Posted on 10/31/2009 3:19:28 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Michelle Triola Marvin dies at 75; her legal fight with ex-lover Lee Marvin added 'palimony' to the language After their cohabitation of six years, she took him to court, seeking $1.8 million, but won just $104,000, and that award was later thrown out.
Michelle Triola Marvin, a former nightclub singer whose claims as the onetime live-in girlfriend of actor Lee Marvin led to a landmark ruling that established the legal concept of palimony, has died. She was 75.
Marvin, who had fought lung cancer for the last 18 months, died Friday at the Malibu home she shared with actor Dick Van Dyke, her companion of three decades, said a family friend, Bob Palmer.
Michelle Marvin, who legally changed her surname to Lee Marvin's even though they never married, made legal history in 1976 when the California Supreme Court ruled that she and other unmarried people could sue for property division when a relationship ended.
That decision paved the way three years later for an often-sensational 11-week trial in which Michelle Marvin was awarded $104,000 for what the judge called "rehabilitative purposes."
Both sides declared victory, but Michelle Marvin perhaps won the best sound bite: "If a man wants to leave his toothbrush at my house, he better bloody well marry me," she said after the 1979 trial.
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Shame there isn’t a golddigger hall of fame.
“If a man wants to leave his toothbrush at my house, he better bloody well marry me,” she said after the 1979 trial.
And then lives with Dick Van Dyke for thirty years?!
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Michelle Marvin perhaps won the best sound bite: “If a man wants to leave his toothbrush at my house, he better bloody well marry me,” she said after the 1979 trial.
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Sweetie, you can NOT force a man to marry you.
If you want a man to marry you, then tell him NO!
Tell him to take his toothbrush with him or not being it all.
Heck, why should be buy the cow if he can get the milk for free?
One less gold digging slut to worry about.
Amazing isn’t it - the hypocrisy!!!
Why do people assume they are owed something after a relationship ends?
She seems to get around, doesn't she.
She fought hard to get top dollar for her services.
If I recall correctly, Dick Van Dyke is still married to his wife - they just never divorced.
It’s probably a good thing Ms. Triola went first, or the Widow Van Dyke may have found herself in a nastly little legal scrap.
Yikes - “nasty”, not “nastly.”
You knew someone was going to post this video didn’t you?
Michell Triola & Lee Marvin - Saturday Night Live:
http://www.hulu.com/watch/2306/saturday-night-live-point-counterpoint-lee-marvin-and-michelle-triola
What a whore.
Whoa... that was.... FUNNY!
Some of the best from SNL. I loved their ‘Point-Counterpoint’ take-offs!
It does sound rather villainous, doesn’t it?
I doubt it will attain the same heights of fame as the stuned beeber, but one never knows, do one?
How would it look if she went to court for the same kind of case, after her experience.
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