Posted on 05/26/2005 3:57:33 PM PDT by Hillary's Lovely Legs
WFOR-CBS 4 investigative reporter Michele Gillen is a defendant in a lawsuit. Plaintiff: Alexander Eugenio Moskovits, an ex-con from Miami Beach who says he lived with Gillen when he got out of prison, and donated sperm -- after their break-up -- so she could have a baby.
Moskovits, 41, alleges fraud and emotional distress. Gillen, 50, "never intended to become pregnant" -- but used his sperm sample to "keep him in her life," he claims.
Moskovits did eight years -- for cocaine trafficking while at the University of Pennsylvania. Released in January '97, he began dating Gillen that summer, and told her of his past, says the Miami-Dade suit filed by attorney Andrew Feuerstein. While living together, she got pregnant but lost the baby, the complaint says.
In August '98, Gillen got sued for sexual harassment by CBS4 cameraman Aurelio Zarate. Moskovits did legal research to help her defense. But soon, he says, Gillen demanded more and more work, making him feel like a "servant."
In January '99, he broke up with her and moved to Budapest, he says. Gillen called him "on his Hungarian cellphone approximately 10 times a day" to "persuade him to . . . come back." He declined.
In March '99, when a judge threw out Zarate's suit, Gillen called to tell Moskovits. She visited him in Budapest, and they went to Rome for her 44th birthday. On that trip, he says, she asked him to donate sperm, saying it was her "last chance . . . to be a mother." He gave a sperm sample in July at a New York fertility clinic, and went back to Budapest.
In November '99, he returned to Miami -- and began dating Melanie Muss, daughter of millionaire hotelier Stephen Muss.
When Moskovits moved to L.A. in 2000, Gillen showed up, wanting to rekindle their romance, he claims. They met at a Wolfgang Puck. When he said he was "serious" with Muss, Gillen yelled that Moskovits was a drug dealer -- "so that everybody in the restaurant heard."
Moskovits says she refuses to tell him the status of his sperm sample. He wants DNA confirmation that it's his. Gillen "offered $10,000 . . . and to return the sperm without . . . DNA verification." He rejected the offer.
Gillen, he says, committed fraud because "she had no intention to become pregnant with his sperm." He claims emotional distress because he's in " constant fear" that his sperm . . . has been "misused."
Gillen did not return calls. Her lawyer, Kendall Coffey, says: "This ridiculous theory of jilted masculinity is a nonsensical sham intended to extract money and attention, and it deserves neither."
Muss, 35, says she is unaware of Moskovits' suit. "Don't know anything." She is expecting a baby in early June. "Melanie will make the very best mom in the world," Moskovits says through his lawyer. She did not respond to requests to discuss her baby.
Moskovits, a registered voter in Miami-Dade (Democrat), now lives in Brazil. Circuit Judge Manny Crespo has the case.
Sparring over sperm.
Interesting mental image...
CBS, eh? Watch for a 60 Minute special in which Moskovits sperm will be indentified as being recovered from a rape victim!
Unfortunately, it's a little bit late to put them back where they belong.
Dare I use the word...Nut-case?
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