Feminists believe in ‘patriarchy theory’. In their twisted interpretation of the term, men as a class have always oppressed women as a class, and continue to do so. The indicators that this analysis is absurd are too numerous to count, but one interesting indicator is how male-dominated legislatures and judiciaries continue to decide divorce settlements for wives, some decades after women have had every employment opportunity men have. You might reasonably ask, ‘Why are ex-wives STILL entitled to fleece ex-husbands?’ In our public consultation document we seek an end to divorce as a route to personal enrichment.
If we lived in a patriarchy, these women would fare badly. Back in the real world, divorce remains a route to personal financial enrichment for wives, including adulterous wives, which brings us naturally to Pamela, Marchioness of Northampton (62), a woman who first married at the age of 18, and has so far had a 44-year-long career of fleecing rich men. Her story – and that of the four unfortunate men whose paths she has crossed – is told here.
The whole article is worth reading, but for those of you pressed for time, some key excerpts should suffice to give you the ‘meat and potatoes’ of her story. There’s no hint in the full-page story that the woman has ever had even a day’s paid employment in her life. In the final years of her 20-year-long marriage to Lord Northampton, she had an affair with one of his friends – a very rich man, what are the chances? – Dr Dan Stoicescu:
The 6ft 4in Marquess – Spenny to his friends – had to fight hard to restrict his own divorce settlement to £17 million, and that was despite her beginning an affair with one of his friends. She and the Marquess had been married for nearly 20 years. ‘She got £850,000 for each year of their marriage,’ snaps one of his close chums.’…
She wed a Scots businessman when she was 18, and then a wealthy Greek-American shipping financier when she was 31. When that marriage ended in the late Eighties, her property interests began. She was left with the £2 million marital apartment near the Royal Albert Hall in Kensington, which today would be worth in the region of £20 million…
But just as he was being named in court as Lady Northampton’s lover, Dr Stoicescu, 62, was embarking on another affair behind her back. By late 2012 he was married to Maria Torres, 50, from Santa Domingo in the Dominican Republic…
In her affidavit, Pamela is not only claiming the ownership of the Rancho Santa Fe house and its contents should be transferred to her, but is also claiming $10 million (£6 million) ‘special damages’, representing the value of other property that was allegedly promised but not paid.
She is also seeking general damages of $25,000 (£14,600) for her ‘severe emotional distress… anxiety, sleeplessness, depression and humiliation’….
The papers also disclose how Stoicescu had promised to keep her in the style to which she had become accustomed, including £30,000 a month to cover her ‘personal girlish stuff’…
Lord Northampton, a mere spectator to this domestic wrangling, is reluctant to say much, but told us: ‘It doesn’t surprise me that this is going on.’
His friends are less restrained. ‘Pamela is one of the most diabolical bitches I have had the misfortune of knowing,’ says one.
