The 38-year-old heir to one of America’s largest sugar-producing companies was arrested last week for allegedly beating his girlfriend in a fit of rage after allegedly becoming “irate” that they were seated next to a gay couple at a Florida steakhouse.
Alexander “Nico” Fanjul — whose family owns and operates subsidiary companies like Florida Crystals, Domino Sugar and American Sugar Refining — was taken into custody in Palm Beach on Jan. 28 after his girlfriend told authorities she thought she was going to die at his hands.
Police said they responded to his home around 11:30 p.m. after a neighbor reported hearing a woman screaming.
When cops arrived, they allegedly heard a woman scream, “Get off of me,” according to a police report.
They found Fanjul “standing over a female subject” who was “on the floor in a defensive ‘fetal’ position and observed to be bleeding from the facial area.”
After separating Fanjul and the unidentified woman, she told police she had been dating Fanjul for about a year and a half, and the two had gone out to dinner at Flagler Steakhouse at the ritzy Breakers Hotel earlier that night.