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  • Fort Lauderdale woman stole $1.2 million to ‘live the high life,’ BSO says

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    A Fort Lauderdale woman was arrested Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2026, and accused of stealing more than $1..2 million from a Deerfield Beach party store to “live the high life,” the Broward County Sheriff’s Office said.

    A Fort Lauderdale woman was arrested Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2026, and accused of stealing more than $1..2 million from a Deerfield Beach party store to “live the high life,” the Broward County Sheriff’s Office said.

    Miami Herald File

    A woman stole more than $1.2 million from a Broward event company, racking up big bills for diamond jewelry, private jets and renting out luxurious lodgings, the Broward Sheriff’s Office said Thursday.

    Keshon Litesha Rivers, 32, of Fort Lauderdale wanted to “live the high life,” the law-enforcement agency said.

    According to the sheriff’s office, Rivers owned a party planning business, Lock and Key Designs, and worked with Event Décor Direct — a party store in Deerfield Beach — “while she was stealing money from them,” between May and August 2025.

    “We’ve been in business with her for quite some time, and it kind of shocked us that this happened,” Event Décor Direct Executive Manager Stephanie Menard told the Miami Herald.

    Rivers is accused of making dozens of fraudulent credit-card transactions, including more than $85,000 for gold and diamond jewelry, $55,000 for a private jet flight from Fort Lauderdale to Los Angeles and $43,000 for mansion home rentals in Miami Beach and Los Angeles.

    There were some issues with Rivers’ transactions that raised red flags, Menard said. It’s a small business, so the fraud “affected us in a big way.”

    BSO spokesperson Carey Codd said the agency can’t provide additional information about how Rivers committed the crime, as the investigation is active and ongoing.

    “This was a complicated, complex credit-card fraud scheme,” Codd said.

    “To further the ruse, detectives say Rivers even created a fictitious individual who, when questioned, she blamed for the fraudulent credit-card charges,” the agency said. “Detectives determined that person does not exist.”

    Rivers was arrested Wednesday and is being held without bond at the Broward County Main Jail, jail records show.. She is facing charges of organized scheme to defraud, grand theft of more than $100,000 and money laundering. Rivers did not have an attorney listed yet in court records.

    Rivers is on probation on similar organized fraud charges out of Polk County until 2030, BSO said. . Anyone with information can contact BSO Detective Christopher Bradley at 954-480-4300.

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  • Laurene Powell Jobs buys a fourth Malibu property for $94 million

    Laurene Powell Jobs buys a fourth Malibu property for $94 million

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    Laurene Powell Jobs likes Malibu—a lot.

    The widow of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs has paid $94 million for an oceanfront estate in the Paradise Cove area of the California beach town, the Los Angeles Times reports. That’s the fourth property she has purchased in Malibu in the last 10 years.

    This latest purchase, though, was the biggest by far. The price tags of the previous three properties add up to roughly $80 million. All four of the properties are adjacent to each other.

    Jobs’ new investment covers four acres and includes a 1950s L-shaped home with four bedrooms and four baths, though it will likely be razed. The deal was completed off-market, the Times says.

    Her neighbors in the Paradise Cove area include Jay-Z and Beyonce as well as Marc Andreessen and WhatsApp founder Jan Koum.

    Jobs, who manages the Steve Jobs Trust and founded the Emerson Collective, which gives grants to several different causes, is worth $11.2 billion, according to Bloomberg’s Billionaires Index.

    She is hardly the first billionaire to buy multiple parcels of land to create their own compound. Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly building a $100 million compound (with an underground bunker) in Hawaii, spanning 1,400 acres. And Amazon founder Jeff Bezos owns 10 acres in Beverly Hills.

    Malibu builders have seen a lot of business from Jobs. She spent part of $44 million in 2015 to demolish a 13,000 square foot house on one of her parcels and added a five-bedroom cottage to another Malibu property for $17.5 million in 2021.

    Work on a mansion being built in 2018 was reportedly impacted by the Woolsey fire in the Los Angeles area. The extent of the damages, though, were unclear. 

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  • Chicago-Area Mansion Listed for $10.5 Million Under Contract

    Chicago-Area Mansion Listed for $10.5 Million Under Contract

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    A sprawling seven-bedroom Naperville mansion, listed at $10.5 million, has gone under contract, which could make it a record-breaker

    If the sale surpasses $8.1 million, it will set a new benchmark in DuPage County, the Chicago Tribune reported.

    Lauren Dayton of Jameson Sotheby’s International Realty represents the seller, Thomas F. Harter Sr., a former Navistar executive.

    Constructed in 2017 by homebuilder Dave Knecht, the Tudor-style residence at 1112 Shamrock Court spans 21,700 square feet on a 2.5-acre lot. It has nine full bathrooms, three half bathrooms, leaded casement windows, and eight fireplaces.

    The home also features a great room with a floor-to-ceiling stone fireplace and French doors, a kitchen with dual islands and modern appliances.

    Additional amenities include a hearth room, a library with custom wood built-ins, and a primary bedroom suite on the main level, complete with a custom turret, and wet bar.

    Entertainment options on the lower level include a sports bar, a movie theater, a fitness room, billiards room, and a private spa. The home also features a 3,000-bottle wine cellar. 

    Outdoor amenities include a bluestone patio, outdoor fireplace, gas fire pit, pool, infinity spa, and pool house.

    It’s far from the only big-ticket Chicago-area home to hit the market recently.

    Last week, former Chicago Cub Kerry Wood and his wife have listed their Georgian Revival-style mansion in Winnetka for $8.5 million.

    Jena Radnay of @properties has the listing.

    Wood, known for, among other things, striking out 20 batters as a rookie in a shutout against the Houston Astros in 1998, pitched for the Cubs from 1998 to 2008 and returned for his final two seasons.  He is currently a Cubs Ambassador and was recently elected to the team’s Hall of Fame.

    The Woods bought the three-story mansion in 2019 through an off-market transaction, using an Illinois limited liability company. 

    Built in 1902 for railroad executive Charles I. Sturgis and designed by architect William Otis, the mansion boasts a curved red brick perimeter wall and wrought iron gates.

    — Ted Glanzer

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