Armes in People magazine - the private eye with hooks for hands who drove around in a Rolls Royce and had a menagerie of exotic animals.īut before there was the legend of Jay J.
I can remember the fascination I had when as a boy growing up in Roswell, New Mexico, in the 1970.
"From there on, I started getting all kinds of calls from the stars and producers and all that," Armes said. His success in reuniting Marlon Brando with his son finally gave Armes the fame that eluded him when he moved to Hollywood for a short time back in the 1950s. I've got Christian right here.' And I said, 'We got to get him to a doctor.'" I've got some pictures of him, of Christian.' I say, 'I got something better for you. I said, 'Marlon, this is Jay Armes' and he says 'Oh yeah, I was getting ready to call you because I've got some more information for you. "So, I called him at his home," Armes said, "and he answered. By this time, Marlon had arrived back home in Hollywood. I told the guys 'y'know, I've got to leave because this is the boy I'm looking for and I've got to get him to a doctor."Īrmes said he flew Christian Brando by helicopter back to the U.S. He had double pneumonia." Armes said, "He could, he could barely breathe. "On the last tent, I went up there and it was Christian. With help from Mexican authorities, Jay said he took the boy from what he described as a group of hippies. The FBI, the police, nobody has done any good.'"Īrmes said he managed to find Brando's son, Christian, in a fishing camp on Mexico's Baja Peninsula. "He called me from Paris," Armes said, "He says, 'Jay, my boy has been kidnapped.' He says, 'They just released one of my movies, where I played Don Corleone and I think this is the result from the Mafia. But Brando was also enduring one of the most traumatic events of his life. In March 1972, Actor Marlon Brando was in Europe, shooting the movie, "Last Tango in Paris." That same month, the biggest movie of his career, "The Godfather" was released. The case that brought Armes international fame involved the kidnapping of a Hollywood superstar's son. And my subjects have never been killed and I've saved them and never paid a penny," Armes said. "I've had 70 kidnappings that I've solved in Mexico. Armes claims he's the most expensive investigator in the world and with good reason.
With hooks for hands and a collection of exotic animals, this real-life private-eye's legend came complete with action figures and an autobiography that's been translated into 30 languages.
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