State high court turns away Bashara appeal

LANSING (AP) — The Michigan Supreme Court has turned away the appeal of a former Rotary Club president convicted in the murder of his wife because prosecutors say he wanted to devote himself to a secret sexual bondage lifestyle that involved other women.

The court issued an order last week regarding the appeal from Bob Bashara.

The trial revealed that Bashara hosted men and women at a sex dungeon under a bar called the Hard Luck Lounge and went by bondage nickname “Master Bob.”

Bashara’s wife, Jane, was strangled by a handyman in their Grosse Pointe Park garage in 2012.

Her body was discovered in her Mercedes-Benz in a Detroit alley.