. >> reporter: it was linda's father, wally opdycke, who owned kiket island. rk and linda lived there on wally's island and grew their very successful business together. and then in 2002, they made their union permanent. an intimate wedding ceremony in the presidential suite of the las vegas four seasons. >> mark, welcome to the opdycke family. >> reporter: but maybe nothing is wrofr. forever. when linda told the employees it was just three years later when linda told the employees she was taking an extended vacation. alone. >> and that vacation kept extending and extending, and she just never came back. >> reporter: so separation. there was a brief affair. linda with one of mark's best friends. and then divorce. about as ugly as divorce can be. >> i was shocked. i really was. >> reporter: so was mark, apparently. quite thoroughly devastated, by all accounts. because now he had lost not just the love of his life, but he had to leave kiket island, too. losing her, losing all this. it was, we hardly need say, a black period just about here. some quite disturbing