We collected some of the best. And if you had money and you were a coward, hed take as much as possible. You make a living doing that. His company, Bertram Yacht, drew worldwide attention. Today, Thunderboat Row is a transformed, gentrified enclave. Who Is Ben Aronoff? Don built boats for good guys and he built them for bad guys. Youre a businessman, too. Don Aronow: (frowning) You mean back when I was a kid? It was in 007 that he beat Bertram in the Miami-Nassau race in 1965. Magnum Marine was responsible for Donalds first World Championship victory in 1927. At the time, Saccenti was recovering from a horrific crash on Lake Erie. Bob Saccenti The real Don was sitting at a business table negotiating deals. First published in the October 2022 issue of BOAT International. Aronow was bigger than life, and he was also a boat designer. WebThree weeks before he was murdered, Aronow had a pensive, reflective talk with his wife, Lillian, a former girlfriend of Jordan's King Hussein. Sign up to BOAT International email newsletters to get the latest superyacht news, business analysis, exclusive event invitations, and more. She has a son with him. Despite having a complex plot, Speed Kills from 2018 failed to win over both reviewers and viewers. If you are using a VPN, try disabling it. You had to be able to match. You make real money when you sell the company., Allan Brown He was also the best boat salesman in the history of the world. (ABOVE) CRIME SCENE:A violent criminal named Bobby Young (right) was fingered as the hitman, whose employer according to the courts was Ben Kramer (left), Bob Saccenti [Kramer and Aronow] were both wealthy, and if it was over money, thats a shame. However, when the Customs Service found out about the younger Kramers criminal reputation, they put the kibosh on the transaction, Allan Brown Ben Kramer bought USA Racing from Aronow and apparently there was some money under the table. The idea of bad guys outracing other bad guys and seizing their fortunes appealed to Aronow reasoned The Washington Post five days after his murder. He hung out with kings, mobsters, and The Beatles, and considered future president George H.W. It was mostly a lot of hell-raising and good times.". Certainly it is less difficult now to see how, in 1980s Miami, the murder of a man as magnetic as Aronow could garner 140 suspects at the Metro-Dade Police Department, each with the apparent motive, means and opportunity to have the King of Thunderboat Row gunned down in broad daylight. They had three children: [1] Michael who was a star athlete at the University of Florida until he was severely injured in a car accident in 1970 and used a wheelchair after that. But if he didnt like you, watch out., Allan Brown Our friend Stu Jackson worked for Thunderbird and he received a gold Rolex when he retired. He has been elected to every powerboating Hall of Fame in existence and as stated above, he and Gar Wood were the only two Americans to have ever received the UIM Gold Medal of Honor. During his quarter-century-long reign as the undisputed king of Thunderboat Row, Aronow was a lot of different things to a lot of different people. Members of the Bee Gees were neighbours on both sides. He was formidably competitive both on and off the water, brutally handsome and adroit at negotiating the line between the legal and the illicit at least until the very end. You make real money when you sell the company.. For his part, he says the Colombians did it.]. Saccenti: He was a great guy and a great businessman. "So I decided to build a powerboat race that would beat these other guys.". I told my secretary to call 911. Guys wanted to be him. Claudia is a New York-based artist. It was late and night during the depths of America's great Depression. There was fibreglass dust in the air and the pungent smell of resin and paint. (Ironically, in the immediate aftermath of the crash, Saccentis life was saved by his race partner, none other than Ben Kramer.) He was a great dad and a great husband. Our Privacy Policy Creator includes several compliance verification tools to help you effectively protect your customers privacy. Everything there to me was racing and drug trafficking. It was just one of the unusual clients Aronow had dealings with: oil-rich Arabs, Princess Caroline of Monaco and the Shah of Iran. Aronow: My father broke up more marriages than anybody. Retired President Lyndon B. Johnson owned several 16ft. Donzi speedboats on his Texas ranch with which he would race his Secret Service agents. But Aronow may have possessed a darker side that even he could not outrun and in the end, he wound up as nothing more than a target for an assassins bullet. I used to work boat shows with him and Holy Christ!, Michael Aronow I dont think any of those guys had ever seen anything quite like it, to be honest., Allan Brown At Cigarette, he had an intercom in his office and he used to boff his secretary there. Revealingly, the Time feature predicted that Miami would remain, as the late President Jaime Rolds of Ecuador put it, the capital of Latin America. Bob Saccenti is the builder of Chief Powerboats and founder of Apache Performance Boats. I can retire and lets go to Florida. This was in 1961., Allan Brown Everybody has their own idea about why he was in Miami. Performance boats attract a lot of characters. This is his story in the words of some of the men who knew him best. "She was gorgous," Aronow says. Five days after his murder, The Washington Post reported that a Customs official described Aronow as co-operative when Aronow had been approached for information about one of his clients. Adam and Leelee Sobieski also gave Don a great-granddaughter, Louisanna Ray Kimmel. At 57, he is a lean and muscular six-foot-two. But if you decided to take him on, dont expect him to give ground., His next project was considered to be his masterpiece: the long lean Cigarette boats named after a vessel used to hijack rum-runners during Prohibition days. No woman should be alone in this city, Barry Gibb warned Time. Michael, his oldest son, was one of the best athletes at the University of Florida. Don Aronow was a dead set legend. In Italy. He was born in 1927, the son of an affluent taxicab owner whose family had emigrated from Russia and been bankrupted by the Great Depression. He had a brown Rolls-Royce and [race] horses., Bob Saccenti He used to say youre never gonna make a lot of money building boats you make a living doing that. Just lining up. He raced his 8.2-metre Maltese Magnum all over the world. [2] Shortly after the visit, Aronow left his office and drove down the street to Apache Performance Boats to visit with his former protg, Bob Saccenti. Next thing I know an employee comes in and hes banging on my door. Are lithium-ion batteries to blame for recent boat blazes? He pulled alongside a Lincoln car with tinted windows. Also read:Queen Elizabeth II: Death And Obituary What Happened To Her? Lipschutz: I never had any inkling that Don was involved in something illegal. Six foot three, real good looking, lots of swagger. However when the Customs Service found out about the younger Kramers criminal reputation, they put the kibosh on the transaction.]. Lillian Aronow: (smiling) My husband is actually a veryshy man, you know. [With lots of money and charisma, not to mention starting-quarterback good looks, Aronow soon became a ladies man of legendary status in Miami circles.]. What Happened To Don Aronow? A guy comes in with the money and you build a boat for them and you never know. People said whatever Don touched turned to gold. Young died in prison in 2009 after steadfastly refusing for years to testify against Kramer. 2023 Active Interest Media All Rights Reserved. Peters: Aronow looked the part. Adam Kimmel, the menswear designer and spouse of The Glass House actress Leelee Sobieski, is the son of the ex-couple. We considered Formula to be a utility boat. Six foot three, real good looking, lots of swagger. Emblematic of both the American dream and a particularly magnetic kind of American masculinity, Aronow was a frontiersman, a real-life Marlboro Man and a fearless racer. Still riding high in the charts was The Bangles recent chart-topper Walk Like an Egyptian, originally inspired by the way people struggle to maintain balance aboard boats, apparently. Aronow had just finished a meeting with Apache Power Boats co-owner Bob Saccenti when a powder blue Lincoln drew up next to his vehicle from the opposite direction. Peters: It could have been anyone from drug runners, to business partners, to jealous husbands. That was on my to-do list: Deal with Baby Doc. Having made a fortune in the construction business in New Jersey, building homes and shopping centres, Aronow hastily relocated to Florida in 1961. Check Death Reason HOw Old She Was? I was a little hesitant to move to Miami, because my view of it was straight out of Miami Vice. Dons origin story moves around according to whos telling it. Anyhow, there was this contessa Don Aronow met while he was racing in the Mediterranean off northern Italy. After divorcing his first wife, Shirley, with whom he had three children, Aronow married Lillian Crawford, a Wilhelmina fashion model and socialite. Don Aronow is also quite proud of his lovely wife Lillian. It was all downhill from there. Hed retained his key designers. About his second son, David, nothing is known. Bush, right, was a close friend who initially threw his weight behind the murder investigation. We considered Formula to be a utility boat. The year Aronow won his first world championship as an international powerboat driver, he says. Besides the states weak case, there were other, more fundamental doubts over whether Kramer had arranged to have Aronow shot. In the film, Ben Aronoff is wed to Katherine Aronoff, his wife. The same year he almost killed himself when his race boat hit a wave off California, shot airborne and slammed into a helicopter hovering overhead. Saccenti: [Kramer and Aronow] were both wealthy, and if it was over money, thats a shame. That was just his personality. One of Don Aronow's race horses has just finished first. Brown: Everybody has their own idea about why he was in Miami. It was from here the hit man opened fire, three bullets striking the powerboat star. Aronow said Let me see. Then he took the watch by the clasp, banged it on the table, and threw it in a glass of beer. The movie sequences accurately depicted his wealth, which was real. His mother and father sounded very frightened in the front seat of the car as it sped homeward through the night. "That's what winning is all about," Aronow grins nearly 20 years later. I just did you a favour., Michael Peters [upon hearing Browns story] Im from California, I hope that storys not about me!, Bob Saccenti I think there were over 100 suspects when they finally killed him., Michael Peters It could have been anyone, from drug runners to business partners to jealous husbands.. Was it even a planned killing, or some crazed crime of passion? A certain Ben Kramer, who came from a seemingly good home on the Intracoastal Waterway between Miami and Fort Lauderdale, started smoking pot at school and began selling it. Wally Tatomir: Death And Obituary What Is The Cause Of The Equipment Manager&Death? [2] So little Don had driven north to spend the day in Rochester with his parents. Aronow raced his 8.2-metre Maltese Magnum all over the globe, Don Aronow with his wife Lillian and son Gavin, NE 188th Street which was nicknamed Thunderbolt Row, Credit: Courtesy of Cigarette Racing Team, Ben Kramer (on right) with racing friends, some of whom were convicted of cocaine traffiking (from left) Willie Falcn, Keith Eickert, Sal Magluta and Bobby Saccenti, Aronow was driving a sporty white Mercedes-Benz two-seater, Credit: Courtesy of Miami-Dade Police Dept/Arthur Jay Harris, Dry Martini, a cigarette designed and built by Don Aronow, Credit: Ajax News & Feature Service/Alamy Stock Photo, The Beatles taking a ride in a Formula 23 on their first trip to the US, The then vice president Bush personally tested the Blue Thunder boats, Aronow with Howard Cosell at the Kentucky Derby, The Lincoln Continental the shooter allegedly used, How the 88m Project X came to life over 14 years. You had to be able to match. Their son is menswear designer Adam Kimmel; His second wife was former Wilhelmina model, Lillian Crawford, 24 years his junior. But in the end, the investigation led to a hired gun. Then the investigation got going and they realised who Aronow was involved with. Leaving his office that afternoon, Aronow was making for his North Bay Road residence, a 1929 Spanish-style waterfront mansion undergoing renovations, 30 minutes drive away. Aronow: Forrest Johnson was originally his fishing buddy. But it bothered Don Aronow that he couldn't win. The Row was island-like, bounded by water on three sides. Many disputes were going on in his marital life. Lipschutz: The saying he had about [Cigarettes famed Mistress model] was every man should have a Mistress. And that certainly described him, too. Aronow went down the canal at 65mph (105km/h) and ended up running into the seawall. Some men had told his father that he'd lost it. Don built boats for good guys and he built them for bad guys. They had three children: [1] Michael who was a star athlete at the University of Florida until he was severely injured in a car accident in 1970 and used a wheelchair after that. Although he entered a no guilty plea to manslaughter in 1996, the real offender was Ben Kramer, the 1986 American Power Boat Association Offshore Championship winner. After purchasing Aronows USA Racing Team, Kramer and the latter got into a business dispute, but after the Customs Service refused to do business with him, Kramer was obliged to give it back to Aronow. It lets you transport your luxury car up to the safety of your own unit, even as crime rates have dropped. Allan Brown He started Formula from scratch and sold it to Thunderbird in about a year. Miami claimed the nations highest murder rate at 70 per 100,000 residents, and this years pace has been even higher. Her son Adam Kimmel is a menswear designer. Included in the settlement was $1.25 million in cash, a million-dollar Miami waterfront home and a Rolls-Royce. Or man, his brother Robin added. He thought he was going to semi-retire to Florida and skin dive and fish, but he got bored. Speculation about who the killer might be ran from jilted lovers to jealous husbands to Meyer Lansky to the CIA. You make real money when you sell the company. He didnt pick on the little guy. In 1964 he started Donzi Marine; the Donzi brand became an international success and Aronow quickly sold the company to Teleflex Inc. in mid-1965. He was the type of guy that if he liked you he loved you. Audiences grew. You dont dare honk your horn at anybody; you could end up dead.. The Lincoln drove over the grass to get away. Credit: Courtesy of Arthur Jay Harris. Despite being pursued, the murderers managed to escape by driving across the grass. They conveyed a warmth and a feeling of genuinely liking you. "These guys earned their money," Aronow says. He retired and moved to Florida 10 years later -- a millionaire in his early 30's, his fortune spawned by the thousands of tract homes Aronow had built and sold throughout northern New Jersey. Aronow's Cigarette has also become the low slung get-away boat of choice for South Florida's high-rolling drug smugglers.? Seemingly he had everything to live for. WebThree weeks before he was murdered, Aronow had a pensive, reflective talk with his wife, Lillian, a former girlfriend of Jordan's King Hussein. He became hooked on racing and thats how it all began., Phil Lipschutz Once racings in your blood, you can never get it out., Michael Aronow After that 62 race, my father started to work with Jim Wynne and Walt Walters. They become friends and Mr. Johnson told my father about the Miami-Nassau race and my father became really interested in it. Additionally, Travoltas earlier fame did not contribute to the films success. His roles in Saturday Night Fever, Carrie, Urban Cowboy, Face/Off, Grease, and A Civil Action, among many others, make him a must-see 70s and 80s heartthrob. Leaving his office that afternoon, Aronow was making for his North Bay Road residence, a 1929 Spanish-style waterfront mansion undergoing renovations, 30 minutes drive away. What Happened to Speed Kills Racer Ben Aronoff? A world-champion boat racer who enjoyed wild success in business, he was also an unapologetic playboy and fabled bon vivant. My Legacy: Inside Codecasa's 56m superyacht that champions traditionalism, Mimi La Sardine: The 33.5m explorer designed with a little help from Pinterest, My Song: Sailing in symphony on board the first ClubSwan 80, Interior designer Katharine Pooley turns her hand to boats, 130+ superyachts flock to St Barths for New Year's celebrations, Celebrities spotted on superyachts during the holidays. Michael plays the role of Andrew in the movie Speed Kills. He marries Emily Gowen, and they have a son together. Lipschutz: Once racings in your blood you can never get it out. It says so right there on the bottom of his resume: Has survived three motorcycle crashes, totaled five automobiles and 12 boating mishaps. When I started designing for Cigarette in 1978, Halter Marine had just acquired the company and they perpetuated the ethos, said Peters. Also read:Wally Tatomir: Death And Obituary What Is The Cause Of The Equipment Manager&Death? At the age of 32 in 1959, Donald was listed as an official millionaire. After divorcing his first wife, Shirley, with whom he had three children, Aronow married Lillian Crawford, a Wilhelmina fashion model and socialite. He started hosting Sunday afternoon brunches at the new home, sometimes for 50 or 60 people, with only Skip and Joanne Allen, of Southern Boating, and my wife and I as the token Christians. Don Aronow: The King of Thunderboat Row, 1994, by Michael Aronow And he eventually became aggravated with the business. "I'd never be married to a beautiful woman like Lillian if I hauled garbage for a living," Aronow adds. Don was the only person who gave me more than a platitudehe gave me a job, this was December of 86. Nobody really knows [what happened], the only thing for sure is that Dons gone. The great speed of Cigarette boats also made them a popular choice among cocaine smugglers. To finance the development, he sold more civilised versions, with teak decks and sleeping quarters, to the general public. During our conversation she revealed that she was a bit hesitant about being interviewed since she is not someone who is comfortable in the public eye but in the end we chatted about everything from her art, her stint in the antiques business to her childhood in Florida with her father, Don Aronow the boat racer and builder of the renowned aronow: I dont think any of those guys had ever seen anything quite like it to be honest. And I can tell you, the day he was murdered there were phone calls to the King of Jordan, the King of Spain, George Bush. Aronow sold the company (and Brownie) shortly after its inception (and a couple of big offshore wins). In reality, Don had already amassed a million dollars before relocating to Miami with his family. Don Aronow is a proud man; proud of the way he's survived. He was going to run for president, and his friend had 140 people who wanted to kill him! From one of Italy';s best families.". I was a little hesitant to move to Miami because my view of it was straight out of [1980s TV series] Miami Vice. So he commissioned a design from Michael Peters that split a V in two to create a catamaran. I dont think it ever ran again. He admired Aronow and acquired a corner of the Row, obtaining an interest in Apache, which in turn supplied the vessels he raced offshore (his fabled Warpath, based on a deep V Cigarette mould, won him a world championship). His boats won over 350 offshore races, two world championships, and three U.S. championships as his career grew. In Speed Kills, the story of Ben Aronoff is based on the life of Donald Aranow, who built speedboats and raced them. Don Aronow born in 1927 in Brooklyn New York, left New Jersey in 1961 to relocate in Miami. Check Out Christopher Brineys Unseen Summer I Turned Pretty PhotosYoull Be Surprised! It was a big building and obscured the Donzi plant, and you couldnt see [Donzi] from Highway 1 anymore! Having sold Cigarette for the last time in 1982 (after having sold it and purchasing it back in the late 1970s while merging it with his own Squadron Marine), he formed USA Racing Team and built the Blue Thunders, 39-foot catamarans used by the United States Customs Service to patrol U.S. waters and run down illegal offshore activities, especially drug smuggling. You should have seen that pilot's face.". WebClaudia is a New York artist and ex-wife of real estate developer Martin Kimmel. You can talk to anybody [about that]. Hed knock you right down., Allan Brown Don was so reckless with shit like that. Sure enough, I moved there on a Monday and he was murdered that Tuesday.. Michael, Donalds eldest son, thought his dad was a hero. Some people say he was hiding from the mob. He started hosting Sunday afternoon brunches at the new home, sometimes for 50 or 60 people, with only Skip and Joanne Allen, of Southern Boating, and my wife and I as the token Christians. With his father, he also founded Fort Apache Marina on the Row, comprising a boat storage facility, waterfront restaurant and patio bar. At his funeral, Doc Magoon gave the eulogy, and at one point he said Don was a mans man, and he paused, and then he said, and he was a ladies man. And everybody looked around the room at all of the known mistresses that were sitting there. Katheryn Winnick and John Travolta in Speed Kills ( Source : imdb ) Ben and his wife Emily also had a son named Andrew. I saw it, the blood. Make that a very healthy six figures. [3] In 1995, career criminal Bobby Young admitted to shooting Aronow and pleaded no contest to second degree murder, eventually providing a full confession in 2009 shortly before his death. Don Aronow with his wife Lillian and son Gavin. The full breakdown of his net worth at the time of his passing is still unavailable to the general public. With his first wife, Shirley Goldin, he has two sons and a daughter. And I was like, do I really want to move down there? Saccenti: I think there were over 100 suspects when they finally killed him. I think hed really be proud of the boats. Peters: Bushs reaction was that he wanted Dade Homicide on it like the most important case on their books. Aronow evidently stopped his car willingly; he was found with his foot pressed fully down on the accelerator, the 5.6-litre Mercedes engine racing wildly hed put the car in neutral, almost certainly to engage whoever was inside the Lincoln. When his kids are teenagers, his first wife Kathy decides she cant stand him anymore after finding out about his other relationships. Drug smuggling could be the regions major [largest] industry.. Peters recalled a sound like firecrackers a pop pop pop, eerie and ominous. But nothing compares with the go-fast scenes of the 1960s, 1970s and climatic 1980s. Michael Peters If you were a coward with him, you were gone. Mega-priced and obscenely over-powered, Aronow's sleek craft have set 25 world speed records, won more than 300 major races and earned a dozen world ocean racing champions. Collecting his children from summer camp, and not returning to the family home, the 34 year-old arrived in Florida with a $2 million retirement fund. Michael Peters was a contracted designer to Aronow from 1981 to 1986, and was then hired full-time. Celebrated yacht designer Michael Peters, who went to work for Aronow the day before he died, said, He was an asshole, but he was my asshole a benefactor for whom Ill always be grateful., On 3 February 1987, Peters was aged 34 and among the last people to speak with Aronow at the office of USA Racing Team, the latest of Aronows boat firms. We could see all the gunshots., Allan Brown He was murdered right out in front of my office, halfway betweenSaccentis building and my building. He was about outdoing the other guy no matter what you were doing. Michael Peters concludes, If you want to find anything comparable today, you need to look elsewhere, maybe to the final frontier Blue Origin, SpaceX, Bezos and Musk. He pauses. His first boat was made of wood and broke apart. The 2018 criminal drama film Speed Kills served as a vehicle for Dons epicness. On the afternoon of February 3, 1987, a man claiming to be Jerry Jacoby walked into Aronows Thunderboat Row office exhibiting strange behaviour. His father said it had to do with something called the Depression. Her father was extremely wealthy and Don once told me he was going to take Shirley to California if the old man didnt cut him into the business. Guys wanted to be him. A guy would come looking at a boat with a girl, and the guy would ask How much? And Don would go, $70,000. The guy would say, Thats too much. And Don would say, every time, I think you should go get a Bayliner then, this is way too much boat for you. 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