Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I briefly confused this with another Georgetown intrigue. Wasn't there a wealthy widow who married a much younger and openly gay man for companionship and he ended up effectively ruining her life? Maybe even killed her in a fit?

I vaguely remember this story as well.

Viola Drath — recent movie about her murder called “Georgetown”

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9548559/amp/New-movie-dives-2011-murder-DC-socialite-91-killed-boytoy-husband.html

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I briefly confused this with another Georgetown intrigue. Wasn't there a wealthy widow who married a much younger and openly gay man for companionship and he ended up effectively ruining her life? Maybe even killed her in a fit?

I vaguely remember this story as well.

Viola Drath — recent movie about her murder called “Georgetown”

Anonymous wrote:I briefly confused this with another Georgetown intrigue. Wasn't there a wealthy widow who married a much younger and openly gay man for companionship and he ended up effectively ruining her life? Maybe even killed her in a fit?

I vaguely remember this story as well.

I briefly confused this with another Georgetown intrigue. Wasn't there a wealthy widow who married a much younger and openly gay man for companionship and he ended up effectively ruining her life? Maybe even killed her in a fit?

I read the story and felt so sorry for the woman. I totally understand the value of companionship, and the fear of losing it. I have a MIL who was widowed and remarried. She gives me as much as she can every time we visit - china, jewelry. My MIL is not wealthy like this woman, but she has a fear of new husband's family taking it. I suspect there are alot of older people out there getting scammed, it's so sad assuming this guy is guilty that he stole from her and her friends.

That’s so sad that she suspected he was doing this but was afraid to be alone. I guess in this case money really did buy companionship during her lifetime. Also saw she’s a Madeira alum.

Anonymous wrote:Just another reason to not have precious jewels.

Or at least not to just leave $50K worth of them just lying around in one of your mansion bathrooms (per the article)!!!

Anonymous wrote:Neither I nor anyone I know owns anything worth fighting over. I think I'd like to keep it that way. Y'all suck.

It’s the principal for me. He was a grifting thief. Still is, apparently.

Anonymous wrote:Holy crap he was stealing from her friends when they went on overnight visits as houseguests!

So crazy.

But in some way I kind of identify with the people that are just leaving $50k of jewelry in their bathroom drawer at night.

Just another reason to not have precious jewels.

I just read this. It sounds like an Agatha Christie novel! I hope he gets thrown in jail as quickly as possible - what a rotten person.

Holy crap he was stealing from her friends when they went on overnight visits as houseguests!

Neither I nor anyone I know owns anything worth fighting over. I think I'd like to keep it that way. Y'all suck.

My SIL is a lawyer, as soon as her dad died she evicted his girl friend, changed the locks, packed up his house, sold what was worth selling, took his car to a deal to be sold.

You have to move fast to keep the leeches from leeching.

Wild story. Georgetown socialite Jacqueline Quillen died in October 2020 at the age of 78. Her son is now suing her partner, Lawrence Gray, stole jewelry and household items from her (and others) and is also continuing to occupy her house even though he has no ownership of it.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/01/18/missing-jewels-georgetown-professor/