Posted on 01/21/2006 2:03:21 PM PST by amdgmary
They might have done this years ago, but he already had a wife.
Michael Schiavo and Jodi Centonze applied for a marriage license in Pinellas County on Friday. She listed her last marriage as ending in divorce on March 29, 1989. He listed his as ending in death on March 31, 2005.
Their relationship has long been a curious sidenote in the national right-to-die case of Michael's first wife, Terri Schiavo, who was in a persistent vegetative state for 15 years.
Michael Schiavo, 42, has called Jodi Centonze his fiancee for at least six years, relatives said. They live together and have two young children. For years Jodi has been the other woman, the target of death threats and scorn. Michael always had Terri, and his famous legal fight to let her go.
That ended in March, when Terri's feeding tube was removed against the wishes of her parents, many in the religious community and the Florida legislature.
Michael Schiavo and Jodi Centonze have had a relatively quiet life since Terri's death.
Family members confirmed Friday the Pinellas County marriage license, but would not reveal details of the upcoming wedding, saying they hoped to keep media attention to a minimum.
"I know it's going to be big news when it happens," said Jodi's brother John Centonze. "I've even had the (National) Enquirer contact me offering me money to give them pictures if they got married. Five grand just for a picture of my sister and they didn't care how old it was."
He said he hopes the wedding will be a step toward normalcy.
Michael Schiavo's brother Brian was more coy. "What wedding?" he said. "I have to call them and find out why I haven't been invited."
John Centonze said the wedding will take place sometime before his sister's 41st birthday on Valentine's Day. He said he hasn't rented a tuxedo yet because "it's too early."
Jodi Centonze was in Michael Schiavo's life before the lawsuits and the cameras.
The two met in a dentist's office and began a relationship about 11 years ago. Terri was already in a nursing home. She had collapsed in 1990, likely from a potassium imbalance.
Then came the split between Michael and his in-laws, followed by eight years of litigation. Michael said he had given up on Terri's chances of recovering and had promised not to keep her alive by artificial means. Bob and Mary Schindler accused their son-in-law of trying to kill their daughter so he could keep money from a malpractice settlement.
The case reached the Florida Legislature, the U.S. Supreme Court, Congress, the White House, the Vatican and the national conscience. Protesters outside Terri's hospice in Pinellas Park held signs that said, "Michael don't plan the wedding yet, we still have hope!" and "Arrest Mike for bigamy."
Friends and relatives say Michael Schiavo told them then that Terri was his first love and the only woman he called his wife.
The marriage license is valid for 60 days.
If I werre Jodi, I would be a bit worried marrying this guy. She might wind up like Terri. Though after the publicity, maybe Michael wouldn't want a repeat, on the other hand, he figures, since he got away with one murder, he can get away with another one. At the very least Jodi shouldn't allow him to take out life insurance on her.
Ouch, ya never know. One of this days we might hear she has been beaten to death by the hands of Schiavo and I won't be surprised!
Well, that makes me a bad Christian as well cause I should be praying for Schiavo and Jodi, but everytime I think of them I get all nauseous and want to go puke myself!
I won't hold it against you. I can't always do it myself.
I wouldn't be surprised if Bishop Lynch performed it himself in his most spectacular church around!
I was being sarcastic. It isn't her looks I'd worry about, it's her thinking. She has to be a little brain-damaged to marry a man who cheated on his wife and then tortured her to death. Has she never heard that what he does for you, he'll do to you?
But when did their relationship begin?
John Centonze's wife Gloria "was one of Terri's caregivers" in 1990, according to page 59 of the April 4, 2005 issue of People magazine.
Is that just a coincidence? Did he know her at the time of Terri's collapse? How many women did he date in the interim? Has Jodi been in the picture from the start? Did she divorce her husband for Michael back in 1989? When Michael dated other women, was he cheating on Jodi as well as Terri?
I noticed that too. When I saw you had commented on it, I went back compared her photo to a few I have of Terri from over the years. Now I think she bears a striking resemblance to Terri.
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Jodi Centonze is Catholic, as was Terri. More than likely, she will marry Schiavo in a Catholic Church.
Jodi found a local Catholic church, Esperito Santo in Safety Harbor, to baptize her illegitmate baby (she had their second child in Oct 2003, the week Terri was being starved). The priest who baptised the baby was aware that Jodi was not married to Schiavo and she had been involved in an adulterous affair with him for over 10 years. All the while, Michael was telling the world that he still loved Terri.
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The article correctly cites the cause as potassium imbalance.
That could possibly be the cause of her condition. Michael was the cause of her death.
It's not just you. I think there is some resemblance.
Terri Schiavo's former husband remarries
SAFETY HARBOR, Florida (AP) - A man whose brain-damaged wife was at the center of a contentious end-of-life battle that played out on a worldwide media stage has remarried, family members said.
Michael Schiavo and Jodi Centonze were married Saturday in a private church ceremony, said John Centonze, the brother of the bride.
Schiavo's former wife, Terri Schiavo, died March 31, 13 days after her feeding tube was removed. Terri Schiavo suffered irreversible brain damage after collapsing at age 26 in 1990.
Her parents and siblings fought to keep her alive for years, arguing that she had some level of consciousness. Gov. Jeb Bush, the U.S. Supreme Court, Congress, the White House, and even the Vatican became involved in the case.
An autopsy supported Michael Schiavo's contention that she was in a persistent vegetative state with no consciousness and no hope of recovery.
Because of the attention attracted by the Schiavo saga, family members kept the location of the ceremony secret and reporters were not allowed inside the church in Safety Harbor, about 15 miles (24 kilometers) northwest of Tampa.
"It was very emotional," John Centonze said after the noon ceremony. "It's been a long time coming. A lot of things happened in between."
The bride and groom did not make any public comment. They had applied Friday for a marriage license.
The couple met in a dentist's office and began a relationship after Terri Schiavo was already in a nursing home. Michael Schiavo has called Centonze his fiancee for more than five years, relatives said. They have two young children.
"Except for the fact that the world knows their name, it was like any wedding you've ever been to," said Michael Hirsh, who attended, and who is helping Michael Schiavo write a book.
Hirsh estimated about 80 people attended.
http://www.wctrib.com/articles/index.cfm?id=4021§ion=News
The church in Safety Harbor that the article referred to is a Cathlic Church, Espirito Santo. Jodi is Catholic (in name only)
http://www.espiritusanto.cc/es/cms/core/Home
The St. Petersburg Times on Michael and Jodi's wedding
Schiavo weds in private service
The ceremony at a Catholic church was very emotional, a relative says. The couple's two children attend.
By CURTIS KRUEGER, Times Staff Writer
Published January 22, 2006
SAFETY HARBOR - Michael Schiavo and Jodi Centonze were married in a private ceremony at Espiritu Santo Catholic Church on Saturday.
"It was very emotional," said John Centonze, brother of the bride, just after the noon ceremony. "It's been a long time coming. A lot of things happened in between."
The wedding came a day after the couple applied for a Pinellas County marriage license and 10 months after the death of Schiavo's first wife, Terri.
Terri Schiavo died March 31, two weeks after her feeding tube was removed, and 15 years after a cardiac arrest that left her in what most doctors called a persistent vegetative state. Her death was a most public process, with the Florida Legislature, Congress, the courts, pundits and interest groups weighing in.
The wedding, in contrast, was private. Mindful of the media circus that had whirled about Terri Schiavo's hospice for weeks, along with throngs of protesters, the families kept the time and location of Saturday's ceremony a secret. Three St. Petersburg Times journalists arrived at the church, but were asked not to go in.
Schiavo wore a black tuxedo and Centonze wore a long, flowing, white wedding gown. Their two children attended. The bride and groom did not make any public comment.
"Except for the fact that the world knows their name, it was like any wedding you've ever been to," said Michael Hirsh, who attended, and who is helping Schiavo write a book titled Terri: The Truth.
Hirsh estimated about 80 people attended. The priest offered no homily. Afterward the wedding party went to a reception at East Lake Country Club.
"It was just a beautiful ceremony," Hirsh said. "Everyone there was just extremely happy for them."
Hirsh said, "There weren't a lot of dry eyes in the place."
Centonze agreed. "I had a couple tears," he said.
Schiavo and Jodi Centonze met in a dentist's office and began dating a few years later. Terri Schiavo already had suffered her accident, and already was living in a nursing home.
Schiavo referred to Jodi Centonze as his fiancee for more than five years, as the Terri Schiavo case worked its way through the court system, and the halls of the Florida Legislature and Congress.
Some of Schiavo's friends compared him during this time to a man whose wife had Alzheimer's disease; he still loved his wife but also wanted companionship. But in the superheated rhetoric of Terri Schiavo's last months, critics called him an adulterer because he had taken up with another woman while still married.
In 1990, cardiac arrest deprived Terri Schiavo of oxygen for five minutes. Doctors eventually diagnosed her as being in a persistent vegetative state, meaning she was not conscious of her surroundings.
However, Terri Schiavo's family sharply disagreed and consulted doctors who disputed or doubted the diagnosis of a persistent vegetative state. They hoped to keep her alive and give her extensive therapy.
An autopsy concluded that Terri Schiavo never would have recovered from the brain damage she suffered during her 1990 collapse. Doctors have never competely understood what brought on her initial cardiac arrest.
http://www.sptimes.com/2006/01/22/Tampabay/Schiavo_weds_in_priva.shtml
How sweet....
No, potassium imbalance had nothing to do with it.
As usual, I'm not a doctor and my comments are subject to correction by medics (or anyone else if I screw up the facts). Potassium imbalance was ruled out as a cause of collapse by the M.E. It came up in the first place because Terri had a low potassium reading when she was first admitted to the emergency room. They treated it and it went away quickly and never came back. But it was the only medical excuse they originally found for Terri "collapsing," so in time it became Michael's alibi. (He had at first denied that she was bulimic, but had no other explanation for her collapse. So, he changed his story and used bulimia as a [false] alibi.]
There are several ways that emergency treatment could have produced temporary low potassium; or it could have been the result of attempted strangulation. But a bulimic episode never did fit her condition (or the timing of her "collapse" in the wee hours). She never had a heart attack which they claimed was a result of the low potassium. The M.E. confirmed this but it was known earlier. Neither did she suffer the universal damage from lack of oxygen that would have occurred in such a bulimic episode.
Terri actually suffered very specific and localized damage to the front of her brain, strongly suggesting that her injuries were caused by stoppage of blood in the important carotid arteries, which supply blood to that area. Her heart, lungs, liver and body below the neck were unaffected.
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