Their son is menswear designer Adam Kimmel; His second wife was former Wilhelmina model, Lillian Crawford, 24 years his junior. It lets you transport your luxury car up to the safety of your own unit, even as crime rates have dropped. You make real money when you sell the company. Don Aronow is also quite proud of his lovely wife Lillian. (Captains note: this means party animal.). (Captains note: more about Dons, er, appetites, later.) 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. Don also rubbed quite a few people up the wrong way and one of them eventually shot Don dead in Miami in 1987. Bobby Young was the person who did the killing, and he said that Ben Kramer hired him. 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. Aronow can still remember peering out at the countryside through his thick glasses, watching the tiny lights flickering from the small farm houses of rural New York and the hobo jungle campfires burning in the night. Bob Saccenti The real Don was sitting at a business table negotiating deals. Besides the states weak case, there were other, more fundamental doubts over whether Kramer had arranged to have Aronow shot. The full breakdown of his net worth at the time of his passing is still unavailable to the general public. But in the end the investigation led to a hired gun. ADVERTISEMENT Thanks for watching! Don was to offshore speed boats what Ben Franklin was to electricity, an admiring Customs official told the newspaper. What Happened to Speed Kills Racer Ben Aronoff? He went to 188th Street in Miami and decided he wanted to put a plant there. Herein lay the alleged motivation for Aronows murder. The beginning of the film tells the tale of Don, who relocates to Miami in order to win every prize. 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. She was once married to renowned developer Martin Kimmel. Don Aronow has actually been married twice in his life. Saccenti: When he came to Florida, he got hooked up with the greats, and he definitely made his mark. Even local residents the Bee Gees were not immune. "And they're entitled to spend it any damn way thay want.". Some people badmouth him, He did this, he robbed that. Well, thats shame on you. Writer: (to Aronow) Tell me about your earliest memory. Similar to IMDb, it lists a middling 4.2 stars out of 10. I knew they were gunshots. Back in 1981, Time quoted a legal researcher living in Miami as saying: I see people walking down the streets openly carrying guns, some in their hands, others in their holsters. This was December of 86. Anyhow, there was this contessa Don Aronow met while he was racing in the Mediterranean off northern Italy. Once Aronow was able to formally open his new company, he started Cigarette Racing Team using his own designs in 1970. But nothing compares with the go-fast scenes of the 1960s, 1970s and climatic 1980s. Included in the settlement was $1.25 million in cash, a million-dollar Miami waterfront home and a Rolls-Royce. Then one time, Don left, and said Alright kid, Ill see ya, and he walked out the door. (Captains note: we think he means money.) Adam Kimmel, the menswear designer and spouse of The Glass House actress Leelee Sobieski, is the son of the ex-couple. He designed, built and raced the famous Magnum Marine, Cary, Cigarette, Donzi and Formula speedboats. That became the original Formula Marine.. Some men had told his father that he'd lost it. Allan Brown Shirley was his first wife. They pulled him out, he was pale, he had gone unconscious at some point. And that became the original Formula Marine. Katheryn Winnick and John Travolta in Speed Kills ( Source : imdb ) Ben and his wife Emily also had a son named Andrew. Ive met some extremely charismatic men, including Sean Connery and Roger Moore, she said. A guy comes in with the money and you build a boat for them and you never know. Brown: He started Formula from scratch and sold it to Thunderbird in about a year. About his second son, David, nothing is known. Get this magazine sent straight to your door, or subscribe and never miss an issue. Peters: The upstairs apartment above his office was kind of famous. Many disputes were going on in his marital life. Furthermore, there were witnesses plenty of them, if not always consistent in the details they shared with police. You had to be able to match. Then he bought a parcel of land immediately west of them and built the Magnum building. Still subject to a non-compete agreement with Cigarette which hed bought back, then sold again in 1982 Aronow was forbidden from producing deep V monohulls. 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). And then one night Aronow and the contessa were driving back from a candlelit dinner in a tiny restaurant high in the Carrara Mountains. Writer: How about a one-word description of the kind of boat you build? A kid was going to start a boat company in Florida. He gave the impression that he felt he could take whatever he wanted.. 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. So he commissioned a design from Michael Peters that split a V in two to create a catamaran. Little could prepare him for the scene two hundred metres up the street. It was from here the hit man opened fire, three bullets striking the powerboat star. Aronow was murdered in his car at the end of 188th Street in North Miami Beach on February 3, 1987. Nearly a decade later, two men pleaded no contest to charges related to Aronow's killing. Brown: Hed fuck your wife in a second. aronow: I dont think any of those guys had ever seen anything quite like it to be honest. The Captain has covered Dons extravagant and extravagant lifestyle in great detail. Hes the only person Ive ever known like that. Aronow: After the 62 race my father started to work with Jim Wynne and Walt Walters. Don Aronow is also quite proud of his lovely wife Lillian. At the east end of the street is now the Aventura Arts & Cultural Center; further east, across Biscayne Bay, on oceanside Sunny Isles Beach, stands the Porsche Design Tower. But a dark Lincoln Continental rolled up alongside and then shots rang out. It was all downhill from there. Bush a close friend.]. Peters recalled a sound like firecrackers a pop pop pop, eerie and ominous. There'd been a problem with the taxicab company his father owned in upstate New York. And I could tell you the day he was murdered there were phone calls to the King of Jordan, the King of Spain, George Bush. Retired President Lyndon B. Johnson owned several 16ft. Donzi speedboats on his Texas ranch with which he would race his Secret Service agents. Within a year of its creation, Donzi Marine gained recognition on a global scale, making it an immediate success. I think hed really be proud of the boats. Jackson said it was the best in the world. That was just his personality.. Aronow was free to pursue the contessa. Don Aronow has actually been married twice in his life. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Aronow left his office in his white Mercedes, shortly after visiting a rival boat dealership owned by Kramer. 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. And hes bellowing, trying to say something. [1] He graduated a top athlete from James Madison High School in 1944,[1] worked as a life guard at Coney Island, and enrolled at Brooklyn College. If your browser is out of date, try updating it. Over the years, theories have developed to involve the Chicago mob, Colombian drug kingpins, cuckolded husbands or just a random shooter. Don was the only person who gave me more than a platitudehe gave me a job, this was December of 86. It fuelled an uneasy dynamism. It was in 007 that he beat Bertram in the Miami-Nassau race in 1965. Aronow's close friend at the time, Vice President George Bush, was a former Cigarette owner and was involved in testing out the 39-foot cats prior to government approval. They had me in a cage for three years and nine months, with no daylight, no contact with human beings, Kramer said. It was from here the hit man opened fire, three bullets striking the powerboat star. Claudia is a New York-based artist. That was the cast of characters he was involved with. With his first wife, Shirley Goldin, he has two sons and a daughter. "I took her to all the best places," Aronow says. 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. When I started designing for Cigarette in 1978, Halter Marine had just acquired the company and they perpetuated the ethos, said Peters. Innovations such as fibreglass construction techniques and the drag-reducing deep V hull were taking chunks from the record times, and also from crews in rough seas. They just dont make em like Don Aronow anymore. Aronow agreed to buy USA Racing Team back from Kramer, equally predictably for less than the consideration hed received. The bosss wife would lean over my drafting table with her ample bosom and say, Remember, think sex.. He had plenty of cheese. A tough, athletic, Jewish kid from Sheepshead Bay in Brooklyn, New York, by the age of 21, Aronow was married and about to start a career in his father-in-laws New Jersey construction company. While limiting your liability, all while adhering to the most notable state and federal privacy laws and 3rd party initiatives, including. We'd race to Nassau and back on the weekends. Around one-third of the regions murders were believed to be related to drugs. Bob Saccenti is the builder of Chief Powerboats and founder of Apache Performance Boats. With lots of money and charisma, not to mention NFL starting quarterback good looks, Aronow soon became a ladies man of legendary status in Miami circles. But it bothered Don Aronow that he couldn't win. Being a multimillionaire and accomplished speedboat racing champion, he frequently ran afoul of the law and numerous drug lords in the water metropolis. 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. Aronow had just left a meeting with Bob Saccenti, part owner of Apache Power Boats together with partner Ben Kramer. Don Aronow has actually been married twice in his life. WebAronow married twice. What Happened To Don Aronow? Aronow had sold USA Racing Teama company that built high-speed catamarans for the U.S. Customs Serviceto Kramer and his father in 1985. With his father, he also founded Fort Apache Marina on the Row, comprising a boat storage facility, waterfront restaurant and patio bar. [1] In 1945, he joined the merchant marine and worked overseas until the end of World War II. Brown: He was also the best boat salesman in the history of the world. In these circumstances, it would have been extraordinary if the drug cash hadnt found its way into Thunderboat Row and its fabled go-fast boats. Peters: I had gone through a divorce and it was terrible times. Allegations ran wild in the aftermath of Aronows death. Peters: A guy would walk into his shop, all excited to meet [Aronow] and buy a boat. Don Aronow: The King of Thunderboat Row, 1994, by Michael Aronow Dick Bertram was the man to beat both in terms of boat design and the racing itself. What Happened To Don Aronow? Next, he started Donzi, named after himself, again on NE 188th Street. He was pale, he had gone unconscious at some point. Aronow sold the company (and Brownie) shortly after its inception (and a couple of big offshore wins). Lipschutz: Once racings in your blood you can never get it out. [A tough, athletic, Jewish kid from Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, by age 21 Aronow found himself married and about to start a career in his father-in-laws New Jersey Brown: At Cigarette he had an intercom in his office and he used to boff his secretary there and if you needed him you just hit him on the intercom! I went over there and he had holes all over him. 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. When his kids are teenagers, his first wife Kathy decides she cant stand him anymore after finding out about his other relationships. [A tough, athletic, Jewish kid from Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, by age 21 Aronow found himself married and about to start a career in his father-in-laws New Jersey construction company.]. Saccenti: The real Don was sitting at a business table negotiating deals. We considered Formula to be a utility boat. He came to my basketball games, my football games, he was always around. ADVERTISEMENT Thanks for watching! That was on my to-do list: Deal with Baby Doc. 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. The story was also the basis for the 2009 documentary film Thunder Man: The Don Aronow Story and the 2018 movie Speed Kills with John Travolta. You should have seen that pilot's face.". Performance boats attract a lot of characters. One of those characters was a racing boat driver and drug smuggler called Ben Kramer. Aronow left his office in his white Mercedes, shortly after visiting a rival boat dealership owned by Kramer. 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. 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In the 2018 memory film Speed Kills, Ben Aronoff played a multimillionaire. Don was a native of New York who, through to his financial savvy and driving prowess, eventually came to command the Miami waterways. The secret to happiness is taking risks. He was about outdoing the other guy, no matter what you were doing., Bob Saccenti He was a great guy and a great businessman. Michael Aronow is one of Dons five sons from three wives. "These guys earned their money," Aronow says. We considered Formula to be a utility boat. You dont dare honk your horn at anybody; you could end up dead.. He was a great dad and a great husband. He pulled alongside a Lincoln car with tinted windows. More tips and leads pointed to Kramer as the man whod ordered and paid for the hit. "It won big," Aronow says. You gotta do your homework. And then the investigation got going and they realized who Aronow was involved with, and Bush backpedaled out of there as fast as he could. Little Don couldn't understand how all his father's taxicabs could get lost at once. An estimated 70 per cent of all marijuana and cocaine imported into the US passes through South Florida, the feature reported. The official record shows that, via a tip-off, police identified a mercenary street criminal named Bobby Young as the man whod shot Aronow. 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.. Next thing I know, an employee is banging on my door. And he liked to get the best of people. At the age of 32 in 1959, Donald was listed as an official millionaire. Again, he sold his company and started a new one, Magnum, evidently named after the double-sized bottles of champagne. Aronow, it seems, would sell anybody a boat, especially for cash, but if you said you were using it to smuggle drugs, Don wouldnt have anything to do with you, asserted Mike Kandrovicz from USA Racing Team. Aronow was now with his second wife, Lillian Crawford a model, Palm Beach heiress and ex-girlfriend of King Hussein of Jordan. American designer/builder/racer:famous Magnum Marine/Cigarette/Donzi/Formula speedboats, Learn how and when to remove this template message, "How a Kid From Brooklyn Put Go-Fast Boats On The Map" By Capt Ken Kreisler, "Don Aronow's Murder Leaves Miami Wondering: Were 'Cigarettes' Hazardous to His Health? Bobby Young, the convicted shooter and the man who might have provided definitive answers, died in jail in 2009. Aronow was bigger than life, and he was also a boat designer. Your access to this page has been blocked. Don Aronow with his wife Lillian and son Gavin. Her son Adam Kimmel is a menswear designer. And he never would backpedal later or change things. Six foot three, real good-looking, lots of swagger. The automotive billionaire was 24 years older than Crawford, a former Wilhelmina model. Michael plays the role of Andrew in the movie Speed Kills. (ABOVE) RICH AND FAMOUS: Aronow famously kept company with people from all walks of life. We could see all the gunshots., Allan Brown He was murdered right out in front of my office, halfway betweenSaccentis building and my building. (ABOVE) TICKET TO RIDE: Don Aronow and his son, Michael, cruising off Miami with the Beatles before their iconic 1964 appearance on The Ed Sullivan show. Aronow won the World Powerboat Championship in 1967 (hed go on to win it once more and the US championship three times), and in 1968, he sold Magnum. Separately, there were rumours that Aronow may have been assisting law enforcement, even becoming an informant or at least that, in early 1987, he was about to be subpoenaed to give evidence about the USA Racing Team transactions. Don Aronow, powerboat racing champion and founder of Magnum, Cigarette and Donzi, continues to fascinate as doeshismysterious death,discovers Daniel Pembrey. Witnesses assert that as Aronow rolled down his window, the other driver allegedly started shooting. Dont challenge him, and you were fine. Radios blared out the hits of the day. You never knew who might show up here, from royalty and high-born celebrity clients to drug-dealing low-lifes, by way of government officials, heads of the various boat firms and a diverse population of workers who earned their livings here. The twos happy marriage disintegrates due to Bens demanding schedules and their son Andrews car accident, which left his legs permanently disfigured. Lipschutz: The saying he had about [Cigarettes famed Mistress model] was every man should have a Mistress. And that certainly described him, too. In Italy. He dont speak too much English, but hes trying to explain something serious. He stepped off and said, The boats a piece of shit, kid. You can talk to anyone, but every night he was at home.. He owns a horse farm in Ocala, a home in Miami Beach and a new Long Island estate that just made Toen and Country. There was fibreglass dust in the air and the pungent smell of resin and paint. Also, said Peters, the Coast Guard drivers were left drowned in the wake of the offshore racers and the cocaine runners, who just had a different mentality come race time.. I didnt hear shots, with the air conditioner and sewing machines going on, but somebody came and got me. 2023 Active Interest Media All Rights Reserved. They become friends and Johnson told my father about the Miami-Nassau race, which my father became really interested in. Meet His Family, Ben Aronoff Net Worth Figures In The Movie. She used to be married to Martin Kimmel, a real estate developer. Don Aronow born in 1927 in Brooklyn New York, left New Jersey in 1961 to relocate in Miami. Therefore, his annoyance with the motor mogul was the true impetus for his illegal plans. Don Aronow: The King of Thunderboat Row, 1994, by Michael Aronow First published in the October 2022 issue of BOAT International. 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. In 1966, he founded Magnum Marine and in 1967 proceeded to win his first World Championship driving two 27' Magnums, a single engine inboard and a triple engine Mercury-powered outboard. How much does it cost to charter a Below Deck yacht? Or man, his brother Robin added. Some people say he was hiding from the mob. Aronow doesn't care if all these retired furniture makers and machine tool executives are little more than middle-aged adolescents flaunting their masculinity on a Sunday afternoon -- tooling around the docks of some Intracoastal bar like Shooters, feeling terribly macho-nautical doing 30 knots in a $125,000 Cigarette Aronow built to run all day at 60 knots in hull- hammering six foot seas. WebI think it was at this point that Don discovered that he was Jewish. His 193cm, still-athletic frame barely fitted inside the sporty white Mercedes-Benz two-seater in which he drove away from USA Racing Teams office on Thunderboat Row. 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. Today, Thunderboat Row is a transformed, gentrified enclave. This is his story in the words of some of the men who knew him best. The persona of John Travolta After relocating to Miami, Ben develops swiftly as a racer, motor designer, and businessman. Allan Brown Shirley was his first wife. "So I decided to build a powerboat race that would beat these other guys.". Some of the most popular types of speedboats were the Cigarette, Donzi, Formula, and Cary. Their son is menswear designer Adam Kimmel; His second wife was former Wilhelmina model, Lillian Crawford, 24 years his junior. Money comes and goes. The result was the 8.5-metre 007, named after the gathering cinematic phenomenon. 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 Witnesses said a powder blue Lincoln pulled up next to Aronow's car from the opposite direction, and when Aronow rolled down its window the driver opened fire. By this time the mid 1990s he was being kept in an isolation cell without, his lawyer claimed, adequate dental or medical care. I never thought anybody would actually do that, but by God, they did., Michael Peters [George] Bushs reaction was that he wanted [Miami] Dade Homicide on it like it was the most important case on their books. We were having lunch one day and Don asked if it was a good watch. In the real-life offshore racing seasons, a majority of the contestants might well turn out to be drug runners say, George Morales, Sal Magluta and Willie Falcn, all convicted of cocaine trafficking. It reported Miamis Federal Reserve branch to have amassed a currency surplus of $5 billion, mostly in drug-generated $50 and $100 bills, or more than the nations 12 Federal Reserve banks combined. The associated crime could strike anyone. Due to Dons business relationships with some of the riskiest figures in the field, his name was changed to Ben Aronoff. The University of Florida standout athlete Michael was the one who suffered serious injuries in a vehicle accident in 1970. It was late and night during the depths of America's great Depression. Congregating witnesses spoke of a dark Lincoln Continental having pulled up alongside Aronows white Mercedes. Members of the Bee Gees were neighbours on both sides. "I'd never be married to a beautiful woman like Lillian if I hauled garbage for a living," Aronow adds. Donald Joel Aronow (March 3, 1927 February 3, 1987) was an American designer, builder and racer of the famous Magnum Marine, Cary, Cigarette, Donzi, and Formula speedboats. (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. Don Aronow was a dead set legend. I told my secretary to call 911. [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. 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