Terry McMillan, whose affair with a man half her age was dramatized her novel “When Stella Got Her Groove Back,” might have thought her prenuptial agreement, negotiated after five months with his attorneys, protected her against gold-digging, but her now ex-husband is challenging the validity of it in a threatened bid for the millions of dollars she’s earned as a writer during their six-year marriage, and has already punished her failure to give into the extortion by submitting embarrassing court filings, which the press has been happy to publicize. (And not only is he young and good-looking, but the Diablo Valley College drop-out knows how to use terms like “Hobson’s choice” and “de minimus [sic]” in a sworn affidavit!) To add insult to injury, a judge has ordered her to pay her ex-husband’s attorney’s fees of $25,000 so he can litigate the matter against her. (Phillip Matier, Andrew Ross, “Epilogue for ‘Stella’ author: a messy divorce”, SF Chronicle, Jun. 26; Ann Gerhart, “Terry McMillan’s Epilogue to ‘Groove’ Affair”, Washington Post, Jun. 29 (via Weiner)).

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