Eddie Nash was a Palestine-born American nightclub owner and restaurateur in Los Angeles, as well as a convicted money launderer and drug dealer.
14 Facts About Eddie Nash
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Eddie Nash's family was Orthodox Christian Palestinian from the city of Ramallah, just outside Jerusalem, where Nash's family owned 48 hotels.
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Eddie Nash briefly found work as an actor and stuntman, and was an expert horseman.
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Eddie Nash's clubs attracted diverse groups, as he operated clubs marketed towards gays, heterosexuals, teenagers, African Americans, and other target audiences.
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Eddie Nash was allegedly involved in the quadruple Wonderland Murders in 1981; the suspected motive was as a retaliation for the robbery of Eddie Nash's home perpetrated two days earlier by three to five men.
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Eddie Nash was then made to beg for life on his knees, an act that he found humiliating.
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Eddie Nash quickly suspected John Holmes was involved in the robbery as he had been at Eddie Nash's home the morning of the robbery.
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Eddie Nash was believed to have planned the murders that were committed by three of his henchmen.
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Eddie Nash planned to kill John Holmes but later decided to spare Holmes' life and use the Wonderland murders to "teach Holmes a lesson".
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Eddie Nash claimed he was then held at gunpoint and forced to watch the quadruple murders.
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Eddie Nash was sentenced to eight years in prison, but a judge released him after just two, purportedly due to Eddie Nash's poor health.
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An associate of Eddie Nash later admitted that they had bribed the judge with about $100,000.
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In 2000, after a four-year joint investigation involving local and federal authorities, Eddie Nash was arrested and indicted on federal charges under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act for running a drug trafficking and money laundering operation, conspiring to carry out the Wonderland Murders, and bribing one of the jurors of his first trial.
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Eddie Nash admitted to jury tampering and to having ordered his associates to retrieve stolen property from the Wonderland house, which might have resulted in violence including murder, but he denied having planned the murders that occurred.