Jose Pepe Fanjul, said to be one of the world's richest men, and his wife Emilia reportedly were cleaned out of millions of dollars worth of jewelry on Friday at the Four Seasons hotel — by a man in a tuxedo who chatted them up in the elevator then came to their room. For some reason, police seem to think the robber is tied to the theft of cash and valuables from the dressing room of an Israeli basketball team that played the Clippers last October at Staples Center.
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