Nightline (ABC) - 2009-02-12

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[0:00] From

[0:04] the global resources of ABC News with

[0:07] Terry Moran, Martin Basher, and Cynthia

[0:10] Mcbaden. This is Night Line.

[0:16] >> Good evening. We begin tonight with

[0:17] breaking news. a small commuter plane,

[0:20] Continental Express flight number 3407,

[0:23] carrying 44 passengers and four crew

[0:26] members from Newark Airport to Buffalo

[0:28] Niagara International Airport, crashed

[0:31] into a house in Clarence, New York,

[0:33] about 4 miles short of Buffalo Airport

[0:36] at 10:20 p.m. According to the

[0:38] Associated Press, the New York State

[0:40] Police say that all 48 people aboard

[0:43] flight number 3407

[0:46] have died. There was light snow at the

[0:48] time. Images at the crash site showed a

[0:51] fiery scene. One neighbor said the crash

[0:54] sounded like a huge snow plow passing.

[0:56] An eyewitness on the ground reported

[0:58] seeing the plane, a Bombardier-8

[1:01] turborop on fire shortly before the

[1:04] crash.

[1:05] I was sitting in my family room watching

[1:07] TV and uh it flew over and I saw it on

[1:10] fire and then I heard an explosion. A

[1:12] few minutes later heard another

[1:13] explosion. There's a there's a crater

[1:14] back there and you can see the landing

[1:16] gear and the wing and the engine. One

[1:17] home is completely destroyed and the one

[1:19] next door part of it's like collapsed.

[1:22] >> Our sympathies are tonight with the

[1:23] families of the victims of flight 3407.

[1:28] We turn now to what may prove to be much

[1:31] needed relief for millions of Americans.

[1:33] The Obama administration is reportedly

[1:36] poised to roll out a plan that would

[1:38] reduce mortgage interest rates for

[1:40] homeowners threatened by foreclosure.

[1:42] The news comes after yet another month

[1:44] of dire foreclosure numbers. And tonight

[1:47] we visit one of the hardest hit states.

[1:49] A place where the rich and famous once

[1:52] traded properties. And these were often

[1:54] sold by a superstar realtor. A man who

[1:57] made tens of millions of dollars. But

[1:59] times have changed and so has his

[2:02] business. As Jeffrey Kaufman now reports

[2:05] for the latest installment of our

[2:06] series, Realy Check.

[2:11] I love it. I love it.

[2:19] >> This is the most expensive home built in

[2:21] Miami. Almost $100 million cost.

[2:25] >> This is the way Carlos Hustto likes to

[2:27] sell houses, multi-million dollar

[2:30] houses.

[2:30] >> That one I sold. That one I sold. That

[2:32] one I sold. That one I bought.

[2:34] >> Want to buy a home on Miami Beach's

[2:35] star-studded Star Island? Carlos claims

[2:38] he has sold more homes there than

[2:40] anyone.

[2:40] >> This is Puff Daddy right here, which was

[2:43] the best deal in my opinion. Next one's

[2:46] own by the Esta fans. I sold that to

[2:48] them. Uh, two doors down is Rosio.

[2:52] >> When the Miami market was hot, Carlos

[2:55] was redhot, selling $200 million in real

[2:58] estate in one year to multi-millionaires

[3:00] and to billionaires. He used a

[3:02] helicopter the way most agents use a

[3:05] car. Typically, whenever I get a client

[3:07] on a helicopter like this, they they see

[3:11] the knowledge of the market, they

[3:12] perceive it differently. I get them

[3:15] forever. They end up saying, "Okay, this

[3:18] is this is my team. This is my guy."

[3:22] The guy who became a living legend.

[3:28] Just a few years ago, a program called

[3:30] Million-Dollar Agents on the cable

[3:31] channel TLC celebrated him as the

[3:34] biggest fish in Miami's sharkinfested

[3:36] pool of real estate agents.

[3:38] >> I have no idea where you're going and I

[3:40] have no idea where to get there. Make a

[3:41] left. Why don't you make a left here?

[3:43] >> When times were good, he toured around

[3:44] town in his chauffeerdriven Rolls-Royce.

[3:47] Milliondoll homes weren't his business.

[3:49] He was only interested in multi-million

[3:51] dollar homes and the people who owned

[3:53] them or wanted to. That was then. Today,

[3:57] the Rolls has been replaced by a Land

[3:59] Rover, and the highf flyer, who was

[4:01] worth $20 million in 2005, is now $12

[4:05] million in debt and declaring

[4:07] bankruptcy.

[4:08] >> So, you you owned this home?

[4:10] >> I owned this home and it didn't sell. We

[4:13] did the renovation. It didn't sell for

[4:15] about six, seven months.

[4:18] >> In better times, home was this $7

[4:20] million Miami mansion. When the market

[4:23] tanked, Carlos could no longer afford

[4:25] the taxes. $135,000

[4:28] a year and the mortgage.

[4:30] >> And how much did you lose in the

[4:31] process?

[4:32] >> Over two million, like 27.

[4:35] >> This one is gone. He still owns five

[4:37] homes, all facing foreclosure. How many

[4:40] homes did you own?

[4:41] >> I don't know. 12.

[4:43] >> 12 homes. And what happened to the seven

[4:45] that are gone?

[4:46] >> Well, either sold or lost

[4:51] >> to the banks.

[4:54] and along with my millies.

[4:57] >> It is a story of a spectacular rise and

[4:59] fall. Carlos Hustto came to Miami from

[5:02] Cuba at age 11. He began his working

[5:04] life as a janitor and flipping burgers

[5:06] at McDonald's and became a

[5:08] multi-millionaire. Soon it will all be

[5:11] gone.

[5:11] >> All my properties that I have a mortgage

[5:13] on, I believe are in foreclosure.

[5:16] >> But he refuses to be seen as a victim.

[5:19] >> I did it. It was all my doing. How do

[5:23] you describe what drove you?

[5:27] >> Greed.

[5:29] Ego.

[5:31] Nothing is ever enough. When the ego

[5:34] drives you, it's like it's more and more

[5:37] and more.

[5:38] >> Did you just want to become a a

[5:40] billionaire?

[5:40] >> I have no idea what I wanted to do.

[5:44] Don't you stop when you have enough? No.

[5:46] Let's go create more.

[5:48] >> By every measure, it worked very well

[5:50] for a while. Are you freaking crazy?

[5:53] What do you mean it didn't get affected

[5:54] that much? You want the statistics? The

[5:57] number of sales are probably down 80%.

[6:00] And on some markets, they're probably

[6:03] down 50% in value.

[6:05] >> Today, he is scrambling to keep his

[6:07] business alive and his head above water

[6:09] as bankruptcy court looms and 12

[6:11] lawsuits threatened to sink him.

[6:13] >> My business is basically selling real

[6:16] estate

[6:17] and I decided to become an investor.

[6:20] That was really my downfall.

[6:24] >> So, what do you call this neighborhood?

[6:25] >> Indian Creek Village,

[6:27] >> a village of just 32 homes, a golf

[6:30] course and a police force of 14. One of

[6:33] the most exclusive addresses in America.

[6:36] Call it Billionaire's Row.

[6:38] >> Here is Plesias

[6:40] Carlon

[6:42] Tonula.

[6:43] >> That pink house is one of the more

[6:45] modest homes here and Carlos is trying

[6:47] to sell it for this woman. Oh, how are

[6:50] you?

[6:51] >> Anna McDougall, MC C O U G. There are

[6:55] lots of other names in between, but I've

[6:57] been married. This is my third marriage.

[6:59] >> And this is her third home. She'd like

[7:02] to simplify life if someone would pay

[7:04] her around $11 million for it.

[7:06] >> Why don't you tell her the structure,

[7:08] the concept?

[7:09] >> You know that I'm interested only in

[7:11] money.

[7:12] >> Okay. Oh, it's so beautiful. Okay. So,

[7:16] let me give you the basic numbers.

[7:18] >> Okay. Okay. $2 million now

[7:23] and then they would lease the home for

[7:27] up to 5 years.

[7:29] >> It's a creative lease buy deal. Carlos

[7:32] says that's what's necessary to move

[7:33] houses in a down market and wants

[7:36] nothing of it. But when it comes to

[7:38] Carlos, she is a big fan.

[7:40] >> He's a fabulous fabulous person and he

[7:44] had he brings the excitement wherever he

[7:46] goes. And you I don't know, he's

[7:49] inspiring that way. He does something to

[7:52] people and he does come up with some

[7:55] amazing deals.

[7:56] >> The $20 million he he had just a few

[7:58] years ago has turned into $12 million in

[8:01] debt. Uh that doesn't turn you off

[8:04] dealing with him.

[8:05] >> No. No, because he hasn't basically

[8:08] changed. I mean, his personality is the

[8:11] same, and it's my feeling that he will

[8:13] probably be back in a great position.

[8:15] Uh, again,

[8:21] >> not many real estate agents can boast

[8:23] that they share their penthouse

[8:24] apartment with a group of Buddhist

[8:25] monks, but Carlos does, which may

[8:29] explain why he remains so calm, so

[8:32] upbeat in the face of adversity.

[8:34] >> Look at their serenity. Look at their

[8:37] peacefulness.

[8:38] No matter what it is, they're so

[8:42] fulfilled and satisfied with like

[8:44] nothing.

[8:45] >> Are you going to join them and give

[8:46] everything up and stop selling real

[8:47] estate? I don't get that sense.

[8:49] >> No, I'm going to continue to sell real

[8:50] estate cuz I love what I do.

[8:52] >> Good morning, sir.

[8:53] >> How are you, babe?

[8:55] >> First, he has to clean up his personal,

[8:56] financial, and legal mess. And the real

[8:59] estate market has to recover. He thinks

[9:01] that's at least two years away.

[9:03] >> These foreclosures must end. You know,

[9:06] there are a lot of people right now that

[9:08] have properties that should not be had.

[9:11] Me included. I should not be I should

[9:14] just stay to what I know, being a real

[9:17] estate salesman, not trying to be a real

[9:20] estate investor. In the future, I

[9:22] learned my lesson. Well,

[9:23] >> Carlos Hustto, the high-f flyer who was

[9:25] unshaken by his crash to Earth, says

[9:27] when the market comes back, he'll be

[9:29] ready and rich again. I'm Jeffrey

[9:32] Kaufman for Night Line in Miami.

[9:35] >> An expensive lesson, yet amazingly an

[9:38] optimistic outlook. Our thanks to

[9:40] Jeffrey Kaufman. And when we come back,

[9:42] what happens when a fan's obsession

[9:44] turns dangerous. We take you inside the

[9:47] mind of a celebrity stalker.

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[13:00] Celebrities on the whole accept that

[13:02] every now and then they'll be pestered

[13:03] by some adoring fans. But what happens

[13:06] when adoration becomes suffocation? When

[13:10] a fan becomes a stalker? Nowhere is this

[13:12] more likely to occur than in Los

[13:14] Angeles, a city full of shining stars.

[13:17] But police are fighting back. And

[13:18] tonight, we take you inside the city's

[13:20] elite stalker unit. As Lisa Fletcher now

[13:24] reports,

[13:29] A-list celebrities. See them on the red

[13:31] carpet posing for the cameras and their

[13:34] adoring fans.

[13:37] But for some celebrities, they've had to

[13:39] pay the price of living in the

[13:41] spotlight. when certain fans become

[13:43] obsessed and begin to stalk.

[13:45] >> There's a fine line between fan and

[13:47] fanatic.

[13:48] >> Jennifer Garner just got a permanent

[13:50] restraining order against a man who

[13:51] blogs about human sacrifice. She says he

[13:55] has terrorized her for years

[13:58] to accomplish today.

[13:59] >> Uma Thurman described her stalker as a

[14:02] nightmare. He'd show up at her home and

[14:04] turned up outside her trailer while she

[14:06] was filming a movie in Manhattan.

[14:12] AND

[14:12] >> then there's this American Idol

[14:14] contestant obsessed with Paula Abdul for

[14:16] years. She killed herself in front of

[14:18] the singer's home.

[14:20] >> Good morning, Threat Management Unit.

[14:21] Detective Dunn, can I help you?

[14:22] >> Detective Jeff Dunn is working the Abdul

[14:24] case and many others. He heads up the

[14:27] threat management unit, dubbed the

[14:29] stalker unit. His beat, Los Angeles,

[14:32] ground zero for celebrity stalking.

[14:34] >> He would send greeting cards to her.

[14:36] Dunn gave us unprecedented access to

[14:38] some of his cases related to the world's

[14:40] biggest stars.

[14:41] >> As far as Britney Spears was concerned,

[14:43] he was completely delusional. He was

[14:44] convinced that she loved him.

[14:55] Shazawa.

[14:56] >> What we had was a Japanese businessman

[14:58] came to America on a tourist visa for

[15:00] the sole purpose of following Britney

[15:02] Spears around the country on a concert

[15:03] tour.

[15:04] >> He believes Shazawa used the internet to

[15:06] not only track Spear's concert schedule,

[15:08] but her life from Louisiana to Los

[15:10] Angeles and sent the pictures and

[15:13] postcards to prove it.

[15:14] >> Here's a picture of her limousine as

[15:16] she's leaving one of the concert venues.

[15:18] >> And on the back of the photograph, he

[15:19] says, "I'm chasing you." You know, she

[15:21] doesn't know who this person is.

[15:22] >> That would get anybody's attention.

[15:23] >> Absolutely. Advised by the LAPD stalking

[15:26] unit of the potential danger, Spears got

[15:28] a restraining order. It has since

[15:30] expired.

[15:31] >> The psychology of of stalkers tends to

[15:33] be very primitive.

[15:36] >> Dr. Reed Malloy is widely regarded as

[15:38] one of the nation's experts on stalkers,

[15:40] particularly those who threaten

[15:42] celebrities. He says stalking behavior

[15:44] may be fueled by our no holdsbred

[15:47] culture obsessed with all things

[15:49] celebrity. Is there something about

[15:50] these celebrity magazines and the

[15:52] personal photos that they contain that

[15:54] sort of drives the behavior of the

[15:55] stalkers?

[15:56] >> The more the magazines humanize the

[15:59] celebrity figure, the more it can reduce

[16:01] that space between the stalker and the

[16:04] celebrity figure.

[16:05] >> And as the buffer decreases, the cost of

[16:07] fame goes up.

[16:10] >> Rebecca even knew that I was talking. In

[16:13] the late 1980s, Rebecca Schaefer was a

[16:16] rising star with a lead role on the hit

[16:18] TV show My Sister Sam.

[16:20] >> Brandon is intelligent and sensitive and

[16:23] artistic.

[16:24] >> Uh, she was murdered by an obsessed fan

[16:26] by the name of Robert Bardau.

[16:27] >> I just fell for it. My obsession more

[16:30] and more and contact her. There was no

[16:34] response. I couldn't understand that.

[16:35] >> Back in those days, there were no

[16:36] stalking laws in California or anywhere

[16:38] else for that matter.

[16:39] >> I didn't even know if she would. I said,

[16:41] "No, I pulled her in. She

[16:44] >> Schaefer's brutal death, gunned down at

[16:46] her front door, was the wakeup call.

[16:49] >> She had to be a victim of a homicide in

[16:50] order for us to get the message that

[16:52] something needs to be done in the way of

[16:54] legislation to address stalking crimes.

[16:56] >> Laws passed and LAPD's stalker unit was

[16:59] born. And sometimes, at least here in

[17:01] Hollywood, life imitates art.

[17:05] >> Hello. Hello.

[17:07] >> I watched you today.

[17:09] >> What? TV and film star Morgan Fairchild

[17:11] once played the role of a stalking

[17:13] victim in the movie The Seduction. In

[17:16] real life, she says she's had many

[17:17] stalkers and has come to rely on the

[17:20] LAPD stalker unit.

[17:21] >> If you're in the public eye and that's

[17:23] the business you've chosen, then uh you

[17:25] will always have to face the probability

[17:27] that not everyone is going to be happy

[17:29] with you or like you and that people may

[17:31] have some kind of grudge, real or

[17:33] imagined, against you. One female fan

[17:35] began writing innocent postings on

[17:37] Fairchild's website. That turned into

[17:40] cards, gifts, and handwritten letters

[17:42] the LAPD says escalated their level of

[17:45] concern.

[17:46] >> I'm going to show up on your doorstep.

[17:47] I'm going to fly across the country. Oh,

[17:49] you promised me that you were going to

[17:50] pay all our bills, and you haven't done

[17:51] it. And now I'm angry. And I was like,

[17:54] uh, so it was getting kind of

[17:56] threatening.

[17:56] >> The obsessed woman believed Fairchild

[17:59] was her mother.

[18:00] >> These are addressed to your home

[18:01] address. Mhm.

[18:02] >> How happy do you think that makes me?

[18:05] >> However threatening they may be, police

[18:07] say stalkers are also unpredictable.

[18:10] This obsessed fan sent this X-rated

[18:12] video to a prominent recording artist.

[18:21] >> And in the case of Brad Pitt, this woman

[18:23] broke into his home, fed his dogs, and

[18:26] slept in his pajamas. Are these people

[18:28] that appear normal in their daily lives

[18:30] and then they go home and they're

[18:32] obsessing over these these celebrities?

[18:34] >> Typically not. Uh typically their lives

[18:36] are bereft of any normal satisfactions.

[18:38] Often times they're living alone.

[18:40] They've typically had very unstable work

[18:42] histories and have not done well and

[18:45] oftenimes that's because of the

[18:46] psychiatric disorder. But paradoxically

[18:49] they tend to be brighter than average.

[18:51] One stalker considered to be extremely

[18:53] dangerous by both Malloy and the LAPD,

[18:56] Jonathan Norman, who stalked Steven

[18:58] Spielberg. He even had a shopping list.

[19:02] >> Three eye masks, three cuffs, four pair

[19:04] nipple clippers. Again, you see both the

[19:06] level of aggression as well as the level

[19:09] of sexual aggression that Norman uh

[19:12] thought about. Because of his prior

[19:14] criminal convictions, Jonathan Norman

[19:16] was sentenced to 25 years to life for

[19:18] the Steven Spielberg case. You know, a

[19:21] lot of the celebs that are stalked

[19:23] aren't necessarily overtly threatened,

[19:25] but it's still terrifying for them.

[19:27] >> Correct. But people do not um understand

[19:31] that just the uh event of stalking will

[19:34] lead to various states that can move to

[19:38] the level of a psychiatric disorder in

[19:42] celebrities. Case in point, Madonna, who

[19:44] said she suffered nightmares after being

[19:46] stalked by Robert Hoskins. Hoskins

[19:49] scaled the security walls of her estate,

[19:51] tried to get to the singer, whom he

[19:53] believed was his wife, and was

[19:55] ultimately shot by her bodyguard.

[19:57] >> Thing that makes Hoskins so so

[19:59] dangerous, is he's focused on Madonna as

[20:01] a spirit. And he believes that the

[20:03] Madonna spirit can inhabit anyone at any

[20:06] given time. So if Robert Hoskins was

[20:08] walking the street today and he decided

[20:10] that you or I were Madonna at that point

[20:12] in time, we would be at great risk.

[20:14] >> With the help of the LAPD stalking unit,

[20:16] Morgan Fairchild recently broke free of

[20:18] her obsessed fan.

[20:20] >> Especially at this day and age with all

[20:21] the technology that's readily available

[20:24] to any weirdo on the street, you you

[20:26] know, you do get a little concerned

[20:28] about um about your safety, about your

[20:31] security.

[20:31] >> They don't know who this person is, so

[20:33] you can't blame them for being

[20:34] frightened. And that's where we come in.

[20:36] Uh we part of our job is managing that

[20:38] fear in addition to managing the case.

[20:41] >> Dun's unit already has its hands full

[20:43] dealing with 20 celebrity stalking cases

[20:46] right now. And in our celebrity obsessed

[20:48] culture, there seems to be no end in

[20:51] sight. This is Lisa Fletcher for Night

[20:53] Line in Los Angeles.

[20:55] >> The dark side of celebrity culture. Our

[20:57] thanks to Lisa Fletcher. When we come

[21:00] back, love is in the air. So says this

[21:03] international super couple.

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[25:03] >> Night Line continues from New York City

[25:06] with Martin Basher.

[25:09] For centuries, it's been the stuff of

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[25:15] Juliet where two strangers meet and

[25:17] suddenly fall in love. But in France,

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[25:34] >> He's not exactly prince charming, though

[25:37] he does live in a palace. But the French

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[25:41] >> Was it love at first sight? Yeah, I saw

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[25:53] Sarazi was already joking about getting

[25:55] engaged.

[25:56] >> He walked into the room and something of

[25:59] his charm,

[26:03] you know,

[26:04] >> a fairy tale romance. Absolutely. Never

[26:07] mind that the prince was still married,

[26:09] though separated. This fairy tale is

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[26:21] >> And I suppose in love.

[26:23] >> Of course.

[26:25] >> Whatever in love means.

[26:28] >> Surprise, surprise. That didn't end

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[26:33] >> But his heart tells him that here here

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[26:42] >> But is the fairy tale just a fantasy? Is

[26:45] love at first sight really possible?

[26:47] >> Instant attraction is very real and it's

[26:51] a very deep emotion.

[26:53] >> The ancient Greeks believed in the power

[26:55] of Cupid's arrow. Today's science offers

[26:58] encouragement for hopeless romantics.

[27:00] One recent study found that it doesn't

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[27:14] physical beauty in the woman. For women,

[27:17] men need to be mysterious. They need

[27:20] they need to be uh difficult to figure

[27:22] out.

[27:22] >> Of course, everyone has their own answer

[27:25] to Sergeant Pepper's enduring question.

[27:31] >> The president of France and his

[27:33] beautiful bride clearly do. I'm David

[27:36] Wright for Night Line in New York.

[27:38] And be careful, Valentine's Day is near,

[27:41] so don't forget those flowers. Our

[27:42] thanks to David Wright. And when we come

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[32:09] New at 6, we're on the road to the 2010

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[32:35] ahead with more on the well-known 911

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[32:44] last night in New York State.

[32:46] >> Plus, why the number of flu cases is up

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[32:50] >> That's coming up next on Nightly News.

[32:51] And we'll see you back here at 6:00.