Nightclub singer MICHELLE TRIOLA'S "palimony" case against macho actor Lee Marvin, who remained married to his wife Pamela through the years that Michelle and he also lived together, is our Mistress of the Monthly for December 2010.
Her 1977 Palimony case was a legal precedent in the still rarely publicly explored issues of what happens to the money when a person is in fact married to more than one other person at a time... In fact the word "Palimony" was made up in the press because of her case.
Michelle was brave to take the man she loved for so long to court knowing this could ruin her.
Michelle died at 75 years old, a little more than a year ago, October 2009. She did not go without love and companionship or die alone due to the spectacle that her suit caused. She was with actor Dick Van Dyke for 30 years after Lee Marvin.
We acknowledge that Michelle was a lover not a fighter and that loyalty meant more than anything to her. With respect, we honor her as Mistress of the Month.
(Linking here to a blog called POE FORWARD that has a tribute and good picture of her and Lee...)
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