Denice Dee Denton died after plunging from a San Francisco apartment building on June 24, 2006.
Posted on 08/19/2007 11:56:25 AM PDT by SmithL
Santa Cruz, Calif. (AP) -- The partner of a former University of California chancellor who plunged 33 stories to her death last year has filed a lawsuit demanding part of her estate.
Gretchen Kalonji, Denice Dee Denton's partner of more than 10 years, sued Denton's estate for $2.25 million in Santa Cruz County Superior Court, claiming she was mistakenly left out of Denton's will. The lawsuit, which was filed in June, asserts Kalonji and the one-time UC Santa Cruz chancellor had verbally agreed to provide for each other if one partner should die.
"It's just a bunch of lies, that's all it is," Carolyn Mabee, Denton's mother and executor of her estate, told the Santa Cruz Sentinel from her home in Houston. Kalonji sued after attempts to negotiate with Denton's family broke down.
Denton died June 24, 2006, after jumping from the San Francisco high-rise where Kalonji lived.
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Banana slug jokes, anyone?
Thus, the importance of a Last Will and Testament.
“Mistakenly left out of the will”
Riiight, could be that she didn’t want to see her lesbian partner see a dime of her money.
Ehh, it’s CA, nothing really matters until the lawsuits are settled, no matter how ironclad a will is, there is a court somewhere that will stick it’s nose in so the Lawyers can suck some blood.....
I do remember reading that there were lots of "out of policy" salaries being paid, mostly to alternative lifestyle types, not because they possessed some rare, exceptional, or needed abilities.
When I was in school, I heard the business school had to pay a cost accounting professor more than the department chairman, just to get that skill.
"They should have come to LegaZoom.com" - Robert L. Shaprio
I remember before the Chancellor died it was published that her partner got a job at UC Berkley as a professor earning $200,000 or more a year. Also I believe they both came from U of W in Seattle and her title at UC did not seem to conform to what she had done in her previous job. It was they sort of like they made up a job and title to fit her. As much as I dispise the SF Chronicle they did as excellent job exposing the waste and corruption at the UC system.
She/he has a strong resemblance to Kurt Russel’s sister...no?
As much as I dispise the SF Chronicle they did as excellent job exposing the waste and corruption at the UC system.
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BumP that!
I need to leave soon and cannot look it up, but as I recall there were numerous accusations. The one I do recall specifically was a large expense for “landscaping improvements” seems that it was in excess of $100,000.
Also they paid for her house (rent) and living expenses, enough for her and her partner.
I believe the investigation into those accusations was the trigger point in her suicide.
Oops. Or it could be that Denton took a header 'cause of her.
You are aware that it's a hate crime to even think those kinds of thoughts, aren't you?
i was thinking a heavier Patrick Swayze...
Other pics of her though may her look far worse then that one.
Found this article: Lesbian Partner hired as part of recruitment.
Confirms the 'housing allowance', but not the 'Landscaping improvements.'
Oh yeah Kurt Russell...
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She’s still an ugly lesbian.
This BS lawsuit should be thrown out on grounds that have nothing to do with homosexuality. She’s demanding a big payoff and the only evidence she has is hearsay (”But she promised me some green! I don’t know *why* she didn’t put it in her will!”)
Please.
She is not a bad looking guy though. ;)
Why bother with the lipstick?
This claim has about as much credibility as Michael Schiavo's claim that Terri wanted to be put to death so that he could keep the money he'd been awarded to pay for her care.
The University of California also paid something like $30,000 to fix up a place for Denton's dog to run around in.
Guess she thought she was a guy, Sicko thought.
Until these two lesbians were insanely accommodated by the UC system, I thought UC Santa Cruz had put their LSD/Black Panther/Marxist/pot head and lesbian past behind them....
Obviously, they haven’t.
Above all UC campuses - UC Santa Cruz still has their feet firmly planted in the 60’s non cultured past..
That is one of the major reasons - many San Jose area “seniors” refuse to consider Santa Cruz as their preferred “beach town”, even though it is the closest... We haven’t forgotten their sordid past. We prefer a more “right thinking” patriotic beach community like Capitola.....just an additional 4 minutes East around Monterey Bay....
Plus - the beach is more accessible from parking and the restaurants are better.. Hell, even the police are more helpful and polite! (Yes, I speak from experience)
Screw Santa Cruz...... Perhaps the lack of it destroyed them...
So, does this mean that the underlying basis for the law suit is that the claimant has fallen upon hard times and is now forced to seek out an actual job, only to discover that being “Chancellor’s former partner” doesn’t translate into anything marketable?
Are you sure it was for her dog and not her partner?:
VR is right. It was a dog run, not a Landscaping Project. My bad.
I woudl normally agree with that thought Verginius Rufus, in CA however, the judges seem to like to peel back the normal “reduction to writing better then anything that may have been said” legal principle.
For example, rather then saying that the Will is valid, the judge can try to piece together what the deceased thought, and whether that would have been reasonable to presume that stance.
That is why the term “Mistake” was used, “if” the judge buys it, the will is up for grabs.
That ain’t no woman. It’s a man, baby!!!
So, I'm not surprised.
Both schools from which I got my degrees have really been a disappointment on the selection of recent presidents.
Lord knows what mischief they've been up to that hasn't made the news, such as this UCSC incident, CU's Churchill and now a "diversity guru", etc.
I knew both of these women when I was in college/grad school, before they linked up.
D. Denton was never a raving beauty, perhaps, but with long hair and a younger figure was pretty enough, especially by the MIT standards of the time. She was a brilliant engineer.
Professor Kalonji was divorced (IIRC) and bringing up a child alone (this I know, having met the child). There was a mini-scandal concerning her alleged carryings-on with one of her fellow faculty members, a married male.
The lawsuit, which was filed in June, asserts Kalonji and the one-time UC Santa Cruz chancellor had verbally agreed to provide for each other if one partner should die.
And as we all know, a verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's on...sounds like Gretchen is SOL, if you ask me.
Of course, it is in Santa Cruz, so anything can happen.
you can say that again
i wonder if she had an established gifting or benficiary history with her sapphic paramour
if so in Kali, she might have enough traction to get an offer from the estate
is it a coincidence that real lesbians are almost always not very attractive?
This picture from DEC 2005 shows the "beauty" in a side shot...... Doesn't help much..
Neither of these chicks look like what they call "lipstick lesbians"...
Looks like both were incapable of attracting men...
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