Alexander “Nico” Fanjul, the son of sugar baron Alexander Fanjul, was arrested for domestic violence, including allegations of strangulation and robbery, on Monday night in Palm Beach, Fla.
Fanjul’s family owns Florida Crystals and Fanjul Corp, the sugar and real estate conglomerate in the US and the Dominican Republic.
According to the police report obtained by , Palm Beach cops arrived at his home at 11p.m. when a neighbor called 911 after hearing a woman screaming.
When an officer arrived, they heard a woman screaming “Get off me,” reads the report, adding Fanjul was standing over the woman who was “in a defensive ‘fetal’ position.”
The officer saw her face bleeding, the report said. The unidentified woman told police she had been physically assaulted by Fanjul and “thought she was going to die.”
The woman told the police that they had dined earlier at the swank Flagler Steakhouse at the ritzy Breakers Hotel when wealthy Fanjul, “became irate because the two were sat by a homosexual couple at the restaurant.”
The report continues that after dinner, “Fanjul became increasingly irate and continued to speak about his frustration with the restaurant.”
The Flagler restaurant tells when reached for comment: “We have no record of an incident as you describe, and have no further information to share.”
While outside the home, the woman allegedly “told Fanjul to drop the subject and that is when he began to punch [her] in the face with a closed fist causing bruising, bleeding and swelling of the facial area.”
The woman told police that he then, “continually kneed her in the face.”
Fanjul, whose family empire is reportedly worth billions, is also accused of ripping her purse from her shoulder after she threatened to call for help and then smashing her hand and phone.
“Fanjul grabbed her hand that held her cell phone and began to smash her hand and her phone…
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