Re: I am sending you this post from under the bed, this where my wife has conrnered me! GG
Dammit, Alex!! Why didn't you tell me about your kink EARLIER???? I've got a good screw for you... currently in Switzerland (a stone's throw away from your joint --NO, not that joint!) But hey, watch it, Alex, she can turn nasty --really! Clue:
Murdered banker was 'wearing a latex suit'
By John Lichfield in Paris
05 March 2005
The investigation into the murder of the French banker Edouard Stern took a bizarre twist yesterday with a report that he was shot while wearing a latex bodysuit.
The report, by the Geneva newspaper Le Temps - a report neither confirmed nor denied by investigators - appeared to point to a personal motive for the killing. Investigators were, however, said to be keeping an open mind.
M. Stern, 50, a keen poker player, was known to frequent risqué night-clubs in Geneva. Police believe that he may have been murdered by someone with whom he was having a sado-masochistic relationship.
Swiss newspapers said that the police were also investigating the possibility that the rubber suit might be an attempt to throw them off the scent of a contract killing. M. Stern, a member of an ancient French-Jewish banking family, lost money in investments in Eastern Europe or Russia. He is rumoured in Geneva to have told friends that he felt under threat.
The investigating magistrate, Michel Graber, said on Thursday night that M. Stern had been shot dead in the bedroom of his fifth-floor penthouse in a wealthy district near the Old Town of Geneva. There was no sign of a forced entry or struggle, he said, suggesting that M. Stern knew his assailant or assailants and had opened the door to them. He was last seen on Monday night, and his body was found by two business associates on Tuesday afternoon. The magistrate declined to give further details of the killing.
The newspaper La Tribune de Genève reported yesterday that M. Stern had been shot three times, including two bullets in the head. Le Temps - without citing any sources - said that his body had been discovered dressed head to foot in a latex suit. Police and judicial sources in Geneva would not comment on these reports.
The investment banker, formerly the son-in-law of Michel David-Weill, owner of Lazard, the French merchant bank, ran his own investment and consultancy company said to be worth €500m (£340m). From the age of 24, when he took over the family bank, ejecting his father, M. Stern had pursued a brilliant, if controversial, career in high finance. He sold the family firm and built another business, which he also sold.
He married Béatrice David-Weill, daughter of the owner of Lazard, and seemed destined to take over as head of one of the few European banks to be a force on Wall Street. But in 1997 he split acrimoniously with his father-in-law and started his own investment company, which conducted a series of high-profile deals - but was also said to have used off-shore tax havens to invest in Russia and Eastern Europe.
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