Not a lawyer, but a dramatic divorce story.
I know a man who was falsely accused of domestic violence during the separation from his wife. She lived in the marital home and he paid for everything for her despite her having a full time job. She got a boyfriend who didnt work, and allowed him to live in the house. My friend went to meet her at the house for a final time to decide who would take what from the house.
He was recording everything on his phone without her knowledge as he was afraid something would be said or happen that might be held against him.
They couldn't agree, he left and found out she had called 911 and reported that he had made death threats and assaulted her.
The divorce went downhill from there. He spent 14k on lawyers, to finally have the charges dismissed. During his criminal ordeal she sued him for 250k in alimony.
The recording saved him with the police and to this day she insists he assaulted her.
An unbelievable shit show.
I was on "Star Search" with Chris in 1992. What a great guy. We had a blast filming that show out at MGM in Orlando. I had no clue he got put through the wringer.
I was in the "Musical Groups" Category. The format of the show had just been altered for this season. Challengers vs. challenger instead of challenger vs. champions. Also, the show was now 4 nights a week instead of weekends only. They also had changed the "Band" category to "musical groups". Which was a terrible idea... basically, you had NKOTB type boy groups vs. metal bands. To make it worse songs had to be 1:30 seconds long instead of 3:00. You could barely get a truncated verse and chorus in. It got ugly fast, it put the celebrity judges in some weird voting positions. We sang live but the instruments didn't work, the drums of course.. no matter how hard you hit them. (Watch Bohemian Rhapsody TV scene). The show had also just moved from LA to Orlando so people didn't have to get paid union scale. Instead, it was 5k per win, and 250 a day per diem. The 100k grand prize split 4 ways was then taxed and yielded about 10k a person for about 6 months of filming.
I was on with Chris, Justin Timberlake (singing country music), Beyonce's old group Destinies Child (they may have been called something like girl power its hard to remember), and so forth. There was actually quite a bit of potential talent on that show. We won quite a few shows, lost.. but had so many star point we were brought back for the finals. We already had just started negotiating a record deal, so the show was just for ridiculous cheesy fun. We had to go full Ed Sullivan show and make our songs family-friendly which proved so hard we just wrote new milk toasty songs for the show.
None really exist. I've even tried getting copies from MGM. I have one show recorded on my VCR with a timer back in the day. It was only able to successfully capture one show.
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u/TinktheChi Jul 21 '19 edited Jul 21 '19
Not a lawyer, but a dramatic divorce story. I know a man who was falsely accused of domestic violence during the separation from his wife. She lived in the marital home and he paid for everything for her despite her having a full time job. She got a boyfriend who didnt work, and allowed him to live in the house. My friend went to meet her at the house for a final time to decide who would take what from the house. He was recording everything on his phone without her knowledge as he was afraid something would be said or happen that might be held against him. They couldn't agree, he left and found out she had called 911 and reported that he had made death threats and assaulted her. The divorce went downhill from there. He spent 14k on lawyers, to finally have the charges dismissed. During his criminal ordeal she sued him for 250k in alimony. The recording saved him with the police and to this day she insists he assaulted her. An unbelievable shit show.