Husband takes stand in $99M divorce trial

[charlie and algernon]

He was 60, urbane and exquisitely upholstered in tailored suits and starched shirts. She was 30 and Swedish, as in drop-dead blond gorgeous. He was the fabulously wealthy former CEO of a high-powered manufacturing firm. She was a countess.

It was a match made in rich people’s heaven. But the divorce is straight from the ninth circle of relationship hell.

George David is 67 now, an older if no wiser man. Marie Douglas-David is 37, still in the prime of life and perhaps financially savvier. There is no question that both want to go their separate ways — she to a life of luxury, he to the arms of his current girlfriend. The question being debated in the democratic venue of a Hartford, Conn., family court for all the world to hear with voyeuristic delight is who gets how much.

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Douglas-David’s needs are not simple. She ticked off her expenses for the court: $53,000 a week just to pay the bills, which include $8,000 for travel, $4,000-plus for clothing, $1,500 for restaurants, $1,000 to keep her hair perfect and her skin glowing (!!!), $600 for FLOWERS (!!!) to make the Park Avenue penthouse worth walking into.

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/31919677/?GT1=43001
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[Blue_Tires]

1. no sympathy because he was too ignorant for the pre-nup

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[PVnRT]

3. ...and she had an affair herself

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/03/21/marie-douglas-david-had-a_n_177706.html

Both of them are scum, and not just for the cheating.

[redqueen]

4. Not just for the cheating, indeed.

IMO "luxury" like this is sickening and indefensible.

[Corey_Baker08]

5. The Judge Should Make it so the 99M is incurred in Legal Fees

Neither one deserves the damn money!