Buddy Fletcher and Ellen Pao’s marriage ending with mudslinging and acrimony

New York Post ^ | August 16, 2019 | 10:34pm | Updated | Carleton English and Emmett Berg

[Zhang Fei]

Buddy Fletcher is so broke he can’t afford his divorce from Ellen Pao, The Post has learned.

The former high-flying hedge fund manager — who once rubbed elbows with Lauren Bacall and Roberta Flack — has no lawyer and is representing himself in a divorce from Pao, the former interim CEO of Reddit. He claims in court papers that the divorce, which is ongoing, left him “homeless” at one point, including a period of living in his car.

The couple — known as much for Pao’s Silicon Valley gender discrimination claims as Fletcher’s financial downfall — have been slowly working toward dissolution of their marriage in San Francisco state court since 2017, but they appear no closer to the end than they did two years ago.

One reason may be that Fletcher keeps making requests for financial assistance, including hard-fought efforts to squash his 2007 pre-nup with Pao, which a judge denied, and repeated requests for spousal support.

And at a court hearing Thursday, the former head of Fletcher Asset Management launched into an impromptu speech about his need for financial support to help a witness get to court to testify — and for a lawyer to finalize the separation.

He told the judge he was seeking “a full and fair outcome” but complained he had “two arms tied behind my back.”

The judge, concerned about the presence of a reporter, took the hearing behind closed doors.

Fletcher, 53, currently lives in a six-bedroom home in Oakland, Calif., that he appears to share with roommates. When approached outside the home while walking a dog, he told a reporter he was not Buddy Fletcher and that it was “a case of mistaken identity” — before scurrying back inside.

Outside of court on Thursday, he declined to answer questions

[Zhang Fei]

You may or may not want an affirmative action mail handler, school administrator or other paper pusher. But you definitely don't want an affirmative action president, doctor or fund manager. What surprises here is that an ostensibly intelligent woman like Ellen Pao latched on to an affirmative action huckster like Buddy Fletcher.

[dp0622]

Buddy Fletcher and Ellen Pao’s marriage ending with mudslinging and acrimony...

No marriage should end like that.

Some marriages begin like that, but no marriage should end like that :)

[abb]

He was running a Ponzi scheme.

[Tax-chick]

Like so many “elites,” it appears that everyone would be better off far away from both of them.

[EEGator]

Her parents must be so happy. Married a dirtbag, and has no children at 49 y/o. Enjoy your money and cats Ellen...

[Zhang Fei]

[Some marriages begin like that, but no marriage should end like that :)]

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Believe it or not - most divorced people I’m acquainted with have had marriages dissolve without mudslinging and acrimony in public. They just decided that staying together was more stressful than being apart. Then again, the people I know are mostly, for lack of a better word - nice.

[dp0622]

That’s good that you know mostly nice people. It’s a healthy way to live :)

I don’t know of many divorces.

Italians out here still tend to believe you stay married once you get married.

Even if you’re miserable as hell! :)

[Zhang Fei]

[Her parents must be so happy. Married a dirtbag, and has no children at 49 y/o. Enjoy your money and cats Ellen...]

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They have a daughter. The article is worth reading in its entirety, in a cautionary kind of way.

[EEGator]

Odd, it didn’t show a child on her Google search results.

[Zhang Fei]

[Italians out here still tend to believe you stay married once you get married.]

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Not the Italians I know.

[EEGator]

That’s what booze and sports are for... :)

[Zhang Fei]

[Odd, it didn’t show a child on her Google search results.]

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There’s an incident involving goldfish in the article.

[dp0622]

What do you want me to tell ya?

good for you :)

[dp0622]

LOL

[jocon307]

I really don’t know who any celebs are any more. Including these two.

[EEGator]

Sounds like War of the Roses.

[Cowboy Bob]

Fletcher was also known to hang around intellectual elites like Anita Hill and Henry Louis Gates Jr., who were the beneficiaries of a Harvard University fellowship that Fletcher funded in his own name.

LOL! This "couple" is the Affirmative Action version of Bill and Hillary. They know how to shake down rich white liberals (SJW's). No sympathy for either of them, nor their foolish investors.

[bert]

Headline” Loser losing loser

[Zhang Fei]

[I really don’t know who any celebs are any more. Including these two.]

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They’re marquee names in the business press - famous for being famous rather than any concrete achievements.

[Tea Party Terrorist]

They have a daughter.