Word: calls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Chair of the Campaign for the Harvard University Art Museums, Desmond G. FitzGerald '65, says he's too much of a "minor league" donor to receive a call from Rudenstine...
classmates. Occasionally, they ask him to make a personal call...
Unfortunately, Simpson couldn't even keep his "cry-for-help" story straight. When he first dialed the emergency line, Simpson pleaded for officials to help his 26-year-old girlfriend, Christine Prody. But by the time police officers responded to the call, Prody's perilous predicament had been replaced by a friend's two-day cocaine binge with Guerrero. And Prody was even feeling well enough to confirm this second version of the story...
...seems that Simpson has a personal vendetta against Guerrero. According to a broadcast of Simpson's 911 call, he told the operator, "I'm trying to get a girl to go to rehab. She's been doing drugs for two days with Pedro Guerrero, who just got arrested for cocaine, and I'm trying to get her to leave her house and go into rehab right now." Simpson's preoccupation with assisting the ill woman is almost completely overshadowed by the time spent giving incriminating details about Guerero...
Instead of focusing on the poor condition of his friend, Simpson seemed intent on pushing Guerrero further into his cocaine quicksand. Besides connecting Guerrero with another cocaine incident, the purpose of Simpson's emergency telephone call is just not clear. Also puzzling is the confused identity of the woman, first said to be Simpson's girlfriend, then changed to an unidentified friend. Asked about it, Simpson said, "There was a disturbance that I thought they should know about. It had nothing to do with me, nothing to do with my girlfriend" and added, "so don't go there...