Posted on 06/28/2004 4:03:22 AM PDT by Liz
Edited on 06/28/2004 4:08:21 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
She was John Kerry's first love, but politics did not agree with her. So she fled the limelight. It's catching up to her
Julia Thorne has been trying to escape politics ever since rocks crashed through her window, barely missing her baby's crib, after her husband John Kerry ran for Congress in 1972.
They'd met years before, while Kerry was still at Yale, after he'd already heard all about her from his buddy David Thorne, Julia's twin.
She was wearing a bikini, riding around on the back of a car, when John Kerry saw the dashing 19-year-old for the first time, according to historian Doug Brinkley.
They'd been married a few years when Kerry ran for office, and Thorne threw herself into getting him elected. "She was a real live wire, a very funny person, outrageous sometimes. She was a very positive force in the campaign," says Dan Payne, a former Kerry aide. But Kerry took a lot of heat for being antiwar, and lost. The nastiness of the race soured Thorne.
I may be wrong but I don't think Texas seals divorce records. Any one know for sure?
Court records are typically public, i.e., you can walk into the appropriate courthouse and ask for them and make copies. Any court records can be sealed if there's a reason that convinces the judge. I think probably most public figures wouldn't have a problem getting divorce records sealed just because they're public figures (too many people would be likely to want to see them to dig up dirt), and it wouldn't surprise me if they routinely requested it.
Uh, nope. Divorce Court proceedings are open and the records are public documents and pretty much available to anyone - if you follow the required procedures to obtain them from the County Clerk1. It's the exception2 that they're sealed.
1; I'm fairly sure it's the County Clerk. But it may be the Clerk of the Court.
2; 'The Rich', aka Social Elites, typically try to get theirs sealed.
NOTE: I'm NOT a lawyer but I did drive past a Holiday Inn Express :-)
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