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Enraged mum goes on 'terroristic binge' to ruin her son

  • 19-04-2010 1:16am
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,526 ✭✭✭


    http://www.news.com.au/world/enraged-mum-lia-joseph-goes-on-terroristic-binge-to-ruin-her-son/story-e6frfkyi-1225855266398
    A WOMAN was so convinced her son's fiancee was a no-good gold digger that she did everything she could to break the couple up, even harassing the fiancee's ailing father in Ohio and trying to get her fired from her job.
    The New York Post reported Lia Joseph, 61, was enraged when her real-estate-developer son Denis, 34, and his betrothed, Diana David, 28, tied the knot last October anyway - without the prenuptial agreement Lia had demanded.
    In response, Lia allegedly did what she could to make sure her son had no money for his bride to take, and went on a campaign to ruin her son's business interests in Brooklyn and Connecticut, Denis claims.
    "It seems to be some sort of twisted Freudian thing," a source close to the family said.

    After Denis' mother filed two lawsuits against him claiming to be the owner of his property, Denis had enough: He filed his own suit against Lia last week in Manhattan Supreme Court, accusing her of going on a "terroristic binge."
    "Fresh from a 9.5-year divorce case from Denis Joseph's father, Lia Joseph turned her full maniacal rage against her son, his fiancee and (Diana's) family," he claims in court papers.
    Lia repeatedly called Diana's office at the finance firm TriOptima, asking for references so it seemed like Diana was looking for another job, the lawsuit alleges.
    At Passover dinner last year, she threatened to sue Diana's family, and just days before the wedding she called Diana's father, who needed heart-bypass surgery, to tell him his daughter was a gold digger, Denis claims.
    In an email sent to Diana, Lia blasted the young woman as "self-centered and truly dangerous" and warned her she had no rights to "our family properties" - a six-bedroom, eight-bathroom mansion in Greenwich and a property in Brooklyn that Denis leased to a car wash.
    "HE IS NOT YOUR PROPERTY," Lia wrote about her son.
    "In her twisted mind, Ms Joseph viewed the Greenwich property and the Brooklyn property as 'family' property, even though there is no dispute that Denis Joseph is the sole owner," Denis wrote in court papers.
    Lia wasn't invited to the wedding, and the day after her son got hitched, she filed a lawsuit in Connecticut, claiming she was a co-owner of the Greenwich property, but has postponed the case each time the court asked her to prove the claim, her son said in his lawsuit.

    In December, she filed suit in Brooklyn Supreme Court seeking to divide the property in Brooklyn . Then she called the owner of the car wash, told him she was the real landlord, and convinced him to stop paying rent, Denis claims.
    Lia also allegedly talked trash about Diana to her dad.
    "She called me a number of times, directly at work, spending an hour or more on the phone with me and saying all kinds of things that were very disconcerting," Frank David told The Post.
    Lia claimed "that Diana was a gold digger and that she was influencing Denis in a nasty way, none of which is the situation," Frank said. "We know Diana, and we know what kind of person she is."
    Diana, a Stony Brook University graduate who earned a 3.9 GPA, was awarded the prestigious Churchill Scholarship from the University of Cambridge in 2004 along with other academic honors, her father said.
    "It's inconceivable to us," he said of Lia's claims.
    Denis declined to comment. Lia could not be reached and her lawyer declined comment.

    What a crazy oul hag. Let the buyer beware!


Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,115 ✭✭✭Pdfile


    Jasus and i thought my oul one was bad bein a member of the Tallaght-ban...


    shes a fvuking saint now....


    Thanks op :mad:.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,732 ✭✭✭Reganio 2


    It'll never last.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,526 ✭✭✭m@cc@


    Apologies for the lack of pics, btw. :p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,345 ✭✭✭landsleaving


    She even got Kanye West to write a song about the situation.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,345 ✭✭✭landsleaving


    m@cc@ wrote: »
    Apologies for the lack of pics, btw. :p

    GTFO.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    Once, back in the 90's I was engaged to a member of the Saudi Royal Family and the mother went to ridiculous lengths to prove that I was just in it for the money. She was an out and out cow. Had it in for me from the start so she did.

    Anyways, eventually she somehow exposed the fact that I was only pretending to be a woman and the Prince dumped me.

    What a bitch. :mad:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    AnonoBoy wrote: »
    Once, back in the 90's I was engaged to a member of the Saudi Royal Family and the mother went to ridiculous lengths to prove that I was just in it for the money. She was an out and out cow. Had it in for me from the start so she did.

    Anyways, eventually she somehow exposed the fact that I was only pretending to be a woman and the Prince dumped me.

    What a bitch. :mad:

    The aul bat. Bet ye she did the whole 'no woman has feet that big' thing. Not true either..........specially if ye seen some of the ones I used work with...hairier too....


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,595 ✭✭✭bonerm


    Oy vey!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,661 ✭✭✭Fuhrer


    Denis Joeseph is going to marry Diana David?


    Havent these people ever heard of surnames?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,918 ✭✭✭✭orourkeda


    Nice to see that some women have Mother in Law problems too.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,728 ✭✭✭dilallio


    AnonoBoy wrote: »
    Once, back in the 90's I was engaged to a member of the Saudi Royal Family and the mother went to ridiculous lengths to prove that I was just in it for the money. She was an out and out cow. Had it in for me from the start so she did.

    Anyways, eventually she somehow exposed the fact that I was only pretending to be a woman and the Prince dumped me.

    What a bitch. :mad:


    AnonoBoy Bin-Fakin' was a bit of a give away, you have to admit. :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,297 ✭✭✭Ri_Nollaig


    Fuhrer wrote: »
    Denis Joeseph is going to marry Diana David?


    Havent these people ever heard of surnames?
    David is a fairly common Jewish surname.

    /Edit: just realised how ironic your name is :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 390 ✭✭happyfriday


    Hay and my sister-in-law thinks she has mother-in-law problems!! :rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 933 ✭✭✭hal9000


    sounds like the only real winners in this relationship are the lawyers


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 88,972 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Terroristic? wtf? Whats wrong with using a real word like Terrorist?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 485 ✭✭Elenxor


    The similarity to Irish mother-in-laws is uncanny!!:rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,692 ✭✭✭Dublin_Gunner


    Ri_Nollaig wrote: »
    David is a fairly common Jewish surname.


    Sense of humour is a fairly common AH trait...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,857 ✭✭✭✭Dave!


    mike65 wrote: »
    Terroristic? wtf? Whats wrong with using a real word like Terrorist?
    That's a retardicated question to ask, in fairness


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,367 ✭✭✭✭Sleepy


    Ah, you've got to love the lengths a mammy will go to in order to protect their children...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,367 ✭✭✭✭Sleepy


    Seriously though, does anyone else think the mother is probably right?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,692 ✭✭✭Dublin_Gunner


    Sleepy wrote: »
    Seriously though, does anyone else think the mother is probably right?


    Just No.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,001 ✭✭✭✭opinion guy


    Sleepy wrote: »
    Seriously though, does anyone else think the mother is probably right?

    Even if she is right. She sounds like a WAYYY bigger problem than a money-grabbing spouse


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,729 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    Sleepy wrote: »
    Seriously though, does anyone else think the mother is probably right?
    She reminds me of George Costanza's father. When he tried cooking for the first time since the war:



    Spent 10 years in divorce shyte, sees her boy getting married, and goes into conniptions.


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