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Cubbie Bear · Post by **Cubbie Bear** » October 10, 2006 2:15 pm

no offense Jodi, The Bug-eyed b**** is back
'Runaway Bride' Sues Her Former Fiance

By JOHN C. CLARK
Associated Press Writer
Published October 10, 2006, 11:53 AM CDT

LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. -- The "runaway bride," who took off days before her lavish wedding in 2005, is suing her former fiance for $500,000, claiming he defrauded her out of her share of their assets.

Jennifer Wilbanks is seeking $250,000 as her share of a home she says John C. Mason purchased through the partnership with proceeds from $500,000 received for selling their story to Regan Media in New York.

She also wants $250,000 in punitive damages for alleged abuse of the power of attorney she granted for Mason to handle their financial affairs.

In addition, letters included as exhibits in the lawsuit show that the former couple has been in dispute over personal property Wilbanks claims Mason has kept. The items include a ladder that belonged to her father, a gold-colored sofa, a new vacuum cleaner and wedding shower gifts. Mason's attorney wrote to Wilbanks' attorney in July that his client had agreed to deliver those items. The court filings do not show whether the items were returned.

Wilbanks and Mason broke up for good in May, about a year after her excursion to Las Vegas and New Mexico made international headlines while hundreds of friends and family members searched for her back home in suburban Atlanta.

Mason has until Oct. 18 to respond to the lawsuit, filed last month in Gwinnett County's Superior Court. The lawsuit, Wilbanks vs. JCM Consulting and Mason, was filed Sept. 13, according to court records.

Wilbanks' attorney, Michael Wetzel, and Mason's father, Claude, declined comment Tuesday morning. John Mason's attorney, James C. Watkins, did not return a phone call seeking comment.

The lawsuit says the $500,000 was put into an account of JCM Consulting, based in Gwinnett County. After Wilbanks was "hospitalized and under medication," Mason bought a home in Dacula in his name with the money, the lawsuit alleges.

The lawsuit claims that Wilbanks asked JCM Consulting during the summer for various documents, but the firm didn't give her records of bank accounts. Through the lawsuit, she wants to inspect and copy those records.

Wilbanks also claims that Mason used the company to defraud her.

Wilbanks disappeared four days before her planned April 30, 2005, wedding. Hundreds of police and volunteers searched for her for three days before she called Mason from Albuquerque, N.M., claiming to have been abducted and sexually assaulted.

She later recanted, saying she fled because of unspecified personal issues, and pleaded no contest to telling police a phony story.

She was sentenced to two years' probation and performed community service that included mowing the lawns of public buildings.

News of the lawsuit was first reported Monday night by WAGA-TV.

RinglingRingling · Post by **RinglingRingling** » October 10, 2006 2:17 pm

given the amount of crap she put him thru, and the folks who spent all that time looking for her on her little freakout, it would be best if she just kept her mouth shut and considered it the price for screwing so many people over.

I'm willing to bet when the fiance found out she was just nuts and not kidnapped, he wished he could have arranged a more permanent departure.

SchoolGirlHeart · Post by **SchoolGirlHeart** » October 10, 2006 2:20 pm

RinglingRingling wrote:given the amount of crap she put him thru, and the folks who spent all that time looking for her on her little freakout, it would be best if she just kept her mouth shut and considered it the price for screwing so many people over.

I'm willing to bet when the fiance found out she was just nuts and not kidnapped, he wished he could have arranged a more permanent departure.

Maybe she freaked out because he pushed her over the psychological edge......

Bottom line is that we have no idea what transpired between those two, but certainly there ARE two sides to this bizarre story.....

sunseeker · Post by **sunseeker** » October 10, 2006 2:22 pm

Cubbie Bear wrote:
The items include a ladder that belonged to her father, a gold-colored sofa, a new vacuum cleaner and wedding shower gifts.

aren't you supposed to return those if the wedding doesn't happen??

RinglingRingling · Post by **RinglingRingling** » October 10, 2006 2:41 pm

SchoolGirlHeart wrote:
RinglingRingling wrote:given the amount of crap she put him thru, and the folks who spent all that time looking for her on her little freakout, it would be best if she just kept her mouth shut and considered it the price for screwing so many people over.

I'm willing to bet when the fiance found out she was just nuts and not kidnapped, he wished he could have arranged a more permanent departure.
Maybe she freaked out because he pushed her over the psychological edge......

Bottom line is that we have no idea what transpired between those two, but certainly there ARE two sides to this bizarre story.....

we are going to have to agree to disagree. She bailed, and by the accounts it was because the wedding plans had mushroomed. That is the bride's side of the obligation tree.

buffettbride · Post by **buffettbride** » October 10, 2006 2:46 pm

I hate The Drake.

chippewa · Post by **chippewa** » October 10, 2006 2:52 pm

buffettbride wrote:I hate The Drake.

They never did get that big-screen TV back, did they?

mermaidindisguise · Post by **mermaidindisguise** » October 10, 2006 3:37 pm

They got $500,000 for that story.... that is just wrong..... I bet the planned the whole thing to get the money....lol

RinglingRingling · Post by **RinglingRingling** » October 10, 2006 3:47 pm

mermaidindisguise wrote:They got $500,000 for that story.... that is just wrong..... I bet the planned the whole thing to get the money....lol

some states make it illegal for the perpetrator to benefit materially from their crimes..

sunseeker · Post by **sunseeker** » October 10, 2006 3:51 pm

It seems to me if she had been truly impaired emotionally or psychologically, she wouldn't have sold the rights to the story...

AND they kept the gifts....sorry...still TACKY

RinglingRingling · Post by **RinglingRingling** » October 10, 2006 3:55 pm

sunseeker wrote:It seems to me if she had been truly impaired emotionally or psychologically, she wouldn't have sold the rights to the story...

AND they kept the gifts....sorry...still TACKY

tackyness is not an emotional or mental impairment...

SharkOnLand · Post by **SharkOnLand** » October 10, 2006 4:17 pm

There needs to be a big penalty for people who bring civil lawsuits and lose. Like the loser has to pierce their genitalia on national TV or something. There's too many frivolous lawsuits in this country. Give the idiots something bigger to worry about than simply attorney's fees.

"Should I sue for $500,000 and possibly lose my left nipple?" And think of the ratings if they put it on cable.... Hmm... Where's Mark Burnett?

buffettbride · Post by **buffettbride** » October 10, 2006 4:21 pm

SharkOnLand wrote: Like the loser has to pierce their genitalia on national TV or something.

Some people do that for fun!

Steve-O of Jackass fame was arrested and charged with lewd behavior for stapling his scrotum to himself. I'm too lazy to link to the Smoking Gun mugshot.

LIPH · Post by **LIPH** » October 10, 2006 4:22 pm

SharkOnLand wrote:There needs to be a big penalty for people who bring civil lawsuits and lose. Like the loser has to pierce their genitalia on national TV or something. There's too many frivolous lawsuits in this country. Give the idiots something bigger to worry about than simply attorney's fees.

In some countries the loser has to pay the other side's attorney fees.

SharkOnLand · Post by **SharkOnLand** » October 10, 2006 4:30 pm

buffettbride wrote:
SharkOnLand wrote: Like the loser has to pierce their genitalia on national TV or something.
Some people do that for fun!

Steve-O of Jackass fame was arrested and charged with lewd behavior for stapling his scrotum to himself. I'm too lazy to link to the Smoking Gun mugshot.

To make it more interesting, he does the piercing:

I'm surprised those Jackass idiots are still around... They're proving to be a flaw in Darwin's Law.

RinglingRingling · Post by **RinglingRingling** » October 10, 2006 4:46 pm

SharkOnLand wrote:
buffettbride wrote:
SharkOnLand wrote: Like the loser has to pierce their genitalia on national TV or something.
Some people do that for fun!

Steve-O of Jackass fame was arrested and charged with lewd behavior for stapling his scrotum to himself. I'm too lazy to link to the Smoking Gun mugshot.
To make it more interesting, he does the piercing:

I'm surprised those Jackass idiots are still around... They're proving to be a flaw in Darwin's Law.

they haven't started playing with explosives in close proximity. just lots of broken bones..

ToplessRideFL · Post by **ToplessRideFL** » October 10, 2006 6:03 pm

I dont know or care about why the wedding was cancelled.....however the gifts should have been returned...period.

ragtopW · Post by **ragtopW** » October 10, 2006 8:42 pm

ToplessRideFL wrote:I dont know or care about why the wedding was cancelled.....however the gifts should have been returned...period.

I just feel bad for the family..

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