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...DIED. SKEETER DAVIS, 72, one of America's first big-selling female country crossover acts, who hit the pop charts in 1963 with the ballad The End of the World and was a regular on the Grand Ole Opry radio show for 45 years; in Nashville, Tennessee. DIED. MARVIN MITCHELSON, 76, divorce lawyer whose advocacy of the right to alimony without marriage ("palimony") earned him a famous client list; in Beverly Hills, California . In 1976, he won a landmark lawsuit against actor Lee Marvin, whose lover, Michele Triola Marvin, had abandoned her nightclub singing career to be his companion. Mitchelson...
...disclosed that he has been taking medication for "schizophrenia" and often battled the "devils inside [my] tortured soul." Still, the arrest was a shock to many who felt Spector had mellowed. "The last three years, he's been as straight as any guy could be," says his friend Marvin Mitchelson, the divorce attorney. Adds a music exec who knows Spector: "I would have expected this 20 or 30 years...
...ride to a party in a chauffeured Kennedy campaign car that then collided with another car. The injured (and apparently ungrateful) foursome sued J.F.K. for $450,000. Among the plaintiffs: HUGH BAILEY, a colorful state senator known for his regular antics on a donkey, who hired lawyer Marvin Mitchelson, later of palimony fame. As Mitchelson's interrogatories began chipping into valuable White House time, J.F.K.'s lawyers tried a now familiar tactic. They argued that the Commander in Chief was temporarily protected from suit under the Soldiers' and Sailors' Civil Relief Act of 1940. A California court rejected the argument...
...enforcement authorities began investigating claims by two former clients that Mitchelson raped them. The lawyer hired well-known Los Angeles trial attorney Howard Weitzman, who currently represents Tyson in divorce proceedings with Givens, to defend him in the criminal case. The investigation was dropped in 1987 for lack of evidence. Both women, however, are suing Mitchelson in civil court. One of the women, Kristen Barrett- Whitney, claims that Mitchelson forced her to have sex with him in his office bathroom. "I've never raped anyone," says Mitchelson. Still, the old public relations pro admits the negative publicity is hurting business...
Charging $450 an hour to win huge settlements for his famous clients, Raoul Felder replaces Marvin Mitchelson as America' s No. 1 celebrity unhitcher...