THE man who went through life as Clark Rocke feller – and maybe Chichester/Crowe/ Streiter/Reiter/Cipher – has a lot of explaining to do.
But how can you explain the woman with whom he lived in possible wedlock for 12 years, Sandra Boss? A lady who wore blinders as large as Christie Brinkley’s, living in ignorance of her man’s many identities and shady beginnings.
In her blissful ignorance, did she wind up encouraging Rockephony to live a lie?
A duped Boss started out loving the man. Somehow, she wound up enabling Clark Whatsisname not only to keep a lid on his dark past, but to threaten the safety of the one precious thing to come out of the couple’s unholy union – 7-year-old Reigh, known as Snooks.
Is Sandra Boss oblivious? Or, did she look the other way while the trickster provided what she wanted most: a presentable husband willing to stay at home with the kid, a man who washes his socks and would permit the ambitious career woman to do as she liked.
Over a decade, a man leaves a paper trail. There are applications to fill out, credit checks and loans to acquire. Social security statements arrive. Birth certificates must be produced.
At the time the Bossefellers had a wedding on Nantucket in 1995 – a secret affair attended by virtually no friends or family – Massachusetts law required that blood tests and ID be produced for a couple to get a marriage license.
But there’s no evidence such a document was ever obtained. A source familiar with the couple’s 2007 “divorce” told The Post that no marriage license was produced for the occasion. Boss, the source said, simply assumed Rockefeller had taken care of the marital paperwork. It was as if they never wed legally. Clark, or whatever his name is, had nothing to his name at the time of the bust-up, despite his claim to be an heir to a filthy-rich clan. Sandra paid him $800,000 from the sale of their house to get rid of him, it was revealed at Rockephony’s bail hearing. He left no paper trail.
Conveniently, Clark Whosis claims no memory of anything before 1993. He can’t remember a couple, John and Linda Sohus, who disappeared in 1985, when he may have lived with them. He’s also clammed up about possibly trying to sell the couple’s car a few years later.
For years, Sandra Boss was his unknowing accomplice, providing aid and comfort as he broadened his deceptions.
Now she’s learned, too late, a man looks too good, he probably is. andrea.peyser@nypost.com