Word: mcnutt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Alas, that was not to be. Not only did the couple split, but their parting has also culminated in a bizarre lawsuit filed against McNutt earlier this month by Zauhar and her brother John Dahl. The two are demanding more than $150,000 from the businessman, claiming that he accepted a lifesaving kidney from Dahl in exchange for a promise he did not keep: to love and care for Dorothy Zauhar always...
...months into the couple's courtship, McNutt, who suffered from a congenital kidney disorder, had begun dialysis treatment and learned that he would eventually need a kidney transplant. Zauhar was eager to donate one of her kidneys, but doctors determined she was not a medical match. By December 1994, after McNutt had presented Zauhar with a 3 1/2-carat, $21,500 engagement ring, Dahl stepped forward as a willing and suitable donor with a gentleman's understanding, Dahl says, that McNutt would buy him a life-insurance policy, give him money to compensate for the pay he'd lose while recovering...
...couple's romance had been moving rapidly--with McNutt purchasing a $500,000 home for the couple in October 1994. The wedding date was scheduled for September 1995, but McNutt postponed it. A second date was scheduled for July 1996, right after his operation, but McNutt canceled that plan too. Dahl says the insurance policy and cash never surfaced either. Last March, Zauhar says, she confirmed what she had suspected for months: that McNutt was seeing another woman, a dialysis nurse named Patti Sue Bennett. Zauhar left McNutt soon after. He in turn made Bennett his fourth wife in June...
...Although McNutt has refused to discuss the lawsuit publicly, his attorneys filed a motion to dismiss the suit last week and denied all allegations made in the complaint, pointing out that a team of doctors and psychologists would have refused the donated organ if Dahl had been unable to convince them that his motivation was anything but humanitarian. It is illegal in nearly every state to enter into a contract for organ donations...
...precisely because of these laws that Dahl is unlikely to win the reparations he is seeking for broken promises. "Even if McNutt did say what he is alleged to have said in the lawsuit," explains Stephen Munzer, a law professor at University of California, Los Angeles, "I doubt the court would regard this as an enforceable promise." McNutt may wind up vindicated, but his reputation in Duluth is shredded. Sentiment in this small industrial city lies with the woman scorned. Says a local resident and friend of Zauhar's: "Dorothy would have cut off her right arm for him." Alas...