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''The Millionaire's Wife: The True Story of a Real Estate Tycoon, his Beautiful Young Mistress, and a Marriage that Ended in Murder'', by author and journalist Cathy Scott, is a true crime account of the 1990 contract murder of George Kogan on an Upper East Side Manhattan street in broad daylight. The book was published for mass-market release by St. Martin's Press True Crime Library in March 2012.〔(Forbes.com, "They Negotiate at Jezebel," January 2012 (scroll down to announcement of book launch) )〕 ==Synopsis== Twenty years after George Kogan's murder, in July 2010, his estranged wife Barbara admitted to hiring a hit man to have her husband gunned down. She was sentenced to 12 to 36 years in prison.〔(''New York Times'' "City Room," "Woman Sentenced for Having Husband Killed," June 4, 2010 )〕 The son of Holocaust survivors, 49-year-old George Kogan grew up in Puerto Rico before relocating to New York City, where he enjoyed success as an antiques and art dealer—until one morning in 1990 when George was approached on the street by a gunman identified by the prosecution as Paul Prosano and killed in cold blood. Just before the shooting, George had been on the way to his girlfriends’s apartment. Mary-Louise Hawkins was 29 years old and had once worked as George’s publicist. George and his wife Barbara became estranged, and his wife Barbara became bitter. Barbara and George began negotiations for a divorce, part of which was to be $5,000 per week in alimony. A judge turned down her request.〔(Huffington Post, "George Kogan Murder: Barbara Kogan Faces Sentencing In Real Estate Tycoon Husband's 1990 Hit Job," June 4, 2010 )〕 Barbara, who stood to collect $4.3 million in life insurance,〔(''New York Post'', "Rich Widow's 'Slay Broker' Called to Testify in Mysterious '90 Case," March 23, 2008 )〕 was immediately suspected in George’s death. But it would take authorities nearly 20 years to uncover the link between her lawyer, Manuel Martinez, and the hitman. In 2008, Martinez was convicted in the murder of George. In 2010, Barbara pleaded guilty to grand larceny, conspiracy to commit murder, and murder in the first degree. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Millionaire's Wife」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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