David Gest Sues Liza Minelli For $10,000,000 claiming spousal abuse

The Smoking Gun ^ | 10-21-03 | Smoking Gun

[dogbyte12]

OCTOBER 21--David Gest, the estranged husband of Liza Minnelli, claims in a lawsuit filed today that the singer regularly beat him during the couple's 16-month marriage. In the below New York State Supreme Court complaint, Gest, 50, describes Minnelli, 57, as an overweight, raging alcoholic who seriously injured him during a June attack (the couple separated the following month). According to Gest, whose lawsuit seeks $10 million in damages, he became a "victim of domestic violence" who, as a result of Minnelli's beatings, now lives in "virtually constant, unrelenting pain" that requires "11 prescription medications per day, some more than once." Gest's complaint chronicles alleged beatings in London, Italy, and New York and claims that Minnelli once threw a lamp at him, punched a security guard, choked a male employee of Gest's, and bit another security official. Gest even recounts a pre-marriage incident in December 2001 as the couple traveled, via a chauffeured Mercedes, to enroll Minnelli in a Pennsylvania rehab facility. Gest claims that the singer drank an entire bottle of red wine in the car and then began beating him "about his head with open hands and closed fists." (10 pages)

[dogbyte12]

Anybody have that Liza, David, Michael, Liz picture handy?

[StatesEnemy]

LOL... Wouldn't surprise me. Liza could definitely kick Davids @ss.

And ask yourself... in her position, wouldn't ya just be intchin' to lay that dandy-boy out?

[SouthernFreebird]

Oh please, not before bed!!

[woofie]

Wow I cant believe that mairrage didnt work...

[John Beresford Tipton]

For the first cause of action in the complaint,
1. Plaintiff alleges that he was pussy-wipped.

[buffyt]

I thought they were so blissfully in love? Oh, that was last year....

[Pubbie]

[goldstategop]

Let me see: no chemistry? You wonder how they managed to fall in love, let alone get married and why any self-respecting man would consent to being beaten by his woman in a pathetic bid to stay together.

[ErnBatavia]

Anybody have that Liza, David, Michael, Liz picture handy?

I love the "image search" thingies, but I love even more the help I got from fellow FReepers....teaching me how to pop pics up here.

This one's even better; a good shot of this serial abuser...

[martin_fierro]

I figure Liza owes me a couple of grand for mental anguish from looking at this travesty.

[shaggy eel]

and why any self-respecting man would consent to being beaten by his woman in a pathetic bid to stay together.

,,, my ex was generally OK when she was sober. You actually never consent to being beaten, it happens lightning fast.

[Servant of the 9]

Probably an argument about using the others cosmetics ..... or douche bag.

SO9

[randog]

Any guy that wears more makeup than his wife is bound to have marital problems.

[wimpycat]

Which one has had more facelifts?

[dogbyte12]

I heard the marriage was broken up by another man. When Liza found out about the other man, that's when she got mad.
*bada bump bump*

[At _War_With_Liberals]

Just finished reading the 10 pages. I am laughing so hard my neck hurts.

A must read!!

[blam]

The Beautiful People

[Paul Atreides]

Sigh. Another celebrity lesbian couple splits up.

[Dr. Scarpetta]

Australian Hugh Jackman stars in a musical biography of the late entertainer/songwriter Peter Allen, who was a protege of Judy Garland, was briefly married to "LIZA MINELLI," and died of aids. Allen and Minnelli were married in 1967, but separated in 1970.

The "Boy from Oz" opened Oct. 16, 2003 at the Imperial Theater, NYC.