The search warrant, signed by a Broward County judge July 16 and executed the same day by an agent with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, was for not only the main residence on the Novacks' property, but the cottage in which Abad was known to stay. The Welcome Home Elvis Show. Three months later Ben, 53, was killed in an out-of-the-way hotel room in wealthy Rye, New York. Over the past five weeks, jurors in the Narcy Novack murder trial have heard from a one-eyed killer, a tattooed porn star and a hotel guest who snapped pictures of Ben Novack Jr.'s bloody corpse . "She admits being a prostitute, [acting in] pornographic movies," Carpentier said. Fontainebleau is renowned for the large and scenic forest of Fontainebleau, a favourite weekend getaway for Parisians, as well as for the historic Chteau de Fontainebleau, which once belonged to the kings of France. MIAMI (CBS4) - From the start, the Narcy Novack murder trial has been a family affair. Advertisement. A week before she was murdered Bernice Novack took in murder of Ben Novack. May showed up at the guest house a little after six. He was bound with duct tape and his eyes were gouged out. July 13, 2013 / 11:43 PM They married in June 1979, receiving gifts from Frank Sinatra and Ann-Margret before divorcing in March 1981. Narcy, the security guard and Narcy's niece go down to the guest house to confront May. "He used to make me laugh,' Bliss said. turns his attention to the story of a rich playboy's gruesome murder. The interior of Bernice Novack's car, found bloodied outside her Bernice (Stempel) Novack, 87, formerly of Miami Beach FL, passed away in her Ft. Lauderdale home on April 4, 2009. Her brother, Cristbal Vliz, was also accused of enlisting Alejandro Gutirrez-Garca, Joel Gonzlez, and Denis Ramrez to participate in both murders. Narcy Novack and her brother are serving life sentences after being convicted last year of orchestrating the killings. September 2009 Ben Novack Jr. was finally be laid to rest in his family's mausoleum in Queens, NY., in the Novack-Spier mausoleum at Mount Lebanon Cemetery. This photograph was taken backstage at a concert with his first wife, Jill. He was also the heir to a multimillion-dollar estate. It was an obituary for Bernice Novack, the 86-year-old family matriarch. 'I was told by numerous sources that Narcy, once a self-proclaimed voodoo priestess, had become involved with a very well-connected rabbi after her husbands death,' Glatt told MailOnline. I compiled binders full of evidence, photographs showing blood splattered all over home; the autopsy report that said she had massive head injuries, a broken jaw and finger. 2013 CBS Interactive Inc. All Rights Reserved. "He would tell me he loved me every day.". An FBI agent testified that in December of 2008, Narcy Novack tried to implicate Bliss in an alleged sham-marriage plot by which foreigners would gain legal status in the U.S. As an adult he built his own lucrative company, Convention . She maintained her innocence from the start ,even claiming that her grown up daughter from a previous relationship was responsible. The victim, 53-year-old Ben Novack Jr., was a multi-millionaire Florida businessman. Ben dealt only in cash and Narcy was the same. An ex-stripper who arranged the murder of her playboy husband and his hotel heiress mother siphoned off a vast chunk of his $10 million estate through a rabbi she was allegedly having an affair with, according to a new book. Closing arguments in Novack's murder trial are expected to get underway on Tuesday. Ben Novack Sr. was having an affair with a model, Bernice, whom he later married, and together they had a son, Ben Novack Jr., in 1959. And in return, Narcy has made the cornerstone of her defense the accusation that it was Abad who actually killed Ben and then framed her. With each story I wrote questioning her death, Fort Lauderdale police became increasingly uncooperative. He asked me not to work anymore, not to continue to escort, Bliss told prosecutor Andrew Dember. (Courtesy of United States Attorney?s Office, Ben Novack, Jr. was born into a hotel empire, Miami's lavish Fontainbleau. Narcy waived her right to appear in court when the guilty verdict was read. NR. 'In the months leading up to his death Ben had fallen for heavily-tattooed ex hooker Rebecca Bliss, who was known by her porn star name Mona Love. Fort Lauderdale home. By Narcy Novack, left, and Ben Novack Jr. in an undated photo. On July 12, 2009, three months after Bernice's death, Ben Novack Jr., 53, Bernice's only child, and heir to the hotel fortune, was slain execution-style at the Rye Town Hilton hotel in Rye Brook . In this undated image provided by the Rye Brook Police Dept., Ben Novack Jr. is seen. Murderpedia has thousands of hours of work behind it. Paradise Lost: Crime in Miami is a conversation between friends, both South Florida natives, about the notorious true crime cases that have occurred in their home state. , updated The agent said that as far as he knew, no investigation was mounted. Ben Novack Jr., whose father founded the lavish Miami Beach landmark frequented by President John F. Kennedy and Frank Sinatra, was found beaten to death in a suburban New York hotel in July. They remained skeptical. Prosecutors said it led to six convictions in all and told the judge they supported a below-the-guidelines sentence. December 17, 2012. / CBS News. "I think she she knew she was gonna be replaced," Carpentier added. He was a playboy always juggling girlfriends until Narcy came along. Violent: Glatt says the marriage was volatile from the start with Narcy accusing him of having a fetish for naked amputees and Ben once called police claiming she had pistol-whipped him, article-2249691-168F0ECC000005DC-173_306x423.jpg, article-2162339-13B529E1000005DC-909_306x423.jpg. Novack Jr. / CBS Miami. Ben Novack Jr. was found bludgeoned to death last month in Room 453 of the Hilton Rye Brook Hotel in Rye Brook, N.Y., where he had organized a weekend convention for Amway, the direct-selling company.. Novack, 53, who owned Convention Concepts Unlimited of Fort Lauderdale, a planning company, was the son of the hotelier behind Miami Beach's posh Fontainebleau Resorts Hotel. ", "Mr. Garcia bludgeoned to death an elderly lady," the judge said. On cross-examination, Narcy Novack's attorney, Howard Tanner, asked Bliss if her primary motivation was financial, which she denied, insisting that she loved him. 0 In addition to allegedly participating in the July 2009 torture killing her husband Ben Novack Jr., the former Hialeah stripper is also accused of planning the monkey-wrench beating death of Ben's mother, Bernice, three months earlier. Mary Jane Fine. There are secrets that have never been able to fit into the hundreds of stories that made it into print. Abad also told the Herald that after the murder Narcy Novack "flunked" a polygraph test in New York five times. Prosecutors claim greed and jealousy drove Narcy Novack, an ex-stripper from Ecuador, and her brother to hire two hitmen - Alejandro Garcia and Joel Gonzalez - to commit the murder. Please enter valid email address to continue. She also did not appear in court when she was sentenced to life in prison without parole. Narcy Novack (ne Narcisa Vliz Pacheco; born 1956), Ben's estranged wife, was convicted of orchestrating the murders and after a highly publicized trial, was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Had he known she had been murdered, he may have hired a bodyguard or, at the very least, been more vigilant about his safety. 'Once Ben called police accusing Narcy of pistol-whipping him and holding him hostage for 28 hours while she ransacked the house looking for cash,' he said. 'Bens murder was even more gruesome. He had been hog-tied, blinded in both eyes and beaten with gym dumbells. was brutally killed at the Hilton Rye Town. It is also the home of INSEAD, one of the worlds most elite business schools. Julie K. Brown - The Miami Herald. the Rye Town Hilton. Compounding the family feud is the battle over Novack's body. First published on July 13, 2013 / 11:43 PM. [17][18], The story was also the basis for the 2015 made-for-television Lifetime movie Beautiful & Twisted, which starred Rob Lowe as Ben Novack Jr., Paz Vega as Narcy, and Candice Bergen as Bernice Novack.[19][20]. [8], Narcy Novack and Cristbal Vliz were tried together in a federal courtroom in White Plains, New York in 2012. "The only one else that had access to that room was Narcy," Carpentier said. ', From a prison cell to driving Rolls-Royces and hanging out with movie stars: How the Wolves of Wall Street are on top of the world after being released from prison over $200million fraud, Mother 'watched as her boyfriend smothered their baby then they put limp infant back in playpen and had sex', Former high school librarian and prison chief arrested in plot to 'kidnap, cook and EAT women and children', 'If it can happen to my daughter it can happen to anyone': Mother of Audrie Pott who committed suicide after alleged sexual assault bravely speaks out for the first time about her death. Ben Novack answered her escort ad in an email, and they exchanged emails and phone calls, then met for sex. Garcia then enlisted an employee at the car wash Joel Gonzales to help him murder Ben Novack at the Rye Town Hilton. ", Among the items listed as potential evidence in the warrant, but apparently not seized, were "any miscellaneous business records of Ben H. Novack Jr. related to 'collectibles' including but not limited to comic books and/or Batman memorabilia.". * The Prince of Paradise by John Glatt is published by St. Martins Press on Tuesday April 16. to order a copy,click here. Fort Lauderdale police were forced to reopen the investigation into the family matriarch's death. She demanded they slash out his eyes whilst he was still alive before ordering them to finish him off. Most troubling however, was that after Bernice was found dead, no one - not Fort Lauderdale police, the medical examiner or even my own editor at the time - believed that it was possible that Bernice may have been murdered. in Miami, accused Please enter valid email address to continue. "Only a monster can do this kind of evil thing," Narcy told investigators hours after the killing. 8. In Oxygen's " Dying to Belong ," investigators and reporters recounted the brutal murder of 53-year-old Fontainebleau Miami Beach hotel heir Ben Novack Jr., who was found blugeonded to death in a New York hotel room. States Attorney?s Office, Southern District of New York), Garcia used a monkey wrench like this one The author isn't content simply recounting the tempestuous relationship between Ben Novack Jr. and his wife, Narcy, and how it ultimately led to his death. [00:38:52] So how did they get into the room? [2] Her death was initially ruled to be the result of an accidental fall while trying to get out of her car in . "It was a horrific scene," a detective told "Dying to Belong" about Ben Novack's murder. States Attorney?s Office, to batter eighty-six-year-old Bernice to "His eyes slid out like grapes it was a grotesque murder scene," reporter Tara Rosenblum told "Dying to Belong.". She also indicated that her husband had enemies. Investigative reporter and true-crime vet Glatt (Love Her to Death, 2012, etc.) 'Ben had the second largest Batman memorabilia collection in the world, including an original Batmobile he bought just months before his murder. king ben and queen bernice lived in b a penthouse suite, then alg came their prince, ben novack jr. >> he was a spoiled kid, he was a brat. After 30 Years the Fontainebleau Wont Be a Hilton; New Owner Turnberry Associates Plans on Running the 1,400-room Resort Itself / February 2005. The victims . Yet detectives never took fingerprints or DNA samples. Port Chester's skyline will soon look much different. Faced with the letter, Fort Lauderdale police scoffed, saying it wasn't credible because they didn't know who wrote it. mother. She denied having anything to do with them. They each received the death sentence. I moved forward with a story about the botched police case, and later learned that Fort Lauderdale police were finally beginning to realize they had made a huge mistake. Now Ben Jr.'s . She is writing a book about the Novack case. Narcy, 56, was convicted last year of arranging the murders after discovering her husband of 28 years was having an affair with porn star Rebecca Bliss. I said, yes, I did. 2 men found drugged after leaving NYC gay bars were killed, medical examiner says. Narcy Novack used her brother Cristobal Veliz to recruit Miami car wash owner Alejandro Garcia, who executed the Bernice Novack murder for a couple of thousand dollars. There was a disagreement, according to the warrant, and "Narcy told investigators that she retrieved a 'bag' of cash and provided the money to her husband who in turn gave it to the unknown comic book collector who left the house with the cash. The AP said the report also references an incident in which Narcy Novack claimed she was taken to a plastic surgeon to repair her nose, which Ben Novack allegedly broke, and woke up with breast implants she hadn't requested. His hands, according to the warrant, which was for Novack's Fort Lauderdale home and was executed by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, were taped behind his back and his legs were bound just below the knees. ', Miss Bliss, one of the key prosecution witnesses, testified that Narcy tried to buy her off for $10,000 saying: 'If I cant have him, no other woman is going to have him.'. 'Much of the stuff went missing but detectives followed the trail through to the rabbi and his network of orthodox associates.' Crime News is your destination for true crime stories from around the world, breaking crime news, and information about Oxygen's original true crime shows and documentaries. Ben Novack Jr. had a successful travel company. Browse 1,047,759 murders_of_bernice_and_ben_novack,_jr. Detectives soon found out Novack was involved in aheated affair with former sex worker and porn actress Rebecca Bliss. In the hours after the murder of Ben Novack, detectives were talking to as many people as they could. Gangster Sam Giancana's daughter's wedding. The duo's defense was to blame Narcy's only daughter from a previous marriage, May Abad, for having orchestrated the killings, stating that she was motivated to collect on Ben Novack Jr.'s estate, including a large collection of Batman memorabilia. Southern District of Which Teeth Are Normally Considered Anodontia. Prosecutors said Novack feared that her husband would divorce her and a prenuptial agreement would bar her from the multimillion-dollar family estate. Each time the story was the same: Bernice Novack had fallen and died from head trauma. 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Southern District of New York), Killer: Narcy, 56, (Pictured with Ben Jr.) was convicted last year of arranging the murders after discovering her husband of 28 years was having an affair with porn star Rebecca Bliss, The Woodlands A year later, the alleged murder of Novack Jr.'s mother was thrown into the mix. Security guards separate May from Narcy. She was Ben Novack's Their hotel was the biggest celebrity haunt of the 1960s and 70s. Rebecca Bliss, 40, her arms and legs heavily tattooed, said she met Ben Novack Jr., whose father built the Fontainebleau hotel in Miami Beach, through an online ad for sex. Patrick Hart told ABCNews.com that a report was not filed and that he did not have any details on what sparked the fight, saying only that "it was a simple disturbance and the stepdaughter agreed to pack up her stuff and leave.". I was being patient, being his girlfriend, she said. The police investigation into the murder causes a rift between his wife and step-daughter. January 25, 2013 / 10:01 PM Ben Novack was found dead and handcuffed in the Rye Town Hilton in New York. Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. They are awaiting sentencing. Novack's eyes. Joel Gonzalez, accused of killing Ben Novack Jr. Ben Novack had become very serious with one woman in particular. [11] Gutirrez-Garca, Gonzlez, and Ramrez all pleaded guilty to lesser charges. Oxygen Insider is your all-access pass to never-before-seen content, free digital evidence kits, and much more. As soon as he married Narcy, their relationshipwas volatile from the start, according to Glatt. Alejandro Garcia's 210-month prison term was well under federal sentencing guidelines because he had cooperated with prosecutors almost from the moment of his arrest. 'Yet, despite playing the hard-done-by spurned wife, Narcy herself quickly embarked on a relationship with the married rabbi. She said she took it only to protect herself. It was a horrible murder, as Bernice did not go quietly. The Sun-Sentinel reports that Novack had been attending the convention he planned for 1,200 Spanish-speaking people for Amway Global International. Home | About | Contact | Copyright | Report Content | Privacy | Cookie Policy | Terms & Conditions | Sitemap. . Novack grew up in the hotel, which was a celebrity playpen in the 1950s and `60s and appeared . Get an all-access pass to never-before-seen content, free digital evidence kits, and much more! To find out more about how Narcy was finally caught, watch "Dying to Belong" on Oxygen. Suite, where Ben Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Abad, she said, has requested to have the body released into her custody, but because Narcy Novack is next of kin, the county morgue will wait for her instructions before releasing the body to anyone. She left an ex-husband and daughter, now 15, in Michigan, and is currently facing charges there of drunken driving and failing to pay child support, she said. Allison Carpentier said they had never witnessed a crime scene as gruesome as the one they described. Set on a vast wall was a large oil painting of her son, Ben Novack Jr., painted when he was about 20 years old. But the rabbis role was never revealed during the three-month trial. The victim, 53-year-old Ben Novack Jr., was a multi-millionaire Florida businessman. At the time, I didn't know that they were also stonewalling investigators in Rye Brook, N.Y., probing Ben's murder. An 18-page police report filed days after the incident detailed a marriage with a history of alleged violence and steamy secrets, according to The Associated Press. Narcy Novack, his wife, was convicted of orchestrating the slaying in addition to killing his mother. "It was a brutal scene. He was giving me everything.. "A writer who gets in bed with Miami Beach's historical characters ought to end up breathless.''. She had previously been into Santeria South American black magic and in every storage facility we went to we found rabbits feet and voodoo things. Items included in the Television News search service. I had no idea, that years later, it would probably become the biggest story of my career, or that it would become a book. Later it would be learned that his killers had cut out his eyes. Ben Novack was found dead and handcuffed in the Rye Town Hilton Novack.". When investigators discovered Novack on the morning of July 9, 2012, his limbs were bound with . She told me there were a lot of other girls and I wasn't the only one., Bliss said Narcy Novack offered her $10,000 to break off the affair, which Bliss turned down. 'The Novak family is Miami Beach royalty. Rebecca Bliss, 40, her arms and legs heavily tattooed, said she met Ben Novack Jr., whose father built the Fontainebleau hotel in Miami Beach, through an online ad for sex. Her husband Ben Novack Sr., who built the hotel and owned it until 1977, had died in 1985. Prosecutors said she feared losing access to the familys multi-million-dollar estate if Ben divorced her. Novack stared straight ahead, not at Bliss, through most of the testimony. Novack, 53, was bashed with dumbbells in his bed and had his eyes sliced with a knife. Back in Florida, she said, she turned to prostitution. Now May Abad, Narcys daughter, stands to inherit $150,000, and the rest of the fortune stands to go to her two sons. Love, money, death, strippers. MIAMI (CBS4) - From the start, the Narcy Novack murder trial has been a family affair. She claimed his fetish was becoming dangerous she had gone under anesthesia to fix a broken nose and woke up with enormous breast implants. 2023 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. the other room. However, when something happened to him in a hotel in New York, an in. It was she who would find her husband's body: lying face down on the floor of his hotel room, in his underwear, his face covered in duct tape, his arms taped behind his back and his legs taped below his knees. His head was covered in blood. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. She asked, did I know he was married. But nowhere has the family drama been greater than in the dynamic between Narcy and her daughter, May Abad. He appeared to be hit over the head with some sort of an object. Ben Novack Jr. had doubts about how his mother died, but he was killed before he could demand a more thorough inquiry. Fort Lauderdale Police Sgt. its day. [6], The Novack murders have been televised on several programs including Deadly Rich, My Dirty Little Secret (ID),[12] 48 Hours,[13] Dateline NBC,[10] Snapped,[14] True Crime with Aphrodite Jones[15][16] and Dying to Belong. Given Novack's financial status, his wife 53-year-old former stripper Narcy Novack told detectives the slaying might have been the result of a robbery gone wrong. (Courtesy of United States Attorney?s Office, Southern District of New York), Lies: Narcy being interviewed by detectives after the murders, 16:24 20 Apr 2013, updated 16:24 20 Apr 2013, Much of the stuff went missing but detectives followed the trail through to the rabbi and his network of orthodox associates. In April, she was found dead in her laundry room and Fort Lauderdale police and the Broward Medical Examiner ruled it was an accident. 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His wife, Narcy Novack, a former exotic dancer, told police that she had found her bloodied, 53-year-old husband's bodyhis eyes gouged out, his head caved inin their hotel room after returning from having breakfast alone. The owner of a successful convention planning business, Novack had the hotel booked solid that weekend. Yonkers Mayor Spano shares story of surviving sexual abuse as a kid. While the search warrant doesn't go that far, it noted that Narcy Novack was given a polygraph test by New York State Police the day after her husband's murder and the results "showed indications of deception when questioned pertaining to her knowledge of this homicide.". a fall outside a Fort Lauderdale bank. But his luxurious, celebrity-studded lifestyle would ironically end in another hotel roomwhere the police found him bound up in duct tape, beaten to death. It was just a complete mess,"said Sgt. The first thing I found was a clipping. [1], On April 5, 2009, Ben's 87-year-old mother, Bernice (December 2, 1921 April 4, 2009), was found dead in her Fort Lauderdale, Florida garage. Drama. Ben Novack married Narcy, a former stripper from Ecuador, in 1991, according to the Journal News. Her brother, Cristobal Veliz, is a co-defendant. Her husband Ben Novack Sr., who built the hotel and owned it until 1977, had died in 1985. Her beating death, authorities later announced, was part of a wider plot orchestrated by Narcy, who allegedly enlisted her brother and a contingent of other unsavory people to kill her husband and mother-in-law so that she could inherit the family fortune. The search warrant also noted that hotel officials had determined that no keys were used to enter the hotel room between the time Narcy Novack left for breakfast and the time she returned. Trivia (1) Her boyfriend, Ben Novack Jr., was bludgeoned to death in 2009 by men hired by Novack's wife, Narcy Novack, and her brother, Cristobal Veliz. The security camera inside the guest house picks up Narcy walking in -- still carrying the crowbar. Garcia admitted that he had helped kill Novack's husband, Ben Novack Jr., in a suburban New York hotel where his travel company was managing an Amway convention. 14 episodes. Sign up forOxygen Insiderfor all the best true crime content. An instigator in Yonkers gang assault sentenced to 12 years . 2015. Watchlist. Julie Knipe Brown is areporter for the Miami Herald, and is a CBS consultant. The report detailed how the alleged home invasion was part of a sex game. Ben Novack Sr. had very little to do with his adopted son after . Ben Novack Jr.'s estate, valued at $4.2 million, is expected to go to Novack's daughter, May Abad, and Abad's two sons. Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. >> ben jr., don't call him benji, would be trotted out to shake hands with the likes of jft and then back up to the hotel room. The report also included police officers' doubts about the Novacks' credibility. In July 2010, almost a year to the day Ben was murdered, the FBI arrested Narcy, her brother and several accomplices in connection with her husband's murder. A former prostitute and porn actress testified on Tuesday that she had a yearlong affair with a Florida millionaire that ended only when he was beaten to death. [9] Prosecutors alleged that Narcy was afraid that her husband would leave her for his mistress, and that a prenuptial agreement would only leave her $65,000 instead of the bulk of her late husband's estate. September 12, 2013 / 5:12 PM According to the search warrant, Narcy Novack told police that her husband was "a hard person, a strong businessman and has a tendency to make people angry." [6], Narcy Novack, from Fort Lauderdale,[7] was arrested for the murders of her husband and mother-in-law in July 2010, three days shy of a year after her husband's death. The real story of how Narcy and Ben Novack, Jr. fought over his hotel inheritance and ultimately were both denied would be enough for a Lifetime movie even if it had never turned violent and deadly. NY Daily News: Confessed killers of hotel heir and his mother expected to testify that the millionaire victims wife paid them to commit the double murder. 'Nancy was becoming desperate, she was in her mid-50s, had lost her once beautiful looks and worse feared losing the familys Fontainebleau millions.