Death on Coconut Drive: How St. Lucia Authorities Botched Their Investigation of Pileggi Sister's Death

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Angela Pileggi Silverstein at Phil Spector's trial.
We recently brought you the story of the murder of Fort Lauderdale multimillionaire Ron Vinci, for which his girlfriend Catherine Pileggi is awaiting trial. In addition to the accounts of their lives before the murder, there are things that don't make sense and a mysterious poisoned bottle of gin. But there's also more to something we touched on in the cover story: the death of Pileggi's sister in St. Lucia and the strange family politics that surrounded it.

According to friends of the couple, Pileggi often blamed Vinci for playing a role in the death of her sister while they were partying by a marina in St. Lucia in late 2009. He allegedly slipped Angela Pileggi Silverstein some pills, which may have played a role in her death by what St. Lucia authorities called "death by misadventure," specifically, acute intoxication.

"She blames me 100 percent for her sister's death," an acquaintance of Vinci's told police Vinci would tell her. When the case goes to trial, prosecutors may attempt to build a link between Pileggi's resentment over that incident and Vinci's eventual murder.

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