Greenwich: George Lindemann was unavailable for comment

Woman permanently banned from owing horses.

George (Jr.), by the way, is now out of prison and has reinvented himself as a gay patron of modern art down in Miami. Unfortunately for the lady in the horse abuse bust linked to above, she is not the child of a multi-billionaire and thus is unlikely to enjoy as successful a rehabilitation of her reputation.

Georgie Lindemann the Horse Stalker is back!

A reader sent this link via email (which I take awhile to get to): George Junior’s put his Florida house up for sale for $29 million.

Oh, Monica, it's not funny! If he moves back home, where can I put the pets where they'll be safe?

SELLER: George Lindemann Jr.
LOCATION: Sunset Island, Miami Beach, FL
PRICE: $29,900,750
SIZE: 11,388 square feet, 7 bedrooms, 7.5 bathrooms
DESCRIPTION: This historically significant waterfront property designed by Maurice Fatio encompasses 70,886 SF of land on which rests approx 11,388 SF breathtaking, Neoclassic home w/ a contemporary feel. The home sits on a tip lot on Sunset Island. From there, sweeping bay views & color-soaked sunsets provide a dazzling backdrop to this crown jewel, aptly named, La Tranquilla. AnOlympic-sized pool blends effortlessly into the verdant & well-manicured surroundings of this tropical haven spanning 1.63 acres.

George Lindemann, Sr., one of the United States’ wealthier citizens, made tens of millions developing the first permanent-wear soft contact lens and later made well over a billion bucks selling a nascent cellular technology concern to the Bell Atlantic Corporation. Currently, Mister Lindemann is chairman of the board, president and CEO of the Southern Union Company, the largest natural gas pipeline company in the United States. Mister Lindemann is said to own as much as 10% of that company and, additionally, a significant stake in Verizon and a whole mess of Spanish language radio stations too. The Lindemanns, George Senior and his wife Dr. Frayda Lindemann, are major philanthropists, patrons of the arts and regulars on the upper crust party and charity circuit in New York, Palm Beach and beyond. Together they have three adult children: Adam, Sloan and George Jr.

Now that we know who the primary players are in our little game of real estate what’s what, we’re going to present an admittedly incomplete run down of the very fancy residential real estate holdings and transactions of the Lindemann family because, let’s be honest, it’s always fun and exciting to whittle away an hour or two looking at and marveling over how wildly, filthy, stinking rich people live.

George Senior and Dr. Frayda, who happen to be besties with fallen financier Walter Noel and his well kept wife Monica, famously sold their ocean front mansion on Blossom Way in Palm Beach in June of 2008 for a heart stopping $68,500,000. The buyer is widely reported to be Venezuelan big living banker and polo pasha Victor Vargas. The elder Lindemanns, who are based in Greenwich, CT, decamped to a smaller but still huge ocean front mansion father north in Palm Beach, which they bought in September of 2008 for $23,500,000 and hired high class architect Peter Marino to work over.

Anyhoo, since at least mid 1980s, according to property records, theLindemann family seat has been a 9+ acre water front estate on Indian Field Road in Greenwich, CT. In addition a waterside swimming pool, tennis court, private beach, guest house and acres of lush landscaping, there is, according to property records, a very dignified 12,639 square foot, 12 bedroom Tudor-style mansion that would make a robber baron weep. As best as we can tell from peeping and poking around property records, the stately estate is now in the name of Sloan Lindemann, however we’re pretty sure it’s still occupied by the elder Lindemanns. Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?

Now then, let’s get to the man of the hour, George Lindemann Jr., whose unfortunate claim to fame is that in the late 1990s he did some time in the pokey after he was convicted of insurance fraud related to hiring some thug to electrocute one of his show horses in order to collect a quarter of a million clams in insurance money. After being sprung from the big house, Mister Lindemann re-created himself from a horseman into a philanthropist and voracious contemporary art collector based in Miami, FL. Thanks to Mimi MiamiBeach we’ve learned that the former felon has put his historic, art-filled Miami Beach mansion on the market with a toe curling $29,900,750 asking price. If that number doesn’t cause the children to bust out in a case of hives, maybe the bank account draining $210,269 in annual taxes and $15,000 per year homeowner association fees will.

Public property records on George Junior’s Sunset Island estate are a wee bit confusing and convoluted, as they often can be when dealing with billionaire families who have co-mingling financial interests in family businesses and trusts. According to one of our interwebsources, George Junior purchased the property through a trust in June of 2000 for $8,425,000. In 2004, the property was transferred from the trust directly to George Jr. and his mother Dr. Frayda. At some point between 2004 and 2008, George Senior and sister Sloan were added on the records and in early 2008 the property was again transferred from that group of Lindemanns directly to an eponymous trust controlled by George Junior.

Listing information shows the simply but meticulously manicured 1.63 acre lot claims 453 feet of water front and hosts a 1936 Neoclassical beauty designed by famed high society architect MauriceFatio. According to listing information, the sprawling single story concrete block stucco residence, called La Tranquilla, measures 11,388 square feet with 7 bedrooms and 7.5 poopers. At the front, an electronic gate opens to a large circular drive. The driveway leads around one side of the house to a small motor court and 3-car garage and on the other side, a path from the driveway leads around the house to the water where there is private dockage. A vast, piazza like patio stretches between the two wings at the back of the house and a rectangular, Olympic length swimming pool and spa extends from the back of the house towards the water.

Now I really have to get cracking on my Noel novel

Dominick Dunne is dead at 84. I’ll certainly miss him more than the other guy who died yesterday. He won a bronze star as a 19-year-old teenager (no mention if swimming was involved in his bravery), graduated from Williams after the war, recovered from alcoholism at age 50 and wrote “The Two Mrs. Grenvilles”, a terrific book. Some of his later stuff didn’t work as well, for me, but all in all, a good productive life. And now I have Greenwich back to exploit all by myself. I’m still puzzling out the plot, but I’m inclined to involve Walter Noel’s story with the Antares – same greed, same era, with maybe a touch of Georgie Lindemann to add an electric touch of evil. Stay tuned.

Greenwich shunned him now Miami Democrats don’t want George Lindemann,Jr.

Hard to believe, but George and his electrifying personality got all the way up to being named fund raiser host for a Democrat politician before someone remembered his conviction and jail time for killing his horse up here. “Pederasts, junkies, even axe murders are okay,” a polictico speaking anonymously said,”this is Miami, after all. But the PETA folks just lose their fucking minds over a guy who plugs in his horse to an electrical socket. Maybe he should move to Philadelphia.”

Is anyone keeping track of George Lindemann, Jr.’s whereabouts?

I was so hoping that Walter could keep Georgie occupied.

Twenty-one polo ponies dead in Palm Beach.

George Lindemann Jr. may have found a new friend

At least George had his killed quickly. This guy just starved them to death. Prominent New York horseman accused of neglect.

Four undernourished and neglected former racehorses belonging to Ernie Paragallo, a prominent New York thoroughbred breeder and owner, were rescued from a New York kill pen last month, one step from being slaughtered. They were among more than 20 horses from Paragallo’s Center Brook Farm in Climax, N.Y., that were sold to slaughter for $680.

Finely Decorated, who had lice, was one of four rescued mares.

The four mares were “hundreds of pounds” underweight, infested with lice and parasites and in “horrible condition,” according to Dr. James Holt, a Pennsylvania veterinarian who examined them.

Uh oh – anyone know whether George Lindemann, Jr. is still in Miami?

 Alysheba injured in stall last night, euthanized. 

Momma Lindemann is stiff with worry.

 

Oh, Monica, don't laugh! Georgie didn't come home last night!

My relief for the horses was premature

I earlier posted that there was no sign of horses near George Lindemann Jr.’s house in Florida and that the poor creatures were therefore safe from his attentions. But I now fear that the house was misidentified and actually belonged to papa Lindemann, who sails, rather than kills horses. George Jr. lives right smack in the middle of the Palm Beach Polo Club – owners beware! You’d think that just as sex offenders aren’t allowed within 1000 yards of a schoolyard a horse killer wouldn’t be able to live around horses but apparently not. We can only hope that George proves to be a good neighbor.

Update: a search of the Palm County records reveals that, while George jr. did indeed own 11950 Maidstone Dive in the 1990s, he sold it to a William Peretti in 1998, just about the time Charisma’s death was coming back to haunt him. Interesting that so many references are still out there listing this as george’s residence but outdated info is still outdated. So where is George? Somewhere in Miami, to be sure – we’ll go look again.

Not that there’s anything wrong with that

In researching the current whereabouts and activities of Greenwich’s most famous horse killer, George Lindemann,Jr. I discovered that he’s a $1,000  contributer to Project Yes, a program that seeks to prevent suicide among gay and lesbian kids. A laudable endeavor, and almost certainly irrelevant to the man’s demonstrated capacity to treat animals so cruelly, but it’s an interesting bit of personal data for those of us trying to figure out what makes the man tick.

Update: Maybe he’ll be returning to Connecticut soon. He opposed Florida’s amendment to ban gay marriage. If there’s a special someone in Georgie’s life, Greenwich’s Town Clerk stands ready to bless them both.

Will the real George Lindemann Jr. stand up?

I’ve had trouble finding a picture of the young horse killer. Here’s one, taken from a 2007 Alumni letter that purports to be of George Sr. (I’ve also seen it identified as the younger). If it’s Senior, the poor bastard’s aged terribly, judging from a New York Social Diary celebrity post. Does anyone have access to Georgie’s mugshot?

 

"Ahoy, sailor!"

UPDATE: Here’s the real McCoy, courtesy of reader Jess (and WireImage)

 

"Dig those glasses,Ariane!"

 

 

 

 

 

Credit: NY Social Diary (Lindemann on right)

Who is George Lindemann, Jr.?

 

"Oh, Monica, how can you laugh? George is back to frying frogs and I'm sure puppies are next!"

For anyone who missed the story, George Lindemann Jr. is the son of one of the wealthiest men in the world, George Lindemann Sr., of Greenwich and Palm Beach. George Junior grew up in Greenwich and graduated from Brown but his heart was set on being an Olympian. To further that end dad bought his boy Cellular Farm (one of dad’s fortunes was made in cellular communications) in Armonk, New York, just up the road from Greenwich. Georgie proved as inept at managing a horse farm as he was at riding and dad eventually grew tired of footing the bills for a failed venture. “Make the place profitable” he warned,”or I shut the place down.”

 

Georgie was in a panic. He’d spent $250,000 of his father’s money on “Charisma”, a jumper that was supposed to bring fame, and a subsequent improvement in fortunes, to George and cellular Farms. But the horse was a bust. Rather than admit defeat or plead with his father for more time, Georgie hired a professional horse killer to come up to Armonk and electrocute his horse. If you aren’t squeamish, here’s how a horse is killed for insurance purposes: the killer takes a heavy-duty extension cord and cuts off the female end, replacing it with two alligator clips attached by a long wire. One clip is attached to the horse’s ear, the other to his anus and the cord’s plugged into a wall socket. The lights flicker, the horse starts to fry and eventually his guts blow up, simulating a fatal case of horse colic. Horses are big and rot quickly so their bodies usually don’t hang around long enough for an insurance adjuster to view the corpse. Instead, the owner either buries it immediately or pays the local large animal veterinarian to sign off on the cause of death and then brings in the bulldozer. So long as the killer is careful not to leave obvious scorch marks around the anus, no one complains too loudly, especially if the vet is paid handsomely for his troubles.

Georgie was convicted of his crimes. Sentenced to jail, he never attended – in fact, as far as we can determine, he never even endured a full body cavity search – there are some things you just don’t do to the son of the richest man in town. He has retreated to Miami, Florida, where he now poses as a patron of the arts, philanthropist and all-around decent good citizen. His parents, of course, are best friends with Walter and Monica Noel. What a small world.

Horse investments tank, Miami Philanthropist George Lindemann Jr. steps in to help.

 

"Kill him AFTER I'm done riding, you idiot!"

The price of thoroughbreds drops 40% so Fairfield Greenwich Group’s Jeffrey Tucker will be selling into a falling market. Oh, what will we do, what will we do?!

Say, wait a minute, I’ve got an idea!

Where is he now?

Two of my quicker readers identified Freyda Lindemann, shown in “Hot Time in Palm Beach” as the mother of George, who electrocuted show horses for fun and profit back in the 90s. How quickly we forget – I wrote a novel set in Greenwich and based on Georgie’s antics but my agent hated it – more to the point, he hated the main character, a feeling held by most of the horse set, I suppose. George was convicted in 1995 . Did he ever go to jail? His dad was #512 on Forbe’s richest people in the world list (but did he invest with Walt?) so I doubt it; even if he did he’s probably out by now. Given the friendship displayed between Freyda and Monica Noel (that friendship looks a little frayed in the supplied photo) perhaps George was rehabilitated and went to work selling investments in Fairfield Greenwich’s Sentry Fund. It would have been right up his alley.

 

Update: Aw, isn’t this sweet? Georgie is now down in Miami, where he serves on the board of directors of an art museum, and is a noted philanthropist and champion of civil rights. That would be civil rights for humans, not animals. Just in case you were wondering how a noted benefactor and philanthropist kills his prized horse for insurance money, he hired a killer to bring into the stables an extension cord with two alligator clips attached. Fasten one clip to the horse’s anus, another to the ear, plug into wall socket and, after some minutes of torment, the horse’s entrails explode, a death usually ascribed to colic. One dead horse, one hefty insurance pay off and the son of one of the richest men in the world is off to Florida to become king of the Jet Set.

Here’s his house. Very nice, but I see no evidence of any horses on this waterfront mansion. Do you suppose a prohibition against owning a horse was a condition of his parole?

Southern Union Corporation, the natural gas company dad founded and George oversees, no doubt with the advice Walter Noel, seems to be disappointing its major shareholders. Like Noel’s FGG, nepotism seems to run in the family here, so to speak.