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Actor had 'serious money troubles' after $30million divorce bills
Daily Mail ^ | August 12, 2014 | Sara Nathan for MailOnline

Posted on 08/12/2014 2:05:55 PM PDT by CorporateStepsister

As he stepped out on stage last year to hawk his big TV comeback in front of advertisers, comedy great Robin Williams joked it was 'nice to have a job where the checks will clear.'

After making his name as the eccentric and beloved alien on 1970s TV hit Mork and Mindy, Robin transferred his attentions to Hollywood with a stream of box office hits.

But after acclaim and an Oscar, the movie career started to dry up and the actor signed up for CBS show The Crazy Ones, a small-screen comedy about a 'renowned and slightly unhinged' advertising genius/madman.

While undoubtedly a coup for the network - CBS President Nina Tassler called him 'the biggest get of the season, actually many seasons' and 'one of the defining comedy voices of our time' - Robin was quick to admit he took the gig for cash.

The star's off-the-cuff joke to the room of TV executives, it turned out, was not so funny - in fact, he was being serious. Behind the grin, Robin was dogged by 'serious money troubles' from two divorces that had prompted him to put a Napa home up for sale, and was struggling with depression.

In September 2013, Robin told Parade magazine: 'The idea of having a steady job is appealing. I have two [other] choices: go on the road doing stand-up, or do small, independent movies working almost for scale [minimum union pay].

'The movies are good, but a lot of times they don’t even have distribution. There are bills to pay. My life has downsized, in a good way. I’m selling the ranch up in Napa. I just can’t afford it anymore.'

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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Why does a man owe a woman a monthly check for the rest of her life if they divorce?

There are cases where that makes sense. If a woman sacrifices equally in the lean years, she should profit equally in the good years.

A good example is when a wife takes on a job (or two) to put her husband through medical school. The wife puts her own career aside to further her husband's career.

Later the husband is a successful doctor, and there is a divorce. Shouldn't the wife get a share of her ex-husband's income?

41 posted on 08/12/2014 2:47:52 PM PDT by Leaning Right (Why am I holding this lantern? I am looking for the next Reagan.)
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To: CorporateStepsister

But such a horribly lonely way to leave your body.


42 posted on 08/12/2014 2:50:55 PM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (A half-truth is a complete lie)
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To: Zuben Elgenubi

Try living on SS retirement or disability with failing health and virtually no savings and watching Obama bankrupt SS at a shocking pace and destroy the middle class and small businesses to fund handouts to non-citizens and 3rd generation welfare parasites.

Wait — now I’m depressed.

But my family would be instantly impoverished if I off myself. And paying into SS for a lifetime would be for naught. The checks stop when you die. Unless you’re much younger than I. And my insurance would pay nothing if they can prove I offed myself.

Deep, clinical depression, exacerbated by drug problems, legal or illegal, and our natural temperament and genetics, can sometimes make us virtually impervious to reasoning and encouragement. I know. And many of you do also. I’m sorry the man was going through this deep darkness. He apparently could not see a Betty White type come-back in his future, but if anyone had the talent to pull it off he did. His addictions may have had much more to do with this valley than any combination of the other factors above. Imagine if all those factors seem to be falling in on you at once.

I’m sure many friends and family wish they could’ve gotten to him and tried at least one more intervention. Any of us would pray that God might just take us out of this life before we reach such a level of despair.

The unconfessed sins of a lifetime, poured out to psychiatrists and not to God, add perhaps the greates burden of all. I know that people with great religious faith can succumb to severe depression also. I’m certainly not trying to condemn the man. But we live in a society based on Darwinian materialism that tells us we are simply animals who will someday die and become nothing more than
“worm-food” & “fertilizer” (Dead Poets Society) makes the inevitable valleys of despair much worse.

The philosophy of Macbeth is certainly nothing to cling to during the storms of depression and misfortune either:

Out, out, brief candle!
Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.

Work, plan, prepare as best you can and seek out family, friends, and the Lord when life seems to be collapsing in on you:

Mat 6:25 “Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?
Mat 6:26 Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?
Mat 6:27 And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life?
Mat 6:28 And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin,
Mat 6:29 yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
Mat 6:30 But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?
Mat 6:31 Therefore do not be anxious, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’
Mat 6:32 For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all.
Mat 6:33 But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
Mat 6:34 “Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.

Psa 23:1 A Psalm of David. The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.
Psa 23:2 He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters.
Psa 23:3 He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.
Psa 23:4 Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.
Psa 23:5 You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows.
Psa 23:6 Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I shall dwell in the house of the LORD forever.

Rev 21:1 Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more.
Rev 21:2 And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
Rev 21:3 And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God.
Rev 21:4 He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.”
Rev 21:5 And he who was seated on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new.” Also he said, “Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.”
Rev 21:6 And he said to me, “It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. To the thirsty I will give from the spring of the water of life without payment.
Rev 21:7 The one who conquers will have this heritage, and I will be his God and he will be my son.
Rev 21:8 But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.” {I’m a minister, retired and living on disability and my wife’s small Christian school teacher’s salary, by the way}


43 posted on 08/12/2014 2:54:15 PM PDT by razorbak
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Each of Williams’ divorces were brought upon either by his having an affair with the next wife, or his drug and alcohol problems.

He was married to his first wife for ten years from the late 1970s to the late 1980s and they had one son. He left her for the nanny.

The second wife he was married to for almost twenty years and they had two children together. They were also involved in various businesses and production companies. After a few years of sobriety, Williams fell off the wagon hard. Marcis GHarces stood by him for years while he promised to sober up. He did, but would always go back.

If a man’s actions lead to a divorce from the mothers of his children, then there is nothing unreasonable with the fact that income earned during the marriages should be split according to law. It was not just his money, it was money he made for his family. That’s what a marriage is: two people becoming one.

You can’t blame greedy, grasping women on whatever financial settlement was after the divorces. He made tens of millions of dollars through the years as a Hollywood actor. California law says it’s a 50/50 split.

Williams was a funny person, a great actor, and a good friend. But he had his demons and his wives and children deserved better.


44 posted on 08/12/2014 3:05:56 PM PDT by two134711
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To: CorporateStepsister; All
In old KY, they had a law; "If she worked before Marriage (and brought nothing to
the relationship,but kids), she could/would work for a living after it was dissolved."
..she got very little $$$$.
45 posted on 08/12/2014 3:06:37 PM PDT by skinkinthegrass (The end move in politics is always to pick up a weapon...eh? "Bathhouse" 0'Mullah? d8-)
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To: Tau Food

Same here.

I’m not too much on materialism and tons of stuff. I know some people only too well drowning in endless tons of whatever, in some cases never taken out a box, and are miserable at times.


46 posted on 08/12/2014 3:08:24 PM PDT by wally_bert (There are no winners in a game of losers. I'm Tommy Joyce, welcome to the Oriental Lounge.q)
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To: GeronL

It takes two people to make a marriage. Williams left his first wife for the nanny of their son. His second wife left after his drug and alcohol abuse became too much. He would go on benders, sober up, fall off the wagon again. It was a vicious cycle.

He was a human being in pain, a creation of God, and I’m sorry he felt so desperate that he had no choice but to kill himself. But those divorce settlements weren’t just simple cases of grubby wives trying to steal what wasn’t theirs. The money problems weren’t what lead to his death. The broken fellow had been struggling with internal monsters for decades.


47 posted on 08/12/2014 3:13:10 PM PDT by two134711
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To: al baby

No but he did had time to make a statement about it, as for the Christian being persecuted by ISIS .....CRICKETS


48 posted on 08/12/2014 3:29:28 PM PDT by Patriot Babe
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To: Resolute Conservative

True, if I had that kind of money I would buy acres up near Napa and build my dream home and raise chickens and a garden and I’m happy for life. No need for yachts, gold jewelry hanging around my neck.


49 posted on 08/12/2014 3:32:12 PM PDT by Patriot Babe
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To: Jack Hydrazine
Some women find it their job to divorce well!

Sort of the opposite of John Kerry.

50 posted on 08/12/2014 3:34:02 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: CorporateStepsister

Didn’t he get royalties from any of the movies he made as an “A-Lister?”


51 posted on 08/12/2014 3:34:58 PM PDT by Rides_A_Red_Horse (Why do you need a fire extinguisher when you can call the fire department?)
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To: Leaning Right

Just like Betty Broderick


52 posted on 08/12/2014 3:36:56 PM PDT by Patriot Babe
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To: onedoug

ping


53 posted on 08/12/2014 3:37:27 PM PDT by windcliff
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To: CorporateStepsister

My heart goes out to him in death...for all the troubles he went through. Political crap aside, he was, it seems an incredibly decent man...God rest his soul.


54 posted on 08/12/2014 3:51:01 PM PDT by pallmallman (Q)
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To: caww

sadly true. and well written. thank you. i will miss him.


55 posted on 08/12/2014 3:53:33 PM PDT by GOP Poet
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To: Jonty30

My husband says to me “women would have a bounty on their heads if they didn’t have certain parts to their anatomy” and I says right back to him “men would have a bounty on their heads if they didn’t have full wallets and sperm.”

It works for us. LOL.

Everyone just needs to calm down and eat some fruit.


56 posted on 08/12/2014 3:58:25 PM PDT by Cats Pajamas (Wonder if Rush will mention cankles and her rent a dogs first thing?)
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To: two134711

....”It takes two people to make a marriage”....

But only one to break it.


57 posted on 08/12/2014 3:59:49 PM PDT by caww
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To: Patriot Babe

Me too. I’d be happy with 1 million.
Seven deadly sins usually get the best of most of them out there.


58 posted on 08/12/2014 4:03:50 PM PDT by Cats Pajamas (Wonder if Rush will mention cankles and her rent a dogs first thing?)
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To: GOP Poet

I won’t miss him...reruns if you really liked the guy...they’ll be playing for weeks now..and then they too will die out.

Lie goes on..as it is said...and that’s for the living....otherwise may those who leave this world know where they are going next.


59 posted on 08/12/2014 4:04:02 PM PDT by caww
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To: Cats Pajamas

I have a friend who has a house in the tropics. In the kitchen is a sign that says. “I am a Great House-Keeper — I keep the House from any guy that Divorces Me.” or words to that effect.

I had no sympathy for her former husband of 30+ years, a Doctor at the top of his game that ran off with a young nurse.


60 posted on 08/12/2014 4:06:57 PM PDT by KC Burke (Gowdy for Supreme Court)
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