Alexander “Nico” Fanjul, the son of sugar baron Alexander Fanjul, used to be arrested for home violence, together with allegations of strangulation and theft, on Monday evening in Palm Seaside, Fla.
Fanjul’s circle of relatives owns Florida Crystals and Fanjul Corp, the sugar and actual property conglomerate in the United States and the Dominican Republic.
In keeping with the police file acquired through Web page Six, Palm Seaside police officers arrived at his house at 11p.m. when a neighbor referred to as 911 after listening to a girl screaming.
When an officer arrived, they heard a girl screaming “Get off me,” reads the file, including Fanjul used to be status over the girl who used to be “in a defensive ‘fetal’ position.”
The officer noticed her face bleeding, the file mentioned. The unidentified lady advised police she were bodily assaulted through Fanjul and “thought she was going to die.”
The girl advised the police that they'd dined previous on the swank Flagler Steakhouse on the ritzy Breakers Resort when rich Fanjul, “became irate because the two were sat by a homosexual couple at the restaurant.”
The file continues that once dinner, “Fanjul became increasingly irate and continued to speak about his frustration with the restaurant.”
The Flagler eating place tells Web page Six when reached for remark: “We have no record of an incident as you describe, and have no further information to share.”
Whilst out of doors the house, the girl allegedly “told Fanjul to drop the subject and that is when he began to punch [her] in the face with a closed fist causing bruising, bleeding and swelling of the facial area.”
The girl advised police that he then, “continually kneed her in the face.”
Fanjul, whose circle of relatives empire is reportedly price billions, could also be accused of ripping her handbag from her shoulder after she threatened to name for lend a hand after which smashing her hand and contact.
“Fanjul grabbed her hand that held her cell phone and began to smash her hand and her phone into the ground causing it to shatter and break,” reads the file.
After she started screaming, he “forcibly dragged her inside the residence to prevent her from receiving aid or escaping.”
As soon as within, she claims he strangled her. The officer famous redness and bruising at the lady’s neck in addition to “trails of blood,” the place he allegedly dragged her.
Fanjul used to be made up our minds to be the main aggressor, and put underneath arrest for Legal Home Battery for Strangulation, False Imprisonment, Theft, Tampering with or Harassing Sufferer, Felony Mischief, and ownership of cocaine.
In keeping with the Palm Seaside Submit, which used to be first to file the arrest, the sugar inheritor used to be launched on $180,000 bail.
The opening reported that an legal professional who represented Fanjul all over a listening to Tuesday on the Palm Seaside County Prison mentioned that Fanjul denies the allegations.
Web page Six reached out to Fanjul and Florida Crystals, however didn't pay attention again.
Fanjul in the past had a number of brushes with the police officers when he dated socialite Tinsley Mortimer — who later joined “The Real Housewives of New York City” — and in the past confronted home violence accusations from her, which his circle of relatives denied to Web page Six on the time.
In keeping with Other folks, “In 2013, Mortimer was hospitalized for a head injury and two police reports from June 2014 revealed further altercations between the couple in which Fanjul allegedly smothered Mortimer with a pillow and pushed her head to the pavement, according to the police report.”
Police had been also known as for home violence to the Ritz-Carlton Resort in Toes. Lauderdale, Fla., on Mortimer’s birthday in 2014. She didn't press fees.
In 2016, she used to be arrested for trespassing on his belongings.
“I think that what I’ve learned is that it is unfortunately easier to fall into a situation like that [domestic abuse], than you think,” Tinsley advised Day by day Mail in 2017. “Once you’re caught up in that sort of cycle, it’s really hard to break out of it. I definitely was not myself during that time and it wasn’t until the arrest that I was able to break free from it – the cycle was broken, thank God.”
She additionally advised Other folks in their two-year courting, “I had moments of feeling like I wasn’t going to make it. I was going to be one of those tragic stories you see on TV.” Fanjul didn't remark to Other folks on the time.