Posted on 10/29/2002 11:19:49 PM PST by TheGoodBoy
Elderly Playboy Offers Riches to Final Bedmate Tue Oct 29,12:39 PM ET By Erik Kirschbaum
BERLIN (Reuters) - Aging Berlin playboy Rolf Eden wants to go out with a bang.
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Eden, a wealthy 72-year-old disco magnate, received a huge worldwide response to an offer to leave part of his fortune to the last woman he has sex with, provided he dies in her arms after a "final, glorious orgasm."
An ever-smiling man with blond hair and a dark tan, Eden told Reuters that he stays fit thanks to a rotating array of seven or eight young women between 18 and 35 who take turns in his bed each night.
"This is my office, so to speak," he said, proudly showing off his spacious bedroom complete with wall and ceiling mirrors. "I've had a lot of luck in life."
But now that his life is winding toward its inexorable conclusion, Eden wants to make sure a slice of the wealth he accumulated operating four popular west Berlin discos over the last 45 years goes to the last woman to have sex with him.
"I asked myself, 'How would a playboy want to die?"' he said. "It seemed clear that there could be no better way than to go out with a heart attack after a grand finale. It will be the most beautiful way to die. Simply divine."
Eden announced in August that he had signed a will with a notary guaranteeing his final sex partner a jackpot of 250,000 euros ($240,000) -- with the only condition that he passes away during or just after the act.
"Sure, it was a gimmick to make myself interesting," said Eden, who worked as a jazz pianist and waiter in Paris for several years in the 1950s.
"But it is a totally serious offer. I wanted to do something as a gesture of appreciation to all the women I've slept with, to the women who spoiled me in bed over the years. The woman who gets the money at the end of the day will get it as a representative of sorts for all the wonderful women I've had."
A Reuters report of Eden's initial offer in August was published and broadcast around the world. He said it had led to a flood of e-mails to his office (ue_commerce@gmx.de) from women in countries ranging from the United States to Brazil and Russia.
"I'm an attractive Italian girl," wrote one woman who said she was 21. "What do I need to be eligible for this experience?"
HANDS FULL IN BERLIN
Eden said he was flattered by the response from abroad but he already had his hands full with women in Germany.
"Berlin is a paradise," said Eden, who has fathered seven children, aged between 6 and 29, with seven different women. He also has five grandchildren.
He said he wrote back to some women from overseas who made more interesting propositions with requests to send pictures.
"Some wrote about how they wanted to kill me in bed," said Eden, who despite his age appears to be in remarkably good health and boasts that all his teeth are original, although his golden locks are beginning to thin.
"I have never been sick a day in my life and feel great," he said, jumping from a couch in front of a fire crackling in the hearth prove the point by dancing to a pop song. "I don't do any sport. I get all the exercise I need with women."
DIFFICULT DECISIONS
Eden, who owns a Rolls Royce and two other cars and lives in the leafy Dahlem area of Berlin, said his life was fairly simple despite the long list of lovers, which he estimated to number "at least 3,000 -- but that's not a lot for 55 years."
"I have just two problems to resolve each morning when I wake up," said Eden, who sold his last disco, "Big Eden," in September. "Which car do I want to drive today and which woman do I want to sleep with tonight?"
Without any formal education, Berlin-born Eden went to Paris and later New York in the 1950s with hopes of becoming a musician. He ended up taking odd jobs as a waiter, bouncer, bartender and occasional pianist.
When he returned to Berlin in 1957, he brought with him some of the nightclub expertise he had acquired abroad to a city still ravaged by World War II.
With little more than an idea, Eden scraped together his savings and with help from local breweries opened his first club in 1957 on West Berlin's famous Kudamm shopping boulevard.
"I knew that wherever girls are, boys will follow," Eden said. "It was before the Berlin Wall and the girls in East Berlin didn't have much money. So I let them come in and drink for free, and of course the boys followed. They always have more money. Within three weeks the placed was packed every night."
Eden also reserved a table for journalists each night.
"Journalists weren't paid well back then but they came every night," he said. "We started getting good press and pretty soon the celebrities started coming because they wanted publicity."
Eden said he always had a weakness for attractive women and unabashedly exploited his position as what one magazine called "King of the Kudamm" to get them into bed.
"The press started calling me 'Berlin's No. 1 playboy' even in the late 1950s," he said. "As a nightclub owner you are a God. I was just having fun. My motto has always been 'there's no business like love business!"'
Eden said he had had a number of serious liaisons, including one with Germany's 1980 Playmate of the Year that lasted on and off for more than two decades. He had even fallen in love from time to time, but always resisted the temptation to settle down or marry.
"That would be a mortal sin for a playboy -- getting married," he said. "You can't devote yourself to women if you're married. That would have brought an end to it all.
"The key is to never let a woman get you in a position where she can control you. If you can be blackmailed, you're done," he said. "Once women hit 30 or 35 they start sinking their claws in and wanting to get married.
"I would need Viagra with anyone over 35 anyhow."
Eden is confident he has a few more decades and countless women ahead of him.
"When you're 72 you never know what will happen," he said. "My attitude is 'It could all be over soon. Girls, show me what you got."'
Free Enterprise, or Perversion??
Ah ha. Don't waste your time, girls.
This is sad.
This could be a caption for Msg#3.
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