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Gazing down from the ceiling of the art-and antique-filled office in Los Angeles' Century City is an oversized, backlighted color transparency of a Botticelli Venus. Sitting below the goddess of love in a thronelike chair, once owned by Rudolph Valentino, is Marvin Mitchelson, a divorce lawyer who has made millions off love gone wrong in Hollywood. Since the mid-1960s, Mitchelson, 50, has piled up a long list of financially rewarding victories in celebrity divorce battles, sometimes representing big- name clients (Rhonda Fleming, Connie Stevens, Red Buttons) but more often fighting for the showfolks' spouses. Among...
Next week a Los Angeles jury will begin hearing another Mitchelson case: the long pending "divorce" suit against Actor Lee Marvin by his former live-in girlfriend, Michelle Triola Marvin. The case, Mitchelson happily admits, is one "I'd been waiting for," and it has already had wide repercussions...
Though Michelle legally took Marvin's last name, the two were never married. After meeting on the set of Ship of Fools in 1964, they embarked on a six-year relationship that ended in 1970, when Marvin moved out and married Pamela Feeley, his high school sweetheart. Michelle, now 46, says that when she and Marvin split, he began paying her a stipend of $800 a month. But Marvin, 54, cut her off after a year, and she went to Mitchelson. He filed suit on her behalf, demanding full payment of what Michelle said Lee had promised...
...trial, Mitchelson will attempt to emphasize that the Marvin-Triola relationship was a marriage in all but name. He will argue that Michelle agreed to give up a promising singing career to care for Marvin in return for half of his earnings. His brief never mentions the bedroom but rather speaks in terms of "housekeeper, cook, confidante" and "joint bank accounts...
...court, he makes the most of what he describes as a talent for being "emotionally logical." In custody cases, he has been known to weep before a jury, out of what he asserts is "genuine concern for the parent who is feeling pain." As for the Marvin case, he describes it sanctimoniously as a quest "to permit unmarried women the dignity of walking through the front door of a courthouse" to seek "just and fair treatment...