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as a woman, owned a complete woman's wardrobe,etc. etc., all of the gruesome and juicy details appeared. I was pretty upset of course, but having been through it before and survived, having faced a court, having lectured to 50 or 60 men's groups by this time, my guilt, shame, fear and all the other emotions that you all associate with exposure were somewhat dampened. After all, the "world" knew I was a TV so what were a couple of hundred thousand more readers of the Herald. The hurt and the embarrassment were to my parents more than to me.

Among other things, she accused me of stealing and hiding community property money from her and she got the court to appoint an accountant to go over my records. When I went to see him, he literally had a pile of papers 18 inches high on his desk provided by her. She later admitted to spending over $500 on xerox copies of every piece of paper that she could lay her hands on. I had continued to live on in the house for a couple of months after she walked out but she had her keys so everyday after I had gone to work, she would come in to take care of the house and garden and our five cats. She made a point of going through my home office with a fine comb and copied everything.

It really was quite a jig saw puzzle going back over and through all one's bank statements, investments, large purchases, etc. for a period of five years and accounting for all sums over $100. Think you could do it? Neither did I, but it became something of a game after a while and I spent about a week in the account's office comparing, correlat- ing and accounting for incomes and outgoes. The final outcome of his report to the court said that far from sequestering or mishandling community funds, that there was a well-thought out and long standing policy of investment in both of our names. So that didn't do her any good but it took a lot of my time and of course, I had to pay the accountant.

However, her biggest accomplishment was, alleging that Chevalier made piles of money-she knew the claims going around back east about how much I made-she got the court to appoint a receiver for Chevalier. He was only interested in getting the money, not the publications, mailing lists or anything else; so he made me sign an order to the post office that all mail addressed to Chevalier Publications should be set aside for one of his employees to pick up. So I did, and they did, and he did, and the end result was that once a

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