Posted on 03/27/2005 5:48:35 PM PST by nickcarraway
A judge has awarded the former wife of a multimillionaire businessman a divorce settlement worth more than $40 million even though she admitted having affairs with her rock-climbing guide and a man she met on a flight to China.
In addition to a $24 million payment, Susan Sosin will keep the couple's $3.6 million Manhattan apartment, $2 million Utah ski house and $800,000 home in Wallkill, New York. But she has to vacate the couple's two mansions in Connecticut and three desert properties in Arizona.
In the divorce granted Wednesday, she also gets to keep $6 million in her brokerage accounts, eight cars and $2.9 million in jewelry, including a ruby piece her husband had bought for her but hadn't given to her prior to their divorce.
Richard Albrecht, attorney for Sosin's husband, Howard, estimated the total value of the award at $43 million, or 27 percent of the estate. She wanted half, he said.
"My opinion is her conduct in this matter affected the award," Albrecht said.
Susan Sosin's lawyer, Frederic J. Siegel, estimated the total value of the award was about $45 million and said his client asked for about 45 percent of the estate.
"By anybody's standards, it's a large amount of money," Siegel said. "Both parties will be able to move on with their lives."
Siegel said both sides were at fault for the divorce and defended his client as a good mother.
Howard Sosin, 54, who founded AIG Financial Products in 1987, filed for divorce after discovering his wife's relationships in February 2003. During an upgrade of their computer system, he found hundreds of e-mails between his wife and her lover, according to testimony.
Susan Sosin, 51, admitted in testimony that she had become intimate with a guide while rock climbing in 1996, though she...
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From the rest of the article:
"The couple met in 1978 when Howard Sosin was an assistant professor at Columbia University. At the time, she was married to another man and working in retail."
Like I always say: If they'll cheat WITH you, they'll cheat ON you.
Like the old country song goes, "She Got the Gold Mine, and I Got The Shaft."
You win some, you lose some...
Terri Schiavo needed her attorney.
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QFT!
Why?
It says they met, not that they began a romance then.
Your advice is sound, but it doesn't necessarily apply in this case.
Just think, if he konked her in the head hard enough where she was unable to respond to anyone, he could also claim that she said she never ever wanted to live that way......and you know the rest of the story.
QFT?
I meet all sorts of women while they are with other men (married or dating). Every man does. If I later start a relationship with one of them, after she has parted ways with her prior lover, how does that make me a bad guy?
All we know is he MET her when she was married to someone else, not that he began an affair with her then.
There is alot wrong in this country today.
Women hold no more power over men than they ever have.
What goes around come around.
Character counts. You can try to rationalize your way to happiness, but the odds are against you.
"Like I always say: If they'll cheat WITH you, they'll cheat ON you."
Yes I now know that from experience...except in the beginning I didn't know she was cheating on somebody.
The good thing is that after knowing that I could never get myself to commit to marrying her.....Thank god!
I think the courts favor whoever is ruthless. I've seen cases where the husband commits adultery after 30 years of marriage and the wife is left high and dry.
It doesn't mean your a bad guy, just someone would not mind parting ways with lots of money for a women. If a women is married with a man before and then leaves that and ends up with you, whose to say she won't do it again?
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