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Regarding her first husband: http://www.lamag.com/features/story.aspx?ID=1582533 "During her first freshman mixer at the University of Pennsylvania, Allred met Peyton Bray, a tall, blond, blue-eyed senior. “He was very, very good-looking,” she says, “and had an outstanding sense of humor. Extremely bright—very, very personable.” They were expecting a baby by the time she was 19, and she sat out the first half of junior year to give birth to Lisa. Her marriage to Bray didn’t last long; he was abusive, with an undiagnosed bipolar disorder, and would eventually commit suicide by shooting himself. “We thought he was just violent,” Fern Caplan remembers. “ ‘Oh, he takes three beers and he beats her up.’ My husband went there at three in the morning to take her and Lisa to the Blooms’ house.” Allred graduated from Penn in 1963 a single mom with an ex who wouldn’t pay child support."

“he was abusive, with an undiagnosed bipolar disorder”

If the disorder was “undiagnosed”, then nobody knows he actually had one. Still, if it validates Allred’s perspective on life, i.e., that all women are victimes, I’m sure it works for her and furthers her career.

Thanks, Marty.

“Well, King,” as Sgt Preston used to say to his dog Yukon King, “It looks like this case is closed.”