Posted on 08/18/2019 4:50:49 AM PDT by Zhang Fei
Buddy Fletcher is so broke he can’t afford his divorce from Ellen Pao, The Post has learned.
The former high-flying hedge fund manager — who once rubbed elbows with Lauren Bacall and Roberta Flack — has no lawyer and is representing himself in a divorce from Pao, the former interim CEO of Reddit. He claims in court papers that the divorce, which is ongoing, left him “homeless” at one point, including a period of living in his car.
The couple — known as much for Pao’s Silicon Valley gender discrimination claims as Fletcher’s financial downfall — have been slowly working toward dissolution of their marriage in San Francisco state court since 2017, but they appear no closer to the end than they did two years ago.
One reason may be that Fletcher keeps making requests for financial assistance, including hard-fought efforts to squash his 2007 pre-nup with Pao, which a judge denied, and repeated requests for spousal support.
And at a court hearing Thursday, the former head of Fletcher Asset Management launched into an impromptu speech about his need for financial support to help a witness get to court to testify — and for a lawyer to finalize the separation.
He told the judge he was seeking “a full and fair outcome” but complained he had “two arms tied behind my back.”
The judge, concerned about the presence of a reporter, took the hearing behind closed doors.
Fletcher, 53, currently lives in a six-bedroom home in Oakland, Calif., that he appears to share with roommates. When approached outside the home while walking a dog, he told a reporter he was not Buddy Fletcher and that it was “a case of mistaken identity” — before scurrying back inside.
Outside of court on Thursday, he declined to answer questions
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Besides, if I was looking for a fight, I sure as heck wouldn't have said "Thanks" at the end of the comment.
And BTW, you never did explain what your comments meant, which is what I ask to begin with.
But your insistence that you don't provoke folks on FR is strange, given that you mocked my age and said something about my slobber or slumber in your response. There was no need for that.
I'm not looking for an apology. Only that you realize that not everyone is looking for a fight when they question you.
It's hard to comment sometimes on FR when people come back to you wanting to stir things up rather than address what the content of the thread was about.
Have a pleasant evening.
They do appear to be very unhappy people.
If one could isolate the causes and persuade people to change a few things ...
but who am I kidding?
Very perceptive.
Yeah, but she’s just as bad. I’d say he had not the ability to recognize the red flags early on...
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