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Don't betray your gold master HD
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00:00Miss Celeste, something's wrong.
00:06Really for me?
00:07Of course. Celeste cooks at home every day. It doesn't matter what she wears.
00:15Mr. Preston said the wedding is cancelled.
00:18Everyone thought I was just a housewife living off a man.
00:21But no one knew. The house he lives in, the company he runs, even every penny in his account, was
00:27all given by me.
00:29Starting today, cut all financial support for Hale Group.
00:37She needs a finale gown for next week's Met Gala red carpet. Just let her wear it.
00:42Pick another ready-made dress for yourself and stop making a scene.
00:46Mr. Hale is right. Off the Rack is perfectly fine, so I'll just find myself a new groom who's willing
00:50to wear Off the Rack with me.
00:51Celeste Ashard, what did you just say?
00:54Preston, I'm calling off this wedding.
01:00Celeste's sister, don't be so petty.
01:03Preston just feels bad I don't have a stunning gown for next week's Met Gala.
01:05This wedding dress can show its greatest commercial value only on me.
01:08You're always so gentle. Why was being a reasonable now?
01:11Take it off.
01:13Preston, Celeste's sister is so fierce. I'm scared.
01:15Celeste, have you made enough trouble?
01:17Sienna is the cursen of our company's inner toe for our sore jime.
01:19I allocate resources to her for our future family.
01:22As a full-time housefer, there's no need for you to wear such an expensive wedding dress.
01:25Celeste, haven't you had enough?
01:28This custom wedding dress took me half a year. How could you borrow it without asking me?
01:33You want my opinion? This wedding dress cost 3 million US dollars, and I paid for it.
01:37Everything you wears and use is given by me, Preston Hale. How dare you talk to me about opinions?
01:40Be grateful. Don't take my kindness for granted.
01:43I suddenly felt he was a total stranger. I didn't want to waste words on him.
01:47Stop!
01:48Let go, Preston!
01:50Celeste, don't be stubborn. Go pick a ready-made dress obediently, and the wedding will be held as scheduled next
01:54week.
01:54But if you dare to walk out of this door today...
01:56I guarantee no wedding shop in Manhattan will dare to sell you a dress.
02:00Preston, you disgust me.
02:12This is me teaching my fiancé what rules are.
02:16Sister, don't make troubles anymore. Preston is doing this for you too.
02:19It's going to rain heavily soon, and you won't even be able to get an Uber.
02:22Suspend all Vol of South Vero forms.
02:24Anyone who takes orders for sale Ashfield will be going against the Hale group.
02:29Celeste, your pride is worthless.
02:31Without me, you have nowhere to live in this city.
02:33I give you two hours to reflect.
02:35If you come around, kneel outside and beg me.
02:49Gemma, come get me.
02:50I'm outside the bridal shop on Madison Avenue.
02:53I'm sorry.
02:54Preston just called my father and threatened that if I dare come to pick you, the Calloway family's capital chain
02:57will bar out.
02:58My dad locked me in my room.
03:00Celeste, please give in. Preston has lost his mind.
03:13Miss Ashfield, Mr. Preston is showing mercy.
03:16Sienna needs someone to hold her gown for the Met Gala tonight.
03:19Mr. said if you put on this dress and accompany her tonight, your credit cards will be unfreeze tomorrow, and
03:23you will still have a place reserved for the wedding.
03:25I can tell Preston. He can go to hell.
03:27Celeste Ashmard, don't be ignorant.
03:29Do you still think you're the prospective madam?
03:31You are nothing now.
03:33Without Mr. Preston, you can't even afford a meal.
03:36Let go of me!
03:37What are you doing?
03:39I'm only doing my job, ma'am.
03:49Miss Ashfield, if you had known this would happen earlier, why be so stubborn?
03:52A woman can yield a little and gain everything.
03:54You insisted on going against Mr. Preston, yet you are the one suffering in the end.
04:09How did you get this messy?
04:10Celeste, you're just too stubborn.
04:12Obey me, and I'd never let you suffer like this.
04:15My patience is limited.
04:18Go change into that dress at once.
04:21You will hold Sienna's gown later.
04:23If you dare to ruin it...
04:25Give it back! This is my grandma's relic!
04:27Hold the gown for me, and I'll give it back.
04:29If not, I'll smash it right away.
04:35Celeste, come here.
04:41Open it and take a look.
04:42Your grandfather bought this for me.
04:44I've worn this all my life.
04:46It is not expensive, but it's the most precious gift I've ever received,
04:49for it holds one's truest heart.
04:51Remember, there are many precious things in the world,
04:53but only one true heart.
04:55When you meet someone who gives you their most sincere heart,
04:59this person is worth of this brooch.
05:01Trash?
05:02Then take back your heart with Ujust Knight.
05:05Grandma, I'll remember.
05:06Don't cry.
05:07My granddaughter is so beautiful, you should smile from now on.
05:17I'll count to three.
05:18Three.
05:19Two.
05:20One.
05:21I'll do it.
05:23Good girl.
05:24Go now.
05:25Sienna is about to make her entrance.
05:40Celeste Ashworth!
05:41Did I not make myself clear?
05:42Celeste, come on.
05:43Without you holding my trail, the whole look falls apart.
05:45You're really going to do this to me?
05:48Grab her!
05:58Dear reporters, I'm sorry.
06:00This woman is a small assistant obsessed with me.
06:03She crashed backstage to ruin Mrs. St. James' red carpet.
06:05Take her away!
06:11Celeste Ashburn, this is what happens when you disobey.
06:13Sleep on the street tonight and reflect.
06:17Hello?
06:21I need you.
06:22Lucius, come get me.
06:24Tomorrow, I want Preston and his hail Gumpley to disappear from New York.
06:28Ten minutes.
06:29I want Preston to pay with his life.
06:32I need you.
06:45I need you.
06:48Celeste.
06:57Lucius, my brooch.
06:59Preston has it.
07:00It was my grandmother's.
07:02I'll get it back and break the hand that took it.
07:09Smash.
07:10Has Celeste frozen to death out there?
07:13Go check.
07:13If she's learned her lesson, let her crawl in and serve drinks.
07:24The brooch.
07:24Hand it over.
07:25Who the hell do you think you are?
07:27Daring to interfere in the Hale family's affairs.
07:41Enjoy your last moment in the spotlight, Preston.
07:43When the sun rises tomorrow, the Hale group will cease to exist.
07:54The legal team is ready.
07:59Connect the videoconference.
08:06Mrs. Ashford.
08:10Cut off every funding channel to Hale group.
08:12Initiate the patent recovery process and freeze their core production lines.
08:14I'd submit all the evidence of Preston's years of fraud and embezzling through to BSC and the FBI Financial Crimes
08:19Unit.
08:20Before sunrise, I want Hale group stock to be worthless.
08:22Yes, ma'am.
08:25Find out who the hell junked me last night.
08:26I want a name.
08:27I want him dead.
08:27Preston, come on.
08:28That low life's night had Celeste written all over it.
08:29That's the only move she knows.
08:31No money, no power, no leverage.
08:32Just throwing punches from the shadows like a coward.
08:34And today was supposed to be your wedding day.
08:36So where is she right now?
08:37Probably sobbing in some cheap motel, praying you'll feel sorry for her.
08:39Dream on.
08:40She thinks she's tough?
08:41Fine.
08:41Let's see how long she lasts sleeping on the street.
08:43She brought this on herself.
08:44Get every exempt on the phone.
08:45We're throwing Sienna a party tonight.
08:46Same hotel, same date.
08:47I want all of New York to know Celeste Ashwell couldn't even shine Sienna's shoes.
08:51Mr. Hale, sir, we have a serious problem.
08:53What, someone die or did the company go bankrupt?
08:55We, we're bankrupt.
08:58Preston, what is going on?
09:00If the company's done, what happens to my film deal?
09:02What about my Dior contract?
09:05Get out.
09:05Everyone get out.
09:10Mr. Hale, our biggest silent investor pulled out midnight last night.
09:14500 million, gone.
09:15What the hell are you talking about?
09:16Goldman and J.P. Morgan just sent early withdrawal notices.
09:19And that's not all.
09:19Every core patent we hold just had its license forcibly revoked.
09:22Production lines are shut down.
09:23Employers are downstairs right now demanding payment.
09:25This can't be right.
09:26This is impossible.
09:27Why did the investor pull out?
09:28Who the hell owns those patents?
09:30I'm paying you people for what exactly?
09:31How did none of you see this coming?
09:33This is the termination notice from legal.
09:35The silent investor and the patent owner, they're the same person.
09:38Her name is Celeste Ashworth.
09:43Celeste Ashfield, that's impossible.
09:45She was nothing.
09:47She stayed home.
09:48She cooked dinner.
09:48She waited for me to come back.
09:49How the hell was she running the money behind my entire company?
09:54Preston Hale, we have a formal complaint and solid evidence that you've been cooking the books
09:58and embezzling, bouncing up to 200 million.
09:59Your company is also being seized by federal court,
10:01effective immediately for patent infringement and debt default.
10:06No!
10:06I never embezzled anything.
10:08I'm being set up.
10:12Take them.
10:21With trembling hands, he called the number he once thought was beneath him.
10:28I was wrong.
10:29I was so wrong.
10:30Pull the money back.
10:31Please.
10:32Please.
10:33I'll do anything.
10:34I already cut Sienna off.
10:35She's gone for good.
10:36Please.
10:36Just give me one more chance.
10:37I'll marry you tomorrow.
10:38I swear.
10:38I'll do whatever you say.
10:39Please don't do this to me.
10:41Preston, I gave you my whole heart.
10:43That's on me.
10:46But now, I hold every card.
10:49You're going to pay back every single thing you took.
10:51Federal prison is exactly where you belong.
10:53Don't call me again.
11:10What are you doing?
11:12Who gave you permission to touch my things?
11:15Get lost.
11:16Read it carefully.
11:18The owner of this penthouse has always been Mrs. Celesta Ashworth.
11:21Anything in this apartment that stinks of dog is to be thrown out with the trash.
11:24No exceptions.
11:32This has to be a stunt Celeste pulled to make me jealous.
11:35She's trying to force me to come find her.
11:36It has to be.
11:44Get out of my way.
11:45I'm here for Celeste.
11:48No invitation.
11:49Trespassers die.
11:50Celeste is mine.
11:52Tell Lucius Vox to get his ass out here.
12:08Celeste Ashworth, stop right there.
12:10You can't marry him.
12:11You are my fiance.
12:12Celeste.
12:28Distinguished guests, apologies for the little scene.
12:30The man lying on the floor is none other than the former CEO of Hale Group, Preston Hale.
12:34Not only did he steal our Celeste's wedding dress, he also lived off Celeste's hidden capital for years, freeloading while
12:40pretending to be a big shot.
12:43So he was a freeloer all along.
12:45Disgusting.
12:46Daring to cause a scene at Lucius's event.
12:48Celeste!
12:49I was wrong.
12:49I was really wrong.
12:50I'll give the dress back to you.
12:51I love you.
12:52Please don't marry him.
12:53Come home with me.
12:54Pathetic.
12:59Preston Hale.
13:00I never recycle garbage that's been dirtied.
13:03Throw him into the Hudson River.
13:05A complete industry-wide blacklisting.
13:07Anyone who dares give him so much as a script of food is declaring war on the Vos Group.
13:15No visitors without prior approval.
13:30What are you crying for?
13:31I'm not crying.
13:32I just...
13:33It was pouring rain outside that night.
13:35I cracked open the curtain in my room just a sliver.
13:37I just stood there by that window the whole time, thinking, where are you right now?
13:41Are you cold?
13:42Did you find somewhere to get out of the rain?
13:44That night, I ended up calling Lucius.
13:47Oh, right.
13:48There's something I've been dying to tell you.
13:49At the wedding, when I was roasting Preston on stage, Lucius' head of security gave me this look from the
13:53audience.
13:53That kind of look.
13:54Like...
13:55So that's why I added the boys' broke-ass free-lump litter part.
13:57The captain gave me a thumbs up from below, quiet-like.
14:26Well, well, if it isn't the great President Preston.
14:30The 50 million you owe us?
14:32When exactly do you plan to pay it back?
14:34No money?
14:35Then we'll take your organs as collateral.
14:53Please, just see me!
14:55I know I was wrong!
14:56I really know I was wrong!
14:57I'm not asking for your forgiveness.
14:58Just give me something to eat!
14:59Preston Hale, even if you kneel until your kneecaps shatter, you cannot bring back a heart that's already died.
15:04The way you are now.
15:05You're not even fit to be the mud beneath my feet.
15:12Congratulations.
15:13It's a girl.
15:15Perfectly healthy.
15:18Lucius.
15:29She frowned.
15:31She's just making faces.
15:34All newborns do that.
15:38She's so small.
15:40Have you picked a name?
15:42Evangeline.
15:42Why that name?
15:44To me, you're the good news.
15:46And so is she.
15:51Next week, you have a court appearance.
15:53Preston's case?
15:54The FBI and SEC have wrapped up.
15:56Embezzlement plus patent emplangement, multiple charges combined.
15:58The prosecutor has been in touch with you and hopes you'll testify as the primary injured party.
16:02I'll go.
16:03It's time for closure.
16:06I'll wait for you outside.
16:13My client admits to certain financial irregularities, but requests the court consider that Hale Group's core operations were long subject
16:19to hidden capital manipulation by a third party, and the defendant himself was also a deceiver.
16:22The defense is attempting to conflate cause and effect.
16:24The defendant's embezzlement is fully documented through bank records and signed authorizations, entirely unrelated to any so-called capital manipulator.
16:30Please, the injured party's witness may speak.
17:02Incurring its luxurious hotel expenses and transferring assets to private accounts.
17:21Well, well, if it ain't President Hale.
17:24Victor sent me to collect your protection money.
17:26Five hundred bucks.
17:27Not a big deal, right?
17:28I mean, you used to grow a few mil on a wedding dress for your girl.
17:31Five hundred is pocket change for a guy like you, yeah?
17:32I don't have any money.
17:33No money.
17:34No worries.
17:36There are other ways to pay.
17:38Before rec time ends tonight, you get these over to sell 211 in B Block.
17:42Hand them to a guy named Hector.
17:44I'm not gonna...
17:53Good boy.
18:02Well, well, big shot Hale reading magazines now?
18:06Yo, boys, get over here.
18:07Hale's over here reading about the Plaza Hotel.
18:09Missing your old lady, aren't you?
18:11Which plaza?
18:12The one where Lucius Vos had his wedding?
18:13Damn right it is.
18:14That's the wedding where he got pinned to the floor.
18:17Give it back.
18:30In here, you're nothing but garbage.
18:32You get that?
18:43Verdicts in.
18:44Seventeen years.
18:48What about Sienna St. James?
18:50What do you plan to do about her?
18:51The three million she transferred from Preston's private account?
18:54Every transaction has a complete fun trail.
18:57When did you prepare all this?
18:58The night she sent those taunting messages.
19:00She thought I was crying.
19:01Actually, I was compiling evidence.
19:03From now on, the only thing you need to do during the small hours of the morning is sleep peacefully
19:08by my side.
19:16Are you sure you want to go tonight?
19:19If you don't show up, tomorrow's headline on the New York Post will be,
19:22Lucius Vos snubs Empire State Gala, cuts ties with New York's social scene.
19:26The higher you stand, the more you need to show everyone you're standing steady.
19:37Don't worry, ma'am.
19:38I'll be watching over the Little Miss the whole time.
19:40I had the head of security go through tonight's guest list ahead of time.
19:43Anything I should watch out for?
19:44Preston's mother, Viviana Hale.
19:46Her being on the guest list isn't surprising.
19:47The Empire State Charity Gala never turns away anyone with a donation record.
20:00Lucius!
20:01So this is Ms. Ashworth.
20:03What an honor.
20:04Wall Street says the mastermind behind Ashwin Capital is the most mysterious Capitol Hunter in years.
20:09Didn't expect a young woman in L.E. Sassoud showing up to a dinner party.
20:12I like her.
20:14Lucius, your wife is way more interesting than you.
20:16You look stunning tonight.
20:20The real show hasn't started yet.
20:26She's looking over.
20:28I know.
20:28I'll go make her leave.
20:30No.
20:30Let her come.
20:32Marrying the richest man in all of New York, that's quite a stroke of luck.
20:35Thank you, Mrs. Vivian, but richest might not be quite accurate.
20:39Lucius' description is his, often as mine is mine.
20:41Mrs. Ashington, or should I say Mrs. Voss, I'm not here tonight to catch up on old times.
20:45This is a handwritten letter from Preston from federal prison.
20:48These past six months behind balls, he's been reflecting every single day.
20:51A mother watching her son waste away behind bars.
20:54Can you understand that?
20:55Mrs. Viviani, Preston Hale's sentence was handed out by a federal court based on his own criminal conduct.
21:00Empezzlement, patent infringement, multiple charges, 17 years, that's nothing I can change.
21:03Of course you can.
21:05Preston is my only son.
21:06I spoiled him growing up.
21:07Can you bear to watch a young man who once had everything just rot away in prison?
21:11Mrs. Vivian, Preston Hale locked me out of a bridal shop in a rainstorm, cut off all my cards, blocked
21:16every last escape route, threw me in the mud.
21:18Where were you when all of that was happening?
21:19I'm not taking this letter.
21:21Preston's time, he can serve it himself.
21:22Mrs. Ashwood, you think you've won?
21:24Whether I won or not doesn't matter.
21:26What matters is Preston lost.
21:28You know, I've placed seven of my own people on the whole group's board of directors.
21:31Preston made me down, but my people are still there.
21:33I think you've liquidated everything.
21:34No funds.
21:36What did she say?
21:37She told me Hale Group still has 400 million in offshore assets hidden away by her.
21:41You!
21:41Under federal law, failure to report is also a crime.
21:45But don't worry, I'm not a prosecutor.
21:46I have no obligation to collect evidence for the FBI.
21:49But you'd better pray those trust structures in the Bahamas are airtight.
21:52Celeste Ashford, you think you're something special?
21:55You're nothing but a gold digger who married up?
21:57I've been running New York High Society for 30 years.
21:59You think marrying some rich man puts you above me?
22:02Mrs. Vivian, I recorded that for you.
22:04Mrs. Vivian, you've given me quite the surprise tonight.
22:06Mr. Lucius, that comment just now.
22:08I spoke out of line.
22:09A mother will say anything for her son.
22:11I hope you can understand.
22:12Celeste, it shouldn't be like this between us.
22:14Preston did wrong.
22:15I won't deny that.
22:16But you were together for five years.
22:18Five years.
22:18You're a charm.
22:19Just to teach off your feelings.
22:20Don't you miss what you had, not even a little?
22:22That pearl necklace you're wearing?
22:24Preston bought it with Hill Group's Q2 Operating Profit.
22:26Brilliant.
22:26That's when we know you're in the end, it's like a bunch of money.
22:28All right, I'll remember your attitude today.
22:31Celeste at Ashworth.
22:32Oh, by the way, I heard you just had a mom who wears a little girl.
22:35Evangeline, right?
22:36What a pretty name.
22:36Kids every month.
22:37Last month out on Long Island, a baby got snatched right out of her crib.
22:40Vivian Ale.
22:41I was just concerned about the child.
22:43Why so tense, Mr. Lucius?
22:46I'm not experienced, all right.
22:53What did you say to her?
22:54Nothing much.
22:55Just told her the truth.
22:56If anything happens to Evangeline, I'll make sure Vivania Hale is alive to watch herself
23:00turn into pieces.
23:02She won't just say nothing like Preston.
23:04I know.
23:04Preston is stupid.
23:05So full of himself, it's the whole war revolves around him.
23:07But Vivian, she's poison.
23:08Starting now, the estate goes to maximum security.
23:10Evangeline has around-the-clock protection.
23:11You really think she'd go after Eveline?
23:12Around and over a battleful of people.
23:15There's nothing she wouldn't do.
23:16I used to think leaving Preston would be the end of it.
23:20Turns out I just jumped from one mudpole straight into another battlefield.
23:28Interesting.
23:37Wait for me.
23:39Mrs. Hale, the decor is beautiful.
23:41White pamini and schisanthalum, very traditional style.
23:44You know flower art, too?
23:46I only know white pamini symbolizes nobility.
23:49It's rather ironic for this occasion.
23:50Take a seat.
23:52I've reserved the main table especially for you and Mr. Lucius.
23:55There are many important guests tonight.
23:57You should have a pleasant chat.
24:02Surprise.
24:03I heard you haven't met your stepmother for a long time.
24:06Family bonds need mending.
24:08I took the liberty of contacting Mrs. Margaret for you.
24:11Mrs. Hale, you've been investigating my family background.
24:14Business is all about knowing your rival.
24:16You looked into my son's accounts.
24:17I looked into your family tree.
24:18We're even.
24:19Margaret was Celeste's stepmother.
24:20Less than a year after her mother passed away,
24:22she married into the Ashfield family.
24:24She spent a decade draining the family trust fund,
24:26transferring all real estate stocks and artworks into her own offshore companies.
24:30When she turned 18 and found her tuition frozen,
24:32she finally realized her stepmother had emptied the entire family fort.
24:35Celeste finished her finance degree on a full scholarship
24:37and built Ashtine to Capital from Scratch on Wall Street within three years,
24:41while Margaret fled to Switzerland with the stolen family fortune,
24:43living a wealthy life abroad.
24:44The two had not met for nearly a decade.
24:47What are you trying to tell me?
24:50Everyone has a weak spot.
24:52Your past is yours to hide.
24:56Margaret told me many interesting things.
24:58Your mother's death was not simply heart disease.
25:01At 18, you were almost driven out and worked two years to survive.
25:05Enough.
25:06Mrs. Vivian,
25:07you spent five million to buy the name right of tonight's gala,
25:10flow my from Switzerland to New York,
25:11dug my old scars in front of me,
25:12all of this just to force me to sign Preston settlement grief?
25:14No, no, no.
25:14I'm just reminding you.
25:15If your past gets exposed,
25:17your company's reputation will collapse.
25:19Wall Street never tolerates a tainted founder.
25:21This contains all the documents Margaret provided,
25:23your mother's real medical records,
25:25the full asset transfer chain of the Ashford family,
25:27and the original will signed by your father without your name on it.
25:30What do you want?
25:31It's simple.
25:32First, sign a letter of leniency to reduce Preston's sentence to within five years.
25:35Second, withdraw all claims on Hale's offshore assets.
25:38Third, pull your husband's legal team out of the Bahamas' trust.
25:40That money is Preston's capital for a comeback.
25:42What if I refuse?
25:43Tomorrow morning's New York Post headline will read,
25:46Wall Street tycoon's dark past,
25:47mysterious mother's death,
25:48family fortune feud.
25:49You're clever, but not flawless.
25:51Everyone has a past,
25:52and the past can always be used as leverage.
25:57Mrs. Hale, you've made a foolish mistake.
25:59What did you say?
25:59You dug up my past and found my weaknesses,
26:02but you made a fatal mistake.
26:03I've long stopped caring about others' judgment.
26:06That only proves I built everything with my own two hands.
26:08I never relied on any man,
26:10nor stole from anyone.
26:11You keep this USB drive.
26:12Feel free to send all those stories to the media.
26:14I'd like to see whose story the public will believe more,
26:16a self-made Wall Street businesswoman
26:17or a wealthy lady who stores stepdaughter's fortune.
26:20Lucius, let's go.
26:25As they walked out of the bank...
26:35Are you all right?
26:37I was trembling inside just now.
26:40I know.
26:40You did well.
26:43I've never told you about my mother.
26:44You don't have to talk about it now.
26:45She didn't die of a heart attack.
26:47I was only seven when it happened.
26:48I heard my father and Margaret arguing that night,
26:50followed by a loud door slam.
26:51The next day, they told me she was gone.
26:52Her doctor resigned and moved to Switzerland soon after.
26:54Do you want to reopen the investigation?
26:56I need a trusted private investigator
26:57to look into her medical records in Switzerland.
26:59I'll arrange it right away.
27:00We have a legal team in Geneva for cross-court investigations.
27:02Lucius, thank you.
27:03No need to thank me.
27:05You're my wife.
27:06Your enemies are mine.
27:07Miss Ashford,
27:08these files hit every major outlet at 3 a.m.
27:10Times, Journal, Post, CNN, Fox, Bloomberg.
27:12Bloomberg's the only one who called us.
27:14The rest are already digging.
27:15Get legal.
27:15I want a full statement ready now.
27:17And call Bloomberg's editor.
27:18Tell them I'll sit down with them today, 3 o'clock.
27:20Got it.
27:20Hey, one more thing.
27:21I had our Swiss team pull my mother's original medical records last night,
27:24the real ones, untouched,
27:25add a summary to the statement,
27:26and pull up everything on her attending physician, Robert Keller.
27:29He walked out of New York 23 years ago
27:30and landed at some private clinic in Zurich.
27:32That clinic?
27:32Majority shareholder is Margaret Ashworth.
27:35At 3 o'clock that afternoon, the interview aired.
27:38Mrs. Ashford, regarding your mother's death.
27:39Yes.
27:40I'm formally requesting the New York State DA to reopen the case.
27:43We have new evidence showing her attending physician
27:45had a significant financial relationship with my stepmother.
27:48This isn't a family matter.
27:49This is a criminal investigation.
27:51And the funding behind Ashford Capital?
27:53Every dollar has a paper trail.
27:54Full bank records, full tax filings.
27:56I welcome the SEC, the IRA, any regulator to audit us.
28:00If there's a single dollar out of place,
28:02I'll take full legal response.
28:0424 hours, the story flipped completely.
28:06The New York Times ran a full feature.
28:07From Waitress to Wall Street, the Celeste Ashforth story.
28:09The hashtag Silla Ashfield hit number one across the country in under four hours.
28:12Then Vivian's anonymous email was traced,
28:14straight back to her Long Island home Wi-Fi.
28:15The truth had a way of finding the light.
28:18The day they came for Viviana Hole, it was raining in New York.
28:21Viviana Hale, you're being charged with concealing federally seized assets,
28:25money laundering, and obstruction of justice.
28:27You need to come with us.
28:28She didn't fight it.
28:29Didn't even look surprised.
28:30I lost.
28:33Lost to a woman I never once took seriously.
28:37Tell Celida Ashworth she won.
28:39But everything she has now, the name, the money, the husband, the baby,
28:44my son had all of it first.
28:46One day she'll lose everything too, just like he did.
28:49No one answered her.
28:53The woman who ruled the East Side soaked through, falling apart.
28:58She was never coming back.
28:59When the news came, Celeste was sitting in the Rose Garden.
29:02Vivian's been arrested.
29:04What are the charges?
29:05Money laundering, concealing seized assets, obstruction of justice.
29:07With everything stacked against her, ten years minimum.
29:10Her son's doing 17 in federal prison.
29:11Now she goes in to keep him company.
29:12That's one way to stay close.
29:14Are you okay?
29:14I'm not happy.
29:15I'm just done looking over my shoulder.
29:17The Swiss team has preliminary findings on your mother.
29:19Robert Keller admitted an undisclosed drug through her IV 72 hours before she died.
29:22Combined with her heart medication, it would have triggered acute cardiac failure.
29:25Did Margaret know?
29:26200-Keller-Neefer dollars moved from one of Margaret's offshore-owned accounts straight to him.
29:29Murder?
29:29Yes.
29:30I knew when I was seven.
29:32Nobody believed a little girl back then.
29:34Someone believes you now.
29:36Get me the DA's office.
29:37I want to file formally, as next of kin.
29:39Already done.
29:40They're sending someone to the estate tomorrow afternoon.
29:42When did you arrange that?
29:43Before you walked into that dinner.
29:46Celeste, the moment Vivian started digging into your past, I knew she might have something on your mother.
29:50Whatever her reason, blackmail, leverage, if that lead was real, it was worth following.
29:55Your past deserves justice, and I'm going to make sure it gets it.
30:19I'm going to make sure it gets it.
30:28Mrs. Voss, come listen to this.
30:30Quick.
30:32Mama.
30:34Mama.
30:40Mama.
30:42Mama.
30:44Mama.
30:49Mama.
30:51Evangelina, call Mama.
30:53Mama.
30:54Ma.
30:54That's right.
30:56Mama.
30:56Mama, Mama, Mama, Mama.
30:59Da.
31:01Da-da.
31:02Da-da.
31:04Da-da.
31:07Da-da.
31:08Da-da.
31:10Mama.
31:15This afternoon, I was on a video call in the study.
31:18Door was open just a crick.
31:20Evangeline was in her walker in the hallway.
31:22Linda was watching her.
31:23She rolled that little walker all the way to the study door, and then...
31:26And then?
31:26So I paused the meeting.
31:28You paused a video call with Goldman Sachs, head of Asia Pacific, to go hang out with a
31:31baby in a walker?
31:32She's not crawling on the floor.
31:34She was in the walker.
31:35And she called for me.
31:37Lucius Voss.
31:38Hmm.
31:38So this little one can't even walk yet.
31:40She says da-da one time, and you paused the biggest meeting on Wall Street when she gets
31:44older and starts saying, Daddy, I want...
31:47I'll buy her all of Manhattan.
31:49Evangeline!
31:49Your Auntie Gemma is here!
31:52Ma.
31:52Not ma.
31:53It's Gemma.
31:54Gemma.
31:56Mama.
31:57Sala.
31:58Your daughter only recognizes you.
31:59She doesn't even see me.
32:00She just learned Mama and Da-da.
32:02Everyone else is still on the wait list.
32:03What do you mean, not yet ranked?
32:05I bought her an entire set of Petit Boss Baby outfits, and that rattle, handmade silver
32:09engraved with her name.
32:10Evangeline, say Auntie Gemma.
32:13Get!
32:14Get!
32:14Get!
32:15Evangeline!
32:16Your Auntie Gemma's here!
32:18Hold on, sweetie.
32:19Let's blow out the candle first.
32:22Evangeline can't blow out candles yet.
32:24She doesn't even know what a candle is.
32:26She's smart.
32:26She's one, Lucius.
32:28You're so biased.
32:29Not biased.
32:30Facts.
32:32Evangeline, today marks one whole year since you came into this world.
32:37Mommy's so happy.
32:41Mama!
32:46Mama, Da-da!
32:48Mama, Da-da-dee!
32:50Mama!
32:51The game is over.
32:53That is what I said that night.
32:55No.
32:56This was not the end.
32:58This was where my real life had only just begun.
33:02This was where my real life had only just begun.
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