Ben Novack

Ben Novack (1907–1985) was an American hotelier who developed the Fontainebleau Miami Beach Hotel.

Biography Novack was born to a Jewish family, the son of Sadie and Hyman Novick. He had three older siblings: Miriam (born 1903), Joseph (born 1904), and Lillian (born 1905). and mobsters Sam Giancana and Joseph Fischetti; he again used Morris Lapidus as the architect. In 1978, Stephen Muss bought the Fontainebleau for $27 million. In 2005, Muss sold the Fontainebleau to Donald Soffer's, Turnberry Associates for $165 million. In 1952, he married Bernice Mildred Stempel, a model born to a Jewish father and Roman Catholic mother of Irish descent. Ben and Joseph Novack were brothers, Joseph was Andrea's grandfather, making Ben Sr her granduncle.

In 2009, his wife Bernice and his son, Ben Novack Jr. were murdered three months apart. Narcy Novack (née Narcisa Véliz Pacheco; born 1947), Ben Jr.'s estranged wife, was convicted of orchestrating the murders and, after a highly publicized trial, was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.