In Toronto Life Magazine, there’s an article about Eleanor McCain, the heir to the McCain fortune. She is currently divorcing Jeff Melanson, former president and CEO of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. In their divorce proceedings, she is claiming that he tricked her into marriage and is requesting an annulment on that basis.
An annulment would allow her to avoid paying him anything. According to the marital contract, he is entitled to $5 million (a paltry sum for a family worth $2 billion). Yet she is fighting him for every dime, hiring private investigators to dig up his past, paying the best lawyers to fight for her, and smearing his name across the country.
It is unlikely that she will convince a judge to grant her an annulment. It would be hard to show that she married him by reason of fraud or duress. She is a wealthy woman, with every advantage at her disposal. If she wanted to investigate him beforehand, she could have. No one held a gun to her head and forced her to marry him. To somehow say that she was duped into this marriage is a stretch. What it really sounds like is a severe case of buyer’s remorse. Someone quick – call the doctor and cure her of that.
To read more, click here: Public Enemies – McCain and Melanson
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