2021
Newly released police documents show family members and friends started dropping names after billionaires were murdered at home.
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''Police interviewed Jonathon’s husband Fred, and Jonathon’s previous boyfriend Andrew Liss. Fred told police that Barry was a “nice person” but Honey was harder to read and he felt she did not like him at first but that their relationship was improving. He said that the Shermans once toured his family through the basement, showing off their pool, and Fred said he would “go downstairs when he wanted to get away from people during family dinners.”
''Andrew Liss told police that he started dating Jonathon when Andrew was 14 (Jonathon would have been 18 at the time) and that Barry invested $50 million in a house “building and selling” business Andrew founded in his early 20s. Barry’s condition, Andrew told police, was that Jonathon sign a document agreeing to work at Apotex and have nothing to do with Andrew’s business.''
“It was Barry’s dream that Jonathon would take over Apotex but Jonathon had his own dreams,” Liss told police. As with many parts of these search warrant documents, police do not explain why these statements are included. Neither Liss nor Mercure have responded to interview requests from the Star over the past several years.
As to his relationship with Barry and Honey, Andrew told police he respected Barry but “Honey did not like him because Honey thought Andrew made Jonathon gay.” The business collapsed, Jonathon and Andrew broke up, Andrew recalled and he felt “betrayed because he considered (the Shermans) as family.”
''In a previous interview with the Star, Jonathon said his being gay was something that upset Honey in earlier days but she and Barry made Fred “feel welcome.” He said Barry, whose best friend and first business partner from the 1960s is gay, was more accepting, but once told him that his would be a “harder life.”