This guy! I LOVE this story! My human/alien hybrid CIA lover!

[onager]

3. Wondering that myself.

Maybe she'll turn up in some exotic foreign location.

As for where he got the money, I'm guessing inheritance. True Story: I used to live beside an empty house with pool in L.A. that was falling apart, and the pool attracted mosquitoes. Then it attracted the Health Dept. It took a while to figure out who owned the place. Owner turned out to be an elderly woman who was a member of the famous Hershey chocolate family. She was getting senile, I guess, and had inherited property all over L.A. County that she had apparently just forgotten about.

But that was in the (mostly) low-rent San Fernando Valley. Pacific Palisades is a very ritzy community, mostly white and VERY affluent. (Median income of $168,000, according to the LA TIMES.) Unlike the nouveau riche 'hoods such as Beverly Hills and Malibu, it's also low-key and doesn't generally attract much attention.

Demographics/map for the curious:

http://maps.latimes.com/neighborhoods/neighborhood/pacific-palisades/