Quote:
 "She fell off the edge somewhere," said Richard Albrecht, Howard Sosin's
 lawyer. "This is an unfortunate story of a family who, because of the
 husband's genius, accumulated substantial wealth and, notwithstanding all
 its effect, happiness eluded them. We all know money does not buy
happiness,
 and at the end of the day this is an example of that.""

Hmmmm - the court apparently doesn't share that sentiment as by awarding
such a massive PAYOUT they have ensured she never learns that lesson! Still
there is much comfort in the knowledge that once more the divorce courts
have given men everywhere another reason to avoid marriage and avaricious
women like the plague!

Phil

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news:qts2e.24236$IH3.16330{at}fe3.news.blueyonder.co.uk...
> http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/41655.htm
>
> March 25, 2005 -- A Connecticut mother who cheated on her wealthy husband
> with her rock-climbing guide and a man she met on a flight to China has
> been
> awarded nearly $45 million in one of the nation's largest post-trial
> divorce
> settlements.
> Susan Sosin, 51, whose husband, Howard Sosin, made a fortune off of the
> investment group AIG, received the settlement even after a judge chastised
> her for her cheating ways.
>
> "The parties' marriage has been undeniably marred by the defendant's
> infidelity," the judge said in his verdict. "Although her sexual
> relationship was not the sole cause of the breakdown, it did effectively
> terminate the marriage."
>
> Susan Sosin will receive a $31 million cash payment along with residences,
> artwork, jewelry and antiques worth close to $14 million, according to the
> settlement.
>
> "It's a very good result by any standard," said her lawyer, Frederic
> Siegel.
> "But the big tragedy is that it had to come to this."
>
> Howard Sosin, 54, made $182 million in 1993 when he terminated his
> association with the financial group he founded six years earlier. He
> later
> established a pharmaceutical company and a golf-equipment business.
>
> In the settlement, Howard Sosin gets to keep $89 million in bank accounts,
> 10 cars, $960,000 worth of private club memberships and $22 million in
> fine
> art.
>
> According to trial testimony, while Howard was engaged in business, his
> wife
> took up heli-skiing and rock climbing - an activity that led to a 1996
> affair with a guide.
>
> During a flight to China in 2000, she met a married man and began a
> lengthy
> affair with him, according to testimony.
>
> "She fell off the edge somewhere," said Richard Albrecht,
Howard Sosin's
> lawyer. "This is an unfortunate story of a family who, because of the
> husband's genius, accumulated substantial wealth and, notwithstanding all
> its effect, happiness eluded them. We all know money does not buy
> happiness,
> and at the end of the day this is an example of that."
>
> Howard and Susan met in 1978, when he was an assistant professor at
> Columbia
> University. At the time, she was married to another man and working in
> retail.
>
> They have an adult son, a teenage son and a teenage daughter. With Post
> Wire
> Services
>
> By LEONARD GREENE
>
>
> --
> Men are everywhere that matters!
>
>
>




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