Word: smyth
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...months after the stunning arrest, stories circulated about the relationship between Oziel and the police informant. She turns out to be Judalon Smyth, his alleged onetime lover and sometime patient, who published a newsletter for doll collectors and produces audiocassettes like Insights into the Sensuality and Sexuality of the Aquarius Woman. Her steamy story was laid out this month in Vanity Fair by reporter Dominick Dunne; in the article she explains that Oziel hypnotized her over the phone into falling in love with him. Two weeks ago she filed a lawsuit charging that Oziel drugged and raped her and later...
Oziel did what any local celebrity would do: he called a press conference. Protesting that he was bound by professional ethics not to discuss the case, he proceeded to lash out at Smyth for making "totally false, bizarre and defamatory allegations." He did not deny that Smyth was his lover but insisted that she was never his patient and added that she could not have eavesdropped on any confessions because of the layout of his office. None of that explained why shortly after those sessions, he allowed Smyth to move into his home (with his wife and daughters) to calm...
...this drama all the characters have their dark side. Oziel was put on probation in 1986 with the state board of psychology for having a patient do construction work, including installation of a hot tub, at his home in lieu of % payments. Smyth's charges against him are far more serious: assault and battery, medical malpractice, unlawful sexual contact, among others. Oziel refuses to discuss particulars, saying only that Smyth had used "my concern and my wife's concern for all our safety to force herself further into my life and that of my family. By means which...
...last hearing the visitors' gallery was packed. Soon it will be the hottest ticket in town, and half the town should be speculating about who should play the various characters when the movie is made. Sean Penn as Lyle? Rob Lowe as Erik? But who should play Judalon Smyth and Oziel...