Liza Minnelli and David Gest divorce - claims of herpes and poison

[Elvira]

Minnelli and Gest divorce battle gets poisonous

Last updated at 19:03pm on 4th September 2006

The extraordinarily bitter divorce battle between Liza Minnelli and David Gest has sunk to a sordid new low, with Gest accusing the Cabaret star of carrying a sexually transmitted disease.

In turn, the 60-year-old singer has claimed that her estranged husband tried to "poison" her.

These latest allegations, documented in papers filed in Manhattan's Supreme Court, come nearly three years after the couple first filed for divorce.

Fifty-three year old Gest is claiming that Miss Minnelli hid herpes simplex, a sexually transmitted infection, from him until after their marriage.

In the public court filing, Gest's lawyer demands to know when and how Minnelli became infected, stating that her medical condition may be used against the Oscar-winning star.

Indeed, if the four-times married singer had herpes before they got married in March 2002, Gest can cite fraud in the case, thus rendering the couple's pre-nuptial agreement null and void.

He admits, however, that he never contracted the disease during their time together.

At present, Gest is suing Miss Minnelli, the daughter of Judy Garland, for £7 million.

"David was devastated when he found [this] out a year after they had been together and six months after they were married," a source close to Gest told the New York Post.

In the same papers, Miss Minnelli asserts that she was "living in fear" during the 14-month marriage, adding that perma-tanned Gest was "trying to poison her with drugs."

The filing does not detail, however, just how Gest is supposed to have drugged Miss Minnelli, while lawyers for the producer have dismissed the charge as "ridiculous". They also point out that Miss Minnelli had a slew of bodyguards monitoring her at all times during the marriage.

But the papers do state that the star confided in a number of people about her concerns, including the actress Mia Farrow and concert producer Ron Delsener.

Miss Minnelli's legal team, meanwhile, is arguing that it is Gest who violated the pre-nuptial agreement "by seeking to learn the circumstances of the infection that was disclosed to him during the relationship, after unprotected relations".

The case goes back to court at the end of this week.

The allegations are the latest in a series of increasingly bitter and unpleasant slurs being traded by the former couple.

In papers filed in October 2003, Gest charged Miss Minnelli of physical assault, claiming that he had been left with "throbbing pain, headaches, vertigo, nausea, insomnia, mood dysphoria and phonophobia," after the marriage.

As acrimony mounts between the pair, Gest and Miss Minnelli are reported to have each hired private detectives to spy on one another.

This is the latest instalment in an exceedingly turbulent past few years for the Liza with a 'Z' star.

Aside from her failed marriages, she has been treated for alcoholism and in recent years has suffered bad health with a number of operations on her knees, hips and throat. Most recently she had encephalitis.

Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...n_page_id=1773

[Sojiita]

Is it herpes siimplex on or two?..One is just cold sores...and is really not a sexually transmitted disease..is it? I looke forward to more dirt from their freakshow divorce..they are pathetic. BOTH of them.

[twitchy]

"Fifty-three year old Gest is claiming that Miss Minnelli hid herpes simplex, a sexually transmitted infection, from him until after their marriage.
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He admits, however, that he never contracted the disease during their time together."

Of course he never got the disease from her. I cannot see them actually being intimate. That "kiss" at their wedding was awkward enough.

[Elise]

They are both disgusting freaks!

[Palermo]

That's it, who believes they actually had sex?

[Icepik]

Originally Posted by Palermo

That's it, who believes they actually had sex?

Oh, I do..

And lots of it...

That nasty, wild, animal sex!!

Picture that for a moment or 2

[NoDayButToday]

Ew. Icepik, you win for worst mental image of the day....

[Sojiita]

Originally Posted by Icepik

Oh, I do..

And lots of it...

That nasty, wild, animal sex!!

Picture that for a moment or 2

Great. I did just that... and 90% of the gray matter of my brain just dissolved into mush.

[Elvira]

Originally Posted by twitchy

"Fifty-three year old Gest is claiming that Miss Minnelli hid herpes simplex, a sexually transmitted infection, from him until after their marriage.
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He admits, however, that he never contracted the disease during their time together."

Of course he never got the disease from her. I cannot see them actually being intimate. That "kiss" at their wedding was awkward enough.

That kiss was so fake. He over acted and it looked ridiculous.

[Lil]

It was plainly the kiss of a man who had not kissed a woman in many years and really didn't want to again. Gruesome. Isn't there a picture somewhere?

[heart_leigh]

Ahh, I remember that slobfest. It looked so awkward

[Lil]

Ah yes - the headlock. So romantic.

[Icepik]

Originally Posted by Sojiita

Great. I did just that... and 90% of the gray matter of my brain just dissolved into mush.

Wait....!!!



















Did you picture them naked; her throwing a leg over him and riding him like the stallion he is??


Giddy-up!!

[aabbcc]

Originally Posted by Lil

Ah yes - the headlock. So romantic.

[Lorelei]

Ugh! That visual is so WRONG!