And every new [Cigarette] that I do, I drive right by his house with it, just so he can see. Don built boats for good guys and he built them for bad guys. If the real motive for Aronows murder was him turning informant, surely others (on the wrong side of the law) were potential suspects, too? The Row was island-like, bounded by water on three sides. You gotta do your homework. His face flushed with excitement, Don Aronow launches into another one of his stories. He was inquiring about a 60ft boat and alluding to a mysterious man he worked for and who he would kill for, if need be. Brown: Everybody has their own idea about why he was in Miami. Brown: Every boat he sold was built for himself. Theres about 70 people out there who think they have a boat Don built for himself. The guy would say, I want a 28. And Aronow would say, Oh no, were all sold out. And the guy would keep pushing, I wanted one all my life. And Don would say, We dont have any 28s, but Im building a 35 for myself and I could sell that to you. That was classic Aronow., Allan Brown Every boat he sold was built for himself. He designed, built and raced the famous Magnum Marine, Cary, Cigarette, Donzi and Formula speedboats. Brown: Ben Kramer bought USA Racing from Aronow and apparently there was some money under the table. It was mostly a lot of hell-raising and good times.". Everyone who knew legendary Cigarette founder Don Aronow has a story to tell about him. Or man, his brother Robin added. Made quite a lot of money on it in 1964. After divorcing his first wife, Shirley, with whom he had three children, Aronow married Lillian Crawford, a Wilhelmina fashion model and socialite. Members of the Bee Gees were neighbours on both sides. He was a great dad and a great husband. He had first wanted to get into motor racing as a hobby, citing his rich status from running the Aronow Corporation, a construction company. Some men had told his father that he'd lost it. Another witness tried to follow the Lincoln as it fled but could not catch the killer(s). Don Aronow: The King of Thunderboat Row, 1994, by Michael Aronow They conveyed a warmth and a feeling of genuinely liking you. WebAronow married twice. I knew they were gunshots. Aronow famously kept company with people from all walks of life. His boats won over 350 offshore races, two world championships, and three U.S. championships as his career grew. He retired and moved to Florida 10 years later -- a millionaire in his early 30's, his fortune spawned by the thousands of tract homes Aronow had built and sold throughout northern New Jersey. Aronow: My father broke up more marriages than anybody. The automobiles tycoons untimely demise, which made international headlines, did not go over well with the crowd. Once Aronow was able to formally open his new company, he started Cigarette Racing Team using his own designs in 1970. But nothing compares with the go-fast scenes of the 1960s, 1970s and climatic 1980s. Aronow: After he was working with the family for a few years he went off on his own and started building homes, then shopping centers, industrial parks, all over northern New Jersey. Read more:David A. Arnold: Death And Obituary How Did Famous Comedian, Actor-Writer &Producer Die? Speed Kills Story Based On Motorboat Racer Don Aronows Real Life, Ben Aronoff Wikipedia: John Travolta Portrayed Don Aronows Character, Who Is Ben Aronoffs Wife? They become friends and Johnson told my father about the Miami-Nassau race, which my father became really interested in. He built speedboats for the Shah of Iran, Charles Keating, Robert Vesco, Malcolm Forbes, and George H. W. Bush. What Happened to Speed Kills Racer Ben Aronoff? Wylie, the second son, says that he helped start the Bored Ape Yacht Club. They had two sons, Gavin and Wylie. Leaving his office that afternoon, Aronow was making for his North Bay Road residence, a 1929 Spanish-style waterfront mansion undergoing renovations, 30 minutes drive away. Certainly, he added sex appeal to it all. In 1977, Cigarette introduced the super sexy new 35 Mistress (as the advertisement read). Sign up to BOAT International email newsletters to get the latest superyacht news, business analysis, exclusive event invitations, and more. by The Captain | Oct 12, 2021 | Articles | 0 comments. Some people say he was hiding from the mob. Bobby Young was the person who did the killing, and he said that Ben Kramer hired him. We considered Formula to be a utility boat. "And they're entitled to spend it any damn way thay want.". Don also rubbed quite a few people up the wrong way and one of them eventually shot Don dead in Miami in 1987. In 1964 he started Donzi Marine; the Donzi brand became an international success and Aronow quickly sold the company to Teleflex Inc. in mid-1965. He sold Magnum to American Photocopy for a ton. Aronow was born in the Sheepshead Bay neighborhood of Brooklyn,[1] the youngest son of Russian-Jewish immigrants[2] Herman and Ruth Aronow. Ive met some extremely charismatic men, including Sean Connery and Roger Moore, she said. He didnt pick on the little guy. "I got into ocean powerboat racing after I retired to Florida," he says. Aronow went down the canal 65 mph in it, and ended up running into the seawall. I think hed really be proud of the boats. He was a hero and a genius, a ballbuster and a bully. And he never would backpedal later or change things. That was the cast of characters he was involved with. Much was explained by the states southern exposure and geography its thousands of kilometres of coastline, coves and inlets. Don Aronow's pockets are stuffed with fifties and hundreds. You had to be able to match. The contessa was at the wheel of her two-seater Italian sportscar, its tires squealing as she forced the car through the mountain curves. The CrewMichael Aronow: sonBob Saccenti: builder of Chief Powerboats and founder of Apache Performance BoatsPhil Lipschutz: former Aronow contractor and current Miami-area Cigarette dealerAllan Brownie Brown: former acquaintanceMichael Peters: contracted designer 1981-1986, hired full-time 1987. In reality, Don had already amassed a million dollars before relocating to Miami with his family. He was formidably competitive both on and off the water, brutally handsome and adroit at negotiating the line between the legal and the illicit at least until the very end. They had two sons, Gavin and Wylie. Some of the most popular types of speedboats were the Cigarette, Donzi, Formula, and Cary. If your browser is out of date, try updating it. Having made a fortune in the construction business in New Jersey, building homes and shopping centres, Aronow hastily relocated to Florida in 1961. He came to my basketball games, my football games, he was always around.. At the time, Saccenti was recovering from a horrific crash on Lake Erie. At 57, he is a lean and muscular six-foot-two. Nearly a decade later, two men pleaded no contest to charges related to Aronow's killing. He was a great dad and a great husband. Congregating witnesses spoke of a dark Lincoln Continental having pulled up alongside Aronows white Mercedes. But they [blew] a clutch and had nothing left. Five days after his murder, The Washington Post reported that a Customs official described Aronow as co-operative when Aronow had been approached for information about one of his clients. His first boat was made of wood and broke apart. He built this entire street. Airlifted to a nearby hospital, Don Aronow was dead within the hour. Aronow had sold USA Racing Team a company that built high-speed catamarans for the US Customs Service to Kramer and his father in 1985. Michael Peters One of the first issues I had to deal with when he hired me [in the early 1980s] was [notorious Haitian dictator] Baby Doc [Duvalier, who was a client]. At his funeral, [eye surgeon and powerboat racer] Doc Magoon gave the eulogy, and at one point he said, Don was a mans man. He paused, and then said, And he was a ladies man. Everybody looked around the room at all of the known mistresses that were sitting there., Michael Aronow My father broke up more marriages than anybody. In the movie, Bens personal life is hard, just like it is in real life. Peters: He didnt like guys that came in and tried to go toe to toe with him. A guy would come looking at a boat with a girl, and the guy would ask How much? And Don would go, $70,000. The guy would say, Thats too much. And Don would say, every time, I think you should go get a Bayliner then, this is way too much boat for you. And the guys would be ripping their pockets open trying to give him money!, Michael Peters A guy would walk into his shop, all excited to meet [Aronow] and buy a boat. A guy comes in with the money and you build a boat for them and you never know. The best I ever saw. Who is this guy? asked an arriving first responder. In Italy. No woman should be alone in this city, Barry Gibb warned Time. This is his story in the words of some of the men who knew him best. His social group was pretty much divided along the same ratio. With lots of money and charisma, not to mention NFL starting quarterback good looks, Aronow soon became a ladies man of legendary status in Miami circles. You gotta do your homework. We collected some of the best. Seemingly he had everything to live for. He was going to run for president and his friend had 140 people who wanted to kill him!. George H.W. WebClaudia is a New York artist and ex-wife of real estate developer Martin Kimmel. Aronow sold the company (and Brownie) shortly after its inception (and a couple of big offshore wins). Separately, there were rumours that Aronow may have been assisting law enforcement, even becoming an informant or at least that, in early 1987, he was about to be subpoenaed to give evidence about the USA Racing Team transactions. The story was also the basis for the 2009 documentary film Thunder Man: The Don Aronow Story and the 2018 movie Speed Kills with John Travolta. In 1948, he married Shirley Goldin [1] [6] who he had met while working as a lifeguard on Coney Island. Allan Brown Shirley was his first wife. Actor John Travolta as Ben Aronoff in the 2018 crime drama Speed Kills. But if he didnt like you, watch out., Allan Brown Our friend Stu Jackson worked for Thunderbird and he received a gold Rolex when he retired. You can talk to anybody [about that]. The University of Florida standout athlete Michael was the one who suffered serious injuries in a vehicle accident in 1970. Peters: A guy would walk into his shop, all excited to meet [Aronow] and buy a boat. He was a real successful cocksman. A violent criminal named Bobby Young was fingered as the hitman, whose employer according to the courts was Ben Kramer. It was the time of the sexual revolution, and his popularity with women was almost as legendary as his boating exploits, although some women were more circumspect. On Tuesday, Smith, the retired detective, called Aronows widow, Lillian, to break the news. By various accounts, he then fled to Florida in 1960 to escape the mob. Youre a businessman too. After buying Aronows USA Racing Team, Kramer had a business dispute with Aronow, but was forced to sell it back to Aronow after the Customs Service refused to do business with him. After years of delight, his prosperity is abruptly ended when he is discovered dead in his automobile. I didnt hear shots, with the air conditioner and sewing machines going on, but somebody came and got me. Aronow's Cigarette has also become the low slung get-away boat of choice for South Florida's high-rolling drug smugglers.? The book about Don Aranows life by Arthur J. Harris was turned into the movie Speed Kills. "It won big," Aronow says. And he became hooked on racing and thats how it all began. Michael Peters was a contracted designer to Aronow from 1981 to 1986, and was then hired full-time. In 1948, he married Shirley Goldin, [1] [6] whom he had met while working as a lifeguard on Coney Island. The main character of Speed Kills, Ben Aronoff, is based on Miamis actual motor king, Donald Don Aronow. Emblematic of both the American dream and a particularly magnetic kind of American masculinity, Aronow was a frontiersman, a real-life Marlboro Man and a fearless racer. Bob Saccenti The real Don was sitting at a business table negotiating deals. You dont dare honk your horn at anybody; you could end up dead.. ADVERTISEMENT Thanks for watching! He was a real successful cocksman the best I ever saw. Aronow had just left a meeting with Bob Saccenti, part owner of Apache Power Boats together with partner Ben Kramer. Reaching out across the Pacific to Miami, Florida, The Captain gets the lowdown on the wild life and times of legendary Cigarette builder Don Aronow. The Captain tracked down a motley crew prepared to spill the beans. I went over there and he had holes all over him. Kramer got a 19-year sentence for manslaughter to run concurrently with a life term for marijuana smuggling. Miami claimed the nations highest murder rate at 70 per 100,000 residents, and this years pace has been even higher. This sum, Aronow did not return. Brown: Don was so reckless with shit like that. Brown: He started Formula from scratch and sold it to Thunderbird in about a year. Semi-blind, he was forced to wear heavy-rimmed and thick-lensed glasses that were always a worry when he played. Back in 1981, Time quoted a legal researcher living in Miami as saying: I see people walking down the streets openly carrying guns, some in their hands, others in their holsters. The race was several days away. 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Aronow left his office in his white Mercedes, shortly after visiting a rival boat dealership owned by Kramer. [But] he was home every night. During our conversation she revealed that she was a bit hesitant about being interviewed since she is not someone who is comfortable in the public eye but in the end we chatted about everything from her art, her stint in the antiques business to her childhood in Florida with her father, Don Aronow the boat racer and builder of the renowned It was just one of the unusual clients Aronow had dealings with: oil-rich Arabs, Princess Caroline of Monaco and the Shah of Iran. Hed knock you right down. Therefore, his annoyance with the motor mogul was the true impetus for his illegal plans. [1] He graduated a top athlete from James Madison High School in 1944,[1] worked as a life guard at Coney Island, and enrolled at Brooklyn College. A guy would come looking at a boat with a girl, and the guy would ask How much? And Don would go, Seventy grand. The guy would say, Thats too much. And Don would say every time, I think you should go get a Bayliner then, this is way too much boat for you. And the guys would be ripping their pockets open trying to give him money! I dont think it ever ran again., Michael Peters He didnt like guys that came in and tried to go toe-to-toe with him. (ABOVE) RICH AND FAMOUS: Aronow famously kept company with people from all walks of life. Those two managed to make you feel like you were the centre of their world. Whatever the truth of such rumours, the way South Floridas drug business metastasised from marijuana to cocaine smuggling, to vast profits and lawlessness, would sustain five seasons of Miami Vice. That was on my to-do list: Deal with Baby Doc. Aronow doesn't care if all these retired furniture makers and machine tool executives are little more than middle-aged adolescents flaunting their masculinity on a Sunday afternoon -- tooling around the docks of some Intracoastal bar like Shooters, feeling terribly macho-nautical doing 30 knots in a $125,000 Cigarette Aronow built to run all day at 60 knots in hull- hammering six foot seas. This was December of 86. Shortly after the visit, Aronow left his office and drove down the street to Apache Performance Boats to visit with his former protg, Bob Saccenti. Ben establishes his automotive empire in the film after relocating to Miami and changing his perspective to win. He succeeds in a number of major motor races and rises to the position of speedboat tycoon. Aronow was free to pursue the contessa. Lipschutz: I never had any inkling that Don was involved in something illegal. Bob Saccenti is the builder of Chief Powerboats and founder of Apache Performance Boats. And he liked to get the best of people. A tough, athletic, Jewish kid from Sheepshead Bay in Brooklyn, New York, by the age of 21, Aronow was married and about to start a career in his father-in-laws New Jersey construction company. If true, it was a curious place to hide out from them. Also read:Wally Tatomir: Death And Obituary What Is The Cause Of The Equipment Manager&Death? It reported Miamis Federal Reserve branch to have amassed a currency surplus of $5 billion, mostly in drug-generated $50 and $100 bills, or more than the nations 12 Federal Reserve banks combined. The associated crime could strike anyone. [He drove it back and] the boat was sinking at the dock. Witnesses assert that as Aronow rolled down his window, the other driver allegedly started shooting. Then he bought a parcel of land immediately west of them and built the Magnum building. Katheryn Winnick and John Travolta in Speed Kills ( Source : imdb ) Ben and his wife Emily also had a son named Andrew. And I can tell you, the day he was murdered there were phone calls to the King of Jordan, the King of Spain, George Bush. He gave me a spacious office, and I thought, Finally, Im starting to feel secure in life after a recent divorce. I remember taking a call from a guy named Ben Kramer and telling him that Don had already left his office for the day.. And the guy would say, I want a 28. And Aronow would say Oh no, were all sold out. And the guy would keep pushing, Oh, I wanted one all my life. What Happened To Don Aronow? [With lots of money and charisma, not to mention starting-quarterback good looks, Aronow soon became a ladies man of legendary status in Miami circles.]. [A tough, athletic, Jewish kid from Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, by age 21 Aronow found himself married and about to start a career in his father-in-laws New Jersey And he eventually became aggravated with the business. Brown: Our friend Stu Jackson worked for Thunderbird and he received a gold Rolex when he retired. We were having lunch one day and Don asked if it was a good watch. I cant imagine that though, he was pretty easy to find. Michael, Donalds eldest son, thought his dad was a hero. He has just cashed in six-figures worth of winning tickets. Lipschutz: [Aronow] lived right on the water on Biscayne Bay. Vice President George Bush drives one of Aronow's Cigarettes. However when the Customs Service found out about the younger Kramers criminal reputation, they put the kibosh on the transaction.]. He has three childrenMichael, David, and Claudiawith Shirley Goldin, his first wife. Saccenti: He used to say youre never gonna make a lot of money building boats. Peters: The upstairs apartment above his office was kind of famous. It was from here the hit man opened fire, three bullets striking the powerboat star. A kid was going to start a boat company in Florida, he had bought a boat in California, and he asked Aronow and me to drive it and see if it was any good. Make that a very healthy six figures. Like others who bought a boat company from Aronow, the Theodolis had reason to be wary. He competed in the race in April 1962 and led until the end. Michael Peters If you were a coward with him, you were gone. WebAronow married twice. The EMS showed up. Peters: Bushs reaction was that he wanted Dade Homicide on it like the most important case on their books. "I'd never be married to a beautiful woman like Lillian if I hauled garbage for a living," Aronow adds. He was a hero and a genius, a ballbuster and a bully. Little Don couldn't understand how all his father's taxicabs could get lost at once. He was right out of a Hollywood script. He marries Emily Gowen, and they have a son together. How much does it cost to charter a Below Deck yacht? Then the investigation got going and they realised who Aronow was involved with. Aronow had just finished a meeting with Apache Power Boats co-owner Bob Saccenti when a powder blue Lincoln drew up next to his vehicle from the opposite direction. Similar to IMDb, it lists a middling 4.2 stars out of 10. After campaigning his boat "The Cigarette" around the world with mechanic Norris "Knocky" House as his cockpit companion, he won his second World Championship in three years, and third consecutive United States Championship while becoming only the 2nd American in history to win the UIM Gold Medal of Honor (Gar Wood was America's first UIM champion). I told my secretary to call 911. But if you decided to take him on, dont expect him to give ground., His next project was considered to be his masterpiece: the long lean Cigarette boats named after a vessel used to hijack rum-runners during Prohibition days. The beginning of the film tells the tale of Don, who relocates to Miami in order to win every prize. The University of Florida standout athlete Michael was the one who suffered serious injuries in a vehicle accident in 1970. And in the end, he wound up as nothing more than a target for an assassins bullet. The Miami moto king launched Magnum Marine the next year, in 1967. As director of the CIA, hed also interacted with Aronow, recalling how Don came and offered to help our country. "These guys earned their money," Aronow says. "It was a pretty informal thing. And I was like, do I really want to move down there? Brown: Hed fuck your wife in a second. Hed bought a Formula and a Cigarette from him, describing Aronow as a joy to be around. "It's being able to deliver when it counts.". He raced his 8.2-metre Maltese Magnum all over the world. Michael Peters concludes, If you want to find anything comparable today, you need to look elsewhere, maybe to the final frontier Blue Origin, SpaceX, Bezos and Musk. He pauses. 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