One of Clark Rockefeller's former friends said yesterday that she saw a freshly dug pit in the backyard of his house in San Marino, Calif., in the summer of 1985, but that he casually dismissed the gaping hole, telling her he was "having plumbing problems."Someone reported the Sohus's missing, right? And the police went around and Clark and the neighbors about it, right? And she told them about the pit, right? Or they saw the fresh dirt during one of their trips to the house of the missing couple? Right?
Nine years later, workers digging a pool for the property's new owners found human remains in the backyard, believed to be those of one of Rockefeller's landlords, John Sohus, who had gone missing with his wife, Linda, in spring 1985.
"Back in Boston, in a suite at the Four Seasons Hotel, Rockefeller’s ex-wife, Sandra Boss—a Harvard Business School graduate earning an estimated $1.4 million a year as a senior partner at McKinsey & Company, the global management-consulting firm—was informed that her ex-husband had disappeared with their daughter. At the same time Boston police were entering Rockefeller’s name into national databases and finding … nothing.The thing that finally made her divorce Clark, or whatever his name is, was disagreements over how to raise their daughter, once she started school. Only then did her father find out that part of Clark's story was a lie -- by checking Wikipedia and noticing the child actress who was supposedly Clark's deceased mother was in fact still alive and not his mother. She could pull in millions of dollars a year at a very high-flying job with a very impressive resume and educational background, but not check out the simplest facts nor notice the most obvious red flags.
“Can you please give us his driver’s-license number?” an officer asked Boss.
She said he didn’t have one.
“Do you know if Clark has a Social Security number?”
“No.”
“Is he on your tax returns?”
“No.”
His credit cards were on her accounts. His cell-phone number was under the name of a friend. To each of the investigators’ questions about her ex-husband’s identification papers, Boss responded in the negative. He didn’t have any identification at all...
As Sandra moved through increasingly impressive jobs—an elite private-equity program that attracted the best and brightest to a Dallas real-estate giant; a position in debt markets with Merrill Lynch—people found her sharp but shy, eager for success but socially, according to one observer, “on the outside looking in.” Then she met the enigmatic young man with the famous name and fell in love with him. He was, she told friends, the brightest man she’d ever met. He knew the works of the obscure 20th-century novelists she loved, and spoke several languages fluently, including Klingon, the language of the Star Trek warrior race. He was charming, witty, and worldly, and had once been rich, he said, before his late father’s fortune was wiped out by a lawsuit. She loved the fact that he wasn’t concerned about material wealth; he not only shared her altruistic passion for setting up nonprofits for international poverty relief and development but also worked in debt re-structuring for emerging nations...
Sandra had signed all the necessary marriage documents, entrusting the task of filing them to her husband; he never did. “Not only didn’t they have a license, I don’t believe they have a marriage certificate,” says Rockefeller’s lawyer, who insists the marriage wasn’t valid.
They settled into married life in New York and Nantucket. Rockefeller ran Asterisk, L.L.P., advising Third World countries on their finances. He didn’t make any money in the job, he explained, because the nations were dirt-poor; charging them a consulting fee would be unconscionable. While it’s now clear that his job was a sham, Sandra actually had a real career going. After graduating from Harvard Business School, she accepted a position with McKinsey & Company, the ultra-discreet consulting firm which advises the world’s leading businesses, governments, and institutions, and whose staff has included former C.I.A. operatives and future Enron executives...
She is the youngest woman ever to be elected to being a director of McKinsey & Company...
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