Friday, April 16, 2010

“Larry King's Wife Interviewing Divorce Lawyers - TMZ.com” plus 3 more

“Larry King's Wife Interviewing Divorce Lawyers - TMZ.com” plus 3 more


Larry King's Wife Interviewing Divorce Lawyers - TMZ.com

Posted: 15 Apr 2010 01:48 PM PDT

TMZ has learned Larry King's wife is meeting with a second divorce lawyer, even though she's already hired a big-time divorce attorney who filed legal papers on her behalf.

Larry King's Wife Interviewing Divorce Lawyers
Attorney Robert Kaufman -- who has handled divorces for Jennifer Aniston, Rupert Murdoch and Mel Gibson  -- just showed up at Shawn Southwick's home in Bev Hills. 

Sources tell us Shawn's lawyer is still Joe Mannis, a tough celeb divorce lawyer.  But, we're told, several friends of Shawn told her she should at least meet Kaufman.

Tags: Larry KingShawn SouthwickShawn KingCelebrity JusticeDirty Divorces

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Tiger Woods’ wife switches divorce lawyer - The Gaea Times

Posted: 16 Apr 2010 06:37 AM PDT

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Divorce is off the budget during uncertain financial ... - Canada.com

Posted: 16 Apr 2010 06:44 AM PDT

NEW YORK - Financial woes often drive couples apart but the current recession seems to be having the opposite effect, with less couples able to afford the cost of a divorce.

The American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers (AAML) said more than half of the respondents to its latest survey among its 1,600 members had cited a drop in divorce filings during the current recession which has cut jobs, salaries and house prices.

In total, 57 percent of the attorneys noted fewer divorce filings since the last quarter of 2008. Only 14 percent noted an increase in filings during these difficult times.

"The current economic climate is proving to be far more unforgiving than estranged couples seeking a divorce," said Gary Nickelson, president of the AAML, in a statement.

"Forced to weigh damaged marriages against tight budgets and uncertain financial outlooks, many spouses seem more willing to try and wait out the recessionary storm."

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The Viagra Brigade - The Daily Beast

Posted: 16 Apr 2010 06:23 AM PDT

BS Top - Bernstein Viagra Larry KingDanny Moloshok / AP Photo All across America, suspiciously randy old men are pushing their marriages to the breaking point—and beyond. Jacob Bernstein talks to the experts about Viagra and the Larry King Syndrome.

What hath Viagra wrought?

It's a question dealt with in Wanda Sykes' most recent HBO special, "I'm a Be Me," in which the dirtiest female comedian alive blames Viagra for destroying the lives of married women all over America. "You know who I feel sorry for?" she says. "I feel sorry for these little old ladies who have been married fifty, sixty years and these last two three years all they've been doing is waiting for that dick to break, they just been waiting for that dick to die...And then he goes and gets that pill."

"I think there's a lot of women who are married to older men who now have to perform and they find it annoying," says Judith Regan.

It's a question that's been asked by women all over LA in recent years, as they heard about their husbands' trips to the Playboy mansion, where Hugh Hefner has been alive and kicking well into his eighties.

And it's a question one might ask in the wake of the news that the 76-year-old TV host Larry King, split from—get this—his eighth wife on Wednesday amid claims that he was cheating on her with her younger sister.

Of course, plenty of older men pull all this off without the help of the ED drug brigade. Indeed, Larry King himself may well be merely the world's most ever-ready septuagenarian.

Gallery: Serial DivorcersNevertheless, he represents a growing phenomenon that didn't quite exist a decade ago: members of the first generation of old men who didn't have to give up on sex, who didn't have to put companionship first, who didn't have to reconfigure their erotic lives around pleasuring their wives. And though the census does not measure divorce in a sufficiently meaningful way to allow us to deduce whether marriage split rates have spiked as a result of the drug, sex therapists and divorce lawyers around the country report stories of quote-unquote Viagra break-ups.

There's the tale of the woman who walked into a Manhattan attorney's office with a bottle of her husband's little blue pills. He hired a P.I. and found that her husband was cheating.

At a retirement community in Florida a few years back, venereal disease skyrocketed as men popped the drug before going on field trips with street hookers and then came home with unwanted sexual hangovers that spread all over the place.

Says Raoul Felder, a New York divorce lawyer who's handled breakups for everyone from Rudy Giuliani to Mrs. Patrick Ewing: "It's definitely changed the landscape of divorce. We're getting divorces from people we've never dreamed of before. Certainly it's also because people are living longer, but the poison pill as far as marriage is concerned is Viagra."

Felder should know. A decade ago, he took on a landmark case related to the drug in which a then-61-year-old woman sued her longtime companion in New York State for $2 million, claiming that he walked out on her two days after he took his first dose of the drug.

Out in Los Angeles, Mark Goulston, a psychiatrist and former professor at UCLA who handles couples in trouble, says he too has seen evidence from his patients that Viagra and its likenesses are impacting his patients' marriages for better and worse. "Viagra can bring out the best in a person who's a lover and a giver and the worst in someone who's a user or a taker," he says.

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