The State - News from Oct. 13, 1988

Saying that he still fears for his life, financier Roger W. Luby summoned reporters to his Newport Beach home after more than a week of seclusion to describe how he and girlfriend Aissa Wayne, daughter of the late actor John Wayne, were bound, beaten and threatened with death. Flanked by an attorney on the patio of his $3-million estate, Luby announced that friends have offered a $100,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the attackers, but he maintained that he “hasn’t a clue” as to what prompted the attack, or what the gunmen, whom he described as “professional hit men,” were after. The two attackers--armed with pistols and dressed as construction workers--followed Luby and Wayne into his electronically gated home. Luby said he is recovering slowly from a slashed right Achilles tendon, a fractured nose and a bruised and cut face.