1.
Tampa, Florida, philanthropist Jean Ann Cone, 75, died in her garage after
inhaling exhaust fumes from her Rolls Royce. Daughter Julianne McKeel
told police her mother would turn off the car's engine only after closing
the door, as a security measure. Cone's blood alcohol level was at twice
the legal limit.
Two weeks after her death, her husband Donald - a millionaire road
builder - married Hillary Carlson, 56. At this point, it came to light
that Donnald had kept two families 30 kilometres apart, one with Carlson
and one with Jean Ann. He sent both sets of children to the same school,
where the library was named for Jean Ann and the baseball complex for
Carlson. Neighbours and friends of Hilary and Donald knew that 'Don'
often travelled as part of a sensitive government job.
2.
Erin Everly's 1990-1991 marriage to Axl Rose was annulled after several
breakups and reconciliations. Everly, who supported Rose in the mid-1980s
by working as a model, said she agreed to marry him after he proposed by
coming to her home at 4am and threatening to kill himself if she didn't
marry him later that day. The Las Vegas marriage nearly ended a month later.
But the couple stayed together. Of Everly, who served as the inspiration
for 'Sweet Child of Mine', Rose said, 'Erin and I treated each other like
shit. Sometimes we treated each other great, because the children in us
were best friends. But then there were other times when we just fucked up
each other's lives completely.'
This wasn't just normal stuff like trashing the new house before even
moving in or having a fling with your husband's band's drummer. After the
couple finally broke up near the end of 1990, Everly went public with
descriptions of ongoing physical and emotional abuse. She was later
subpoenaed when Rose's newer girlfriend (of two years), Victoria's Secret
model Stephanie Seymour, sued him. Seymour, who had dumped Warren Beatty
(whom she had in turn chosen in favour of husband Tommy Andrews) for Rose,
described herself as hard-partying, and Rose in turn sued her claiming
physical abuse. He was particularly upset by a cocaine party she
supposedly had with her son Dylan (whose age Rose said kept him from
marrying Seymour) present.
Anorexic girlfriends may be normal in the celebrity world. The same may
be said for placing a restraining order on your partner while still living
with her, but the lawsuits also brought to light things such as a
suspicious Rose's employment of locked doors and surveillance cameras in
pursuit of domestic tranquility. Now that all the lawsuits were settled,
Everly is being supported by her family, Seymour continues her career, and
who knows what Axl Rose is doing?
3.
In January, 2001, tennis's Boris Becker was reported to ahe accused
Russian model Angela Ermakova of impregnating herself with his sperm in
an attempt to get money from him. He claimed the turkey baster plot was
masterminded by Russian gangsters. A month later, he admitted to fathering
the girl, then one year old.
4.
When Jane Fonda and Ted Turner split up after over eight years of marriage
(their third marriage each), it was reported that spiritual matters were
at fault. The sixty-somethings' marriage was described in Fonda's
petition for divorce as 'irretrievably broken' with 'no hope of
reconciliation'. Turner told The New Yorker that Fonda just came
home and said 'I've become a Christian'. He explained that 'Before
that, she was not a religious person. That's a pretty big change for your
wife of many years to tell you. That's a shock.'
So then they sat down and discussed it, right? Well, no. Fonda explained
as follows: My becoming a Christian upset him very much - for good
reason. He's my husband and I chose not to discuss it with him - because
he would have talked me out of it. He's a debating champion.'
5.
Millionaire African evangelist Gilbert Deya claims to help barren women
conceive through the power of prayer. On a tour of the UK, he has another
simple message: that he doesn't kidnap babies. This is in response to
charges raised by Kenyan authorities, who say Deya gives infertile women
babies kidnapped from maternity hospitals. He is suspected of being part
of a child-trafficking racket involving Kenya, Ghana, Nigeria, Uganda, and
Britain. One of the hospitals to which he brought infertile women to
'give birth' has been closed down, and another is being investigated in
connection with claims of neglect and murder. The 14 UK branches of his
ministry are under investigation by the Charities Commission.
Deya's wife too has been charged with kidnapping a baby in Kenya. He
claimed it was her baby, explaining that the negative DNA test was part of
a plot by the jealous Kenyans, who want to distract him from his holy work
and destroy him. He added: 'DNA is what the world, not God, believes in.
If it matches or doesn't match, it's the same.' As to why the miracle
mothers' DNA doesn't match that of the babies and the pregnancies don't
show up on scans before the women travel to Kenya, 'miracles cannot be
explained', he said. He plans to sue the BBC and the Kenyan
authorities.
The Kenyan cop in charge of the case was killed by thugs while at home
last month. Deya says the man had told him the charges would be dropped.
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