Word: sapelo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Reynoldses settled down to a quiet life in a Manhattan flat, a Palm Beach mansion, an estate near Winston-Salem, N.C., a Monte Carlo apartment, a Tahiti bungalow and a 30-room hideaway on Sapelo Island off the coast of Georgia. Every year, Buck Rabbit gave Doe Rabbit $125,000 in spending money, about $40,000 worth of jewels-and, presumably, all the Camels, Winstons and Salems she could smoke...
...somehow the idyl ended. Reynolds preferred to spend most of his time on Sapelo Island, with its two tennis courts, two swimming pools and its airstrip. There, Muriel's only real companion was Buck Rabbit, whose disposition had been considered none too amiable even before he came down with pulmonary emphysema (a serious lung disease...
...testified to any sort of misbehavior by Muriel, Reynolds sued her for divorce, charging "prior cruelty," which Muriel hotly denied. She presented an affectionate letter from Reynolds to prove that he had not felt himself very cruelly treated. The suit was first heard in Mclntosh County, Ga., which includes Sapelo Island. Reynolds' spending habits make for one of Mclntosh's biggest industries, and Muriel did not do well before county jurors. They awarded Reynolds, who did not appear in court, his divorce, and allowed Muriel only $1,042 a month in permanent alimony...
Marriage Revealed. Richard J. Reynolds, 55, playboy heir to a $25 million tobacco (Camel cigarettes) fortune, onetime mayor of Winston-Salem, N.C., and current lord of Sapelo Island, a private domain off Georgia, who spent $10.1 million shedding his other wives; and Anne-marie Schmitt, 31, a pretty Ph.D. from Germany; he for the fourth time, she for the first; aboard a cruise ship in the South China Sea, March...