Lady Mafia | 5. Losing at the Wynn
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The Binge. Feed your true crime obsession. The Binge. On the surface, Sarah seems very open. But I know from talking with her all these months that her stories have a tendency to change. It's tough to figure out what her motive was. Did she intentionally con investors? Or did she think she was running a legit business? Or maybe she started out thinking she would run things the right way, but just kept fucking up. And instead of coming clean, Sarah got deeper into denial as she was getting deeper in the hole.
So I'm sitting in her office one day.
This is George Polos, one of her company's investors. You remember him from the last episode. At this point, George had a feeling that her hard money lending company was bullshit. But he was still hoping to get his $125K back. So he stuck close to Sarah. One day, he was visiting Sarah's office in Fashion Island.
I pull up in my truck. I see a tow truck out there. And it's right next to her Rolls.
As he parked, he saw Sarah's Rolls Royce, the one she had wrapped white on white with the navy blue soft top.
I mean, I watched it get repossessed. The guy's loading on a flatbed. He's got it out there. He's cranking that thing right up. And I run into the office. I go, Sarah, they're taking your car. She goes, oh, well. She didn't even, like, flinch. I go, how are you going to get home? I'll walk. And you could see the scared look in her eye, like, what the fuck? It's all coming down.
Sarah was trying to play it cool, but George could tell how freaked out she was.
You could see it. I mean, her eyes were like, boop. Now, was that chemicals or her? That I don't know, but I saw that look.
It was the ultimate irony. Sarah was supposed to be taking possession of luxury cars as collateral, and one of her investors watched her lose her own vehicle. Sarah had leased this fancy-ass Rolls, didn't make payments, and the lender repossessed the car. Navy blue soft top and all. And according to George, this repo man wasn't the worst guy after her.
When that Hells Angels guy, he told me, he goes, I'll go into her house and I'll chop her up in little pieces right in her bed. I was like, uh-oh.
Sarah needed to make herself scarce and find a whole new pool of investors. And where better than Las Vegas? From Sony Music Entertainment, this is Lady Mafia. It's a story about going from lawyer to lawless, living high and blowing millions. I'm Michelle McPhee. This is Episode 5, Losing at the Win.
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When the shit started to hit the fan back in the OC, Sara went on the hunt for new money. She was flying to Vegas, making connections, trying to get her Nevada lending license. And she started courting a new, fabulously rich investor, Laurent Rees, the childhood friend of her husband's.
One night he says, talk to my friend Laurent. You know, he's loaded and he could probably partner with you.
Laurent is a private investor who used to manage a Swiss bank in Monaco. Laurent is married to an heiress, part of a Monaco real estate dynasty. And if Getty Images is to be believed, she's also quite the socialite. He looks vaguely famous, almost like Ben Affleck playing a Swiss banker. But do you want to know what was really special about Laurent? He had access to a whole new level of wealth.
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