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Then, at an age when even the world's most fortunate women find new love elusive, Zauhar met a man who seemed to be life's recompense for all her hardships. In the spring of 1994, Zauhar was introduced to Richard McNutt, a Duluth millionaire and founder of the local Inter City Oil Co. Says Zauhar's old friend Lillian Stocke, who had been the matchmaker: "They were both very vivacious and seemed to have the same types of interests...
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...
...Strong Is The Earth? A View From Beneath Its Greatest Mountains: Marcia McNutt, Gilman Roon, Agassiz House, Radcliffe Yard...