After being selected as one of the torch bearers at the opening of the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, the 66-year-old, six-foot-two Siegel successfully ran the quarter-mile stretch with other runners, then asked the International Olympic Committee if he could keep the torch as a memento and display it in his Orlando corporate offices at Central Florida Investments Inc. The price of the torch: $350.
A Siegel assistant told GlobeSt.com, "He closed that deal on the spot."
While in Utah, Siegel checked out the opening of a ski resort he developed recently. Miami Beach-born Siegel has offered to give at least 8,000 survivors of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, DC free stays at his Orlando timeshare properties.
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