It turned out he was indeed pretty well-off, the son of a celebrated Harvard anthropologist and the grandson of Hugo von Hofmannsthal, the Viennese poet and librettist of Strauss operas.
The authorities say he passed himself off as the son of Dino De Laurentiis, the Italian movie mogul who produced "King Kong".
"Swallow all thirty pills right now! Everything will be over and you will be dead!" Out on the apartment's balcony, the father screamed about jumping off, and the son was kicking him in the shins.
Chief Turnowski denied doing anything improper, but Brazilian news reports said the inspector who was tipped off was the son of the head of a militia that used terror and brute force to control a Rio slum.
Despite mixed feelings about Americans here, there is strong affection for the father -- as a man who tried to make peace in Somalia -- that has rubbed off on the son this American election year.
Night Coming grows up to be married off to the son of a wealthy family, only to discover on her wedding day that she is to be a "spirit bride".
She wrote that her father, who had been prescribing Mr. Kazigo psychiatric medication for mental illness, suddenly cut him off after the son resisted one of his physical assaults last summer.
He's just gotten off with the son of a famous billionaire.
Picking up where Lovrić and Čudina left off, Stipe Taslak, the son of Konoba Vrilo's chef, brought out a mound of sweet polenta to accompany our brudet and its pleasant, long finish of red pepper heat.
I suggested he could pass himself off as the son of Max Baer Jr., grandson of the former boxing heavyweight champion of the world, Max Baer Sr.
