Who Says Money Can't Buy Love?
Current mood: realistic
Category Romance and Relationships
Wed May 31, 7:12 PM ET (from Yahoo! News Online) Woman wins $2 million in matchmaker suit
A widow won $2.1 million from a high-priced matchmaker whom she claimed failed to deliver on promises of introductions to cultured, wealthy men.
Anne Majerik, a 60-year-old social worker from Erie, Pa., claimed in a lawsuit that she paid Beverly Hills matchmaker Orly Hadida $125,000 to be introduced to men who wanted monogamous relationships, earned more than $1 million and had estates of up to $20 million.
Instead, she said, she only got a few introductions to inappropriate men. For example, her suit claimed, the matchmaker's "international banker" turned out to be "an interpreter that worked in a bank."
Orly, an Israeli beauty pageant winner who goes by her first name, countersued. She alleged Majerik is a "serial matchmaker suer" who enjoyed herself with the men she met before claiming she had been "psychologically damaged by the process" and demanding compensation.
Orly claimed Majerik became her client after she helped the widow prevail in a lawsuit against another matchmaker, San Diego-based Valenti International. She said Majerik, whose husband died in 1999, gave her "enthusiastic feedback about nearly every man to whom Orly had introduced her."
A Los Angeles Superior Court jury ruled in Majerik's favor on Tuesday, although jurors weren't entirely sympathetic to her.
"We wanted to punish the defendant, but in the amount we wanted to punish the defendant, we didn't want to reward the plaintiff," said foreman Christie Troutt. "They were both wrong."
Orly's attorney said she plans to appeal.
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Majerik needs a reality check. Rich old men are not looking to date - let alone marry - women in their sixties.
Why did she pay a dating service all that money when she could have eliminated the middle man and offered $125,000 directly to the best qualified applicant? Or maybe $25,000 each to the top five? Or $5,000 each to the top twenty five?
She says she wants a monogamous relationship. Didn't somebody say, "Money changes everything"? But I digress......
If she's going to settle for just one man, let's hope she's smart enough to give him an allowance, not a check for $125,000.
(Deeplip)
Current mood: realistic
Category Romance and Relationships
Wed May 31, 7:12 PM ET (from Yahoo! News Online) Woman wins $2 million in matchmaker suit
A widow won $2.1 million from a high-priced matchmaker whom she claimed failed to deliver on promises of introductions to cultured, wealthy men.
Anne Majerik, a 60-year-old social worker from Erie, Pa., claimed in a lawsuit that she paid Beverly Hills matchmaker Orly Hadida $125,000 to be introduced to men who wanted monogamous relationships, earned more than $1 million and had estates of up to $20 million.
Instead, she said, she only got a few introductions to inappropriate men. For example, her suit claimed, the matchmaker's "international banker" turned out to be "an interpreter that worked in a bank."
Orly, an Israeli beauty pageant winner who goes by her first name, countersued. She alleged Majerik is a "serial matchmaker suer" who enjoyed herself with the men she met before claiming she had been "psychologically damaged by the process" and demanding compensation.
Orly claimed Majerik became her client after she helped the widow prevail in a lawsuit against another matchmaker, San Diego-based Valenti International. She said Majerik, whose husband died in 1999, gave her "enthusiastic feedback about nearly every man to whom Orly had introduced her."
A Los Angeles Superior Court jury ruled in Majerik's favor on Tuesday, although jurors weren't entirely sympathetic to her.
"We wanted to punish the defendant, but in the amount we wanted to punish the defendant, we didn't want to reward the plaintiff," said foreman Christie Troutt. "They were both wrong."
Orly's attorney said she plans to appeal.
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Majerik needs a reality check. Rich old men are not looking to date - let alone marry - women in their sixties.
Why did she pay a dating service all that money when she could have eliminated the middle man and offered $125,000 directly to the best qualified applicant? Or maybe $25,000 each to the top five? Or $5,000 each to the top twenty five?
She says she wants a monogamous relationship. Didn't somebody say, "Money changes everything"? But I digress......
If she's going to settle for just one man, let's hope she's smart enough to give him an allowance, not a check for $125,000.
(Deeplip)
posted by Deeplip at 9:13 AM
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