The Greedy Mofos Podcast
Pippa and Aston explore true crimes dealing with the greed for money resulting in these stupid, greedy mofos (muthaf*#kers) getting caught.
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The Greedy Mofos Podcast
Murder in Billionaire's Paradise
A billionaire dies in one of the safest places on earth, and the story only gets stranger from there. From Edmund Safra’s world of private banking for oligarchs and celebrities to the paranoia that shaped his daily life, we explore how a night of supposed intruders, a panic room, and a fire meant to trigger help spiraled into tragedy.
We walk through Ted’s background and his lucrative role in Safra’s care. Then we turn to Lily—widowed before, influential in elite circles, and the person who reportedly sent the bodyguards home that night. Layer in rumors of Russian influence and threats, ties to the Prince of Monaco, and unusual police delays, and the case becomes a study in how power can bend procedure and blur truth.
This conversation doesn’t claim a neat ending. Instead, it weighs incentives, access, and anomalies: who had the most to gain, why the response lagged, and how conflicting confessions and shifting witness stories muddy the waters. If you’re drawn to true crime that intersects with wealth, geopolitics, and the psychology of fear, this episode is a guided map through a maze where the obvious answer may not be the right one.
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SPEAKER_02:Welcome back, everyone. This is Pippa and Aston bringing tea. Hi there, Aston. How are you tonight? I'm doing fine. How are you? Awesome. Awesome. So, of course, this is our first official episode of Green Move. And um welcome back to those of you who listened to our intro last week. And um, so Aston, tell me, what have you binged watched and what do you want to tell our listeners about this week?
SPEAKER_00:Well, I've been binging a lot um because the weather where I'm at has just been rainy and dreary, and so I take breaks during the day when I'm working and try to catch up on things I'm binging. But I happened upon a documentary on a topic that I have no recollection when it actually happened. And when did it not look not too long ago? Okay. Um and so the documentary is fairly new, and it's called Murder in Monaco. Now, my greedy saw that. Yeah, you have time to watch it.
SPEAKER_02:I I did see it, I did, and um, I'm confused as hell. So I want to hear your perspective on this.
SPEAKER_00:I know. I'm kind of like, there are so many greedy mofos in this damn documentary, I couldn't pick just one. Right, right. I was watching it, and the reason the title caught my eye was because I went to on vacation a couple of years ago in Europe and I was in Monaco.
SPEAKER_02:I remember that. Yeah, and when it said murder you brought me a pen back, you brought me a pen back. I love that pen.
SPEAKER_00:And when it said murder in Monaco, I was like, isn't Monaco one of the safest countries in the world because of all the billionaires?
SPEAKER_02:Yes, I recall. Let me see if I can remember what they said. It is the securest city in the world at 60 police officers per mile or per square foot or per resident, something, something crazy like that. I can't recall.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, but there were yeah, uh a lot of police officers with all the banks and all the casinos, and I was like, wait a okay, so I started watching it and I like the way that they did it, you know, because they interviewed the main suspect. He's a lot older now, but he was like the topic of the documentary, okay. But the characters, oh my, yeah, don't worry. I was like, oh my god, okay. Well, first of all, just so everybody knows, the billionaire that was murdered, he was a billionaire. His name was Edmund Safra, and he was like one of the richest men in the world. He was like a private banker, and he was like a private banker for all of these oligarchs and rich people and all this other kind of stuff. And so he celebrities, yeah. Yeah, celebrities, and he lived in a French villa in Monaco, and a lot the reasons a lot of the rich people like to have live in Monaco is because it's tax-free. So he was married to this woman, Lily. Okay, and she had been widowed twice before, yeah, come out later under suspicious circumstances. That didn't come out till later. And she were friends with like, and she just liked being in the whole billionaire lifestyle and that kind of stuff. So when they first interviewed the guy who was accused of more murder, his name was what was his name? Mayor, something mayor. I'm trying to remember. Oh gosh, I Ted. His name was Ted. Is that the nurse? Yeah, and so okay, okay, yeah. The male nurse. Yeah, the male green beret.
SPEAKER_02:He was a green beret and a neonatal, neonatal he was a male uh trauma nurse.
SPEAKER_00:Yes, in the in the in the yeah, yeah, yeah. So Edmund Safra was very paranoid. He thought people were after him because he kind of fed the FBI, our FBI, some information related to Russian oligarchs, because he lost a lot of money and then he got a lot of money and all this other kind of stuff. His wife, Lily, didn't want to lose anything. So if you if you go, if you think about the way things happened, okay, he was paranoid. He hired Ted as his male nurse. Lily interviewed Ted, liked his background. Ted was just some young guy out of the army trying to support his wife and kids, and he got invited to go to Monaco, and he got like$10,000 a month to be his male nurse.
SPEAKER_02:And his shift was like plus$600 a day.
SPEAKER_00:Plus$600 a day. So his shift was like a 12-hour shift, sometimes during the day, sometimes at night. Okay. Because because Mr. Saffron had Parkinson's. Yeah. And he also had other nurses, and Ted was just like one of the staff. Okay. So when I started getting confused, was when this princess, this other princess, Lady, Lady, what's her name? Lady, um, yeah. Some Lady Lady Campbell. Lady Campbell. She was some aristocrat. And she, I tell you, she's a hoop. Just watch the documentary. Oh, yeah. Okay. And so she knew Lily and were friends at Lily, kind of, but she first didn't want to talk about them, then she was ready to talk about him, and she knew all their business. So she was like a very good person to kind of recount everything that happened. Okay. So to get to the gist of it, because Edmund was paranoid about the Russians, at first, everyone kind of thought the Russians killed him. Okay. But once Ted, and it's it's this is a convoluted way of talking about it. So Edmund was in bed with one of his nurses one night. Okay. Lily was also in the same hotel. They lived in this hotel thing at the penthouse above a hotel or whatever. Lily was also there in her bedroom. Ted was working that night, and all of a sudden, according to Ted's viewpoint, there was some people that invaded the home.
SPEAKER_03:On the video.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. So what Ted did, he tried to get to Edmund and the nurse and moved them to like a panic room or something.
unknown:Correct.
SPEAKER_00:And then he claims that he tried to fight off the visitors. But because he knew somebody was in the house, he set a fire to alarm the fire department and police because he didn't have a code to get Edmund or I don't, it's so convoluted. You understood that part better than I did. But Lily, oh, Lily spoke to Edmund and said, I'm okay. And then Edmund and the nurse made it to a panic room or sealed in the vault or something. And then Ted was fighting the intruders and then set the fire to get the fireman to come because he couldn't figure out the code to get everybody out. And to I had it was convoluted. But the part was that basically made me point to the wife, Lily, was that she turned out okay. But she was in the same building, and then her husband and his nurse died of smoke inhalation because they were trapped in a panic room.
SPEAKER_02:Yes, and and Ted, the male nurse, got stabbed in the stomach twice.
SPEAKER_00:Yes. So and so, but this is where it gets really convoluted, okay? I can see where Edward felt paranoid because his attorney or partner, who accountant or somebody was also being threatened, and that's why he needed additional security. I can see that. And I can see if he did, you know, go ahead and talk to the FBI and Russia didn't want it getting out. I can see Russia behind his murder. And that could have been the people that broke into the apartment, right? But what's really interesting was when Ted said that he had spoken to Edmund that he wanted his wife and kids brought over since he's working full-time in Monaco.
SPEAKER_03:Right.
SPEAKER_00:So when the fire department and the police department didn't respond for a couple of hours, it was really suspicious. Then I was like, why does it take so long for them to report a fire? It's Monaco.
SPEAKER_03:Monica Monaco has and a 911 system.
SPEAKER_02:I mean, if you have 60 police officers per square mile or whatever that statistic is, they've got to have a 911 or a 999 system, whatever it is in Europe. Um, that's that's ridiculous. And if he's making$600 per shift and a$10,000 stipend for his hotel and food, I mean, he's got to have a cell phone and a cell phone call 999 or 911, whatever it is.
SPEAKER_00:And at the same time, even though he called them and was on the phone with them saying somebody's trying to break in, I was stabbed, I tried to fight them off, all this other kind of stuff. It still took them several hours to even get to the hotel, and everybody knew who Edmund was in Monaco. Everybody knew where he lived.
SPEAKER_02:Okay, let me let me ask you a question. Okay, so the intruders broke in, supposedly, and and Edmund and his female nurse went to the panic room. Lily got out, Ted um helped Edward or Edmund and the female nurse get to the panic room, decides to set a fire to alert fire. Instead of calling the authorities, he decides to set a fire to alert them, and they're not showing up. So he waits he set the fire to trigger the fire alarm. Right. But why didn't he just call? I mean, did he ever go into detail as to why he did not call the authorities?
SPEAKER_00:You see, when after he set the fire to trigger the fire alarm, he went to the elevator and then he was able to go downstairs. And when he got downstairs, he realized where is everybody? And I think that's when he tried to call. I think I'm trying to remember. Yeah, but it wasn't like serious stabbing. I mean, he was a green beret. Maybe he's used to getting stabbed.
SPEAKER_02:Well, you know what? If a Green Beret is used to getting stabbed, in my opinion, they're not a very good Green Beret because Green Berets should be doing the stabbing. Aren't they the elite?
SPEAKER_00:And they they are and according to Ted, he said that's when his military training kicked in. That's why he set the fire to trigger the fire alarm. He tried to fight off the intruders, supposedly, and he got stabbed. That's what he said.
SPEAKER_02:So, how much time elapsed between the time the intruders broke in, the time he got Edmund or Edward, Edmund to the panic room, the time he set the fire, and the time he got stabbed, and the elevator situation and the 911 call. I mean, this all could not have happened simultaneously. I mean, because this is so this he's guilty.
SPEAKER_00:That's I know. I tell you and I were both guilty. See, I don't think Ted is guilty. I think it was the Russians. This is my viewpoint. I think it was the Russians, and I think his Lily had a hand in it because Lily, and this is something that happened later in the movie. Lily didn't want to lose her wealth. And she knew that once the FBI got involved, that her wealth is contingent on on where he got the money from and all this other kind of stuff, right?
SPEAKER_02:Like they would they would freeze his assets, but he wasn't a U.S. citizen. He wasn't a U.S. citizen, so the FBI couldn't do it. But maybe the Monaco authorities or Interpol, maybe some equivalent to the FBI, could could freeze their assets, and she would be just a millionaire instead of a billionaire. I mean, come on.
SPEAKER_00:But she didn't want to lose her money. So this is what I'm thinking. I'm thinking the wife did it and had a hand in it, along with maybe Russia or whoever. And that comes later in the movie when she sells a house but you know keeps the money and all this other kind of stuff. But on the murdering side, because her husband was in poor health, and because there was something about the business that he had and his brothers, and then she thought maybe he changed his will, that gave her motive to kill him. But it had to be done in a way where she would still inherit everything. See what I'm saying? Oh my god. Because she and she would inherit his business and she would inherit all the houses and all the riches and everything. And so because of something that happened later in the movie that linked Lily to an oligarch. Oh, like having an affair. Oh, maybe she had a hand in it because everybody already knew he was paranoid that Russia was coming after him. So I think Lily did it. What was her really relationship with the Russian oligarch? After Edward had died, after the police investigation and everything, and I guess she needed money. She was she put up one of their mansions, villas, or something for sale in Monaco. The Russian oligarch paid her cash for it. And then the contract was never drawn up, and he never got his money back. She got to keep the money. Wait, what? Yep. He gave it away. And something happened with like the whole the whole transfer of the property. And then something didn't work out right. And instead of giving him his 40 million dollars back, she got to keep the 40 million dollars.
SPEAKER_02:What a freaking oligarch idiot. I mean, I mean, do they not have so who's the greediest go and and sell uh like a purchase agreement to where you're covered?
SPEAKER_00:Um Ted was only getting six hundred dollars a day, ten thousand dollars a month. If something happened to Edward, he's that's it. He doesn't get anything else.
SPEAKER_02:He he loses what 20 grand a month at that, and that's not really that that much over a 12-month period.
SPEAKER_00:I mean that's I don't see him killing Edward for that.
SPEAKER_02:I mean it's a great salary, but it's a great, great salary and a great per diem. But it's it's not gonna make me to come over and yeah, it's it's not gonna make you a millionaire immediately, you know, uh with three kids and a wife. Right.
SPEAKER_00:So I don't see him as being a greedy mofo. I see Lily as being a greedy mofo because it came out that some of her earlier marriages, her husbands died kind of suspiciously.
SPEAKER_02:Ooh, tell me about those.
SPEAKER_00:I I didn't go into detail about those, but okay, yeah, but she also she came from a modest background, so she always married into wealth. So Edward was her third husband, and she married into his wealth.
SPEAKER_02:I do remember hearing that they said she was she was a woman of means, but not that kind of means, not Edward's level of means. So she wasn't poor, but she she wasn't like in the one percent, like like when she married. But were her first two husbands like did she level up each each time? Did she how I mean, did she get richer each time by marrying someone of like better means, more means, more aristocratic?
SPEAKER_00:Um you know, they didn't say I didn't get the impression that she got like lots of millions of dollars from the first two marriages, but she had some money because she was kind of in some of the same circles as well.
SPEAKER_02:You know, you know, I think they should do a documentary just on Lily. I think that would be really interesting. Now, is she still alive or has she passed? Because they were already up there when when this happened, it was like in 2010 or something like that.
SPEAKER_00:It was Irene, yeah. I want to say she still is. I want to say after I watched the documentary, I asked Google if she's still alive, and I want to say it said yeah. Oh, but here's another thing. Um he was friends with no, she died in 2022. Okay, yeah. Um, he was friends with the Prince of Monaco. Okay, and the Prince of Monaco was friends with Poop. Oh, there you go. There's a connection right there. Yeah, a connection. The Prince of Monaco could have been. Trying to protect Putin by delaying the police and fire services to go save Edward. Oh, that's a good take on that. You never know. Well, maybe the prince is behind it. But he got the money. But he didn't get the money. But we don't know what he's getting from.
SPEAKER_02:But I the the prince is not going to be dialed into the 911 system. So that tells me Lily had to have called the Prince of Monaco and alerted him that this was happening. Then he could um he could intervene.
SPEAKER_00:That's what I thought. That's why I say she's my number one suspect. Because yeah, because of the whole Russian connection. That's why she's my number one suspect. Ted claims he's been framed, and he claims that he's the fall guy. That kind of goes to his theory when his wife was brought from the airport because she was flying into Monaco to meet him. Yeah. And instead of going to where he was living, they took her directly to the police station.
SPEAKER_02:And they seized her passport. Yeah. Seized her passport and everything. And I was saying that's strange. And they made him confess. They made him confess and sign something that was in French and he did not speak French. But they they said, Your wife will never get back to your children if you don't sign this. And that's it.
SPEAKER_00:So why is he being threatened to sign a confession? And who has that kind of power and pull? Yeah. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:I mean, police do like to close cases, but this is this is just too extreme for just your regular police getting that, you know, that close rate, get it up there in the you know, 80%. You know, this is this is way far reaching. Yeah. So you know what? This um this story, I'm more confused than when than before we started talking about it.
SPEAKER_00:I told you. Um you know me. I'm really good at figuring out who did it, or at least I'm good at kind of putting some of the pieces together and it'd be like, okay, this is the most likely suspect. And but this would to be a greedy mofo. There's a lot of mofo. Yeah, yeah. I can see Lily doing it. I can't see Ted doing it. I can see Ted maybe lying about his background the way that they allegedly say that he did. And then one of the witnesses in the documentary was like the head nurse, and I think she was paid to say the things that she said. Oh, maybe or threatened. Yeah, or threatened. And kind of like there's too much evidence to say Ted did it, and Ted didn't really have a motive.
SPEAKER_02:He didn't have a other than okay. So they convoluted the story. I do remember them saying that they that he set the fire and created it so he would look like he's a hero. That is just the dumbest thing I have ever heard in my life.
SPEAKER_00:You know, you I mean, what are you gonna get if you're a hero? A medal? You're not getting money, like uh a bonus, uh uh you know, uh 20,000. He's not a male nurse for Edward anymore.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, or you know, or he and he's he's serving time, right? He gets out in like 2036 or something.
SPEAKER_00:He tried to escape from prison because he didn't want to do. So he tried to escape from French prison. He got caught, he served his time and they released him, but his wife divorced him, didn't want to have anything to do with him or anything like that. And then he relocated, I can't remember where, Arizona, New Mexico, one of those states. And then they're claiming that I think he had remarried or something, and then now he's in jail for attempting murder on his second wife.
SPEAKER_02:Wait, wait, that adds a whole new level of I know that's why I was so confused.
SPEAKER_00:I still think he he's innocent of Edwards. I'm putting that on Lily and the Russians.
SPEAKER_02:What if Lily, what if Lily was going to pay him to do it? What if what if she hired him and then she did survive the fire? Yeah, and then and then she backed out and didn't want to come to his because maybe she thought he was gonna die. And I don't know. Oh my gosh. So Ted in Arizona or wherever in the states, he tried to commit murder on his second wife. What's the story on that?
SPEAKER_00:That's where they left it. They left it like he well, supposedly he attempted to kill his second wife, he got caught. For what his name he changed his name and everything after the whole Monaco debacle, and so he was going under a different name, so he's been kind of like just trying to stay under the radar, basically. And I guess he remarried, or maybe something happened. They didn't go into detail on that part because that was toward the end of the documentary, because they set it up like, yeah, they set it up like, oh, and something shocking happens, you won't believe, and then it comes back, and they just kind of capsulize that in like maybe 15-20 minutes, and he was arrested, and now he's in jail, supposedly, for trying to kill his second wife.
SPEAKER_02:Okay, they have to do a follow-up or a part two because they've left us all hanging, so nobody was convicted except for Ted, and then he's already out and back in the States, and then in jail for something else.
SPEAKER_00:Yep, after he changed his name and everything, supposedly.
SPEAKER_02:How much time did he serve for the alleged murder of banker?
SPEAKER_00:I want to say he served a good time, um nine years maybe 15 years. For two murders, because the other nurse died too. Yeah, I think he got out on good behavior or something. Nine years for two lives. I would have to go back, I would have to go back. But he served his time for for Edward, even though he claims he was innocent. But he served his time for Edward, and then when he got out, he changed his name, moved back to the States, and all this other kind of stuff, and then somehow he got caught up in this attempted murder scheme on his second wife. I guess they were separated or whatever, and she felt threatened and she report, I don't know. It was it was crazy, but once all that came out, and then once all like the French Escape came out, and then all this stuff with you know the prince and Putin and everything, I was like, if I had to like just take a piece of thread and then just kind of like thread each individual, it would all lead back to Lily. I think she's the greedy mofo in this case.
SPEAKER_02:I do, I I agree, but there's something up with tag. Uh there's I I don't know if he's a a greedy mofo, he's just a plain old mofo.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, that's maybe he's a murderer, but you know, yeah. Oh my gosh. Okay. To me, he didn't do anything when we talk about greedy mofos. He didn't do anything that was like, I'm doing this for the money. For greedy. Whatever I have to do for the money. And I'm like, Well, what money did he get? He didn't get any money, he wasn't gonna get any money. No, and then they said later in the documentary that people are thinking that Lily paid his wife to turn on him, and because his wife moved into this real expensive house, and everybody knew she couldn't afford this house. This was when she went back to the States, and it was weird how she went straight from the airport to the police station. And who knows? The police could have coerced her into changing her story, but she at first was on Ted's side and saying, Well, they kidnapped us and threatened us if he didn't do something, and then later on, she denounced all that and just didn't want to have anything to do with Ted and went back to the States and bought a brand new home. So I'm like, somebody paid her, just like somebody paid the nurse, somebody paid her, Lily could have paid whatever. And Ted doesn't have that kind of those kind of connections and power. No, no. To me, Lily's the greedy mofo. Wow, okay, all right. Well, I'll tell you, this was one case instance where they were talking about it and going through everything, and I just could not figure out who it was until I just sat down and said who would benefit the most.
SPEAKER_02:And to the my brain is spinning on this case because I I I mean, there are just so many people involved, so many components and the wealth factor, the Monaco factor, the Prince factor, the Putin factor, the Marines in a Green Beret, and suspicious deaths of prior husbands. I mean, this has you know conspiracy all over it.
SPEAKER_00:I know, I know. And it could be a lot of greedy mofos involved, but my uh if you ask me which one is the one that really did it, I'm going to say it was Lily the wife.
SPEAKER_02:Oh, and she is gone and cannot pay the price. So who inherited her money? Did she have children?
SPEAKER_00:I think she did.
SPEAKER_02:Okay. From Edward or from another another marriage. I I want somebody to write a biography about her because I want to hear all about her kids and her family life and her upbringing. She's the most interesting character of all. And I would love to read a story about her. She's like Cruella de Ville of Monica.
SPEAKER_00:Yes, she has children. She has a daughter that's still alive, a son that's still alive, she has a son that's deceased, and he died in a accident with her husband.
unknown:Aw.
SPEAKER_02:Well, that okay, so that I don't find suspicious because she wouldn't kill her own son just to get rid of her and her husband. But the other husband may be so. Yeah. But did Edward have any children?
SPEAKER_00:Edward Safra? Yes. So do you do which premise do you think um for the greedy mofo for this for this particular episode? Do you think it was Lily? Have I convinced you it could have been her?
SPEAKER_02:Um, you know, you've you've made a very strong case that it is likely Lily. I think that there's just there's too much. I I cannot make a decision on it because there's so much. There's just so much.
SPEAKER_00:I just remembered something. What Lily gave the bodyguards that night off. Because he usually had a lot of bodyguards around him, Edward, because he was so paranoid. Yes, and for some reason, Lily called whoever is in charge of the team of bodyguards and gave them the night off. So there were no bodyguards that night. Wow. So Lily inherited after his death, Lily inherited uh 800 million dollars. 800 million, and this is after, but that's just what she inherited, but this is after Edward left 50 to several charities and divided among his family members. So she and that was her part, that was her portion. That was her portion. Oh that's not counting the sale of all the the property and all that other kind of stuff.
SPEAKER_02:That's like his cash holdings. That's not the real estate.
SPEAKER_00:Oh, gee, yeah, and her and Edward didn't have children, but he he kind of just welcomed her children from her previous manage.
SPEAKER_02:And he didn't have any from a prior prior marriage. No, wow, wow, she she married the right dude.
SPEAKER_00:That's just too much pointing to her. I'm sorry, it's just way too much pointing to her. I think she's the greeting mofo. She tried to do good after he left, she was some philanthropist, and she was head of these different nonprofits. She tried to raise money and do all that kind of stuff, you know. But once you kind of make that money and you're living in Monaco tax-free, you got it made.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, you don't have to do anything, but drink champagne the rest of your life. Well, we could talk about this one all night, but I guess we ought to wrap it up and let our listeners go off and watch that documentary.
SPEAKER_00:It's a very good documentary that's training on Netflix right now. And so if you have any questions or want more details, be sure and watch it. And you can let us know what you thought. Follow us, and that way, you know, you can suggest things for us. Some true crime that greedy mofos just went way overboard with murder and Metcam, just for all the sake of money, and we're gonna be bringing more interesting stories of some greedy mofos, and we're going to judge them. This one I couldn't really judge anybody because everybody was pointing fingers, and I can't call anybody stupid in this one.
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SPEAKER_01:Okay, that's it for this episode of Greedy Mufo. Be sure to tune in next week where we have another intriguing pill of greedy muffles.