Who owns Wolfs Lair?
In the ensuing years, Weinhold became embroiled in almost constant litigation with his family. Most of it centered around ownership of Wolf’s Lair, a 1,400-acre family retreat in Henderson County, N.C., that could be worth as much as $21 million today based on land prices in that part of the country. In 1996, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Tampa sold part of the estate in an attempt to settle Weinhold’s Boston bankruptcy case. But Weinhold’s father objected and convinced the court to reopen the case four years later, alleging that his son had arranged for the fraudulent sale of part of Wolf’s Lair to a close friend, Douglas Smith — an accusation still being litigated. His father also tried to convince Wolf Weinhold’s disability carrier — Equitable Life — that Weinhold had filed a fraudulent insurance claim, prompting the carrier to open an investigation and then to cut off payments. “You’ve got to look at it from the disability carrier’s perspective,” Weinhold said. “Some gentleman ca
