I’m sure all of us feel appropriate emotions towards poor, deprived Marie Douglas-David of Hartford, Connecticut.
A 36-year-old Swedish countess divorcing a former CEO says she cannot live on $43 million.
Marie Douglas-David, a former investment banker, says she has no income and needs her 67-year-old husband, George David, to pay her more than $53,000 a week — more than most U.S. households make in a year — to cover her expenses.
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David and Douglas-David married in 2002, but the marriage was in trouble by 2004, court papers show. Amid a series of reconciliations, the couple signed a postnuptial agreement in October 2005 that would give her $43 million when they divorce.
Douglas-David wants the agreement invalidated. She accused her husband of coercing her to sign it by preying upon her fears of being divorced and childless.
David is asking a judge to uphold the agreement. His attorneys asked for a separate hearing Wednesday on the document’s validity, but the judge declined.
Douglas-David has filed court papers showing she has more than $53,800 in weekly expenses, including for maintaining a Park Avenue apartment and three residences in Sweden. Her weekly expenses also include $700 for limousine service, $4,500 for clothes, $1,000 for hair and skin treatments, $1,500 for restaurants and entertainment, and $8,000 for travel.
At that rate, Douglas-David would burn through $43 million in less than 16 years. The Census Bureau estimates that the median U.S. household income in 2007 was just over $50,000.
There’s more at the link.
This is sickening! I know many people – heck, many families! – who exist on far, far less money each year than Ms. Douglas-David’s weekly expenditure. Some families earn less than $25,000 per year, and still manage to get by. I accept she’s used to an expensive lifestyle, but to maintain that she can’t cope on $53,000 per week is both nauseating and obscene.
I hope the court both invalidates her post-nuptial agreement, and slashes the amount she’s to receive. She deserves nothing less – and a great deal less!
Peter
I’m surprised her good luck and health have held up so well.
Jim
That is one expensive whore. Brings a whole new level to the term “gold digger”.
Two months ago, I had two full-time jobs. Last month, both those jobs cut down to parttime. Last week, one of them laid me off entirely. In other words, I’m currently trying to survive on a single part-time job, and have poor prospects for finding something else (but I’m looking!)
To Marie Douglas-David: madame, you are a greedy, avaricious, self-centered and totally unreasonable jerk. To George David: sir, you are, as I’m sure you already know!, well rid of this gold-digging harpy. $43 million is FAR more than the, ahem, LADY is worth. Perhaps $10 million (but even that seems a bit high, compared to her true worth). Also, Mr. David, I’d be pleased to work for you for FAR less than the 53k she claims is necessary per week. I realize there’s a great deal of difference between a wife and an employee, but she strikes me as the sort of woman who is, if you will, for sale to the highest bidder.
I don’t care what she spends, she probably is employing 25 people or more full time. She is legally due 1/2 of what the couple made during their marriage, less what they both spent. If he has gone from one hundred million in assets to 225 million in assets during her marriage. she is due half of that,
as much as I hate to say it, a contract is a contract. If they signed it, she’s due.
MC