Sex didn't kill Kosuke Nozaki.

Although it was close. "Once I ran out of air. I thought I was drowning. I almost lost consciousness. It was the sixth time I had sex that day," he says in an autobiography that became a best seller in 2016. In the pages of

Don Juan de Kishu

, Nozaki says he

has shared a bed with 4,000 women.

"Having fun in the bedroom is the secret to staying young. With my wife I go to bed three times a day and

I do not need viagra.

But I know that having so much sex can cause my death," he wrote in the second part of his book a couple of years later.

Sex didn't kill Kosuke Nozaki.

He was poisoned.

Specifically, acute stimulant poisoning.

Methamphetamine overdose

in his bloodstream, according to an autopsy that rules out suicide and that Nozaki got out of hand with the pills.

That happened

on May 24, 2018,

three months after they got married.

He was 77 years old.

His wife, Saki Sudo, a

model and former porn actress, had just turned 22.

At that time, she was the main and only suspect in the murder.

But he

was free.

There was not a single evidence or witness that incriminated her.

Kosuke Nozaki, in a file image.

If the story of Kosuke Nozaki were brought to the big screen, the film could begin with a lanky, black-haired boy

selling condoms and alcohol on the streets of Tanabe,

a city of 70,000 in western Japan's Wakayama prefecture.

Years later, that young man would become

a businessman

by opening a loan company and several liquor stores.

He expanded his business to agricultural land.

Fortune came.

Also women.

He met his wife in the fall of 2017 at the Tokyo airport.

He bought her an apartment in the capital and

put her a salary of $ 10,000 a month.

Nozaki came out of anonymity when he recounted in his memoirs how he had invested more than 3,000 million yen (22 million euros) in having sex with 4,000 women. No one knows if most of those encounters had only happened in his head. But he gracefully embodied them in a work that was

a hit in Japan with 55,000 copies sold.

When the Japanese millionaire was

found dead at his home

in Tanabe, police said Saki Sudo was a suspect because she was in the house with him. The woman testified that she heard a noise in the couple's room and

found Nozaki slumped on a sofa.

The officers later questioned the housekeeper, who was also at the house. Did not see anything. Until a week ago, when they took her statement again and claimed that

Sudo gave Nozaki a "cocktail with poison"

shortly before he died.

There was never proof of that.

Weeks after the funeral, Sudo acted quickly to

secure her late husband's fortune.

Two months after her death, she

was unilaterally named president of the company

that Nozaki founded.

According to the

Japan Times

newspaper

,

the woman subsequently transferred

more than $ 300,000 to her bank account

from the company's coffers, according to auditors who accused her of

robbing the firm

and filed criminal charges against her last year.

The case made little progress during these three years.

But last January, a Japanese magazine reported that Sudo

had plans to move to Dubai.

So the police decided to act.

Sudo, now 25,

was arrested without charge on April 28 in Tokyo.

Now, prosecutors will have to convince a jury that despite

the lack of evidence and witnesses,

Sudo had the means, motive and opportunity to kill Nozaki.

All they have for now is proof that the woman

searched her cell phone for information about narcotics

that could cause sudden death and that there were traces of methamphetamine in the kitchen of the house where Nozaki was found dead.


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