John Y. Brown, JR.--
After a bitter divorce from Phyllis in 1997, the next year he weds his third beauty queen, a 1998 Miss Kentucky, Jill Louise Roach, who is 27 years his junior. The lavish ceremony beneath the white plantation columns of Brown's mansion on Old Cave Hill Lane is attended by former Governor Brereton C. Jones, Preston and Anita Madden, F. Lee Bailey, his son John Y. Brown III (Kentucky Secretary of State), and other local notables. "Man can't live alone," Brown tells the Lexington Herald-Leader. "Once you're a family man, you need a family to survive." In 1991, with country music entertainer Kenny Rogers, he has founded Kenny Rogers Roasters, an international chain of wood-roasted chicken restaurants said to have average annual sales of a million dollars per unit, and two years later launches another chain in South Florida called Roadhouse Grill. By the mid 1990's he sells his stake in both concerns to what the Miami Herald describes as a "Malaysian conglomerate." Along the way through the decade he has been a guest of his old friend, President Bill Clinton, in the Lincoln Bedroom of the White House. In the spring of 2001 he plans to build yet another restaurant chain radiating from Florida, this one with former University of Louisville football coach Howard Schnellenberger, to be called "Coach Schnellenberger's The Original Steakhouse and Sports Theater," where patrons may dine on steaks, chicken, ribs, and lobster while watching sports on six-foot-by-eight-foot video screens. "Life's full of opportunity," the 65-year-old ex-governor and onetime presidential aspirant says at his third wedding, "if you look forward and not look back".
After a bitter divorce from Phyllis in 1997, the next year he weds his third beauty queen, a 1998 Miss Kentucky, Jill Louise Roach, who is 27 years his junior. The lavish ceremony beneath the white plantation columns of Brown's mansion on Old Cave Hill Lane is attended by former Governor Brereton C. Jones, Preston and Anita Madden, F. Lee Bailey, his son John Y. Brown III (Kentucky Secretary of State), and other local notables. "Man can't live alone," Brown tells the Lexington Herald-Leader. "Once you're a family man, you need a family to survive." In 1991, with country music entertainer Kenny Rogers, he has founded Kenny Rogers Roasters, an international chain of wood-roasted chicken restaurants said to have average annual sales of a million dollars per unit, and two years later launches another chain in South Florida called Roadhouse Grill. By the mid 1990's he sells his stake in both concerns to what the Miami Herald describes as a "Malaysian conglomerate." Along the way through the decade he has been a guest of his old friend, President Bill Clinton, in the Lincoln Bedroom of the White House. In the spring of 2001 he plans to build yet another restaurant chain radiating from Florida, this one with former University of Louisville football coach Howard Schnellenberger, to be called "Coach Schnellenberger's The Original Steakhouse and Sports Theater," where patrons may dine on steaks, chicken, ribs, and lobster while watching sports on six-foot-by-eight-foot video screens. "Life's full of opportunity," the 65-year-old ex-governor and onetime presidential aspirant says at his third wedding, "if you look forward and not look back".
Phyllis George--
Rebounding from her acrimonious divorce from John Y., she is reported by News-day in the fall of 1998 to be living in Manhattan in a "sumptuous 5th Avenue apartment." She has written a book called Living With Quilts, and boasts of having 100 quilts and other Kentucky folk art in a spare room in her Manhattan home. She has also had a brief stint with CBS, where she suffers numerous gaffes, is excoriated by critics, and would be fired after only eight months when she perkily suggests on air that a falsely accused rapist and his purported victim give each other a hug--albeit with the network reportedly paying the balance of the $1 million in George's three-year contract. Like her ex-husband, she maintains close ties to Bill and Hillary Clinton in the White House, giving the latter an expensive pin in one of the gifts Mrs. Clinton fails to report as required by law. Meanwhile, New York society columns portray the 1971 Miss America as prominent both socially and politically, dating Charles Gargano, a leading Republican and chairman of the Empire State Developing Corp., as well as hosting a lavish Washington party for dignitaries of both the outgoing Clinton regime and the incoming administration of George W. Bush, Jr. By the summer of 2001, George is reportedly courted both by national Democratic leaders to run for the U.S. Senate from Kentucky, and by the Kentuckians to run for Governor in her own right.
Rebounding from her acrimonious divorce from John Y., she is reported by News-day in the fall of 1998 to be living in Manhattan in a "sumptuous 5th Avenue apartment." She has written a book called Living With Quilts, and boasts of having 100 quilts and other Kentucky folk art in a spare room in her Manhattan home. She has also had a brief stint with CBS, where she suffers numerous gaffes, is excoriated by critics, and would be fired after only eight months when she perkily suggests on air that a falsely accused rapist and his purported victim give each other a hug--albeit with the network reportedly paying the balance of the $1 million in George's three-year contract. Like her ex-husband, she maintains close ties to Bill and Hillary Clinton in the White House, giving the latter an expensive pin in one of the gifts Mrs. Clinton fails to report as required by law. Meanwhile, New York society columns portray the 1971 Miss America as prominent both socially and politically, dating Charles Gargano, a leading Republican and chairman of the Empire State Developing Corp., as well as hosting a lavish Washington party for dignitaries of both the outgoing Clinton regime and the incoming administration of George W. Bush, Jr. By the summer of 2001, George is reportedly courted both by national Democratic leaders to run for the U.S. Senate from Kentucky, and by the Kentuckians to run for Governor in her own right.
William Taulbee "Bill" Canan--
On January 15, 1994 the forty-seven-year-old former Lexington narcotics officer is sentenced to seventeen years, eight months on federal drug charges. An FBI search of Canan's apartment on Garden Springs Drive in Lexington has turned up more than a score of arms, a blow gun with steel-tipped darts, stiletto knives, a police badge, a bag of cocaine, and hundreds of cassettes apparently containing tape-recorded conversations which are coded and indecipherable to federal agents. Also found are books on weapons and explosives, including a three-volume set entitled How To Kill, a hand-drawn chart labeled "Canan's Alley" showing a bulls-eye ringing photographs of various local officials, and a confidential publisher's manuscript copy of The Bluegrass Conspiracy. At the trial, a DEA agent has sworn that Canan was never affiliated with the agency, while other witnesses testify to his drug-dealing and his own dark inferences of killings, including the murder of the still-missing Melanie Flynn. "A vengeful man at the center of a tangled web of fear and intimidation," as the Herald-Leader describes him, the shackled Canan, wearing a trademark blue windbreaker and black Lee jeans and defended by a court-appointed attorney, smiles cryptically and rocks incessantly in his chair at the defense table. When later interviewed in prison by federal agents about the Melanie Flynn case, he smirks and says only: "That names sounds familiar".
On January 15, 1994 the forty-seven-year-old former Lexington narcotics officer is sentenced to seventeen years, eight months on federal drug charges. An FBI search of Canan's apartment on Garden Springs Drive in Lexington has turned up more than a score of arms, a blow gun with steel-tipped darts, stiletto knives, a police badge, a bag of cocaine, and hundreds of cassettes apparently containing tape-recorded conversations which are coded and indecipherable to federal agents. Also found are books on weapons and explosives, including a three-volume set entitled How To Kill, a hand-drawn chart labeled "Canan's Alley" showing a bulls-eye ringing photographs of various local officials, and a confidential publisher's manuscript copy of The Bluegrass Conspiracy. At the trial, a DEA agent has sworn that Canan was never affiliated with the agency, while other witnesses testify to his drug-dealing and his own dark inferences of killings, including the murder of the still-missing Melanie Flynn. "A vengeful man at the center of a tangled web of fear and intimidation," as the Herald-Leader describes him, the shackled Canan, wearing a trademark blue windbreaker and black Lee jeans and defended by a court-appointed attorney, smiles cryptically and rocks incessantly in his chair at the defense table. When later interviewed in prison by federal agents about the Melanie Flynn case, he smirks and says only: "That names sounds familiar".
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