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...crime jolted a family long accustomed to the luxurious living that wealth affords-a world of multiple estates, private aircraft and gracious entertaining in a circle of New York's theatrical, intellectual and political elite. Edgar Bronfman, 46, owns a $750,000, 174-acre estate in Yorktown, some 35 miles north of New York City in Westchester County, and two fashionable Manhattan apartments, one on Park Avenue valued at $1.5 million, the other a penthouse on Fifth Avenue. Chair man of Seagrams Company Ltd., he is a handsome, hard-driving businessman with an often mercurial temper...
SATURDAY. At 1:45 a.m., Jose Luis, the butler at the Edgar Bronfman home in Yorktown, responded to a ringing telephone. It was Sam. "Call my father; I've been kidnaped," he told Luis. The receiver was clicked off at Sam's end in less than a minute. "He sounded very sad, very nervous," recalled Luis. "Sam is a very sweet boy." Edgar Bronfman notified the FBI and the local police. They soon found Sam's car parked in the garage at his mother's house, the key still in the ignition. His mother was away...
Members of the family, learning the news, quickly gathered in Yorktown. Edgar Bronfman was firmly in charge. Flying back to be at his side was his former wife of some 20 years, Ann Loeb Bronfman, who had divorced him in 1973. Also present were three of their five children: Holly, 18, Matthew, 16, and Adam, 12. The fourth, Edgar Jr., 20, joined the family temporarily, then moved into his father's Fifth Avenue apartment to follow events from there. All through Saturday, there was no word from the kidnapers...
SUNDAY. A mailman handed a special delivery letter for Edgar Bronfman to Frank Vida, the doorman at Bronfman's Manhattan apartment on Park Avenue. It was a dime short in postage, which Vida paid and duly noted on the envelope. The letter was a curious two-page, single-spaced typewritten document from the kidnapers, and it contained these main provisions...
...release, Bronfman must pay $4.6 million, and the money must be paid in cash, with no more than half of the bills in an "uncirculated" condition and at least 200,000 of them in $10 denomination. The kidnapers would use the code name "Raven" in making contact with the family and would disguise their voices with speech-altering devices. To signal that the ransom was ready for delivery, the Bronfman family should place a personal ad, signed "Fred Bollard," in New York newspapers...