believe, that at some point the federal government was going to start looking very closely at them. they couldn't continue building this business on this international scale without someone taking a look. so pamela's idea was, let's do it right, let's cross our ts, let's dot our is, let's get the money licensing. >> her husband said absolutely not. >> he said absolutely not. >> reporter: but pam moved forward anyway and withdrew a large sum of cash to apply for the licenses. and, for jim fayed, that may have been the last straw. >> he called her names that i cannot and will not repeat on your camera, horrible, horrible accusations about pamela fayed, the mother of his own child, and he was doing this in order to set the stage for what i believe was his ultimate goal, was to take all the money and to crush her during the divorce proceeding. >> in california, it's pretty hard to crush somebody and take all the money in a divorce proceeding. >> i would say so. she helped build the company. she was an officer in the company. she held half of the company's proceeds. i mean, she was half owner. it's as simple as that.