I'm glad John came to his senses & decided this woman may not be the perfect choice to spend the rest of his life with & start a family with. It looks like she might be one of those "its all about me" folks who doesn't really care about what problems she's caused others - just as long as she gets what SHE THINKS she is entitled to. Should she be rewarded for her bad behavior. I don't remember - did she have to repay the police for all the money spent when they were trying to find her? If any of the money goes to her - It seems that she would need to repay the taxpayers for the money wasted on investigations & searches resulting from her little hoax. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ http://articles.news.aol.com/news/_...e/20061009224709990002?ncid=NWS00010000000001 Runaway Bride Sues Former Fiance LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. (Oct. 10) - Jennifer Wilbanks, who became known as the "runaway bride" after taking off just days before her lavish wedding in 2005, is suing her former fiance for $500,000. Wilbanks and John Mason broke up for good in May, about a year after her excursion to Las Vegas and New Mexico made international headlines while hundreds of friends and family members searched for her back home in suburban Atlanta. Mason has until Oct. 22 to respond to the lawsuit, filed last month in Gwinnett County's Superior Court. The suit, Wilbanks vs. JCM Consulting et al, was filed Sept. 13, according to court records. In it, Wilbanks seeks $250,000 as her share of a home Mason purchased through the partnership with proceeds from $500,000 received for selling their story to an agent, plus $250,000 in punitive damages for allegedly abusing the power of attorney she granted for him to handle their financial affairs, according to Atlanta television station WAGA, which reported on the lawsuit Monday night. She also seeks the return of personal property she claims he has kept. Wilbanks disappeared four days before her April 30, 2005, wedding. Hundreds of police and volunteers searched for her for three days before she called Mason from Albuquerque, N.M., claiming to have been abducted and sexually assaulted. She later recanted, saying she fled because of unspecified personal issues, and pleaded no contest to telling police a phony story. She was sentenced to two years' probation and performed community service that included mowing the lawns of public buildings. 10/09/06 22:45 EDT
You forgot the 3rd option (and the one I would have voted for) ... neither of them deserve to make a penny off this. :x But, of the two choices you gave, I'd have to say let him have the money, as punative damages for what she put him through. :wink:
Considering what my college roommate went through when she WAS kidnapped from a parking lot, driven to a remote area, and raped, I think this woman deserves NOTHING for lying about this incident. ()Luckily she survived and they caught him.) Unfortunately, it could make people skeptical of a woman who has had this happen to her...."That couldn't have really happened, remember that woman in Georgia?" Personally, I think they should give EVERY penny to reimburse the law enforcement agencies who spend days searching for her sorry rear end! (He can keep the money from the book deal, though. That is, if anyone wants to buy his book!)
Did not vote and don't care. I agree the law enforcement agencies deserve first cut, then split the rest between these two fools.
The mentality of some people like this woman makes me sick. Personally if she is awarded anything will only set the precedence for other wack-os like her. Drama queens are a dime a dozen and the court system is full of opportunist like her trying to get a buck. She needs to be held accountable for her actions because she did know what she was doing and she did take valuable resources away when they could have been better utilized on something else. By making her ex pay her in a sense is only making him accountable for her idiotic actions. I know what it is like to pay for someone elses stupidity!!!!!!
Wasn't the money half hers in the first place? It seems she would be entitled to get that back, anyway. And his attorney said he has already offered to deliver the personal property that belongs to her. A lot of divorce cases get this contentious, but these two didn't even get married! Geez!
If it were me I would make the law suite null for putting me through the BS! It should be about accoutability and nothing else. The 2 years probation doesn't do the crime justice at all.
