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...Chicago Bulls. But in 1999 he gave up the remaining $35 million on his contract, telling his agent he was going to do something "to make the world better." So it seemed as if he might have embarked on another existential adventure when he disappeared in waters near Papeete, Tahiti. Surely he was reading Sartre on some remote beach. But authorities inspecting his abandoned yacht last week found blood traces and gunpowder residue from a "large-caliber" weapon, though no bodies. They suspected that Dele, 33, his girlfriend and a crew member had been murdered and said Dele's estranged...
...charged him with fraud. Dabord may be the only person who can explain just what happened aboard Dele's boat. "We presume that the bodies of these people must be in the sea--the ocean--and will probably never be found," says prosecutor Michel Marotte in Tahiti. The 55-ft. boat Hakuna Matata embarked in late May from Auckland, New Zealand, bound for Tahiti and Hawaii. Dele was joined onboard by his girlfriend Serena Karlan, 30, who was a former New York City real estate agent, and Bertrand Saldo, 32, a Frenchman and professional yacht captain. Dabord, a computer programmer...
...Tahiti's Taina Marina, a witness reported, he overheard "a quarrel between the two brothers" on July 6. That same day Saldo phoned a friend to say they would soon be leaving Tahiti for the Marquesas Islands. Karlan left a voice-mail message for her parents: "Everything is going super." That was the last anyone would ever hear from Saldo, Karlan or Dele. Three days later the Hakuna Matata was spotted by a hotel employee in the lagoon of the nearby island of Moorea with one person onboard--possibly Dabord. Sometime around July 18, the boat turned up docked...
Dele's agent, Dwight Manley, wonders if the ballplayer's wealth had triggered fatal sibling jealousy: "Brian provided things for him. Maybe this was a simple case of financial motives." For now the answer lies with Dabord and in the waters of Tahiti...
...DIED. MILES DABORD, 35, brother of former NBA player Bison Dele; in Chula Vista, California. Dabord was suspected of having killed Dele and two others aboard Dele's luxury catamaran near Tahiti and disposing of their bodies in the shark-infested waters. He died after his mother asked doctors to remove life-support that had been keeping him alive since Sept. 14, when he was found comatose on a Tijuana beach...