Word: divorcee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Gazing down from the ceiling of the art-and antique-filled office in Los Angeles' Century City is an oversized, backlighted color transparency of a Botticelli Venus. Sitting below the goddess of love in a thronelike chair, once owned by Rudolph Valentino, is Marvin Mitchelson, a divorce lawyer who...
Next week a Los Angeles jury will begin hearing another Mitchelson case: the long pending "divorce" suit against Actor Lee Marvin by his former live-in girlfriend, Michelle Triola Marvin. The case, Mitchelson happily admits, is one "I'd been waiting for," and it has already had wide repercussions...
...Michelle wins, her gray-haired, boyish-looking attorney stands to earn as much as $500,000 for his efforts. Grateful divorcees have been known to reward Mitchelson well: in one 1974 case that was worth $13 million to his client, Mitchelson got a fee of $1.25 million. The son of a schoolteacher and a building contractor, Mitchelson won a football scholarship to the University of Oregon, got his legal training at Southwestern University Law School in Los Angeles, and started out specializing in criminal and personal injury cases. He first gained attention in 1963 by winning a major right...
The reverberations from Mitchelson's latest case are already broad. As many as 1,000 Marvin vs. Marvin-style suits have been filed in the California courts alone. The case has stirred so much litigation that one San Francisco divorce lawyer now likes to call living together "marvinizing." Actress...
The verdict left almost everyone except the defendant dissatisfied. "Justice was not done," declared Greta Rideout, who is suing for divorce and for custody of their two-year-old daughter, and complained that the trial's airing of her sex life was more humiliating than the rape itself.