Posted on 11/21/2016 4:45:33 PM PST by nickcarraway
Genevieve de Montremare told the world she’d been born into the Rochechouart family, one of the oldest noble families in France that dates back to the 1800s.
She said she was educated at some of the finest European schools, earning a medical degree and a doctorate in genetics. In the early 1990s, de Montremare made her presence known in Fresno, California.
In 1991, she married Dr. Michael Weilert, a pathologist and managing partner of a medical lab in the area.
The couple had a daughter and eventually settled on a 15-acre property, where they had a barn filled with a very expensive and rare breed of horses called Friesians. She became a fixture in the tight-knit Friesian scene.
“She was a legend amongst the Friesian community. She was a geneticist. She was revolutionizing for Friesians in America. You were star struck,” Katelyn Sweigart, a Friesian breeder, told “20/20.”
Cheryl Skigin and her husband Brian Gwartz had a lifelong love of horses, including Friesians, and Skigin said she was eager to chat with de Montremare.
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What an interesting story.
I can see someone like a young Julia Roberts playing the lead. Maybe the subject modeled her style on the figure in the Maxfield Parrish painting on the wall behind her. Romantic and Baroque at once.
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