Affairs
From the second you’re married, people say your love life takes a tumble.
Well, the polite ones. Others are a bit more direct: “It’s all downhill from here”. “Enjoy your honeymoon!” “Things will change now”. Wink, wink, wink.
Imagine if they also told you that before too long at least one of you, if not both, will have an affair?
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I am having trouble feeling too sorry for Madison Ashton, the latest woman to emerge seeking part of the fortune of the late cardboard king, Richard Pratt. Surely, where dating a very married, pillar-of-the-community/fun-loving billionaire type is concerned, she - like everyone else - would understand the ‘rules’.
I won’t go into detail about what I think should happen in the case of Ms Ashton, who is in court claiming compensation from Pratt’s widow, Jeanne, for his alleged promises of a $500,000 a-year retainer to be his exclusive mistress, a Mercedes-Benz “worth not less than $100,000”, rent worth $36,000 a year and $2.5 million trust funds for each of her children. (There has been no suggestion that Pratt is the father of either of them.).
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Over Material People says:
This story reminds me of a NWA song from the ninties by Ice Cube. ‘Sometimes I used to wonder, How the hell an ugly dude can get a fine girls number? He’s gettin’ juiced for his duckets.’ Read more »
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Jason Smith says:
I’m the boss, I have “lujnch” anytime I like Read more »
Women of the world, don’t be fooled. Men can multitask – if they have powerful jobs and are not expected to be faithful.
Silvio Berlusconi, Mark Sanford, Gordon Ramsay and Eliot Spitzer are all superb multi-taskers who check all of these boxes:
Big time job, tick
In the public eye, tick.
Gaining considerable fortunes, tick.
Discovered to be having extra-marital affairs, tick. In some cases, tick tick tick.
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Razor says:
You missed Senator Edwards - playing up on his wife while she is dying from cancer and the media, despite knowing, ignored it while he was running for President of the US. Read more »
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rufus says:
Richard: I recall when I was at University studying Biology being told by a tutor that a prac class used to do an exercise in genetics by studying the blood types of the students and their parents. This exercise was abandoned by the Uni when it was discovered that a… Read more »
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