Word: dever
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Shah says he phoned his ex-wife's father and asked, "Would you please call Ellen and tell her not to panic? I know how she feels because I know how I felt when it happened to me." Dever, according to her Swiss attorney, Joerg Blum, "is O.K., but of course very upset and anxious...
...Although Dever had not returned to her Lucerne apartment for fear of arrest on U.S. child-concealment charges, Shah said, he has been in touch with her by phone and has put the girls on to talk with their mother. He said he has told Dever that "we'll work it out. We are going to put our egos aside and do what's right for the girls...
...Shah and Dever, subjects of a TIME cover story last May, had met in 1981 at Philadelphia Bank where both worked, he as a star developer of automated-teller systems. After they married, Shah started his own company, which he and his partners later sold for $200 million. The couple became socially prominent in Philadelphia's old-money Main Line suburbs...
...their marriage was coming apart, and it ended in divorce. He accused her of infidelity, and she later accused him of physically abusing her. Shah denied her allegations, but they exacerbated a custody battle that led Dever to seek out the controversial Faye Yager, an Atlanta woman who has helped alleged abuse victims disappear into an international underground. Shortly after her contact with Yager, Dever and her daughters vanished. Shah then won custody of the girls in court, and Dever was charged with child concealment and unlawful flight to avoid prosecution...
Shah tried last week to make up for lost time with his daughters, who can now speak German and Italian. And lawyers on all sides searched for a resolution that might restore some normalcy to their lives. Shah said he doesn't want Dever jailed or kept away from the girls. "I would never deprive my children of their mother. No one has that right...