a bitter divorce. a wealthy businessman whose wife has fallen in love with a tough guy from the wrong side of the tracks. it was late october, 2001. generosa ammon and danny pelosi were living large in a townhouse in manhattan. generosa fell pretty hard for danny. she was very happy and went around bragging about her young stud boyfriend. as for the businessman, ted ammon, he was spending the weekend in his luxury home in east hampton. he made a phone call on saturday night. all day sunday, the house was quiet. monday morning, back in new york, ammon s business partner became concerned when he didn t show up for a meeting. then when he learned that ammon, a doting father, hadn t made after-school arrangements for the children, he became alarmed enough that he chartered a
he did it consciously, some say with the acquiescence of his wife, but, of courseat eventually ended. although for someone who s estranged from his wife, he s putting a lot of money into his wife s house, where his kids live. until now, pelosi s children rachelle and daniel never talked about their father to the media. but they remember the effect that generosa s money would have on their father. he would splurge with his money. he would give it out to anybody and everybody. he would i guess he didn t want to leave it. i guess, he wanted that s kind of what kept him with generosa. danny pelosi reveled in his newfound wealth. i loved to have the power. i loved the power and authority to fire who and hire who, and use this trade and use that trade. but when i was given that power, it took the person who i am away. pelosi had a tough guy
died, kaye mayne goes and talks to the district attorney and says, oh, by the way, danny pelosi told me he killed ted ammon. well, that was two weeks after generosa died. when did he tell you this? oh, he told me this a year and a half ago. and the police came to you how many times? kaye mayne later testified she didn t come forward because she was convinced pelosi was showing off. she changed her mind when news reports surfaced about how the murder was committed. armed with all of the statements, the police made their move. on march 22nd, 2004, danny pelosi was indicted, charged in the beating death of ted ammon. the day he got indicted, he came over in the morning and came into the kitchen and he was just like, this is it. this is real. i m going to go in and be home before christmas.
because i got a monster inside me. pelosi says rebenfeld was pressured by the police to make these statements. danny says he never used the word monster to describe himself. i ve been described by a psychiatrist who did a report that there s monster inside of me. but monster ain t one of my words. animal ? yeah. i got an animal in me, yeah. that s me. monster ? monster don t fit. just as these admissions began to surface, generosa s health began to give way. on august 27th, 2003, at lennox hill hospital in manhattan, generosa died. she was 47 years old. in her final will, she left everything to her adopted children and, ironically, the ammon foundation, a charity ted had started. she named the children s nanny kaye mayne as their guardian and gave her the mansion in east hampton. the minute generosa ammon
of course, generosa was convinced that ted had fathered a child, a child that she could not provide ted, out of wedlock. according to danny pelosi, news of this baby sent generosa over the edge. she asked pelosi to kill her husband. yes, she asked me. when she asked me, i went right to the people who i was around in my crowd the most and said, she s whack, man. she offered me 50 grand to [ bleep ] tune-up ted. huh? she wanted him hurt. ted ignored advice about his own security, but he was worried about his kids, especially when he found out about danny pelosi. he d already had a couple of dwis at that point. he wasn t someone you necessarily wanted shepherding your young children around. ted hired detectives to follow pelosi. generosa retaliated, hiring her own private eyes to spy on ted. it was getting ugly.