(Images: Love Match. Faulkner. Bullock Jones where my great grandfather worked.
Tanforan cottage.)
"Perhaps when We get our Congress back from them we should launch a hearing, appropriate twenty billion dollars to investigate what became of this kingdom, and was it worth it after two thousand years, after all these murders – this orgy of the juicy Apocalyptic Dream of utter destruction that will hail the blessed kingdom ofpeace and love – at last - but for a few! And they call artists "Dilettantes"!
This eighty six page essay printed by Royal Rosamond Press is as prophetic a document as I have read, and I have trouble putting it somewhere in my being, for it appears the Democrats lost the election due to Nancy Pelosi and Gavin Newsom promoting same-sexmarriages. My bitter enemies, the Christians-right accused these politicians of trying to destroy `Family Values' the very thing I accuse them of, I not knowing at the time I wrote this essay that the Getty family backed these Representatives of our Democracy, and surely knew Lawrence Chazen who filed a claim in Rosamond's probate and may walk away with the lion's share. Representative, Nancy Pelosi, is kin to Gavin who advised the Getty family.
Their top financial advisor, Lawrence Chazen, was my laterfather's private lender in his loan business. Chazen is also an ex-partner of my late sister and my ex-brother-in-law Garth Benton in the 'Rosamond' art gallery in Carmel. Chazen is trying to walk out of my sister's probate with a good chunk of my nieces legacy.
Chazen tried to become executor of this important artistic legacy in a illegal manner. I suspect Chazen put political pressure on Judge Richard M. Silver, a Brown appointee to squash my investigation into the mysterious drowning of my late sister.
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Garth and Christine were friends of the Getty family, who like the Buck family, made a fortune in oil. Gavin Newsom’s father was a financial advisor for the Gettys, as was Nancy Pelosi’s husband. My father’s private lender was Lawrence Chazen.
Vic told me he was the Getty family’s right-hand man. Chazen is a executive for Noble Oil. Does Chazen know anyone connected to the Buck family?
Chazen and Garth tried to rest control of Rosamond’s estate. It looks like Shannon and I were up against Big Oil, and Big Billionaires, they wanting our family legacy to be THEIR family legacy.Dan Brown’s fiction depicts a covert fight over a secret bloodline that includes King David.
The Louve is a backdrop. Consider the Getty Museum and Foundation, and the Buck Institute.Below is a letter I sent to Newsom and Pelosi two years ago asking them to champion my cause, I informing them I am a Nazarite, and my book is about the Holy Grail and Bloodline, sometimes called “The Roseline”“ That I would find the Good Templars, is profound, as in my webpage `Royal Rosamond Press Co' published in 1997, I declare myself a Nazarite Guardian of the Sober and Artistic Family Legacy.
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What is truly profound, is, that all this Power, and all this Money failed to save Rosamond's estate from utter ruin. They failed even after capturing my un-born Grandson - whom they can not begin to turn against me until he is old enought to understand what "Evil Intrigues" mean, which many never be never.Is it possible the God was not on the side of the Evil Earls of Oil, but on the side of the very poor?
Consider the invasion of Iraq by these Earls. Did they come away with any war booty, such as a tousand oil tankers full of black gold? Did the citizens of Rome enjoy fantastically low gas prices?
Did the employees of Britain who now work for Mr. Green get a joyous raise?No!
You see, these Earls are Middlemen. They do not sew, nor reap, nor do they paint paintings, or write poetry. Is it any wonder they want to own 'The Rose Line"?
For not one of these Earl's have ever produced a bonified Saint.Did Chazen know Sydney Morris - before Christine died? Surely Chazen knew about the Buck family.
The reason Chazen and Garth proposed "a long term estate plan" was to keep Shannon out of the limelight, and allow them to bury the truth.Members of Gavin Newsom's wine, restaurant, bar, resort and real estate partnerships since 1991:Donna Chazen, Lawrence Chazen,, Andrew Getty, Ann Getty, Anna Getty, Chris Getty, Gordon Getty, Mark Getty, Peter Getty, Ronald Getty, Tara Getty, William "Billy" Getty,
Here is Phil Stimic testifying to Judge Silver his and Shannon's plan for the estate."Although Shannon Rosamond has retained an estate transactional attorney in San Jose to draft the proper security instrument under the Uniform Commercial Code which will allow her to purchase her minor sibling's one-half interest and create a trust account plan which includes quarterly reporting to the court and estate administrator, Ms.
Beare's position is that Mr. Chazen should serve as administrator under a long term estate plan. Ms.
Beare's approach is unnecessary, unworkable and will only serve to add unnecessary administrative and supervisorial tasks.More importantly Ms. Beare's plan permits Mr.
Benton and Mr. Chazen to indirectly do what this court has already ordered them not to do directly and puts her in the highly suspect position of continuing to attempt to waste Rosamond's inheritance and invade into the special mother-daughter relationship between the two Rosamond artists and collecting attorney's fees from the estate in the process.Ms.
Beare and Mr.Chazen have repeatedly misled this court and other persons interested in the estate not only with respect to the present appointment issues before it, but in every other significant aspect of the case."Jean Paul Getty1892–1976Inherited George F.
Getty, Inc. oil business and was reorganized it in 1956 as the Getty Oil Company.This site and its contents are not affiliated, connected, or associated with the J.
Paul Getty Museum. If you wish to reach the J. Paul Getty Museum - "Money is like manure.
You have to spread it around or it smells." J. Paul GettyNew York Times Obituary - By: Joseph C.
, ,
Skillman N.J.Born on December 15, 1892 in Minneapolis.
Mr. Getty entered into the oil company of its father in 1914. With brilliant sense of business he developed the Getty oil company to a Fortune Top 10 company, which practically monopolized oil concessions in North America and Arabia.
The Getty Company maintained the largest tanker fleet in the world. In 1957, Fortune magazine reported that Jean Paul Getty was the world's richest private person. He was asked how much he was worth in cash and his response was "I would hope to realize several billions," he said.
"But, remember, a billion dollars isn't worth what it used to be."In 1953 he establish in Malibu, California, the Jean Paul Getty museum. Today the The J.
Paul Getty Trust, is a $6.4 billion operating foundation with interests in the visual arts and humanities, officially which operates at the Getty Center, a 110-acre museum campus in the foothills of the Santa Monica Mountains.Mr.
Getty died on June 6 , 1976 with cause of death was reported to be heart failure. He was 83 years old. Only a fraction of its fortune of approximately 10 billion dollars was bequeathed to his family.
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From: "John Ambrose"
Subject: Lawrence Chazen Scandel
To:
Dear Honorable Nancy Pelosi;I just sent this e-mail to Mayor Gavin Newsom. I am asking you to also champion my quest to save my family history.SincerelyJohn PrescoDear Honorable Gavin Newsom;By an incredible twist of fate it appears our paths have crossed in regards to Lawrence Chazen and the Getty family.
There exists in the Probate of my late sister, Christine Rosamond Benton, a overwhelming scandal that may become the focus of much public attention in regards to Gay Marriages.
In my sister's probate are letters I filed protesting the advertisement of the Lesbian novel 'Love Match' which is about the marriage of Martina Navratilova to a Beauty Queen. The author os this book was authoring the biography of my sister who drowned at Rocky Point.
She was a partner of Lawrence Chazen in her Carmel Gallery.I am asking you to champion my cause and help me be represented in this Court of Law that has so far utterly ignored my 'Family Values'. The two oldest structures in San Francisco were brought around the Cape in a Clipper in 1849 by my great grandfather , Carl Janke, who set them up in Belmont.
Janke is the co-founder of this city where he built California's first theme part 'Tansforan'. These homes were later moved to S.F.
I am writing a biography of my later sister.
Sincerely
John Presco
At the Gate of the Grail Castle
My battle over my family history has all but destroyed me. I am astonished to see these powerful people on my path, one of themseverely hindering my way.
I feel like Parcival, even King Arthur who alas sees what has divided his kingdom and brought it to ruin. My late sister's probate is filled with my letters which reveal the core of my Grail study. Within them I give warnings, tell the Court that the Right-wing Christians are the enemies of the Arts and have plans to take over the Democracy.
In one letter I complained about aLesbian novel being advertised on my Nieces webpage the author of this novel writing my sister's biography which was never finished. The author quit the project and absconded with a large sum of moneyaccording to my surviving sister. But, I think it had something to do with the claim she had interviewed my famous sister just before she died, a claim I challenged in my letters, I contending theseinterviews belonged to the two heirs and should be handed over tothe Probate.
I objected to the owner of this important legacy pandering toLesbians, a tactic used when Rosamond was alive to sell herbeautiful images of women. I explained to Judge Richard M. Silver that my sister and I were Grail artists who were influenced by thePre-Raphaelites who employed Grail themes in their work.
Our greatgrandfather was friends with Joaquin Miller whose poetry was promoted by the Pre-Raphaelites they introducing him the crown heads of Europe. Grail stories have long been at the heart and core of heterosexuality, indeed they stemming from a heretical teaching that was violently oppressed by the Pope and his celibate Bishops and Priests. I told the Judge I have nothing against Gays, outside of my families Artist and Literary legacy.
This website was suggesting my late sister was a Lesbian. There exist no evidence of this.I suspect my protest, which contained Biblical references, got me labeled a Gay-basher, and all of a sudden I hit a stonewall, I cutoff to all information.
I was not told my father had died, or my mother was dying, I missing my opportunity to say good-bye to her by twelve hours.
Rosemary Rosamond died without seeing the wonderful Grail history I had collected for my book.Mayor Gavin Newsom is four generations San Francisco.
My father was born there. Two of the oldest structures in that city were brought around the Horn by his great grandfather, Carl Janke, the co-founderof Belmont California. Our family history is about to be lost, it shoved aside in the ten year struggle in a Superior Courthouse in Monterey where I went two months ago to plead with a Judge to help me record this history that is important to the history ofCalifornia and the Arts - for starters.
The Getty family own much of the world's art, and just built a beautiful museum where I used to go horseback riding. That I and my sister appear to be related to Denis de Rougemont, the Grail scholar and expert on Live in the Western World, has brought me to the very door of the Getty Castle for the Arts where I am bid to call out a challenge to those within, that if my family values are not returned to me, I will bring this castle down.
Here is an exert from my webpage `Royal Rosamond Press' which I published on the net April 14, 1997
"The legal dilemma that Lesbians and Homosexuals are having over inherent legacies, they not able to sire heirs – or legally getmarried – has been established in my family.
It is not true same-sexed people are more sensitive and artistic then others, and thus are entitled to the world's art and creative endeavors as a consolation prize for not creating a family, and being a family member. These creative ones successfully pretended to be Christine's real family to a Judge and his mouth piece he appointed Special Executor. As yet, no knight with legal training has found the guts to challenge this trespass.
Heterosexuality has been under attack by Christianity for two thousand years. Half of practicing heterosexuals will become mothers. Who champions their cause?
The Christian church has only venerated and pardoned one mother for Eve's sin, and that was done in order to keep their one divine Virgin as pure as the driven snow, and hide the truth Jesus was a married man and father, he every thingthese vile and hateful mean could never be, for they hate women, especially mothers.How dare they claim they are upholders of `Family Values' and the traditions of our `Founding Fathers' who were Freemasons, yet another group they hunted down and murdered in a never ending saga to keep Jesus a Virgin – WHY? Do you think his kingdom was usurped ,the one he promised would come; "before this generation is through.
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Perhaps when We get our Congress back from them we should launch a hearing, appropriate twenty billion dollars to investigate what became of this kingdom, and was it worth it after two thousand years, after all these murders – this orgy of the juicy Apocalyptic Dream of utter destruction that will hail the blessed kingdom ofpeace and love – at last - but for a few! And they call artists "Dilettantes"!This eighty six page essay printed by Royal Rosamond Press is as prophetic a document as I have read, and I have trouble putting it somewhere in my being, for it appears the Democrats lost the election due to Nancy Pelosi and Gavin Newsom promoting same-sexmarriages.
My bitter enemies, the Christians-right accused these politicians of trying to destroy `Family Values' the very thing I accuse them of, I not knowing at the time I wrote this essay that the Getty family backed these Representatives of our Democracy, and surely knew Lawrence Chazen who filed a claim in Rosamond's probate and may walk away with the lion's share. Representative, Nancy Pelosi, is kin to Gavin who advised the Getty family. Their top financial advisor, Lawrence Chazen, was my laterfather's private lender in his loan business.
Chazen is also an ex-partner of my late sister and my ex-brother-in-law Garth Benton in the 'Rosamond' art gallery in Carmel. Chazen is trying to walk out of my sister's probate with a good chunk of my nieces legacy. Chazen tried to become executor of this important artistic legacy in a illegal manner.
I suspect Chazen put political pressure on Judge Richard M. Silver, a Brown appointee to squash my investigation into the mysterious drowning of my late sister. She was good friends with Philip Green and his wife.
Green is he wealthiest man inBritain and just tried to buy Safeway."
ENTREPRENEURIAL PARTNERSMembers of Gavin Newsom's wine, restaurant, bar, resort and realestate partnerships since 1991:Kevin Bronwyn Brunner, John Burton, Casey and Michelle Cadwell,Bob and Barbara Callan, Frank Caufield, Donna Chazen, LawrenceChazen, Joe Victoria Cotchett, Michael Hilary Decesare, PhilipDeLimur, Don Dianda, Gretchen Dianda, Edward Everett, RichardFreemon, James Fuller, Stanlee Gatti, Robert Gerry, Andrew Getty,Ann Getty, Anna Getty, Chris Getty, Gordon Getty, Mark Getty, PeterGetty, Ronald Getty, Tara Getty, William "Billy" Getty"
Chazen was investigated by Andrew Cuomo of HUD for loan sharking, hetaking the home from a black grandmother in Oakland where I grew up. I went to school with her grandchildren.
My father was convicted of loan sharking. My letters to the Attorney General about Chazen's activities were ignored. I have been authoring a biography of my late sister for three years.
When I began to ask questions a rival biography was produced, that attacked my investigation into my sister's death. The probate was kept going to keep the information under control. There was talk about a movie.
Jon Presco"According to public records and documents Newsom himself provided:-- Getty, or trusts and firms he controls, is lead investor on 10 ofNewsom's 11 businesses, including his PlumpJack group of wine,restaurant, resort and real estate ventures. "Plump Jack" is the name of an opera Getty wrote. Newsom's stake in those Getty-backed businesses is more than $6.
9million, according to a disclosure report filed last year with the Ethics Commission. Newsom says now that he overstated his share of one of the businesses, a development company, and has since gotten out of that venture.
"NEWSOM'S PORTFOLIO
Mayoral hopeful has parlayed Getty money, family ties and politicalconnections into local prominenceChuck Finnie, Rachel Gordon, Lance Williams, Chronicle Staff WritersSunday, February 23, 2003More.
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This review may not ever be completed, but may instead beincorporated into the very large book I have yet to finish thatrecovers so much of my families history.
I will post but portions ofit.John Presco (Copyright 2002)A Review of Tom Snyder's Book,When You Close Your EyesWritten by John Gregory PrescoPresident, Royal Rosamond PressMuch of the information for this review is taken from letters I andthe attorney of my niece Shannon filed in the probate of the estate of my late sister Christine Rosamond Benton, information I sent to the Attorney General of California and to Andrew Cuomo of HUD, and from letters I sent to Superior Court Judge Richard Silver and to the Special Executor he appointed. I also filed a police report.
Much of this material is in the Public Domain. Quotes from Mr.Snyder's biography will be in italics.
"I am a member in good standing of the State Bar of California andan attorney on record for 50% interest in Shannon Rosamond. In my 16years as a member of the State Bar California, I have neverexperienced a more deliberate fraud on any court or more recklessand calculated attempt to fraudulently take control of a probateestate at the exclusion of the lawful heirs and total manipulationof a tester's intent that the present efforts of Attorney's RobinBeare, Lawrence J. Chazen and Garth Benton, the descendants formerspouse.
"Since her mother's death, Shannon Rosamond has made continual attempts to obtain pertinent information concerning her mother'sestate and also obtain her mother's cremated remains so that shecould conduct a proper memorial service."
These are the words my niece's attorney filed in the probate of theworld famous artist, Christine Rosamond, who drowned on March 26,1994 on her first sober birthday in Alcoholics Anonymous. A monthlater, her daughter Shannon would say this to me, and thendisappear: "Be careful, Greg.
My friends think my life is indanger. The first thing they are going to do is make you out to beinsane." Christine's ex-husband, Garth Benton, would try to get hisand Christine's ex-partner nominated as Special Administrator.
In aSan Francisco Examiner article, Lawrence Chazen's business practiceswere described by Andrew Cuomo of HUD as the worst case of loan-sharking he had ever seen. Forsaken by the two executors Rosamondnamed in her Will, my younger sister, Vicki, and Jacci Belford, Ms.Pierrot's best friend, my niece Shannon does battle with Chazen.
"Over the specific argument of Ms. Beare, Judge Silver refused toappoint Mr. Chazen.
Neither Ms. Beare nor Mr. Chazen disclosed tothe court the very critical fact that Mr.
Chazen has the largestsingle creditor's claim against the estate and is a former businesspartner and business associate of Garth Benton who the court hadremoved as Special Administer just moments before."The Marriage Revolution that Shook the WestThe Marriage Revolution that Shook the WestDenis De Rougemont asked, "Inasmuch as when taken one by one, mosthuman beings of both sexes are either rogues or neurotics, whyshould they turn into angels the moment they are paired?"In his 'Love in the Western World' Denis de Rougemont explores theroots of Love and Eros, and how a great Heresy known as Courtly Loveswept through Europe in the 12th.
century, threatening to destroyChristianity.
Only after the Pope launched a Holy Crusade against the Cathars, did this threat subside, but was never eradicated, itforming much of our human psyche and conditioning as to how we viewLove Marriage.Dan Brown borrows from this revolution to spin a religious mysteryin his 'The DaVinci Code' that has stirred our sub-conscience, set itablaze once again, as this revolution was about 'Forbidden Love' thatis found at the core of Tristan and Isolde, and Guinevere and Lancelot - not to mention the relationship between Jesus and MaryMagdalene, the most forbidden love of them all.
Below is a Christian point of view, that is not to be trifled with, as it contains the seeds of King Arthur's Court, the legend there of sending many young men off on a Quest, and even on a Crusade to theHoly Land.We Democrats can Capture this Quest, and this Crusade, if we chose to do the work, chose to believe in this simple message"Love conquers all."
Our impossible dream is about to come true.
I will post more on this subject Grail Letter to a Superior Court Judge.Here are exerts from one of the letters I filed in the Probate of my late sister, Christine Rosamond Benton. I filed a claim to stop thesale of this Family Legacy to outsiders, who did not pay the dues wePresco Children paid – as well as out Children.
I did not understandat the time Vicki and Mark were secretly thwarting my efforts. I got no response from the Court Appointed Attorney, Sydney Morris, when I suggested Vic Presco might be dead. Morris knew, and knew about my claim to be the No.
1 Creditor, this honor going to Lawrence Chazen, the Getty Man!
The Getty's own one of the largest privately owned Art Collections in the world. We four Presco Children grew up being hungry.
Christine's 400 page journal we never hear from, begins with an account of a fight she and I had over the last of the milk for our cereal. This was the first chapter in the autobiography she was authoring, Stacy's Ghost Writer claiming there was very little material she authored, he calling Christine's testimony; "The ideazations of a woman who was not well when she wrote them."
How much easier it is for outsiders who never experienced the extreme abuse we all suffered, thus a Federal Judge ruled them more worthy?
Outrageous!
In another letter to Judge Silver and Morris written in 1997 I suggest this Probate and Legacy would be better served if I was given an advance on my claim to hire a Detective to go look for my daughter three psychics said I have, so our lives and our Creative Quests could go forward. No doubt this was the proof I might take Morris's life – and the Judge's?
My daughter came into my life for the first time in April of 2001.
These outsiders, whom I put Vicki and Mark Presco amongst, took my Miracle from me lest Heather Hanson be proof, God, and the might of the Right, was not on the outsiders side. The two greatest stories now being told are about the crucifixion of Jesus, and the Rosy Bloodline of the Holy Grail.
Dan Brown is being sued for plagiarism.This letter, and others I filed may constitute the only legal documents as to who owns this Rosy Story, and the Bloodline itself. When alas I reveal how this Rose Line came to America and was in the presence of our Founding Fathers and several Presidents, then all who read it will marvel, and know the Quest is for real, and has chosen my Rosy Family to once again to make its appearance so we may cast away the mask of illusion we have all come to wear.
That I would find the Good Templars, is profound, as in my webpage `Royal Rosamond Press Co' published in 1997, I declare myself a Nazarite Guardian of the Sober and Artistic Family Legacy. My discovery of the Rougemont Bankers and their kinship to the past owners of the Holy Shroud via the De La Roche family, is profound, for this name is sometimes spelled De La Rosa, meaning "of the rose".When I found my daughter I told her she was a Foundling, and how perfect this was in completing the Story of our Family,where "All's well, that ends well.
" This can only happen whey you cast out the un-creative ones who surround the Family Easel and the empty canvases that are waiting to be filled by the sensitive and inspired ones - even the crazyones...
.for it is they who had come to own the Impossible Dream.
To: Richard M.
Silver April 6, 1998Superior Court Judge, Monterey
From: John G. PrescoPresident: Rosamond Press Co.
Re: A Family of Foundlings.
Rosamond Probate MP12786
On December 24, 1997, the day before Christmas, with no hope of everseeing my family again, I discovered in the University of Oregon Library, my family surname, PRESCO, originally, BRASKEWITZ, isBohemian German for AMBROSIUS, or AMOBROSE, meaning "divine immortal".Rosemary told me he named Mark after The Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius who writing she greatly admired. Grail and Arthurian scholars have been concluding in the lat ten years that the true identity of King Arthur is Ambrosius Arealius.
I own a tape of my father's chart being interpreted by a famous Asrtologer he hiredwherein Vic is being told he was a famous Roman General in his past life. Vic and Mark are very attracted to the Military where god-likemen wield allot of power. Vic's secretaries who worked in his home, called our father `Vic the Nazi' because he watched these videos on Hitler and Germany and lamented that Germany had lost.
Mark admitted to me he is very prejudiced against minorities and has Fascist leanings. Mark Broderick Presco made weapons of war for Hughs Aircraft and owned the same top secret clearance the President owns.
Rosemary was not only sensitive, but psychic, as was Christine andI.
My mother was a great storyteller. She was mistaken as theactress who played Casandra in the original movie `Helen of Troy'.The Grail Bloodline descends from the Kings of Troy and Marcus Aurelius to our Rightwing President via the Windsors.
Who stands inthe way of the Right and the Self-righteous who admit they arewaging CULTURAL WARFARE against the Liberal crybabies. My claim andletter continues."As a coincidence, my father's mother's maiden name, BRODERICK, alsomean AMBROSE, a name that is said to stem from RHYDDERICK andmeans "son of Rhydderick".
WIZ means "son of". Rhydderick Hael is King Arthur's sword – his RHODEMUND.
My mother, ROSEMARY ROSAMOND, fell in love with a man born of TWO AMBROSES.
Her grandfather, THOMAS ROSAMOND, married a woman surnamedROSE. In theory, my father could have taken the name ROSEMOND, orROSEMAN, denoting a man who married a woman named ROSE. My motherwas a double ROSE.
A man can also be called ROSEMARY for the samereason. The name BROSEMAN is a form of AMBROSE, as is the name BRAOSE, also BRUS. Both spelling contain a rose.
Robert Bruce ofBrambler is the BRIAR ROSE. Fair Rosamond has been comparedto `Sleeping Beauty' and was titled a Magdalene. Royal's wife was MARY MAGDALENE ROSAMOND.
I have found a Welsh King named ROSE MARY. He is the father of the TUDOR ROSE.
My great grandfather was WENSELANTON BRASKEWITZ, and married MARIE ROTH, another Rosemary, as Rothis a Rose name.
There is the name EVEREUX, also EVEROSE a named thatstems from the winged Goddess, Nike of EVROS. We might be looking atthe secret name of the Plantagenent family, and the origin of thesurname PRESCOTE, as the first high king of England was AMBROSIUSAURELIUS, a Roman. My brother was named after Marcus.
As a boy, MERLIN was name AMBROSIUS. This magician was a Foundling,meaning "unfathered birth" Dionysus, Llew Llew, Taliesin, andMoses `The Rose of Sharon' were Foundlings and `Outcasts'. Bothbooks of the Bible are based upon the story of `The Prodigal Son'who, once lost, is now found – even AROSE from the dead.
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Former Texas beauty-queen Nelson tells--as written by sociologist Faulkner--of her eight-year affair with tennis great Martina Navratilova, as well as of the pair's litigious breakup and eventual out-of-court settlement. Nelson (a ``latter-day Doris Day,'' according to Rita Mae Brown's foreword), mother of two and married for 17 years, was introduced to the Czech superstar in 1982 by Nelson's 11-year-old son, Eddie. Nelson and Navratilova met again in 1984, and the mutual attraction proved so great that Nelson consulted a psychiatrist.
Even so, the tennis star moved in with the Nelson family while recovering from an injury. The details of what happened next aren't made clear, but Nelson's husband, increasingly aware of the pair's relationship, asked Navratilova to leave--and Nelson went with her, as her lover, traveling companion, and ``maid'' (Nelson later told 20/20's Barbara Walters that Navratilova paid her $90,000 a year for her services). The couple finally exchanged rings and vows in an empty church in Brisbane, Australia, and they later videotaped a ``nonmarital cohabitation agreement'' that became the focal point of the litigation when they split up.
Since homosexuality is illegal in Texas, and a court cannot enforce a contract to perform an illegal act, all parties were on unsure ground during the legal battle. Nelson charged not only breach of contract but claimed that she was entitled to the same rights as any spouse: half of all earnings garnered during the marriage. Navratilova countered that she thought she was agreeing only to a 50-50 split of any joint business venture.
The couple's businesses and real estate were divided up, but Nelson offers absolutely no details of the final agreement other than to note that her desire to write this book was one of the sticking points. Numerous questions go begging in the emotion-laden, self- serving text--making this hardly the work by which to judge Navratilova, the pair's relationship, or, for that matter, Nelson herself. (Illustrations) -- Copyright ©1993, Kirkus Associates, LP.
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