“We’re middle-class people with middle-class values. We came to Palm Beach for what was supposed to be the best day in the lives of two human beings, and ended up with two full days of crass negotiations for a prenuptial agreement.
“It was like a business transaction. That attitude is foreign to us. There was such urgency on Fisher’s part, it bordered on desperation.”–Joe Bailer, the groom’s father
A man refused to go through with the wedding to his lawyer bride after the woman’s billionaire father “demanded hesign a last-minute amendment agreeing to pay the woman alimony, no matter how much she inherits from her dad.” Story below.
Billionaire’s daughter’s wedding called off at last minute as father objects to pre-nup
Daily Mail (UK)
January 15, 2008
The wedding of a billionaire’s daughter was called off at the last minute because of a change to the prenuptial agreement.
The bride and groom along with 300 guests were left in limbo as the society wedding of the season ground to a halt.
Three ballrooms had been reserved for the million-dollar celebrations at the exclusive Breakers Hotel in Palm Beach, Florida.
In the end, the two families ended up having separate parties in adjoining hotels to ‘celebrate’ the wedding that never happened.
Late in the evening, the bride, Alexandra Fisher, put in a brief, tearful appearance among her family, dressed in black.
Meanwhile, the groom, Josh Bailer, glumly nursed a drink with his best man and his 80 guests.
They had been dating for three years and engaged for 18 months.
Miss Fisher, 28, is the lawyer-daughter of American hotel tycoon Jeff Fisher.
Mr Bailer, 33, is a Wall Street trader, wealthy in his own right, but not in the same league as Mr Fisher who last year sold his Innkeepers hotel chain for nearly 1 billion.
Three days before the wedding, the couple happily signed a prenuptial contract in which it was agreed that if the marriage failed, both sides would walk away with no alimony payments.
But on the wedding day, Mr Bailer’s father, Joe, said Mr Fisher demanded that Josh sign a last-minute amendment agreeing to pay Alexandra alimony, no matter how much she inherits from her dad.
Read the full story here.
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PolishKnight said,
January 16, 2008 at 12:52 pm
donnieboy57 said,
January 16, 2008 at 1:17 pm
Virtue said,
January 16, 2008 at 1:25 pm
BobH said,
I just hope that the bride’s father paid for the wedding expenses.
January 16, 2008 at 1:28 pm
jaz said,
http://www.themishmash.com/2008/01/telltale-signs.html
January 16, 2008 at 1:37 pm
mdkn1 said,
What was the reason to get married anyway ?
January 16, 2008 at 3:19 pm
BobH said,
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/localnews/content/local_news/epaper/2008/01/11/a2a_josecol_0111.html?imw=Y
the important part of the story is a bit different:
“A source at the wedding overheard Fisher, who last year sold his hotel company, Innkeepers, for $1.5 billion, complain that Bailer wanted lifelong alimony if they divorced. Fisher wanted him to sign without such a clause, and Bailer balked.”
January 16, 2008 at 4:11 pm
BobH said,
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/localnews/content/local_news/epaper/2008/01/13/a2a_josecol_0113.html
What I want to know is: Why two articles by the same author in the same newspaper?????
January 16, 2008 at 4:48 pm
rastus said,
January 16, 2008 at 6:43 pm
amfortas said,
The Ali-money is for arse.
January 16, 2008 at 10:47 pm
poiuyt said,
But society has moved on and become much more dishonest and more cynical in matters to do with personal relationships. Wether or not to agree to a compatible marriage nowadays has been replaced by the question of how much more will a spouses life be materially enriched for free. Enriched for free that is, on account of their gender if they divorce after marriage ?
Elisabeth Hurley the British thespian was able to squeeze millions in child support amounts not out of Steve Bing, her sons father, but from Steve Bings billionaire parents. That is, from trust fund monies held for Steve Bings benefit.
Lionel Richie, the American performing artist was successfully sued by his ex-wife and step-kid for millions in alimoney and child support. Child support, that is, for the originally fatherless bastard, Nichole Richie. A Nichole whom was not even Lionels own daughter but taken on by himself as a humane gesture at the ex-wifes insistence.
The naked dancer Anna Nochole Smith was found by American courts, to be more entitled to a deceased Billionaires fortune than the Billionaires own legitimate sons. And on account of Anna Nicholes bastard son, the original court ruling is being used by other unscrupulous people to lodge vicarious claims for child alimoney on the estate of the deceased billionaire.
So you cannot really fault a Billionaire father in law, nor a well of son in law, for trying to work out in calculus their financial risk exposure from any prospective nupitals or marriage. Females have been enprostituted by this society into a species of entitled victim-parrasite, against whom males as fathers or husbands must take serious precautions.
January 17, 2008 at 8:29 am
Robert Stevens said,
I doubt if I will every legally marry again, quite frankly the legal agreement that marriage constitute in todays enviroment is not worth the paper it is written on. women today are socially, legally and morally irresponsible, they have been led to beleive equality is all goodies and benefits, that the drawbacks somehow do not appy to them. Now the legal system is a total fraud, stay away from it. If you have to deal with it, then deal with it from a distance. Always have some protection Postion your affairs so that they can’t get very much from you and even that will be very expensive for them. That folks is the only thing that will make women and the legal system that has supported them act reasonable. That is the only thing that will make them respect your rights. They can never be trusted to do the right thing, they have gotten away with doing wrong for so long they believe they have a right to act that way. So they have to be made to act right.
January 17, 2008 at 1:00 pm
Artfldgr said,
what everyone is assuming is that once a billionaire always a billionaire… and so they are assuming that if something happens she will get money…
but he may blow it all in a deal, have nothing left, and then what?
however, its none of his business… his business is whether he wants to give it away or not… or how… not in setting up rules that make giving it one way ok, and rules that say anotehr way etc. if that was the case, then he could have attached those rules to the will and we would ahve had the plot for a famous buster keaton movie.
however, he tried to add a rider to a contract that he is not a party to. in fact, he had no real authority to stop the wedding, and the poor bride and groom didnt have to listen to him at all…
i will guarantee that a few years from now… his daugter will no longer be talking to him… and then he will sit there, and say… “which was worth more.. the money i have after i am dead, of the love, respect, and commiseration of my daughter, her family, and grandchildren”
if he is still happy then… then he did the right thing (for him).
January 17, 2008 at 3:29 pm
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January 19, 2008 at 1:41 pm