A man shot his wife's friend, then turned the gun on himself after a deadly domestic dispute in Hollywood last night, police said.
The tragedy unfolded when Zacharia Fernandez's estranged wife and her friend arrived at his Hollywood home to pick up the couple's 9-year-old child shortly before 6 p.m., authorities said.
News that the marriage of Norman, winner of two golfing majors, and Evert, winner of 18 tennis grand slam singles titles, had hit the rough was delivered by a spokesman for Norman, who announced the split just days before Norman was due to captain an international team at the Presidents Cup.
Friends, speaking to London's Daily Mail, said the split was no surprise to anyone who knew them. But it was news to Norman's first wife of 26 years, Laura Andrassy, who wasted no time talking to media about the demise of the marriage of her former husband and one-time friend.
Speaking from New York, an ebullient Ms Andrassy speculated that Norman and Evert loved themselves too much to love each other and jumped into marriage too quickly.
As they continue to argue over such things as paying for vet bills and their adult son's $3,700 class ring, legal fees are piling up and the potential for a high-profile trial threatens to derail the modest progress Jim Gibbons has made to rehabilitate his image with voters.
"Jim Gibbons has done a nice job, politically speaking, in the last three or four weeks," Republican strategist Ryan Erwin said. "He's picked better fights. He's been more articulate. On an issue or two, he's actually led, something that had been markedly absent from the previous months in his term.
The Texas man seeking a divorce from his estranged husband said Sunday that the gay community rebuffed him.
Appearing on ABC's Good Morning America Weekend, the man, identified only as J.B., said, “Some of the greatest negative feedback that I've gotten has been from the gay and lesbian community. The legal community in the gay and lesbian community specifically.”
Texas District Judge Tena Callahan ruled Thursday that the two men married in Massachusetts may divorce in the state. The ruling was quickly criticized by conservative Republicans who support the state's constitutional ban on gay marriage approved by voters in 2005.
“The laws and constitution of the State of Texas define marriage as an institution involving one man and one woman,” Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott said in a statement. “Today's ruling purports to strike down that constitutional definition – despite the fact that it was recently adopted by 75 percent of Texas voters.”
Governor Rick Perry, who supports the ban, called the ruling “flawed.” Abbott said he would appeal the ruling “to defend the traditional definition of marriage.”
It's not what you think.
On second thought, it's exactly what you think: The Gosselin who found himself on the losing side of the public sympathy battle is taking a stab at some crafty legal (not to mention PR) maneuvering in a bid to save a little face and not get completely short-shrifted in his divorce.
Which, with Kate as our witness, will go through as planned.
While Jon Gosselin's rep confirmed to E! News that the octodad did in fact cop to In Touch Weekly that he "used poor judgment in publicly socializing with other women so soon" after his divorce—sorry, Hailey, that was his plural, not ours—and that he would "like to get back with Kate as a partner in parenting," that's about as far as his plans for reconciliation span.
And that's despite his submission to a court-approved Pennsylvania arbitrator this morning seeking to suspend his divorce proceedings for 90 days.
Here’s how one female celebrity last week described her divorce settlement. “When we married we had no money between us. I then worked and supported us and made a lot of money while he trained as a doctor.
“When we divorced, he got a huge settlement from me,” recalled the celebrity, who asked not to be named. “He was a surgeon, he wasn’t penniless by any means. I’m the mother of his children and I’ve been bringing them up ever since.
