RANSVESTIA

had again had access to the mailing list of Chevalier as he had threatened to start up his own competing magazine and the mailing list would have given him a running start at the same time he would have destroyed Chevalier. He had not taken the mailing list when he could have while he was employed by me because we were on good terms at the time and I didn't fire him, he quit—a statement he made in front of three witnesses. But after the beating of his wife and the jailing he got for it he resolved to "get" her and because I had refused to bail him out fearing that he would only take up drinking again and make further trouble for both Joyce and myself; he decided to ring me in on the act at the same time, by filing a charge of con- spiracy between Joyce and myself to deprive him of his rights. Yet he not only resigned of his own free will but asked me to see that Joyce was taken care of and could she stay on with me in Chevalier. Lynn would have benefitted too had the mailing list been delivered to Bob because he was into "life readings", reincarnation and all that, and a list of people to whom the reincarnation approach might have been appealing would have provided him with considerable benefit too. I do not have any proof of that in the form of conversation or documents, but the fact that the two connived in various ways to "get" me makes me reasonably sure that that was part of the plan.

Although this is all 15 years behind us, it might be interesting to the old timers to know that I had foreseen the possibility of an attempt to obtain the list so that the day of the court appearances when the receiver might have been appointed if the judge had agreed, I arranged to have the mailing lists "stolen" by a trusted friend who entered the office and took the lists when I was not present so that I could honestly say I didn't know when they dis- appeared or where they were. I also xeroxed all the cards so that I would retain an auxiliary record regardless of what happened. I had no intention of letting the lists get out of my control and into anyone else's hands, whatever the cost to me. I have put the security of my readers names at the top of my list for 20 years and have never given or sold anyone's name to any other person or group.

Bob's activities didn't stop with his suit against me. When that was dismissed he came up with another approach—or maybe it was in the middle of the other suit. He went to the State Bar Association and filed a complaint against my attorney on the grounds that since Bob was an employee of Chevalier at the time we went to the attorney to set up the Foundation and had, when that was taken care of, asked the attorney a few legal questions of a personal nature that therefore, he

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