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There was also a motive for murder: money. Bank documents seized by police showed evidence of squabbling within the sect about finances. New members were charged steep initiation fees and required to sign away their assets. The sect / acquired farms and lavish houses in Geneva, southern France and Quebec. A disaffected former follower, Rose Marie Klaus, told a Quebec newspaper last year that she and her husband had given nearly $500,000 to Jouret and never saw it again. Giacobino, the owner of the farm in Cheiry, was heard complaining to friends about Di Mambro's free-spending ways...
...when you steal $132,000, a very large part of the total money the benefit raised, how can you expect no one to notice? Can you really expect no one to get suspicious when you suddenly start throwing lavish parties, sporting suits from Barney's, and going on shopping sprees at Saks Fifth Avenue...
...featured a generic menagerie, Avery was not so widely known as Chuck Jones and Bob Clampett, who did Bugs and Daffy star vehicles at Warners. (Four Avery Screwball Classics cassettes are available in video stores.) In France, however, he is an icon. French publishers have issued at least four lavish books on his oeuvre (just one exists in English, a spirited overview by Joe Adamson). In Paris and Cannes there are Studio Aventures stores peddling Avery T shirts, slippers, Red Hot Riding Hood flip books -- the works. His name has even been spelled out on the tiles...
...where did a middle-class kid from Tenafly, New Jersey, suddenly get the money to live such a lavish lifestyle...
Eliot is known as the house that is "more Harvard's social elite in the decades prior to randomization, the Eliot House stereotype is of old money and lavish spending--and Lee very much w anted to fulfill that image, friends said...