(He admits in court papers "a gross error of judgment" in taking $62,000 without her knowledge, but said that he was financially dependent on her during the marriage and that he intends to pay it back.) McMillan obtained a restraining order to keep Plummer from their house, and she claimed she recently discovered that Plummer had embezzled at least $200,000 from her bank accounts before and during their marriage. In any event, judging from the court filings, the disclosure quickly turned ugly. She also says she later learned that Plummer was participating in online gay chat sites. In court records, however, McMillan says Plummer confessed to being gay only after she confronted him about all his hours of phone calls to a male friend living in Jamaica. ![]() ![]() "I was kicked out of the house in December right after I told her," he said in the interview. It wasn't until just before last Christmas, Plummer says, that the two finally split - after he revealed he was gay. Plummer said he was spending long hours with a dog-grooming business in Danville that McMillan had set up for him a couple of years ago in apparent anticipation of a split. "He became less attentive, less charming, more distracted and absent from the home," McMillan wrote in her declaration. The couple settled in McMillan's $4 million Danville home and, at least according to Plummer, enjoyed a happy life - until the last few years when the marriage started coming undone. 8, 1998 - but not before Plummer signed a prenup that waived his rights to everything should they ever part, including "temporary and permanent spousal support and attorney's fees, " according to court papers filed by McMillan. The two eventually married in Maui on Sept. "But Jonathan was very charming and made me believe that he was crazy about me," she told the court. "I was a 20-year-old kid when I met her and had no idea that she was anybody other than an attractive, older woman," he said in court papers.įor her part, McMillan, who was then 42, said she worried when she first met Plummer that he was interested only in her money. Nor, he says, did he seize on the author's fame. In an interview, Plummer insisted that he didn't know he was gay when he met McMillan in June 1995 at a Jamaican resort. ![]() In fact, McMillan says Plummer zeroed in on her precisely because of her celebrity status as an author whose earlier books included "Waiting to Exhale, " which sold some 4 million copies and was made into a movie. "Jonathan has manipulated me from the very beginning in his scheme to come to the United States, become a citizen and get rich through someone else's effort," McMillan wrote in one of her filings. In court papers, however, McMillan leaves little doubt that she believes Plummer was always motivated by money. and that allows Jonathan sufficient funds to re-establish himself," Sargent said. "All I want to do is settle the case in a way that's fair to both parties. Plummer's attorney, Dolores Sargent, said her client has no interest in embarrassing McMillan or extorting money from her. He also claims he was denied his full share of royalties, as spelled out in the prenup, from "How Stella Got Her Groove Back," the fictionalized account of a single mother's torrid relationship with a Jamaican young enough to be her son that very much parallels the lives of McMillan and Plummer.
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