Cheating Wife Gets Millions In Divorce I guess it IS true blonds have more fun ====================== Friday, March 25, 2005 Posted: 5:04 PM EST (2204 GMT) BRIDGEPORT, Connecticut (AP) -- A judge has awarded the former wife of a multimillionaire businessman a divorce settlement worth more than $40 million even though she admitted having affairs with her rock-climbing guide and a man she met on a flight to China. In addition to a $24 million payment, Susan Sosin will keep the couple's $3.6 million Manhattan apartment, $2 million Utah ski house and $800,000 home in Wallkill, New York. But she has to vacate the couple's two mansions in Connecticut and three desert properties in Arizona. In the divorce granted Wednesday, she also gets to keep $6 million in her brokerage accounts, eight cars and $2.9 million in jewelry, including a ruby piece her husband had bought for her but hadn't given to her prior to their divorce. Richard Albrecht, attorney for Sosin's husband, Howard, estimated the total value of the award at $43 million, or 27 percent of the estate. She wanted half, he said. "My opinion is her conduct in this matter affected the award," Albrecht said. Susan Sosin's lawyer, Frederic J. Siegel, estimated the total value of the award was about $45 million and said his client asked for about 45 percent of the estate. "By anybody's standards, it's a large amount of money," Siegel said. "Both parties will be able to move on with their lives." Siegel said both sides were at fault for the divorce and defended his client as a good mother. Howard Sosin, 54, who founded AIG Financial Products in 1987, filed for divorce after discovering his wife's relationships in February 2003. During an upgrade of their computer system, he found hundreds of e-mails between his wife and her lover, according to testimony. Susan Sosin, 51, admitted in testimony that she had become intimate with a guide while rock climbing in 1996, though she said it was a spontaneous and isolated occurrence. During a flight to China in 2000, she met a married man, and that led to a lengthy affair, according to testimony. "The parties' marriage has been undeniably marred by the defendant's infidelity," Superior Court Judge Howard Owens stated in his verdict. "Although her sexual relationship was not the sole cause of the breakdown, it did effectively terminate the marriage." Howard Sosin's wealth was estimated at $168 million. Among the assets he gets to keep are $89 million in bank accounts, 10 of the couple's 18 cars, $960,000 worth of private club memberships and $22 million in fine art. The couple met in 1978 when Howard Sosin was an assistant professor at Columbia University. At the time, she was married to another man and working in retail. Howard Sosin served as the president and chief operating officer of AIG Financial Products until 1993 when he left the company. Following litigation, he received $182 million from AIG. Copyright 2005 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
What a load of ****. Lady cheats on her husband with two different men. The husband has proof. And the wifey poo still gets 40 + Million. That just Sux.
A few stats for you... 17 percent of marriages end as the result of infidelity Men are twice as likely as women to be unfaithful at least once during their marriage. Men are four times as likely as women to have multiple affairs. 70 percent of married women and 54 percent of married men did not know of their spouses' extramarital activity. By the way, if this is a community property state (like Texas) and there was no pre-nuptual agreement, what happened here was just the law, plain and simple.
You guys are missing the point....there is a rich woman out there that is available. Marry her NOW, and get half !! GO BOYS GO ! DD™
I think the phrase is men are as likely to be caught also alot of those are stats are from before the days of the TRULY LIBERATED WOMAN of the 90s and 2k remember. . . Pedophioles use to infer men now it gaining momentum on the other side. Rocket River
ONE MORE THING Justice . .. and THE LAW are rarely the same thing I think their should be a SALARY CAP on Alimony, Child Support etc. Why should one parent pay more than the other earns? Rocket River
Everything was disocered because of an 'upgrade" which is what he probably did to get into this sitauation in the first place. Irony at its best.
Actually, those stats were taken from a combination of surveys taken between 2001 and 2003. Men are still far more likely to cheat than women. It doesn't make it right on either side, but it is reality. As for pedophilia, it isn't even close. The last survey I saw (it came from my mom who is a therapist) showed that in 75 percent of pedophilia cases, the perpetrator was a man.
Do you buy that? Most boys/men won't admit they were sexually assaulted bu a woman. Hell, if I were 13 and some 30 year old woman tried to seduce me, I'd doubt I would complain.
Only about 1/3 of all molestations of women are reported - rape, pedophilia, etc. The same goes for molestation of men, but women are responsible for just over 10 percent of the sexual molestations of men. Even in those cases, men are FAR more likely to molest boys and other men than women are. When it comes to sexual predatory behavior, men are far and away more likely to be predators than women. Those are just the raw numbers. That doesn't even account for the mountains of research done on the subject that go even further to demonstrate the reality of those facts. My mom has worked in this field for 30 years and the reality is that men are just more prone to this type of behavior than women.
