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Post by respect77 on Feb 27, 2018 6:23:30 GMT
From a court deposition she has given last year. I wonder what happened that she slipped off so badly.
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Post by Huey on Feb 27, 2018 7:10:56 GMT
I have to admit : I kinda feel bad for her, and her children particularly, even though I don’t like her.
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Post by ChrisC on Feb 27, 2018 15:06:32 GMT
I hope she can beat it.
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Post by milo on Feb 27, 2018 21:11:32 GMT
It was after the release of her album "Storm & Grace", maybe the fact the album didn’t sell well made her depressed. I remember her complaining of back pains in 2014 during the tour of that album. At least she claims to be clean since 2016, she regained custody of her twins. It seems Lockwood is leaking stories to radaronline.
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Post by Snow White on Feb 27, 2018 22:12:52 GMT
I heard or read she was really bad emotionally after Michael's passing. I guess it went downward spiral ever since.
I haven't hidden my disdain for her as a person but her twin girls are innocent in all this mess. I hope LM gets better for her girls.
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Post by respect77 on Feb 28, 2018 6:12:36 GMT
It was after the release of her album "Storm & Grace", maybe the fact the album didn’t sell well made her depressed. I remember her complaining of back pains in 2014 during the tour of that album. At least she claims to be clean since 2016, she regained custody of her twins. It seems Lockwood is leaking stories to radaronline. I am not sure if her album not selling well would put her in that state. I think that a back pain would make her dependent on painkillers makes more sense. That stuff is easy to get hooked on. Cocaine however is another level. I wonder if she was unhappy in her marriage and whether she couldn't come to terms with MJ's death. And yes, I think Lockwood is behind all the tabloid stories. His girlfriend constantly makes passive-aggressive comments towards LMP on Twitter: twitter.com/hobgoodhair?lang=enShe also constantly posts about children making false sexual abuse allegations against one parent being influenced by another. So I guess there is an issue of the twins making some sort of allegations against Lockwood, and Lockwood arguing that they are manipulated by LMP to say such things. She also posted a tweet last week saying something along the lines "your drug addiction and lesbian lovers ruined your marriage" but she then deleted that one.
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Post by mjjfan810 on Mar 1, 2018 7:48:29 GMT
Pay up! Lisa Marie Presley, 50, is ordered to pay estranged husband $100,000 in attorney fees - less than a third of what he wanted
Lisa Marie Presley has been ordered to pay her estranged husband Michael Lockwood $100,000 in attorney fees - though it's less than a third of what he was asking for.
Lockwood, 56 - who is fighting a bitter divorce battle with Elvis Presley’s only child - went to Los Angeles Superior Court Wednesday to demand almost a half million dollars in past and future attorney expenses.
But Judge Patrick Cathcart awarded him $100,000, saying, ‘that should be sufficient’ to prepare for the couple’s upcoming divorce trial, set for August 13.
She has to pay: Lisa Marie Presley has been ordered to write her estranged husband Michael Lockwood a check for $100,000 to cover his legal fees, according to TMZ; seen in 2015
Judge Cathcart decided that the issue of an additional $188,000 Lockwood was asking for in attorney costs already incurred, should be decided at the August trial.
Presley, 50 was in court Wednesday sitting several rows in front of Lockwood who was wearing a dark suit and carrying his trademark black fedora. They ignored each other during the 20-minute proceedings.
As well as the $188,000 he claims has already been spent on legal expenses, Lockwood’s attorney Jeff Sturman asked the judge to award the musician another $276,000 to cover future lawyer fees for the upcoming divorce trial and costs of settling the custody of the couple’s nine-year-old twin daughters, Finley and Harper.
Sturman complained of Presley’s ‘conflicting reports’ about her income, which he said are ‘all over the place', adding: 'She has misrepresented her income.'
He said: ’She has paid her own attorneys $200,000. She claims to have $125,000 (a month) expenses but only $100,000 in income. Where does the other money come from?’
Sturman also said Lockwood is ‘in a situation of economic duress, Miss Presley has a lot more money out there - she just isn’t telling us where it is.
'She is a well financed person who can clearly afford the lawyers she wants.’
Presley’s attorney Gary Fishbein called Lockwood’s demand for a total of $464,000 in legal fees ‘overstated’ and ‘overfilling.’
'These legal fees are not appropriate and she cannot pay that,’ said Fishbein who added that Lisa Marie is willing to pay just $40,000 in attorney fees for him to prepare for the divorce trial.
‘It is more than sufficient to prepare for trial - it’s all he’s entitled to, no more.’
Awarding Lockwood $100,000 for trial preparation, Judge Cathcart ordered that this money has to be paid by Presley within 30 days.
At another court hearing earlier this month, Lockwood’s lawyer, Sturman, accused Lisa Marie of deliberately hiding her wealth from her estranged husband who has claimed in court papers that she makes around $4.2 million a year, or $350,000 a month - mostly from the trust her father set up for her.
Sturman complained to Judge Cathcart at that time that a list of Presley’s assets and debts her attorneys provided to the court is ‘completely useless.’
He went down all the items of the list - including household furnishings, jewelry, stocks, bonds, mutual funds, retirement funds and pensions and her father’s trust. And against each item Presley’s lawyers had written ‘value unknown.’
‘This is somebody who is making a deliberate choice to fail to disclose,’ he told the court. ‘What is in the trust? Is she holding $50 million there? We don’t know. We don’t know what she’s worth because they won’t give us any documents.’
Lisa Marie claims in court documents that she’s some $16.8 million in debt, ten million of which is owed in back taxes.
And last week she filed a separate lawsuit in LA against her former business manager, Barry J. Siegel, accusing him of frittering away her $100 million trust fund, leaving her with just $14,000.
Siegel has countersued, demanding $800,000 in damages and insisting that Presley ’squandered’ away her fortune because of her ‘uncontrollable spending habits.’
Meanwhile, Lockwood says in court documents that he has been reduced from living in luxury with Elvis Presley’s only child, to having just $435 in his bank account and earning only $20-$25 an hour as a part-time guitar technician and musician.
He also claims he has around $50,000 of credit card debt and owes his lawyers almost $300,000.
He wants Lisa Marie to pay him $263,000 a year so that he can ‘enjoy a lifestyle that is closer to my marital status of living….and it will be substantially above the subsistence standard of living at which I am currently living.’
Whether Lockwood is entitled to spousal support from Presley hinges on whether a post-nuptial agreement - which the couple signed in 2007 - is ruled valid or invalid by the court.
The agreement said that neither party should have a claim on the other if the marriage broke up.
But Lockwood is demanding that the prenup should be torn up, saying he was coerced into signing it.
Judge Cathcart continued the case until after the post-nuptial issue is settled and referred it to a different courtroom at LA Superior Court where Judge Thomas Lewis set the trial date of August 13.
But Judge Lewis also scheduled a mandatory settlement conference for June 8 in the hope that Presley, Lockwood and their lawyers can reach an agreement without having to go to trial.
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Post by respect77 on Mar 1, 2018 11:56:58 GMT
Why is he entitled to a luxury lifestyle just because he was married to LMP? Sound like gold digging to me. And LMP was a fool not to have a prenup with him from the beginning. If he didn't want to sign it should have been a red flag from the get go.
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Post by TonyR on Mar 1, 2018 12:10:27 GMT
Why is he entitled to a luxury lifestyle just because he was married to LMP? Sound like gold digging to me. And LMP was a fool not to have a prenup with him from the beginning. If he didn't want to sign it should have been a red flag from the get go. Well that's how it works if it's the male celebrity who has to pay tens of millions (not saying that's right either though).
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Post by ChrisC on Mar 1, 2018 13:35:57 GMT
I realise marital property and cash is split in a divorce, but I hadn't realised a wealthy spouse should have to pay the other's legal fees.
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Post by TonyR on Mar 1, 2018 13:40:24 GMT
I realise martial property and cash is split in a divorce, but I hadn't realised a wealthy spouse should have to pay the other's legal fees. I presume it would have depended on who's 'fault' the divorce is i.e. unreasonable behaviour by the wealthy party.
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Post by respect77 on Mar 1, 2018 13:57:45 GMT
The arguments here don't seem to revolve around who's at fault. Just that LMP is richer, so she should pay his attorney's fees.
I guess some sort of principle of "fairness" along the lines: if she can afford good lawyers he should too.
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Post by MattyJam on Mar 2, 2018 14:50:48 GMT
I have a lot of goodwill towards LMP. I hope she sorts her life out and comes out stronger on the other side.
In many respects, I can understand why MJ and LMP were drawn to eachother, and even though their relationship was met with a lot of scepticism by the general public/media, they actually made a lot of sense as a couple. I look at both of them, with their messed up childhoods, and all the wealth and fame they've had over the years, and I wouldn't trade my simple life with theirs for anything. People give LMP shit for all the privilege she inherited being Elvis's only child, but I think she's led a very difficult life.
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Post by respect77 on Mar 3, 2018 10:27:57 GMT
I have a lot of goodwill towards LMP. I hope she sorts her life out and comes out stronger on the other side. In many respects, I can understand why MJ and LMP were drawn to eachother, and even though their relationship was met with a lot of scepticism by the general public/media, they actually made a lot of sense as a couple. I look at both of them, with their messed up childhoods, and all the wealth and fame they've had over the years, and I wouldn't trade my simple life with theirs for anything. People give LMP shit for all the privilege she inherited being Elvis's only child, but I think she's led a very difficult life. I agree, I don't think their bonding was strange at all. It actually made a lot of sense for a lot of reasons. It seems there were other areas where they couldn't see eye to eye, so I am not saying they were a perfect match or anything like that, but I think it did make sense for certain reasons. Even now LMP seems to go through some similar struggles as MJ - bad financial advice (or so she says at least), people leeching her off, drug issues. Of course, MJ never went as far as doing recreational drugs like cocaine, but I wonder if LMP now understands it more how easy it is to slip into painkiller addiction while you have pain (apparently, her painkiller addiction started with back pains). I know a lot of MJ fans hate her, and their reasons vary. The most commonly quoted reason is LMP's negative comments about MJ around the early 2000s. I understand why fans wouldn't like her behavior there, but to me she didn't cross a line where I would hate her. Often I see fans put her in the same category as the accusers or Sneddon and that's totally ridiculous IMO (and it diminishes the wrong of those people). And actually sometimes I feel there is so much hate towards her from some MJ fans that it is even bigger than what they feel towards the accusers which is completely crazy IMO and cannot be explained with her her comments in the early 2000s. You even see fans take some rag, like the National Enquirer to justify their hate towards her. And it's not just that they want to hate her, but some want to totally earse her relationship with MJ. I have seen fans actually claim their marriage wasn't real. They'd rather have MJ trick her into a marriage for his selfish reasons than acknowledge the marriage. There is even a woman on YouTube running a channel dedicated to "proving" that even legally their marriage wasn't valid. LOL. Why do they think it would make MJ look good (or LMP bad) is a mystery to me. But you have a lot of that sentiment on LSA for example. So you see these people quote people like the Neverland 5 from the National Enquirer to support their agenda that the marriage wasn't real! The same articles that have the agenda of portraying MJ as a child molester! But their hate to LMP is so big that they don't even care about that. They have this tunnel vision of denying this marriage by any means. IMO that is actually worse than anything LMP said in the early 2000s. I think there is more to the hate that some fans feel towards her than what she said in the early 2000s, and those reasons have more to do with them (fans) than LMP. I also think some hate her because they don't find her relatable, they see her as this "rich, spoilt princess". That is evidenced in the fact that a lot less fans seem to have so much hate to Debbie Rowe (who IMO was more of an opportunist in MJ's life). And with LSA there is also the issue of race (LSA is mostly black women). The interesting thing about it is, with all the passionate hate that is directed to LMP by many fans (mostly female), I never gathered from MJ that he ever felt hate towards her. If anything he seemed to have a soft spot for her, even in the hindsight. Even towards the end of his life, while he was in Ireland, he was quoted jokingly refer to Elvis as his father-in-law. On the rabbi tapes he does express disappointment about the marriage (especially LMP not wanting to have his kids), but it doesn't come across as hate to me. ---- Now, as for this case against her current husband, I can only hope she doesn't falsely accuse him. It would be seriously low, especially after what she went through with MJ back in 1993/1994. But there does seem to be an element of sexual abuse allegations in this case. Lockwood's girlfriend (https://twitter.com/hobgoodhair?lang=en) constantly posts about parental alienation (ie. one parent turning their kids against another by manipulation) and also about false sexual abuse allegations that children make against a parent during a divorce. So from that it seems to me there is some sort of allegation that the twins make against Lockwood, but Lockwood's argument is that it's LMP who manipulated them into saying those things. I hope she wouldn't do something like that. And I'm not sure why she would do that, she has a life-long friendship with the father of her other two children, and she didn't seem to have a problem with him participating in their raising.
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