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oldest daughter desiree, who started working for the company as a teenager, did not realize how much her parents were raking in. >> so when you hear figures of tens of millions of dollars coming in, that's news to you? >> it is, yeah. >> did they live that way? >> we had an average house, a two-story home. we weren't living in a mansion. we had extra money to do things we wanted but it wasn't enough to show they were millionaires, to be honest. >> you never felt like you were rich or living lavishly. >> i knew that we were well off, but not to the millionaire status. >> one thing the fayeds'income did mean was that pam could be a full-time mom. something she always dreamed of. >> she'd always wanted to stay home, raise her kids, work if she wanted to, when she wanted to, which is part of owning your own company. >> and jim liked it that way too. he may have liked that a little too much. though pam was the vice president of goldfinger coin and bullion,

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he couldn't control the arthritis in his joints. it forced him to give up going to the office. >> was he in the hospital or bedridden or -- >> he was bedridden, yes. >> for how long? >> for a couple of years. >> really. so he barely got out of bed for a couple of years? >> yes. i felt that as he became bedridden he wasn't as social with us anymore. he kind of stayed in his bedroom. he basically -- i feel like he kind of left us as a family. we didn't really see much of him at that point. it kind of angered me seeing the kind of person he was turning into. >> the year was 2006. desiree says as jim became harder to get along with it started to push away pam's attempts to be more involved with the company while her husband was ill. >> i heard them bickering about the business on a daily basis. >> specifically? >> nothing specific but just little things here and there that needed to be changed. >> their disagreements grew daily and festered. to the point where the couple separated. jim started spending more and more time at the ranch

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and peter pan. >> she wanted to make sure her friends were happy and taken care of, no matter what it took. and i realized that when i first met that, you know, she was one of the people that i was going to have as a lifetime friend. >> pam made and sold jewelry, and she worked hard at it. but she wanted more than that. >> she wanted happiness and not to be alone. her dreams were to have a family life and find a mate to share her life with who would love her children. >> which is why it seemed so perfect when, in 1989, an electrician named jim fayed came into her life. he was single, no children. >> they seemed to get along very well. pammy always smiled when she would look at him. they sat close and snuggled and after dinner sat on the couch next to each other. it seemed to be a very good fit. >> but more important to pam was that jim treated pam's young daughter desiree as if she were his own. >> he came into our lives when

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House DJ proud of who she is

DESIREE who recently won DJ Mag’s coveted Future Star award, said she was ecstatic to have won.

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Desiree allegedly killed on 'spur of the moment', court told

“Provoked” to the extent that he allegedly murdered his ex-wife on the “spur of the moment”, Bethelsdorp resident Johnny Baartman broke down as he told the district surgeon what had happened the night Desiree was killed.

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Bethelsdorp woman's ex-husband charged with murder

Though there was still no trace of a body, and Desiree Baartman’s whereabouts remained unknown, the police decided to charge her ex-husband, Johnny Baartman, with her murder.

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she wanted more than that. >> she wanted happiness and not to be alone. her dreams were to have a family life and find a mate to share her life with who would love her children. >> which is why it seemed so perfect when, in 1989, an electrician named jim fayed came into her life. he was single, no children. >> they seemed to get along very well. pammy always smiled when she would look at him. they sat close and snuggled and after dinner sat on the couch next to each other. it seemed to be a very good fit. >> but more important to pam was that jim treated pam's young daughter desiree as if she were his own. >> he came into our lives when i was about 6 years old. they started dating. and slowly, you know, she started introducing this man to me, and i actually -- i grew attached to him. i

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>> he was bedridden, yes. >> for how long? >> for a couple of years. >> really. so he barely got out of bed for a couple of years? >> yes. i felt that as he became bedridden he wasn't as social with us anymore. he kind of stayed in his bedroom. he basically -- i feel like he kind of left us as a family. we didn't really see much of him at that point. it kind of angered me seeing the kind of person he was turning into. >> the year was 2006. desiree says as jim became harder to get along with it started to push away pam's attempts to be more involved with the company while her husband was ill. >> i heard them bickering about the business on a daily basis. >> specifically? >> nothing specific but just little things here and there that needed to be changed. >> their disagreements grew daily and festered. to the point where the couple separated. jim started spending more and more time at the ranch home in moorpark. and while the fayed marriage was crumbling, federal prosecutors were taking a look at the booming online gold trading business. they were looking for evidence of

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diego, do all the meet and greet kind of pam was very good at that. she was very charming. jim was more the laid-back, stay away, sit in the >> the timing was good. in 2001 gold was hovering around $250 an then it started to take off like a by 2008, gold was listed at $800 an ounce. soon the fayeds were getting rich just off the fees they charged for selling the gold online. >> it doesn't take much to be able to turn a profit. every transaction, whether it's $100 or $2,000 or $100, 000, if you are making anywhere from 3% to 5% per transaction, you've got money coming in. >> very quickly the fayeds started making a lot of money. they moved their home business into this building in camarillo outside l.a. and hired employees to staff it. they bought a 2,800-square-foot home, a 200-acre-plus second home nearby war park, it which they called happy camp ranch. complete with horses for pam and jeanette. they were nouveau riche perhaps but they were determined not to flaunt it too much. even their oldest daughter desiree, who started working for the company as a teenager, did not realize how much her parents were raking in. >> so when you hear figures of

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