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In reply to the discussion: Gloria Allred will be in a Boston area courtroom Wednesday to unseal the sworn testimony [View all]grok
(550 posts)keep in mind this is second-hand. till somebody has a better link from the boston herald directly....
http://forum.purseblog.com/general-discussion/should-wealthy-executives-ex-wife-get-more-money-44446.html
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Staples founders ex-wife: Ill be out on the street
By Margery Eagan
Boston Herald Columnist
Sunday, September 3, 2006
Maureen Sullivan Stemberg, ex-wife of Staples founder, sits in her $5,200 a month, 14th-floor, concierge-at-the-door, elegantly furnished Back Bay apartment and tells you shes broke. She cant work. She cant afford a car, her medications, her rent, even the family springer spaniel, J.J., who she just gave away.
She produces doctors notes detailing medical woes: possible lupus, bouts of pneumonia requiring hospitalizations, a history of cancer, petit mal seizures, plus recommendations for thrice weekly psychotherapy and psychiatry. She says her insurance wont cover mental health care.
Im going to be out on the street, says Sullivan Stemberg, a tiny, 50-ish woman who alternates between an overanxious recitation of worries, and tears. Ive had a change of circumstances.
And now she wants her ex-husband, Tom Stemberg, whose worth has been estimated at upwards of $150 million, to dramatically increase his support, guarantee health insurance forever and buy her another home in a concierge building. Im sicker and thinner every day, she says. Im not asking for anything more than he did for his other wife and girlfriend.
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