The woman whose phony-Rockefeller ex-husband sparked an international manhunt after he kidnapped their 7-year-old daughter, couldn’t bear to watch his creepy jailhouse TV interview.
“It would have been just too much. And I really didn’t want to see him,” Sandra Boss told The Post in London, her first public words since the rescue earlier this month of the couple’s daughter, Reigh “Snooks” Boss, from the clutches of the man she knew as “Clark Rockefeller.”
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“I couldn’t bring myself to watch,” Boss said of the “Today” show interview, on her way back to her Knightsbridge house after a trip to the post office.
Boss and Snooks recently returned to London, where Boss is a top exec with the McKinsey & Co. consulting firm, and where Snooks today was set to start a new year at her exclusive private school.
Rockefeller, who was born Christian Gerhartsreiter in Germany, kidnapped Snooks in late July during a court-ordered parental visit in Boston, and spent a week on the lam before being nabbed in Baltimore, where he had assumed yet another in a long list of false identities in an apparent bid to set up a new life for himself and his daughter.
Since his arrest, the imposter has made several preposterous claims, including suggesting that he actually may be a descendent of industrialist John D. Rockefeller, and that he has no memory of his youth and early adult years. The Rockefeller family has said he is no relation to them.
But the wily liar has told “Today” that his wife – despite “clearly” knowing that he was not a real Rockefeller – used his assumed last name to her “advantage” before divorcing him in 2007 and paying him $800,000 in a settlement that left her with full custody of Snooks.
“She wanted to keep the appearance of it going,” Gerhartsreiter said earlier this week in an interview from his jail cell in Boston, where he is charged with kidnapping and other charges. “She is the youngest woman ever to be elected to director of McKinsey & Co. And many of her colleagues, who were friendly with me, believed it had a lot to do with me and my name.”
Boss’ spokesman, Gary Koops, has said that, “In light of Mr. Gerhartsreiter’s history of deceitful behavior, any statements made by him should be viewed with extreme skepticism. Given that this situation is part of ongoing criminal investigations, we feel it is inappropriate to comment further at this time.”