Palm Beach sugar baron Pepe Fanjul robbed at Oscars

By at 8 March, 2010, 5:42 pm

Palm Beach sugar and land baron Pepe Fanjul and his wife Emilia were robbed in their room at the fancy Beverly Wilshire in Beverly Hills Friday night, shortly after the couple arrived in the Los Angeles area to attend the Oscars . Fanjul, 65, a generous donor the Republican Party, is one of the owners of the West Palm Beach-based sugar grower and manufacturer Florida Crystals . According to several reports from the West Coast, the Cuban-born Fanjul and his missus, 63, struck a conversation in Spanish with a man as they rode up in a hotel elevator. The Fanjuls went to their room, then heard a knock

on their door. It was the man from the elevator, wearing a blue uniform with the word “hotel” written on it. He claimed he needed to fix their air-conditioning. As he pretended to work around the room, the suspect allegedly helped himself to Emilia’s extensive jewelry collection, which Pepe described to police as “valuable.” Hotel staffers have been going through security videos to identify the suspect. There’s been no arrest. The Fanjuls weren’t injured. The Fanjuls, who are highly-visible on Palm Beach’s do-gooder circuit, were on their way back today and couldn’t be reached for comment.

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