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nasty about it and tried to involve me with the claim that I had never given him his full share of his "ownership" in Chevalier Publications and implied that I had conspired with Joyce to deny him access to company records and monies due him, etc., etc. It was all very dirty pool since it named me by my legal name and my legal business and got me into the official records and also forced me to go to court and face the music. Of course I had been through that exposure business once before with my first wife so I was a little hardened to it, but in this case he even went so far as to name my father in the pleadings claiming that he was a part owner of Chevalier.

The facts were entirely contrary in that he was never an "owner" or a "partner" in Chevalier but rather an employee working first for a percentage of the income and later for a flat salary, a fact that could have easily been established in court by some of his own records, wherein he had noted down certain moneys paid to him as first "commission" and later as salary. His statement implied sexual im- proprieties between Joyce and myself because we had "taken at least one trip to New York together." He referred to the trip to the convention mentioned just above. The fact that she left two weeks before I did and came back two days before I did and that I went to five other cities between New York and Los Angeles was carefully obscured in the complaint. All of the allegations could easily have been proven false if the matter had ever come to trial but what do you know, Bob didn't show up for the deposition. So we went to court to ask for a dismissal. However, it is customary in such cases to give the absent party one more chance, but in this case he is ordered by the judge to appear on a given date. Once again he failed to show even to the consternation of his attorney. So again we go back to court and ask for dismissal on grounds of failure to appear, but before my attorney can enter that motion, Bob's attorney steps up and tells the judge that he had decided that he had mistaken his remedy and would withdraw the complaint. Among other things they had asked the court to appoint a receiver to take over and handle the affairs of Chevalier. The attorney told the court that he had decided that a re- ceiver couldn't really run a magazine successfully and he would have to find a different remedy. The case was then dismissed.

Now all during this fiasco Bob was living again at Lynn's house and so Lynn was in on the whole thing and doubtless helped plan it. It would have been very nice for Bob if his ploy had worked and he

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