Michael Douglas Former Fiancee Found Murdered In Closet In Aspen

A socialite who was once engaged to Michael Douglas has been found dead at a flamboyant US ski resort famous with the rich elite.  





Nancy Pfister's body, whose family made a fortune in the Levi Strauss jeans brand and the publisher Random House, was discovered in a cupboard in the billionaires' winter playground of Aspen.

A pair who rented her chalet-style mansion while she was abroad have been charged with her murder.






Retired doctor William Styler, 65, and his wife Nancy, 62, are said to have murdered the 57-year-old humanitarian after she came back from Australia to confront them over their refusal to pay rent.

Her death has terrified the community in the small town in Colorado, where Pfister was called "Aspen royalty".






Her parents Art and Betty helped set up the world's wealthiest ski resort - nicknamed "Glitter Gulch" - in the 1960s and the family were described as Aspen's "bluebloods".

Friends reveal that, in the socialite's hard-partying youth, she befriended Aspen's celebrity visitors including the Kennedys, Cher and Jack Nicholson.




Pfister was close to the writer Hunter S Thompson and was said to be shortly engaged to Michael Douglas, who had a residence in Aspen and invested heavily in its development in the early 1990s.

"Nancy certainly used to be one of the big party girls here, sort of Aspen royalty," a source was quoted as sating on Wednesday, adding: "She knew all the Hollywood stars and, as well as being a lovely person, she was very pretty."



 

Just four days before her passing, Pfister returned early from a study trip to Australia after sharing on facebook that her tenants were "not paying rent" and "haven't paid utilities". "The people that were supposedly taking care of my house are not doing what they said they would do," she posted.

Cops have not announced how she was killed. Her body was discovered on February 26 after a female found it in an upstairs closet.




According to locals, Pfister was a generous and beloved member of the Aspen community who "managed to befriend royalty and service industry workers alike".

Her daughter Juliana stated that her mom had also sounded so pleased in her final days that the police's initial theory that she had committed suicide "just didn't make sense".

She declared: "I have no idea how someone could do something like that and especially to her. My mum could never hurt anything or hurt anyone and that is one thing that everyone who knew her knew."


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