7-Up vs. Coke, Part 2: From dot-com darling to disaster, the spectacular flameout of Andrew Gladney. Heir to a fortune, Andrew Gladney went from John Burroughs to Yale and came home to found Savvis Inc. Then he squandered it all.

Garvey ruled that Schmitz may continue escrowing monthly rent in order to protect himself in the event of foreclosure, and that the restaurateur should subtract from the rent the cost of defending Mosaic in the EEOC lawsuit. Additionally, Garvey awarded Schmitz's attorneys $12,000 to cover fees and court costs and ruled that a constructive trust (essentially a lien) must be placed on any sale or foreclosure proceeds that Gladney is entitled to involving 1101 Lucas. Garvey has yet to rule on Schmitz's request to be indemnified against all potential damages in the EEOC matter.

Schmitz says he is on the verge of opening a second Mosaic downtown and a third location in Kirkwood.

"Even though we had a very ugly divorce, I could tell you good things about him," says Andrew Gladney's ex-wife, Cindy Lee, before deciding to leave it at: "He used to be a completely different person."

A Yale friend, who would only be interviewed on the condition that his name not be published, calls Gladney "one of the more entertaining people I've ever met, a great storyteller, a great joke-teller, has a magnetic personality." Gladney, the former classmate says, was "usually the life of the party — the guy who would end up singing at the end of a friend's wedding."

"He could be really kind and thoughtful — he's such a bright person," adds a former female friend. "But he was kind of a lost soul. I think he had a really shitty family life and somehow missed the self-worth chapter of his life-book."

Tim Roberts, his old partner in Savvis, thought Gladney's mother's losing battle with leukemia in the mid-1990s left him extremely lonely. "I knew if I needed money for the company I had to do whatever he said, but he was a lot more demanding about just having you around," says Roberts. "If he wanted you at dinner, there was no excuse for you not to go with him."

But it's hard to pinpoint any one moment in time when Gladney might have begun coming untethered. He is estranged from old friends. The mother of his second son has moved to northern Illinois with the boy. (She could not be reached for comment.) His sister, Hope Gladney Jessup, through Frank Gladney, declined to comment because she "[doesn't] have anything positive to say." His current trustee, Carl Lothman, did not return a phone call. A woman who answered the phone at the home of Warren Maichel, a former trustee, exclaimed, "He's not interested!" and hung up. Gladney's cousin John Ross also opted to remain mum.

The friends who attended a December hearing in U.S. District Court in order to guarantee Andrew Gladney's bond went unnamed when attorney Scott Rosenblum pointed them out to the judge.

Besides the ongoing litigation with Claus Schmitz, and the EEOC's sexual harassment allegations, and the cases with Ken Keiser and Joe Taylor, Gladney is a defendant in a number of civil lawsuits in St. Louis County Circuit Court. Among others suing him for outstanding debts is the exclusive St. Louis Racquet Club.

According to documents in his criminal case, Gladney's net worth is approximately $3.9 million. But, says Rosenblum, "His financial picture is complicated because there's a trust and a trustee involved. It's not like he can just write checks." Rosenblum says he does not know how federal officials arrived at the $3.9 million figure, nor whether it is accurate. According to Frank Gladney, his father left individual trust funds to each of his children. Upon the death of each child, the trust is to be passed to the next generation — in Andrew Gladney's case, to his two sons.

But, Frank Gladney adds, he is unsure of how his half-brother's trust is distributed today. "Four or five years ago, I learned that Andrew's trust was shifted to other trustees. I don't know them. I presume that there, too, the fiduciaries are looking after [my father's] grandchildren and trying to meet the needs of [Andrew] at the same time."

The federal felony charges against Andrew Gladney could result in twenty years or more in prison. As of last month, the government's investigation was ongoing, with the possibility of additional charges to come, according to a court filing submitted by Rosenblum.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Howard Marcus declined to comment about the case.

Noting Gladney's cocaine abuse, U.S. District Judge Medler, in her order denying bail, also made reference to "at least two Confidential Informants [who] reported that [Gladney] offered them money to allow him to have sex with their children."

Rosenblum says the cocaine issue "will be addressed as the litigation proceeds." As for the confidential tipsters, the attorney says, "I believe when that's fleshed out, as far as their credibility, if they are who I think they are, that issue will evaporate."

Rosenblum turned down repeated requests to facilitate and sit in on an interview with Gladney for this story. The attorney also declines to comment in detail about his case, calling it "inappropriate" to discuss pending matters. When asked to elaborate on a reference he made in court to Gladney's case involving "family issues," Rosenblum again demurs.

The attorney reports that his client is holding up well in the Jennings jail.

"It's definitely not Clayton," Rosenblum allows. "And Andrew understands that."