Sugar heir Alexander “Nico” Fanjul — who was arrested last week for allegedly strangling a woman — was also arrested in April of last year for another domestic violence incident, according to Palm Beach Police.
Fanjul’s billionaire family owns Florida Crystals and Fanjul Corp, the sugar and real estate conglomerates in the US and the Dominican Republic.
On April 22, he was arrested at his home in Palm Beach, Fla., according to a report, after his girlfriend called authorities claiming the sugar heir “tackled her to the ground.”
The couple had been drinking earlier at swank sushi spot Echo when Fanjul allegedly made “vulgar statements about prior incidents between them,” according to a copy of the Palm Beach County Domestic Violence Probable Cause Affidavit obtained by .
The unidentified woman stated in the affidavit that things escalated, and she went inside his home to retrieve her Louis Vuitton handbag before calling an Uber — when Fanjul allegedly “charged at her and tackled her to the ground, causing her to land on her back and told her, ‘You’re not f–king going anywhere.’”
The woman says she fought back, elbowing and kneeing the wealthy scion. She alleges she exclaimed she was going to call the police, and that he slammed her phone to the ground.
She was then able to retrieve it and make the call, as she “ran outside screaming.”
Cops reported that the woman had an injured nail and an abrasion on her left arm, and that she told police that Fanjul had “a history of unreported physical violence against her, often times physically restraining her.”
Fanjul, the son of sugar baron Alexander Fanjul, told the officer that he was upset because the woman called their relationship “boring,” and that he grabbed her handbag, which was on her shoulder, when she said she was leaving.
Fanjul also said he grabbed her phone from her, claiming it was…
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