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"Playboy" Title Costs
£250,000 a Year
Tommy Manville, four limes married
"Alimony King" of the United States,
worked out what lt cost him to be
New York's No. 1 playboy. He found
that keeping his title for the.past 12
months cost .him £250,000;: He had
some very heavy éxp*ëhses7 IfiS Èlggêst
being the disposal by divorce, ot his
fourth wife, Marcelle Edwards. This
ls how the' money went: ..
Divorce settlement, £ 40,000; attor-
ney, £3,000; special train for secretary
concerning the divorce, £600; adver-
tisements In newspapers for o pother
attorney, £2,000; fees of attorney No.
2, £2,200; attorney No. 3, £1,500; at-
torney No. 4, £500; attorney No. 5.
£1,000; attorney No. G, £4,000.
Other Items were: Jewellery, £40,
000; three trips to Europe, £20,000:
stocks and bonds, £20,000; cars, £10,
000;. three trips to Reno, £2,000;
clothes, £30,000.
And finally £73,200 for parties, or-
chids, champagne, servants, secretaries,
and bodyguards.
"Gee, I'll never marry again," he told
reporters as he looked over the figures.
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