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| Le Roux, Agnès 10/30/1977; Nice, France 29 YO | |
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| monkalup | Dec 21 2006, 03:03 PM Post #1 |
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The Old Heifer! An oxymoron, of course.
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Agnès Le Roux Missing since October 30, 1977 from Nice, France Classification: Endangered Missing Age at Time of Disappearance: 29 years old Distinguishing Characteristics: White female. Brown hair Circumstances of Disappearance: Agnès Le Roux, heiress of the «Palais de la Méditerranée», a famous Casino in Nice, France was last seen on October 27, 1977. It is supected than she was killed by a lawyer she was having an affair with. In June 1977, the lawyer convinced her to sell her shares of the casino to the owner of a concurrent casino. Agnès Le Roux received about 3 million Francs for the transaction, the money ended on a common account she shared with the lawyer, then on one of his personnal bank account after Agnès's disappearance. The day she disappeared Agnès left in her white Range Rover bearing license plates 726 BEZ 75. She was to spend the week-end with the lawyer in Italy. Her car was never located. Investigators: If you have any information concerning this case, please contact: OCDIP 01 40 97 80 16 Source: Chi L'Ha Visto? France 2 [/URL |
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Lauran "If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better for people coming behind you, and you don't do that, you are wasting your time on this earth." The late, great Roberto Clemente. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment for non-profit research and educational purposes only. | |
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| monkalup | Dec 21 2006, 03:04 PM Post #2 |
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The Old Heifer! An oxymoron, of course.
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml...4/wcasino24.xml Lawyer on trial for killing heiress 30 years ago By Henry Samuel in Paris Last Updated: 2:18am GMT 24/11/2006 The murder trial of a young, beautiful heiress to a Riviera casino empire opened in Nice yesterday, with her former lover accused of the crime almost 30 years after she disappeared without trace. Jean-Maurice Agnelet: Accused of killing Agnès Le Roux Tall, still handsome and dressed in a brown checked jacket and scarf, Jean-Maurice Agnelet, 68, stood impassively as prosecutors accused him of killing Agnès Le Roux, who was 29 at the time of her death, in order to access the equivalent today of £2million of her fortune lying in a Swiss bank account. Speaking before the trial, Rénee, 85, the mother of the deceased, a former model and owner of the Palais de la Méditerraneé – once one of Nice's most prestigious casinos – said she had waited three decades for this moment. "From this trial, I clearly expect Agnelet to be sent to prison for the rest of his life. For me, Agnelet is my daughter's murderer. He killed her to take her money. That's all he cared for: power and money. This guy is a monster," she said. Mr Agnelet later broke down in court, sobbing: "I am innocent. For thirty years I've been accused of a crime I didn't commit." Mrs Le Roux, unmoved, called him an "actor". The case relates to the events of 1977 and bears all the hallmarks of a James Bond plot – passion, money, betrayal, a glamorous heroine and playboy protagonist. At the time, Nice was in the throes of a bitter casino war waged by a shadowy Corsican tycoon with links to the Italian mafia, known as the "Gambling Emperor", and a ruthless mayor bent on turning the town into the "Las Vegas of the Coté d'Azur". advertisement Shortly before her disappearance, Agnès Le Roux was on execrable terms with her mother, who had refused to hand over any inheritance to her tearaway daughter – she had sent her to boarding school outside Paris as a teenager for going out with a 50-year-old. Rènee, whose high-life acquaintances included Prince Rainier and Aristotle Onassis, had run the family-owned casino on Nice's "promenade des Anglais" since her husband died in 1967. She had persistently refused to sell the business to Dominique Fratoni, the owner of rival casino, Le Ruhl, and a close friend of Jacques Médecin, the city's mayor. Fratoni, a key figure in Nice's so-called "green baize" casino wars, was seeking to extend his gambling empire along the famed seafront, and soon found a willing accomplice – Agnès Le Roux. Agnès had recently met and fallen deeply in love with Agnelet, her mother's former lawyer in his late thirties, known for his dissolute lifestyle and steady stream of mistresses. On Fratoni's payroll, it was he who convinced Agnès in June 1977 to betray her mother and vote against her at a board meeting, thus allowing the rival casino owner to buy out the Le Roux. In return, Fratoni paid Agnès three million francs into a Swiss bank account, which was later transferred to a joint account also in Agnelet's name. Shortly afterwards, Agnelet broke off relations with Agnès and she apparently twice tried to commit suicide. Then on October 27, she drove off in her cream and black Range Rover to an unknown destination. Neither she nor her vehicle was ever seen again. Police found Agnelet's behaviour suspect – he had at first clumsily denied that she had been his mistress, when they had been living together in a flat. Before her death, he took hours to signal her failed "suicide" attempts to the police and then gave them the wrong address. They found a coded inscription in one of Agnelet's books suggesting his involvement and discovered that he had transferred most of the Swiss money into the account of another mistress. Although sentenced to two years in jail for money laundering in 1985 and struck off the legal register, he was acquitted of murder as he had an alibi. Another mistress, Francoise Lausseure – later his wife – swore she was with him on a trip to Geneva at the time of Agnès's disappearance. But in a coup de theatre in 1999, the former mistress – now divorced and living in America – admitted to Rènee Le Roux, who had stubbornly pursued her own investigations, that she had lied at Agnelet's request – they had not spent the weekend together. With the alibi gone, the case was reopened. Yesterday, defence lawyer Francois Saint-Pierre called for an acquittal. "This is an exceptional case in which a crime is being judged about which we know nothing: neither the place, nor the time, nor the author," he said. The trial is expected to last a month. |
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Lauran "If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better for people coming behind you, and you don't do that, you are wasting your time on this earth." The late, great Roberto Clemente. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment for non-profit research and educational purposes only. | |
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| monkalup | Dec 21 2006, 03:05 PM Post #3 |
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The Old Heifer! An oxymoron, of course.
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Lauran "If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better for people coming behind you, and you don't do that, you are wasting your time on this earth." The late, great Roberto Clemente. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment for non-profit research and educational purposes only. | |
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| monkalup | Sep 29 2007, 09:49 PM Post #4 |
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The Old Heifer! An oxymoron, of course.
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http://uk.reuters.com/article/worldNews/id...17?pageNumber=2 Appeal court reviews French Riviera murder acquittal Mon Sep 17, 2007 8:23pm BST Email This Article |Print This Article | RSS [-] Text [+] By Pierre Thebault AIX-EN-PROVENCE, France (Reuters) - A murder mystery dating back 30 years involving money, sex and casinos returned to the French Riviera on Monday. An appeal court began reviewing last December's acquittal of Jean-Maurice Agnelet, who was found not guilty of killing his former lover Agnes Le Roux, a wealthy casino heiress who vanished in 1977. Agnelet has denied involvement in Le Roux's mysterious disappearance, which has fascinated the upmarket Mediterranean resort town of Nice for decades. Her body has never been found. Although cleared on December 20 last year, prosecutors appealed the decision. The court will rule next month. Agnelet was briefly arrested in 1983 but charges were dropped two years later. The case was reopened 14 years later when Agnelet's ex-wife retracted an alibi she had given him for the day Le Roux disappeared. She said in 1999 she had lied at Agnelet's request. At the time of Le Roux's disappearance her mother was running the Palais de la Mediterranee, a casino by the waterfront which Jean-Dominique Fratoni, owner of the rival Le Ruhl casino, had his eyes on. The prosecution alleges Agnelet turned Le Roux against her mother and persuaded her to sell her shares in the Palais de la Mediterranee to his friend Fratoni, who was suspected of links to the criminal underworld. Fratoni died in 1994. At the end of his trial in December, Agnelet broke into tears, saying a nightmare had finally ended and his lawyer denounced the "excessive and unreasonable" length of the trial. "The case is the same today as it was in '85 when the case against Maurice Agnelet was dismissed," he said on Monday. But Le Roux's family have reiterated they believe he is responsible for killing his former lover to get his hands on her share in the Palais de la Mediterranee. "The Le Roux family, which I am helping, is still looking for justice and truth. They have the right to this trial," the family lawyer Herve Temime said. |
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Lauran "If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better for people coming behind you, and you don't do that, you are wasting your time on this earth." The late, great Roberto Clemente. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment for non-profit research and educational purposes only. | |
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