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| - Rebecca Dalton, a former model and widow of a rich businessman, is a central figure in the tale told in Almost Famous. Whilst not (seemingly) a cougar, Rebecca was clearly flattered by the attentions of a handsome, younger man, Derek Brookner, and pursued a relationship with him. However, when Derek asked to borrow money, she ended things, believing, like Polonius, "Neither a borrower nor a lender be,". Grant stole money from Rebecca's accounts to fund their efforts, simultaneously sabotaging her own attempts to set up independent businesses such as jewelry or fashion design.
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| - Rebecca Dalton, a former model and widow of a rich businessman, is a central figure in the tale told in Almost Famous. Whilst not (seemingly) a cougar, Rebecca was clearly flattered by the attentions of a handsome, younger man, Derek Brookner, and pursued a relationship with him. However, when Derek asked to borrow money, she ended things, believing, like Polonius, "Neither a borrower nor a lender be,". Her attorney, Michael Grant, unfortunately, had his own, separate relationship with Derek, a mutually beneficial scam in which the younger man played the role of an affluent businessman to lure in investors to a bogus property deal. Grant stole money from Rebecca's accounts to fund their efforts, simultaneously sabotaging her own attempts to set up independent businesses such as jewelry or fashion design. When Derek found himself faced with a biker gang leader who had been sent to prison because Derek played him in a police sketch, having failed to get the money from Rebecca to pay the man off, Derek took what he needed from the "slush fund" Grant had set up to enable him to act his part, Grant, seeing ruination if the police or Rebecca discovered his scheme, murdered Derek. However, despite Castle and Beckett tracing the money back to Rebecca's accounts, they were able to confirm that Grant was the one responsible for withdrawing the money as Rebecca had been at Paris Fashion Week when some of the withdrawals were made, Beckett knowing that no former model would have missed such an event.
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