The Billionaire Murders by Kevin Donovan

Author:Kevin Donovan
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Canada
Published: 2019-10-29T00:00:00+00:00

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As my lunch with Kerry Winter at the St. Clair Avenue diner was winding down, he explained his point of view.

“You have to understand. My hatred of Barry, my disdain for Barry, was only because of his betrayal and lies. I said to Barry once, ‘I don’t want twenty percent of Apotex. I don’t want anything, Barry. I just want you to tell me the truth. Why do you keep lying to me?’ Do you know how many years he kept lying to me about the option agreement?”

Sherman, in his court pleadings, maintained that he never lied. Ultimately, he contended, the option agreement did exist but it was a worthless document. Yet it is a document that generated a great deal of anger and many disputes. Winter said he believed, and still does, that Sherman funded the brothers’ enterprises and lifestyle not out of duty but to keep them financially handcuffed to him. Winter has also stated that Sherman’s generosity was intended to stop the cousins from pursuing the option issue. The year before the cousins sued Sherman, Winter said he had a conversation with the Apotex founder at a social event at the company. It was the annual Christmas party, and Winter always brought his children, even though he was not working there any longer. He said Sherman gestured for him to come out to the parking lot. They stood against the wall of the building as Sherman spoke. “You know, there aren’t too many people in the world that have a Cousin Barry,” Winter said Sherman told him.

“Oh, I know that,” Winter said he replied.

“Do you know that? I don’t think you do. You’re thinking of coming after me. You should think twice. Because you won’t beat me. You don’t know who I am yet.”

Winter said he responded, “Barry, I know who you are.”

He said Sherman looked at him directly. “I’m good to you. I give you everything you want. Why do you want to come after me? You are getting bad advice from lawyers and bad advice from your friends. They don’t have a Cousin Barry. You do. Think twice.”

Winter said it was conversations like these and his belief that Sherman had stolen his future from him that led him to have fantasies of decapitating his cousin in the Apotex parking lot and “rolling his head” down the pavement.

“I have been angry at Barry for so many years,” Winter said in one interview with me. “I think, more than money, what would have made me happy would have been if he acknowledged my father and mother’s contribution to his life and donated money to create the Lou and Beverley Winter wing at some hospital.”

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