He described himself as a physicist. He discussed art with apparent expertise. He discouraged questions about his past with a combination of vague references to family estrangement and an air of mild irritation at having to explain himself. He claimed, at various points, to have lost his memory after a childhood fall — a convenient explanation for gaps in his personal history.
He did not work in any conventional sense. He had no documented employment, no traceable income, no verifiable career. The finances of the household came entirely from his wife.
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## Sandra Boss: What She Knew and What She Didn’t
Sandra Boss met the man she knew as Clark Rockefeller in the summer of 1993 at a party he was hosting in New York. The party had a *Clue*-themed format. He came as Professor Plum. She came as Miss Scarlet. She was at that point a student at Harvard Business School. He was a man with an impressive name and a way of making a conversation feel significant.
He was intelligent — she has said so repeatedly and explicitly. He was charming. He was attentive. He told her stories about his work helping struggling nations negotiate debt, about his family history, about his time at Yale at age fourteen. She found him interesting. She was interested.
They began a relationship. She was completing her MBA and building what would become an extraordinary professional career — she would eventually become a senior partner at McKinsey & Company, one of the most prestigious consulting firms in the world, earning what was reported at her kidnapping trial as approximately two million dollars annually. He was, in her understanding, a man of independent wealth who chose not to pursue conventional employment.