A Trio Of Traffic Tickets Handed Out Over The Years In Fort Lauderdale Broward

There are a few titillating hints in the court files: a trio of traffic tickets handed out over the years in Fort Lauderdale Broward (one for doing 93 in a 55 mph zone on Christmas Eve, another for "failure to use due care," and a third this past April for driving without registration documents). Computer research reveals twelve addresses used by Tilton in the past decade, three of them in Fort Lauderdale. But two of those are commercial mail drops, and the last, a $500,000 waterfront vacation home in the Rio Vista neighborhood, was sold last year as part of Tilton's divorce settlement with wife number one. Ditto for his 38-foot fishing boat.

"Not here," says a bartender at a fashionable Las Olas Boulevard Fort Lauderdale bistro. "He used to sit outside and drink single-malt Scotch, but we haven't seen him in a few months."

Federal records show that Tilton bought a 50-foot Carver motor yacht last year in Fort Lauderdale for $500,000. In July 1996 he told a judge in Dallas that he was living aboard and making $4000 monthly payments on the boat, which he named the Liberty Leigh.

"I haven't seen him or the boat in over a year," says a resident of Bahia Mar Marina in Fort Lauderdale, where the yacht was berthed for several months.

"Robert Tilton is an individual who resides in Fort Lauderdale Broward County, Florida," says the preamble to Marte Tilton's current lawsuit against her ex-husband. The lawyer who wrote the preamble, James Clutts, says he doesn't know exactly where in Fort Lauderdale  Broward County.