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Post by Crystal on Oct 18, 2005 21:17:43 GMT -5
It took months of legal battling and embarrassing national publicity, but writer Terry McMillan has finally ended her celebrated marriage to a Jamaican man 24 years her junior -- whom she belatedly realized was gay. "Our divorce was officially finalized on Oct. 4,'' the Danville resident wrote us this week. The best-selling author of "How Stella Got Her Groove Back'' said her ex-husband, Jonathan Plummer, is now "free to live anyway he sees fit.'' "I'm also free to move forward since I'm now out of this hellish holding pattern my life has been spinning inside of for the past nine months,'' McMillan said. News of the messy divorce, which we first reported in June, made headlines around the country. And while the publicized split may have taken an emotional toll on McMillan, her financial losses, at least from the looks of things, were limited. The Contra Costa County commissioner hearing the case ruled recently that the 30-year-old Plummer had no grounds to challenge the prenuptial agreement he signed with McMillan, 54, in 1998. The final settlement, according to interviews with attorneys on both sides of the case, calls for Plummer to receive about $50,000 -- $20,000 in cash, $20,000 to pay off the loan on his car and $10,000 in temporary spousal support. In one last gesture, McMillan sent Plummer's attorney an inscribed copy of "How Stella Got Her Groove Back'' with this parting shot: "You made me sick these last eight or nine months and I hope you rot in hell
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