Samuel Bronfman 2nd, the 21-year-old son of world Jewish leader Edgar M. Bronfman, was freed today eight days after being kidnapped. Federal agents broke into a Brooklyn apartment and rescued the heir to the Seagram’s liquor fortune after his abductors failed to release him on the payment of a $2.3 million ransom, an FBI spokesman told a press conference at FBI headquarters here.
The abductors had originally demanded $4.6 million. Two men who were found in the Brooklyn apartment holding Bronfman, a New York City fireman who owned the apartment and a naturalized American citizen born in Ireland, were arrested and charged with extortion. Other suspects are being sought and the investigation continues, the FBI spokesman said.
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