Writer Dumps Hubby for Ted (Christian rapists blamed for Ted Turner)

New York Post ^ | August 1, 2007 | Richard Johnson

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PULITZER prize-winning author Robert Olen Butler sent out an e-mail yesterday announcing that his wife had dumped him for billionaire Ted Turner.

Elizabeth is Butler's wife of 12 years, Elizabeth Dewberry, 44, an author in her own right, who might be attracted to Turner, 68, because the media mogul resembles the grandfather who molested her as a child, Butler writes in the shocking e-mail.

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I enjoyed how the dumped Pulitzer Prize hubby blames Christian rapists for losing his wife. And still manages to pat himself on the back for her gratitude of his love and compassion in reminding everybody how she was molested as a child. Billionaires are fun!

[lowbridge]

Whats a Christian Rapist?

[Gondring]

The white-haired mogul also took Dewberry as his date to the May premiere of "Georgia Rule,"

I think I found a pic of this.

[Gondring]

Whats a Christian Rapist?

Evidently, the reference is made because of this paragraph of the story...

"She has spoken openly in her work and in her public life of the fact that she was molested by her grandfather from an early age, a molestation that was known and tacitly condoned by her radically Evangelical Christian parents," Butler wrote. "And it is very common for a woman to be drawn to men who remind them of their childhood abusers. Ted is such a man, though fortunately, he is far from being abusive."

[spyone]

What psychobabble. He’s a billionaire...or was. She is attracted to the dough. Bee to honey.

[beaversmom]

Robert Olen Butler

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Any man who is a personal friend of Lamb Chop can’t be all bad.

[durasell]

That dog is evil. It has “dead eyes.”

[iowamark]

Sad story. Elizabeth Dewberry seems to be a person of low self esteem, and will be ever lower when Turner tires of her.

"HIS LOVELY WIFE is my fourth novel, the second one written since I married Robert Olen Butler in 1995. He's much more well-known than I am, and often, especially in the early years of our marriage, we were introduced as, "Pulitzer-prize-winning author, Robert Olen Butler," now a slight pause, and the volume goes down a notch, then, "and his lovely wife, Elizabeth Dewberry." In the beginning I sort of liked it--my first husband was unemployed for the last five years of our marriage, and I was never introduced as his lovely wife--but after a while, I started feeling irritated by it. I hated that I found myself wanting to tell complete strangers whom I'd just met that I, too, was an author, but I felt like I was disappearing. HIS LOVELY WIFE is not autobiographical--I know, all writers say that, and half of them are lying, though in this case, it's true!--but it was easy to find the empathic connection with my narrator, who feels that at least in other people's minds and to a certain extent in her own mind, as well, she feels defined by who she's married to more than by who she is. I'm lucky, though, to have been able to use this experience to take my next step as a writer, which, ironically, means that it helped me figure out something about who I am.

I'm not sure why anybody would want to know this, but it's standard biographical information, and I'm not trying to be difficult, so: I was born in Birmingham, Alabama, received a BS in English from Vanderbilt, and a PhD in twentieth-century American fiction, with a dissertation on Hemingway, from Emory. I've published four novels (or did I mention that already?), and my work has appeared in ZOETROPE: ALL-STORY, SOUTHERN LIVING, THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO HEMINGWAY, and MY NEW ORLEANS, among other places. I live outside Tallahassee, Florida.

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"She will not be Ted's only girlfriend. Ted is permanently and avowedly non-monogamous," Butler writes. "But though he has several girlfriends, it is a very small number, and he does not take them up lightly and he gives them his absolute support when he does."

If this is the way he takes it when he loses his wife to a philanderer, it makes it harder to blame her for leaving him. Whatta wimp.

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Sad story. Elizabeth Dewberry seems to be a person of low self esteem, and will be ever lower when Turner tires of her.

You would think so, but even Jane Fonda says she still loves him. I think Turner is very wise about the women he pursues -- he knows which ones are easy marks, and takes advantage. As David Lee Roth once said, "I don't have all the women I want, I have all the women that want me."

Turner is Donald Trump with better hair, a smaller mouth, and worse manners, but the ego is just as large. Turner will never admit it, but he's spent his whole adult life trying to be a neo-Rhett Butler.

[mimaw]

I think they all deserve each other.

[weegee]

He’s living THROUGH his dog, it has enough hair for the two of them.

[GQuagmire]

Not guilty!

[GQuagmire]

How did he end up with her? She's hot, he's not

[GQuagmire]

Whoopsies on the pics

[Gondring]

How did he end up with her? She's hot, he's not

Uh, he didn't.

He started with her...but didn't end up with her!

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