Toxic Divorces | 03/19/2009 11:20 am
Marie Douglas-David: $43M Prenup Isn't Going to Cut It
Husband George David is worth $300 million … and she wants a big piece of it
Marie Douglas-David © AP
A woman divorcing her high-powered, older husband claimed in court yesterday that the currently reported $43-million prenuptial agreement isn’t going to cut it.
My God, woman!
The poor little lady — a 36-year-old unemployed Swedish countess, Marie Douglas-David — is splitting from her 67-year-old uber-wealthy husband. As reports state, George David, Chairman of United Technologies, is worth an estimated $300 million, and Douglas-David wants a hefty piece of that fortune.
According to the Hartford Courant and New York Post, both parties slung their mud in Hartford Family Court Wednesday. The husband’s attorney, Anne Dranginis, said her client endured "ridicule" and "constant berating" from his wife. Meanwhile, the wife’s lawyer, Bill Beslow, said it was her controlling husband who pushed the then-successful investment banker to quit her high-paying job. Both parties accused the other of having affairs. We should mention that Douglas-David wore $225,000 Harry Winston earrings (a gift given her by hubby George in happier times) in court.
Court papers filed last month revealed why $43 million may not be enough for the countess to survive: She and her husband maintain unbelievably lavished lifestyles. Click here to see how Douglas-David burns through $53,000 a week and husband David makes more than $200,000 disappear. It’s magic, really.
When we first introduced wOwers to this story in December 2008 — just when most Americans began to seriously worry about their dwindling 401Ks — wOw user My Alias nailed the ridiculousness of this right on the head:
"Marie, pay my mortgage!"
Well said. What would divorce lawyer to the stars Robert Cohen say?
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This woman certainly didn’t live this way before her high profile marriage so why should she get any more than the prenuptial agreement she freely signed? This woman smacks of greed.
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43 MILLION YOU SAID? LET HER EAT CAKE!!!!!!!!!!!4
$43 MILLION NOT ENOUGH? LET HER EAT CAKE!
PEG
Peggy, Peggy, Peggy…if she ate the cake, well then she’d have to hire a personal trainer to help her work it off…
43 million is not enough. Wow. She really is going to be in high demand after this divorce circus. Apparently money, a title, an education didn’t do too much for girlfriend’s common sense and reasoning abilities.
She comes off as a greedy gold-digger and sheds a bad light on women looking for a fair settlement.
I supported my ex through medical school, internship, residency AND fellowship. He never had a student loan to repay! I made the down payment on our first home. Did I mention the 2 toddlers while I worked full time?
Well, he became a big time surgeon, with a big time ego which came with entitlement rights to womanize and throw tantrums.
After 28 years I hired one of the best lawyers in NY (equitable distribution here) and we got half of the marital assets.
He squealed like a pig and still won’t talk to me (thank God).
His side: "She didn’t work 60 hour weeks, get up in the middle of the night for emergency surgery, etc."
How do you feel about this scenario? He DID earn most of the money, after all.
Marge
Get the facts buddy. He bullied, coerced and threatened her into the POST-nup agreement. Then HE had her quit her job so that she could be with him when he traveled for business ect. HE filed for divorce and she went to Sweden and had a weekend affair. HE had been having affairs with multiple women at that point and puts his mistress up in his Avon home. HE was angry with her when she had a miscarriage and wouldn’t visit her, BECAUSE HE was busy with his mistress. HE gifted her with those jewels, but they aren’t hers, they are in his name so he could cheat on taxes. Shall I continue?