Monday, November 27, 2006
I am sorry this post took so long, but I needed to make sure it did
not reveal too much because it is so sensitive. There are always
allegations flying back and forth about what some celebrity has given to
another celebrity, i.e Hepatitis (see Pam Anderson from Tommy Lee), or
an STD, etc., but it something altogether different when it is HIV. When
it is HIV, almost no one wants to come forward as this posting will
show.
I have a client ( B list - a few television shows, never
top billed and some made for tv movies where she was top billed) -- who
came to me when she wanted to file for divorce. For some reason, I
rarely get the husbands who come to me, just generally the wives.
Anyway, she came to me and she wanted to get a divorce because her
husband had been cheating on her. It was not the first time, but she was
just tired of all the lies and she felt he was not honest with her
about anything from the time they began dating. Of course, this
self-realization about truthfulness did not hit it her until after they
were married. They had a pre-nup and it was airtight and so she was only
going to get what the pre-nup allowed which was not much, but I figured
we might be able to argue for a little more support or an additional
piece of property and he might give in, just to have us go away and to
keep the legal bills to a minimum.
She ( "W") thought his
cheating was confined to just a fling here and there. There is no way to
describe him without some sort of revelation so lets just call him a
businessman. ("B") It turns out that B enjoyed swingers clubs, and other
hedonistic pursuits as much as he could and was not really selective in
either his partners or their gender. As these revelations came out, W
went to her doctor because she had not been feeling well and was dealing
with incredible levels of stress. While there she decided to get a full
bloodwork done as well to find out if she had contracted anything. Well
there is a saying when you are getting bloodwork done, that no news is
good news. The trouble was she got lots of news and it was not pretty.
She had not only contracted HIV from the soon to be ex, but found out
she was pregnant as well by the soon to be ex.
At first B denied
he was either the father of the child or the person who had infected W,
but soon caved. He admitted he had known he was HIV positive, but did
not tell W because he did not think he would ever give it to her because
they had not had sex in so long. One night, they both got drunk at a
party and when they got home had sex for the first time in almost a year
and it was at that time W became pregnant and HIV positive.
In
order to keep all of this out of the press, not only for his sake and
for W's, there was a very large settlement that at least somewhat made
up for the tragedy that he caused W. W continues to work although she is
probably more of a C lister now because she would rather not be in the
public eye as much and she thinks that just enjoying life is probably
the best thing for her.
I know you have questions about the child
and if W gave birth or had an abortion, but that is just going to have
to remain a mystery.
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