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Toxic Divorces | 03/23/2009 1:45 pm

Marie Douglas-David on Why She Deserves $100M Divorce

By The Staff at wowOwow.com
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Marie Douglas-David, the 33-year-old beauty in a divorce battle with her rich, 66-year-old estranged husband, opened up to the New York Post’s Andrea Peyser this week.

Douglas-David looked naturally beautiful with no makeup, a loose T-shirt, sweater and, of course, Louboutin pumps, as she detailed the emotional roller coaster that was her seven-year marriage to George David, Chairman of United Technologies. In an exclusive interview with the Post’s blunt columnist, Douglas-David argues why she deserves more than the reported $43 million she’s entitled to in the prenuptial agreement. What we found most troubling was when Douglas-David said her husband would constantly ridicule her for not reproducing. Peyser reports:

He filed for divorce four times during their loopy, seven-year marriage. But the separations ended, sometimes hours later, with bouts of crazy sex.

He also, she says, became something of a baby Nazi. As her biological clock ticked down, he taunted her with, ‘If you improve and behave, you can have in-vitro fertilization.’ 

Then, as her 35th birthday approached, she said, he called her a ‘failure’ for not producing a child. 

He didn’t want to be associated with a failure,’ she said.

Now, Douglas-David fights her future ex-husband in a Hartford court. She’s looking to take David for a whopping $100 million. With an age gap this wide, and a sum this large amid this topsy-turvy economy, this split has become one of the greediest, messiest divorces of the century.

Click here to read the full interview in the New York Post.

22 Reader Comments (so far…) Sign In or Register to comment

Lizzie R.
Well, of course, she should get more. It would be so diffcult trying to live on a measly $43million.
By Lizzie R. on 03/23/2009 3:55 pm
Suzanne de Cornelia
He sounds like a dreadful husband…..I thought she was a greedy flake when first read this…but after what he did, can see why she’d be upset. Sock it to him.
By Suzanne de Cornelia on 03/23/2009 4:17 pm
HA BIBI

Take the dough, baby, and scoot away on your stilettos for the nearest baby daddy. You can always find another rich megacreep.

andrea.peyser

andrea….So totally agree with your assertion. 100 Mil, Puleeeez, you’re lucky to have been offered the sum you were in the pre-nup!

By HA BIBI on 03/23/2009 5:45 pm
Lori F.
Hey HA BIBI, she is only 35 years old with no kids! What is she thinking? He had a pre-nup! We are in the mist of a serious financial crunch and she is looking for more money? If he treated her this badly why didn’t she get a divorce sooner rather than later? Am sorry but a 35 year old female with a time horizon of say 55 years if invested right can live very well on this money. Even if she continue to fight she would have to pay the lawyers a huge piece of this money. Please, she seriously need to get over herself! PS. If she has a 66 year old guy telling her she is not that good in bed then she better take the money and get the hell out of Dodge! 
By Lori F. on 03/24/2009 1:32 am
Lori F.
Sorry about that, she is 40 years old! Still relatively young to me. Take the money girl!
By Lori F. on 03/24/2009 1:40 am
Lori F.
Sorry again, she is 36 years old. After actually reading the article, its all about the money with this young woman. Why would a 36 years old beauty woman want to stay with a 66 year old man who treated her badly? Its the money honey!
By Lori F. on 03/24/2009 6:59 am
HA BIBI
I totally agree! She married this guy for the money, period. Of course she would have to say she loved him as her real excuse would neither look nor hold water in front of a judge, especially a male judge, LOL. Then she wants to blame it on the fact that she wanted children and he denied her. Now this just shows her inability to use her "smarts", because if she could marry him under the guise of love, she could most certainly have found a way to "miss" her morning pill…..Ya think! She wanted children because if ever a divorce, she locks in more monies for an eighteen year period at minimum. Then throw in college tuitions, ect… as well, and she’s sitting on a bankroll. I don’t feel sorry for this woman at all and fully believe she is nothing more than a gold digger!
By HA BIBI on 03/24/2009 8:13 am
nanchan u
The guy sounds like a jerk, but Marie!  Just take the money you are being offered and move on!!!!!  Or is the fencing instructor needing a new, errrr, foil?
By nanchan u on 03/23/2009 5:56 pm
Slinky Binx

I think the 100M figure is more about sticking it to him than her actual "need" to have that money to live on.  Seriously, I’m sure she could "adjust her lifestyle" a bit to accomodate a 43M fortune, but if those allegations are true, then I think 7 years of hurt feelings and anger are at the helm and cracking that whip right at his wallet. 

Or maybe she’s bidding high, that way they’ll "settle" for 75M or something…Or maybe she’s jealous of Amy Irving and Juanita Jordan’s divorce settlements and wants to make it into the 100M club?

One thing is for sure, we’ll all know how much she gets in the end, because the post seems to be hyperventilating over this story. Oooh the dirty, dirty lives of the very rich!

By Slinky Binx on 03/23/2009 6:25 pm
Green Tears
Ah yes, Slinky, problems we’ll most likely never have! He’s an ass, but she can make the best of $43million, no doubt.
By Green Tears on 03/23/2009 7:46 pm
Lori F.
Those women got there long before this financial mess! The guy no doubt loss close to 40% of his money. She better take the money and run!
By Lori F. on 03/24/2009 1:37 am
Steve Douglass
Gold-digging tramp.
By Steve Douglass on 03/23/2009 7:45 pm
Steve Douglass
Just the hyphenated name tells you all you need to know.
By Steve Douglass on 03/23/2009 7:46 pm
EKA -
What the hell does THAT mean ? And what century are you living in ?
By EKA - on 03/23/2009 8:40 pm
HA BIBI
ROTFLMAO! Great avatar Steve!
By HA BIBI on 03/24/2009 8:16 am