Posted on 10/11/2007 3:23:03 AM PDT by Daffynition
A BUSINESSMAN went on a $15 million spree, showering his mistress with first class travel, jewellery and designer clothes to stop his wife getting the family wealth.
The man, who cannot be named, bought a $4.5 million clifftop "weekender" and shelled out an extra $2.33 million for land for a tennis court in what a Family Court judge labelled a flagrant and reckless waste of money.
The 65-year-old splurged $217,697 on a "prestige car" for himself and a Jeep Cherokee and Range Rover for the mistress, embarking on a "wanton" lifestyle costing up to $153,000 a month.
Within five years of leaving his wife of 35 years the businessman, a health professional, had spent so much his city business had gone downhill, he had debts of more than $2 million and no one would give him credit.
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Baby, do me one more time.
"You never really know a man until you have divorced him."
His money.
I reserve the right to piss away every nickle that I make, if I so choose.
“His money”
Correct.
A judge will probably rule that he owes the money anyway and he’ll spend the rest of his life working to pay it off.
Unfortunatly, we live in a Gynocracy as far as our legal system is concerned.
You know the details of this whole thing? They mention that the guy is a ‘health professional’. Why is the wife’s profession not mentioned? These two married in 1966, when the guy would have been around, what, 24 years old, and you think it’s significant they had few assets at the time? Maybe the wife grew to become a complete bitch, as many do when the money starts showing up and they adopt the all-too-common attitude of entitlement for assets they didn’t earn. And maybe the guy was sick of it, and refused to allow her to take a huge sum in a divorce settlement.
No and neither do you. I find it interesting you assume it’s all on the gold digging wife given the story does not indicate such.
“I find it interesting you assume it’s all on the gold digging wife given the story does not indicate such.”
The knee jerk reaction by the liberal media is to always be sympathetic to the woman, and your knee jerk reaction was to do the same. Wives of guys who earn a lot of money can become complete jerks and make the guy’s life miserable, because they know that the prevailing divorce environment favors the woman.
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