A new RTE documentary lifts the lid on the encounter after a booze- and drug-fuelled night that ended with the tycoon threatening to jump from the 17th floor of a hotel
The cop who talked Ben Dunne off a ledge during a cocaine bender in a Florida hotel said he formed an unbreakable bond with the retail tycoon.
READ MORE: Gardaí seize €1.4m in gold bullion, €460,000 in cash, and cocaine worth €260,000 in DublinLarger-than-life businessman Mr Dunne made headlines around the world after he was handcuffed, hogtied and charged with cocaine trafficking. Mr Spanich said he often looks back on the events of that night and thinks about the man he formed a bond with on a hotel balcony.
The pair went down to the hotel bar, where they snorted lines of cocaine through $100 bills before going back to the hotel room. Denise said: “We talked a lot about sex, you know what my likes were, what his likes were.She recounted how Mr Dunne became agitated when he could not open the safe in the room, even though he had the combination written down.
“I got nervous because he was a big man and when we started talking all of a sudden he got agitated again. He says ‘I’m just gonna jump and I’m gonna take you with me’ and I’m like ‘Look you don’t want to do that, I’ve got kids, I’ve got young kids.’
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