One of Montreal's wealthiest clans found itself in the middle of an outrageous case that was to become a magnet for conspiracy theorists of all stripes and was even turned into a movie in 1997.
Charles Bronfman's wife Barbara (nee Baerwald) brought considerable negative attention to the Seagram clan when she put up $40,000 of bail money for a Philadelphia hippie impresario who murdered his girlfriend Holly Maddux in 1979.
Maddux's decomposed body was found in a trunk in Einhorn's possession and he was charged with murder. In spite of the murder charge Einhorn was allowed out on bail for a relatively small sum of $40,000 - put up by Montreal's Barbara Bronfman - and he skipped to Europe in January 1981 where he married a Swede and lived undetected for 24 years.
Some have claimed that Barbara (Stephen Bronfman's mother) even sent Einhorn money while he was in Europe and remained in contact with him while he was on the lam but we have seen no hard evidence to support that.
Einhorn had claimed that the CIA had planted Maddux's body at his place to frame him.
It isn't clear how Barbara came to know Einhorn so well or become such a champion of his efforts but she was said to have shared his interests in psychic phenomena.
Einhorn was said to have been an aggressive bully to Maddux and even had bad hygiene but was surely a good talker because what else could there be?
Barbara and Charles Bronfman wed in 1962 and divorced in 1982. Their children were 13 and 18 at the time of their split.
Charles - who long owned the Expos - moved to New York City and remarried twice.
Barbara, who'd be in her mid-70s at least, is one of the few Bronfmans still living Montreal. Her son Stephen is another and aunt Phyllis Lambert being the other main ones.
The fugitive Einhorn was finally tracked down France in 1997.
After many complicated attempts to extradite him, Einhorn was eventually shipped back to the USA in 2001. He was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole ion October 17, 2002.
The case has led many to babble online about the Illuminati and such stuff but we're pretty sure that it was just a case of a friend trying to be loyal and perhaps getting suckered by a fast-talker.
Charles Bronfman's wife Barbara (nee Baerwald) brought considerable negative attention to the Seagram clan when she put up $40,000 of bail money for a Philadelphia hippie impresario who murdered his girlfriend Holly Maddux in 1979.
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| Holly Maddux - murdered in '77 |
Some have claimed that Barbara (Stephen Bronfman's mother) even sent Einhorn money while he was in Europe and remained in contact with him while he was on the lam but we have seen no hard evidence to support that.
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| Ira Einhorn and Barbara Bronfman |
It isn't clear how Barbara came to know Einhorn so well or become such a champion of his efforts but she was said to have shared his interests in psychic phenomena.
Einhorn was said to have been an aggressive bully to Maddux and even had bad hygiene but was surely a good talker because what else could there be?
Barbara and Charles Bronfman wed in 1962 and divorced in 1982. Their children were 13 and 18 at the time of their split.
Charles - who long owned the Expos - moved to New York City and remarried twice.
Barbara, who'd be in her mid-70s at least, is one of the few Bronfmans still living Montreal. Her son Stephen is another and aunt Phyllis Lambert being the other main ones.
The fugitive Einhorn was finally tracked down France in 1997.
After many complicated attempts to extradite him, Einhorn was eventually shipped back to the USA in 2001. He was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole ion October 17, 2002.
The case has led many to babble online about the Illuminati and such stuff but we're pretty sure that it was just a case of a friend trying to be loyal and perhaps getting suckered by a fast-talker.