Runaway bride files lawsuit against ex-fiancAc
Jennifer Wilbanks, better known as the runaway bride, is taking her former fiancAc, John C. Mason, to court. Wilbanks claims he took advantage of her hospitalization to defraud her of her share of the proceeds from a book deal about their experience.
In 2005, Wilbanks ran off four days before her wedding. She turned up in New Mexico, claiming she had been abducted and sexually assaulted. She later recanted, saying she fled because of personal issues, and pleaded no contest to telling police a phony story.
In a lawsuit filed September 13, she and her lawyer said that while she was hospitalized and under medication, she granted Mason power of attorney to negotiate the sale of the couple's story to a publisher in New York, and Mason struck a deal for $500,000.
Wilbanks claimed Mason used the money to buy a house in his name only, and later evicted her from the home.She is seeking $250,000 as her share of the home, and $250,000 in punitive damages for alleged abuse of the power of attorney.
Wilbanks and Mason broke up for good in May.
—CNN
More wedding blues...
Adam Sutton's detailed plan to propose to Erika Brussee on a small chartered plane near Rome, Ga. in July, failed as the engine stalled and the plane crashed. The plane landed near their friends on the ground who were holding up signs with the proposal to Brussee. Though the crash caused minor injuries, Brussee said yes.
—Reuters
Earlier in June, Mark Papkey's elaborate plan to propose to Holly Barnes on a hot air balloon near Boston did not work either. The balloon drifted in the wilderness, fuel ran out, and the couple was forced to spend the night in the woods before being rescued. Barnes still said yes.
—Boston Herald
In September, Kand Blakney went to the courthouse for her wedding in Wichita, Kan. However, when the clerk pulled up her marriage license, two outstanding arrest warrants also came up. Blakney was then jailed in her wedding dress.
—Wichita Eagle
