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Donald Joel Aronow (March 3, 1927 – February 3, 1987) was an American designer, builder, and racer of Formula, Donzi, Magnum Marine, Cary, and Cigarette Racing Team speedboats. Aronow built speedboats for the Shah of Iran , Charles Keating , Robert Vesco , Malcolm Forbes , George H. W. Bush , and Lyndon B. Johnson .
Jun 22, 2022 · In 1987, hit man Robert ‘Bobby’ Young shot powerboat mogul Don Aronow in his Mercedes sports car. Young, paid $60,000 for the contract murder, achieved such notoriety for the gangland-style killing that he secured a place in the pantheon of South Florida assassins.
- Ray Bulman
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Oct 20, 2022 · He was born in 1927, the son of an affluent taxicab owner whose family had emigrated from Russia and been bankrupted by the Great Depression. Don’s origin story moves around according to who’s telling it. Certainly, young Don became wealthy by building and selling tract houses in New Jersey.
- Daniel Pembrey
Feb 26, 2022 · Don Aronow created an all-conquering, epoch-making race boat resulted in the adoption of a generic name for all boats of that type thereafter. In this, the third part of our four-part series, Danny Casey examines the life, times and shocking, brutal death of the man who put the gloss, glitz and glamour into the then gritty but nascent sport of ...
Sep 25, 2013 · by Grantland Staff on September 25, 2013. Welcome back to our 30 for 30 documentary short series. Don Aronow was a family man who moved to Miami in the ’60s after making a fortune in New Jersey construction, but soon his focus turned to building and racing cigarette boats.
Aug 28, 2024 · His prized white Mercedes revved to its limit in neutral gear, letting out a haunting scream that echoed the tension of his final moments. Those moments were witnessed first by an Apache employee who shut off the ignition, but the questions lingered—who wanted Don Aronow dead, and why?
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Feb 22, 1987 · Among Aronow’s customers were Vice President George Bush, the former Haitian dictator Jean Claude (Baby Doc) Duvalier, King Hussein of Jordan and King Juan Carlos of Spain. Some of his...
