Archive for December, 2008
What to do on New Year’s Eve: Don’t think about your divorce!
I am sitting here having an elegant flute filled with Champagne, dressed in my thick oversized white towel, with my hair wrapped in another and already an hour behind schedule for my evening out. I don't usually go out on New Year's Eve, but tonight I am. I am so excited! Oooooooh! You should see my dress. It's very sparkly and hides all of my [...]
Hey cougars, just got divorced?
Third in line to the British Throne and haute! haute! haute!
RUSSIA: Woman kills her husband with a folding bed
Rather than seek a divorce, a Russian woman took matters into her own folding couch and murdered her husband with it. According to Reuters, apparently, the husband was a habitual drunkard and the wife was pretty fed up with his nonsense. So, on Wednesday, after their last fight, she kicked a handle that automatically activates the couch/bed and [...]
Kate Walsh, Private Practice Star, counterfiles for divorce
Weeks after her husband Alex Young filed for divorce against her, Kate Walsh jumped into the fray and hit back with a divorce action of her own. She lists the time the marriage broke down "irreconcilably" as days earlier than he did. The Private Practice star has only been married about 15 months, and her nuptials, a lavish ceremony attended by [...]
Will your divorce drive your toddler to a psychiatrist’s couch in 20 years?
Having a shrink is a status symbol for many. For others, it's a necessity; the only way they are going to avoid slitting their wrists. For some people, their "unhappy childhood" often involves parents who got a divorce when the children were still very young. So the kids still have abandonment issues even after becoming adults. While I [...]
NEW YORK: On Blaine Trump’s divorce from Robert Trump: will she get any of his “inherited” money?
Blaine Trump's decolletage is hardly the reason we are surprised that Robert Trump has decided to finally make the divorce official. The two have allegedly been separated for three years and filed late September, 08, in Manhattan Supreme, for divorce, even though the couple lives in Millbrook. Robert is said to be trying to fight the venue. I [...]
Ruth Madoff surrenders her passport but will she surrender her marriage?
According to Bloomberg.com, Ruth Madoff has surrendered her passport to the Feds as they see her as a flight risk. She is not charged in her husband's ponzi scheme at this time, but it won't come as a big surprise if it turns out that she is charged. Will they cut a deal with her to get Bernie? Can they? And even if they don't or they can't, [...]
The countess v. the ceo, part deux: George and Marie Douglas David up the ante
Well, Countess Marie Douglas David and UTC chairman and former CEO George David, are taking a time out to plot their strategies, enjoy the holidays and figure out what they are going to do for an encore. Their trial is reportedly scheduled to resume in March. So as to give their attorneys (on the wife's side Bruce Louden, Robert Stephan Cohen and [...]
The Divorce “it” List of 2008
Here is our Who is Who of celebrities, billionaires and other famous people who got a divorce in 2008 Christie Brinkley and Peter Cook We were intrigued with this supermodel/starchitect divorce only because of the salacious details they divulged to a gluttonous public. We learned that Peter can be very inappropriate in all sorts of [...]
Divorce in New York: A Christmas message from a New York divorce attorney
Two hours before the end of Christmas, 2008 and I am sitting here, stuffed up like a bird with all the holiday eating (I am going to have to go on a hunger strike for 3 months to undo the damage my holiday eating has done this year), trying to get in my last post to the day. What will I talk about? How about Divorce, New York style? I specify [...]
Polish man patronizing a brothel finds his wife working there as an escort
A polish man and his wife are getting divorced. According to Reuters, the man was patronizing a brothel when he found his wife working there. I mean, seriously, how many ways can you spell D.I.V.O.R.C.E.? Read the story here http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSL0910395120080109
When ex husbands go berserk: Bruce Jeffrey Pardo dressed as Santa opens fire at his in laws, killing six
I just read on Reuters the story coming out of Suburban Los Angeles. It seems an ex husband went berserk, went to his in laws' house party dressed as Santa, opened fire, and murdered six people. When he was done with his shooting spree, he zipped out of his Santa outfit, set the house on fire and fled the scene. He later committed [...]
Ruth Madoff: Will she divorce Bernie?
Ruth Madoff, wife of Bernard L. Madoff, the mastermind behind one of the biggest ponzi schemes that has been dubbed the "biggest securities fraud in Wall Street history" is so far sticking by her man. He and she are shacked up in their Upper East Side penthouse, while he endures "house arrest" pending the outcome of the criminal charges against [...]
Bernie Madoff’s soon to be ex-daughter in law Deborah Madoff: A profile in courage
If the rumors that are flying around that Andrew and Deborah Madoff are getting a divorce are true, then Deborah must be a very courageous woman. She is going to need even more courage as the weeks roll by - especially if it turns out, as many are insinuating, that her husband Andrew Madoff was involved in his father's ponzi scheme. If, in fact, [...]
Should the court order UTC’s George David to pay for his wife Marie Douglas’s attorney’s fees in their divorce action?
So, I'm sitting there in church tonight, at Midnight Mass, listening to a tenor belt out Jesu Bambino, and instead of being fully engrossed in this, one of the most holiest feasts of my religious faith - the celebration of the Nativity of Christ - all I could think about was getting back home so that I could blog about whether or not Countess [...]
Three rich women (Slavica Ecclestone, Deborah Madoff, Marie Douglas David), 3 high profile divorces: Who will make out like a bandit?
Marie Douglas in Red with her society pals We all know that money can't buy love, but can it buy happiness? This December, high profile marriages have been crumbling left and right, (to wit, Madonna and Guy Ritchie, Slavica and Bernie Ecclestone, Marie Douglas David and George David and Deborah Madoff and Andrew Madoff). So many ultra [...]
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