Rockefeller imposter's ex-wife testifies
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April 4, 2013, Thursday
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THE woman who married a notorious Rockefeller imposter and bore his child has told jurors in his murder trial her story of a 12-year-marriage to a man whose identity was a lie.
Sandy Boss said she was charmed by the bright, quirky man who called himself Clark Rockefeller and she believed everything he told her about himself. They met in 1993 when she was studying for her MBA at Harvard and was invited to a cocktail party at his New York apartment. The theme was the game "Clue," and they came in costume.
"I was Miss Scarlett and he was Professor Plum," she recalled. "I liked him. I thought he was intelligent, very funny, quirky, flattering and complimentary. A good person to get to know." They began dating and by 1994 she had graduated, had a finance job in New York and moved in with him. He told her he was an heir to the Rockefeller fortune but was on the outs with the rest of his relatives and never saw them. He said his parents had been killed in a car crash in 1978.
When he proposed marriage in June 1994, she accepted and they married the next year.
But once they married, his charming demeanor dissipated and he became demanding of secrecy in all their affairs. He handled finances but she signed blank checks for him to use. He refused to visit California and Connecticut. Unknown to her, he was under investigation with a missing persons case.
Sandy Boss said she was charmed by the bright, quirky man who called himself Clark Rockefeller and she believed everything he told her about himself. They met in 1993 when she was studying for her MBA at Harvard and was invited to a cocktail party at his New York apartment. The theme was the game "Clue," and they came in costume.
"I was Miss Scarlett and he was Professor Plum," she recalled. "I liked him. I thought he was intelligent, very funny, quirky, flattering and complimentary. A good person to get to know." They began dating and by 1994 she had graduated, had a finance job in New York and moved in with him. He told her he was an heir to the Rockefeller fortune but was on the outs with the rest of his relatives and never saw them. He said his parents had been killed in a car crash in 1978.
When he proposed marriage in June 1994, she accepted and they married the next year.
But once they married, his charming demeanor dissipated and he became demanding of secrecy in all their affairs. He handled finances but she signed blank checks for him to use. He refused to visit California and Connecticut. Unknown to her, he was under investigation with a missing persons case.
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