack in an eerily similar situationwhen his wife Narcy duct-taped him to a chair for twenty-four hours and robbed him. Claiming it was a sex game he never pressed charges and never followed through with a divorce. Now prosecutors claimed Narcy let the vicious killers into the room and watched as they beat her husband with dumbbells. They also suspected she was involved in the horrendous death of Novacks mother just three months before. But it would be Narcys own daughter who implicated her to the police. John Glatt tells the whole story of this twisted case of passion perversion and paradise lost in Prince of Paradise.