![]() Cell phones, I already knew, were his weapon of choice. That was to be my job.Īcross four lanes of Tijuana traffic, outside a black-glass office building and standing next to a soccer-mom-style Honda CR-V was a pasty guy in dumpy jeans and a Beverly Hills Polo Club T-shirt, carrying two cell phones on his hip. ![]() Kremen wanted a confrontation but clearly didn’t want any part of it himself. He hadn’t seen Cohen face-to-face in more than four years, not since the day they had first met, at a legal deposition, and failed to settle their differences. Hands on the wheel, head swiveling, face reddening, Kremen kept on shouting as he swerved to the curb. In the process, Kremen spent almost everything he had - about $5 million - on lawyers. ![]() Kremen has been pursuing Cohen for more than a decade, first trying to get his property back, then seeking to enforce a federal order that would return to him $65 million in lost proceeds from the website. The man shouting in a high-pitched voice was one of those victims - Gary Kremen, a 42-year-old millionaire who, 11 years ago, had been the mark in a bold and elaborate scheme in which Cohen took from him the most valuable domain name on the Internet, Sex.com. We were cruising the streets of Tijuana in August 2005, looking for a man named Stephen Michael Cohen, a fugitive from American justice, a lifelong thief and a silver-tongued con artist so gifted that even his victims and the lawmen who have pursued him for 30 years admire him. ![]()
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