He was also known for holding separate negotiations with 119 individual unit owners of a hurricane damaged high rise building in West Palm Beach for up to $57m.
On 15 February 2008 The New York Times reported Cantor as saying, "I'm trying to ascertain the damages" after the property had been used for several lavish parties including a fundraising event with former US President Bill Clinton.
[9] In March 2000, Charalambos Christodoulides was tortured and beaten to death in a deserted warehouse in Kensal Rise, north-west London before his body was stuffed into an auto mechanic's pit.
[10][11] At the time of the murder Papalexis had been trying to force through a £2m deal to buy the warehouse where Christodoulides lived and then sell it on for a quick profit in order to prop up another business.
[11] The Times reported on 8 September 2009, that the case against Papalexis was strengthened after a former Miami porn star and £1,750-a-night prostitute stated that he had confessed to the killing.
The victim, a sitting tenant who had lived in the flat for most of his adult life, refused to move out after Papalexis received a £2.3 million offer for the derelict warehouse in Kilburn.
The jury failed to reach verdicts on murder charges against Robert Baxhija, 29, and Ylli Xhelo, 36, his alleged henchmen, both Albanian illegal immigrants.
As the receivers moved in, he fled to the US and reinvented himself as a debonair playboy, dressing in Savile Row suits, driving a Bentley and kitting out his office with thrones.