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For more a decade, this mansion on South Ocean Boulevard in Palm Beach was the weekend home of “Lord” Conrad Black, the owner of the Chicago Sun-Times, Jerusalem Post and a slew of large papers in Canada. Since 2008 and until Oct. 2013, however, he’ll be living at the Coleman Federal Correctional Institution near Orlando for dipping into his corporate assets for things like, well, this “British colonial” mansion. The 5-bedroom waterfront crib went up for sale this week, after Black, 65, transferred ownership to a Connecticut corporation in January when he defaulted on the mortgage. No price is listed, but the Palm Beach County Property Appraiser assessed the house at $32.6 million.

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Ninety-year-old Frank Stallone, one of Wellington polo’s elder statesmen and actor Sylvester Stallone’s dad, has come out to defend troubled International Polo Club Palm Beach boss John Goodman.

Stallone (Gary Coronado/The Palm Beach Post)

Goodman, 46, slammed his Bentley into the economy car of 23-year-old Scott Wilson in rural Wellington Feb. 12, killing him. And authorities have been investigating whether Goodman, who may have a history of drug abuse and was at two parties before the crash, was impaired.

With no charges filed as the public grows impatient, Goodman has been moving from luxury hotel to luxury hotel in the Miami Beach area and routinely meets with his lawyer in the Magic City, Roy Black.

But in the meantime, attendance at the Sunday games at Goodman’s club has been substantially lower than last year. So the star of Rocky and Rambo’s dad is asking for forgiveness for Goodman. And Stallone’s also asking the public not to take it out on the sport of kings.

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Sutka

Legal eagles in the bankruptcy of Palm Beach millionaire Jeffrey Prosser and his wife, former Norton Museum of Art director Dawn Prosser, have started going after locals who did business with the Prossers after they were hauled into bankruptcy court in 2007.

First in line: Flamboyant star party planner Bruce Sutka, who’s been told to give back the $200,000 that the telecom moguls paid him for their daughter Michelle’s wedding in the U.S. Virgin Islands!

“I did the daughter’s wedding two and a half years ago,” Sutka said. “It was great. He paid. Everything was fine, and then I get this letter about how I might have to pay to the bankruptcy the money I received. Are you kidding me? They’re not going to get anything.”

As many as two dozen other businesses in the area have received the same letter, including Michael Reich, of Master Travel and Cruises in Royal Palm Beach.

“The Prossers rented almost an entire cruise ship built for 400 people and went on a cruise with 20 friends,” Reich said. “They sent me a check for $101,000. The bankruptcy lawyers want the money back.”

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John Goodman, at a polo function with actress Hillary Duff (Click on the photo for more)

The family of fresh college graduate Scott Wilson, who was killed Feb. 12 when his car was broadsided in rural Wellington by International Polo Club Palm Beach boss John Goodman, is “very pleased” with the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office’s investigation into the accident.

This, despite the facts that no finding has been released a month after the incident, or that Goodman hasn’t been charged, according to one of the Wilsons’ attorneys.

Goodman survived with minor injuries, and authorities are considering criminal charges. Goodman, 46, was at two parties before the accident, and was accused by his ex-wife last year of being a cocaine abuser.

“Scott’s parents understand that this is a high-profile situation and that everyone involved is trying to dot the ‘i’s and cross the ‘t’s,” said West Palm Beach attorney Scott Smith, who represents Wilson’s dad, William. “The family doesn’t want anyone to make a mistake on this.”

When asked about a recent Page2Live scoop about the fact that Palm Beach County Fire Rescue firefighters and paramedics failed to find Wilson, who drowned strapped in his seat in the upside down car submerged in a canal, Smith said the family wants to allow the agency to investigate its response to the crash.

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John Goodman with actress Hillary Duff last year at a polo club function (Click on the photo for more on Goodman)

International Polo Club Palm Beach founder and polo team owner John Goodman may have passed out at the wheel of his Bentley on Feb. 12 before crashing into a Hyundai at a speed that could have reached 70 mph, a source familiar with the hush-hush investigation into the crash told Page2Live.

That’s the theory that crash investigators with the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office are using as they piece together the events that led to the death of the Hyundai driver, 23-year-old fresh college graduate Scott Wilson, in rural Wellington.

The source asked to remain anonymous because authorities, who aren’t commenting, are trying to keep their work secret until they decide if they’ll bring charges against the 46-year-old multi-millionaire Goodman.

But I’m told PBSO sleuths believe Goodman passed out as the car traveled south on 120 Avenue South. The car gathered speed then overshot a right turn for a shortcut leading to his $4.5-million home. It blew through the stop sign at the corner of Lake Worth Road and crashed into Wilson’s Sonata, sending his car into a canal.

Even with the Bentley totaled, Goodman sustained only a broken wrist — indicating, the source said, that Goodman’s body was somewhat relaxed at the time of impact.

Goodman, who hired Miami attorney Roy Black, hasn’t been talking to investigators and has been living in Miami Beach hotels since the crash.

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