EVEN PAULA ZAHN
Seems Paula Zahn and I were married to the "same guy." I haven't talked much about my marriage for the sake of my children but I will talk about it a bit more soon, in as polite as possible terms.
Constructive abandonment is a horrible thing. Especially when the spouse doing it won't let go. You are basically trapped. An agunah. Mine wouldn't. And the abuse along with my disability was enough to made me suicidal.
About 5 years into the abandonment I fell into an inappropriate relationship. Even though my husband and I were sharing a home (like Paula and her husband) we were not sharing a bed and hadn't for years. I called the couch my bed - which did wonders for my atypical M.S. (not)
My ex tried to sue the individual I had the emotional affair with for "procurement." He'd hacked my computer back when I didn't know much about internet privacy. I blocked that suit once. My ex has tried to hurt and embarass me like Paula's (via the kids, etc) - but I find truth & honesty is a good cure for that. The emotional affair I found out later was very one-sided. My vulnerability and low-self esteem had been preyed on. The legal wrangling still isn't over. I fully admit my mistake and have been doing teshuva ever since.
Paula, exercise caution honey. Your ex-husband had NO RIGHT to show that journal to your children. That was purposeful parental alienation. You're an attractive smart woman. Hold out for a man who cares about you. Find someone who genuinely loves & cares about you will set a good example for your children. Or you can join me in singlehood and celibacy and devote yourself to your career and children. I think there's more women than we know doing what we did. Sticking around for the kids, but after being abandoned in the marriage - turning to others hoping they want to share our affections. But, hopefully your situation is more honest than mine was. But, the choice is yours.
Zahn spells out her tryst?
Ex-CNN anchor Paula Zahn's steamy diary, which allegedly details her affair with a tycoon, was discovered by her husband and daughter, sources say.
Ex-CNN anchor Paula Zahn's steamy diary, which allegedly details her affair with a tycoon, was discovered by her husband and daughter, sources say.
Paula Zahn's words of love are coming back to haunt her now that the newswoman's estranged husband has his hands on a diary that lays bare her secret affair with another tycoon. "It's Paula's love book," a source tells us. "It documents her tryst" with married ContiGroup CEO Paul Fribourg.
What's in the private journal? "It's quite lurid," says the source. "Let's leave it at that."
Richard Cohen, the multimillionaire developer who has been the ex-CNN anchor's husband for 20 years, discovered the diary with their 17-year-old daughter, Haley, according to another source.
Friends of Zahn, 51, claim Cohen, 59, showed the diary to Haley and her brother, Jared, 13. "It was unnecessary and hurtful," says one pal, who contends Cohen has been "telling people all over town about the diary."
"Richard has never shown the diary to his other children [other than Haley]," argues one friend. "Richard doesn't want to drag Paula's dirty laundry through a public arena. He does not want to embarrass her or their children. All along, he's kept mum, even though he's the offended party."
Yet, so far, Cohen has refused to return Zahn's love diary, says one of her pals, who adds, "Even if he did, you'd have to wonder if he'd keep copies.
"You have to wonder why she put these feelings in writing. But I guess she's a journalist."
Last Friday, Zahn filed a 60-page suit in Manhattan Supreme Court demanding a forensic accounting of more than $25 million that she had entrusted to Cohen.
"Why shouldn't a money manager have the same obligation to a spouse that he has to any other partner in an investment fund?" asks Stanley Arkin, who is working with William Zabel on Zahn's legal team.Cohen has refused to deal with issues of child custody and visitation "unless she signs away her right to an accounting," according to one source. "He won't budge. He's so bitter."
The couple had been trying to live together in their Fifth Ave. co-op for the sake of their three children. (Their youngest, Austin, is 10.)
But, recently, a Zahn friend says, "He wanted her out of the house." She's since moved into an E. 76th St. full-floor rental, for which she's said to be paying $40,000 a month.
Zahn's suit "is a blatant ploy to crack a very solid prenuptial agreement," says one Cohen pal. "It's shameful. Paula had a certified net worth of about $250,000 when she came into this marriage. She's now worth tens of millions, thanks to Richard's investments. Their Greenwich, Conn., estate alone, which Richard has put solely in her name, cost more than her net earnings during her entire career." One source estimated Cohen spent more than $20 million on the prime country property.
"Paula's money was always dealt with in accordance with her written authorizations," adds a source. "She'll get everything the prenup provides for."Zahn's friends say she fell for Fribourg only after she and Cohen had long been living separate lives. She considered claiming "constructive abandonment" - a year-long absence of sex - as grounds for the divorce, says one source. "But she decided against that because it would just open the door for him to make the adultery claim."
A rep for Cohen declined to comment. Zahn is still said to be seeing grain-trading titan Fribourg, who is going through his own divorce from wife, Josabeth.
"Apparently, his divorce is relatively amicable," says a source.
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