ben novak sr. lost the hotel to bankruptcy and died not long afterwards. son, ben jr., all grown up now, stayed in the hospitality business and made his mark. he created a company run out of his home here that organized conventions at big hotels. like his father, he was a hard-nosed businessman. in time, he was grossing $50 million a year. and like his father, he needed someone like his mother to mix and mingle with the clients. he found that woman in a recent immigrant from ecuador, narcy, and she had a little girl called mae. why do you think they became a couple? >> my mother was a lot of fun. you know, she definitely partied. >> when ben jr. met narcy, she was partiesing f -- partying fos in a stripper club. >> my mother is a survivor. she adjusts to pretty much anything. >> narcy left behind her stripper pole to marry ben novak jr. but the little girl felt like so ch excess baggage in her mother's new relationship. she was diatched to boarding school at the age of 8. did you feel you'd been shipped off? >> kind of. >> you had a tough childhood, huh? >>