Posted on 03/31/2005 10:17:15 AM PST by becker
March 25, 2005 HER BODY, MY SELF : What's In It for Michael Schiavo? -added font A SHORT NOTE CONCERNING the financial benefits to Michael Schiavo that will accrue from the death of his wife.
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What I do have some sense of is how much money Michael Schiavo stands to make if, and only if, his wife dies. It is, for a man, with a fresh new wife and two children, substantial. Having worked as an editor for Houghton Mifflin and as a literary agent, I have some the price the publishing and media worlds would put on his story. It will be significantly more than 30 pieces of silver.
The book deal: "HER BODY, MY SELF" by Michael Schiavo can be auctioned to a large group of major publishers within ten days of Terri Schiavo's death. This can be arranged by an canny and shameless agent -- and they are legion -- on the basis of 12 telephone calls, a two-page outline, a ghost writer known to the New York publishing world, and a dog-and-pony show where Michael is flown to New York and trotted around to six to eight editors' offices in a day. The bidding for this book will have a floor of two million dollars. The top offer will be in the range of three to three and a half-million for hardcover and paperback rights. Depending on the agent's feel for the market, translation rights may be added to the mix. Film rights will be held back. After the agent's 15% fee, Michael's take from this will be $2,550,000, less $50,000 paid to the ghost writer.
The film and tv rights for Michael's "story" will probably bring in another 1-3 million dollars depending on a number of factors and will, in this instance, be set in motion before the publication of the book.
Speaking fees: Michael Schiavo's lawyer currently commands $15,000 per speaking engagement, so it is not hard to see that Michael could easily pull down $50,000 per engagement. While you probably won't see him show up at Catholic conventions, he's a natural Keynoter for hundreds of other groups across the country and abroad. In the first year alone he could, given a reasonable calendar, be booked for at least 50 events. His gross fees in the first year would, in that case, come to $2,500,000.
Terri Schiavo is worth six to eight million dollars to Michael Schiavo if, and only if, she's dead. If she continues living nothing happens on the book or movie front because there's no ending. When she dies, it is jackpot time for Michael.
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(Found this in link in comments from "Guest Editorial" . . . giving credit where credit is due! Sorry, forgot to get the name of person who posted it! It's all you, dude!).
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Judge Greer will rule against that. He will follow all the proper procedures, or if he doesn't the higher courts won't review the ruling on the merits anyway.
My hope is MS stays either in court or jail forever.
Actually, Terri's father isn't the angel you think he is. Her mother was, but not him.
After her collapse, her husband brought suit against the doctor who had failed to diagnose her potassium imbalance. One of the first things doctors are supposed to test for, or tell bulimics to do, is take potassium – bulimia depletes the supply. It caused her heart to stop, and brain to die.
Until the million-dollar judgment, Michael Schiavo and his father-in-law got along just fine. There were no differences of opinion about therapy. No claims that he had beaten his wife, or that they were on the verge of divorce. Indeed, they were all living together – the sick woman, her husband and the in-laws.
But money changes everything. The father-in-law wanted a share; the husband wanted to keep it – so they fought until it was all used up, with her almost-dead body becoming the only thing left to fight over.
Why didn't Michael just let his in-laws have the corpse? Stubborn and angry, probably. Why didn't the parents just let the husband have the money back then, if that's all he really wanted? Stubborn and angry, probably.
If there is money to be made by him, so be it. I think he's been unfairly accused of things.
Plus there are laws in this country. Innocent till proven guilty in a court of law. He's been denied that.
He wouldn't be demanding an Autopsy if he had something to hide, so i guess we will see in the next couple days what it has to say. Of course, if it proves she was completely brain dead, which I think she was, some just won't believe it regardless. They will only believe that she could walk and talk and fly- do anything she tried - like Pinoccio
Wonder if the "mistress" has had second thoughts about Michael's "darker" tendencies (ie: euthanized Terri's cats, pulled the plug on his parents, and now starved his "wife" to death while living with another woman)...Perhaps she should think twice about marrying him, not that I care about her feelings as she's guilty of adultery too!
It will be interesting to see just how the long piece of ---- waits until he makes an "honest" woman out of his shackup. All I can say is she'd better not get sick in any way, shape or form. It would be much easier the 2nd time around for him, and I'm not talking about marriage!
When his children go to school, what wrath will they incur?
The sins of the father....
Care to bet that MS will be arrested sometime within the next year for domestic abuse of his current girlfriend? Also, if they should marry, he will probably do to the new Mrs. S. what he did to Terri.
Hmmmmmm........... Her father is no angel? Do you really have to slime her family?
He wouldn't be demanding an Autopsy if he had something to hide, so i guess we will see in the next couple days what it has to say.
He is demanding a autopsy? If he is going to cremate the body, there has to be a autopsy. Doesn't sound very righteous to me. Heck take this and the fact that he has common law wife and two kids while still being married to another woman you got the makings of a saint.
Good thought but everything dealing with her death was court ordered so i tend to doubt it.However we all know that
insurance companies don't pay unless they have to.
Fully agree pepperhead. That whole spiel was a sham. Felos knowing the Fla law had to know that an autopsy would be a requirement in the case of a cremation. It had NOTHING to do with what Schiavo supposedly wanted. That was all a smoke screen.
How do you know that?
Are you saying because he didn't murder her with his own hands - then there is nothing the parents can do ..??
What if the autopsy proves he abused her ..?? Would that change the likelyhood of wrongful death ..??
"there are laws in this country. Innocent till proven guilty in a court of law. He's been denied that."
How can he be "denied that," when he's not been lawfully accused of anything? You had my open mind until I read that.
Hey pepperhead, seems we think alike.
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