we were neighbors and we did become best friends, to the tune of every day we talked. every single day. that was long before jim came into the picture, of course. good morning, baby desiree. first christmas. pam was a single mom. she is carol babysat for each other s kids, walked their babies together, went shopping, shared recipes and hung out during the holidays. pamela was very much family to me. pam was the most caring, loving, giving person you would ever meet. life was about other people. tina holland is another friend. she and pam met when their youngest children started attending the same school. they planned family vacations together and trips to disneyland. one year pamela bought her daughter jeanette and tina s sons costumes just for the sake of creating happy memories. her daughter was a princess. tina s sons, a pirate and peter
pamela and jim fayed s financial woes eased with their growing business success, but their relationship began to crumble under the weight of new-found wealth. here again is josh mankiewicz. jim and pam fayed had staked their claim in the online gold trading business. they began by buying old gold coins and selling them at a profit. then they expanded, setting up what was essentially a small bank, storing gold for customers, and allowing them to borrow against it. the market grew. and so did the bottom line. pam s best friend, carol neeve. they went to gold shows, trade shows in las vegas, san diego, l.a., do the meet and
she just wanted to be an the up and up. she was going to tell jim, even though they were separated. pam urged jim to apply for the licenses. he appears to have been adamantly opposed to a move that would have essentially opened goldfinger s books to scrutiny by the federal government. pam decided she was not going to allow jim to roll the dice on their business. the business that had let pam live the life she had always wanted. pamela was a girl scout. she wanted to do it right. pamela knew that they were making plenty of money. they as a family, the fayed family, were flush. they didn t need to worry about nickels and dimes here and there. she was also aware, i 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. and so pamela s idea was, let s do it right. let s cross our ts, let s dot our is. get the money licensing.
pam fayed was dead. stabbed to death in a century city parking garage. lapd detective salam abdul rahman has seen enough cases to know that, in his line of work, murder and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. the ongoing fayed divorce, therefore, got his attention. acrimonious, nasty, bitter. mr. fayed was really upset with his wife, mrs. fayed. so that marriage would bear much more scrutiny. investigators set about talking to friends and family to solve the mystery of pam s death. they needed to start with the story of her life. pamela had a spirit that was infectious. she was pam s best friend. she was always happy. she had a personality that sucked you in and kept you there. cal met pam 22 years ago.
he wasn t someone i could ever think would be involved in something like this. you liked him. i did. your mom liked him. she was very fond of joey. had moya charmed his way into the fayeds life as a way to gain their trust? was this part of a bigger plot to kill each of the owners and steal their gold? pam s best friend carol recalls how pam talked during the divorce. i was on the phone with pamela, and she was really upset. she felt like someone was following her in a truck she did not recognize. i said, are you sure? she says, it s been following me for quite some time. i said, who is it? she goes, i don t know. it s a guy. she kept looking and watching, and they turned off into a parking lot. at that point she could see that it was josé. she says, why is josé following me? and i said, i don t know, pam. what the hell is going on? you need to call the cops and tell the cops. tina holland s last visit