There may be many motivators
behind Susan Stanton’s attacks against me and other members of my family, but
the overriding theme is her claim that we are all in cahoots with my father and
living high on the hog with money that belongs to her.
That claim is false, but the
thing is, I suspect she really believes it. She has even made comments on at
least one newspaper’s web site, saying she has “records” to prove this. In the
same comments section, she also said that she paid $800,000 to obtain these mysteriously
unnamed records, yet elsewhere in that same section she said she is broke.
Since Susan Stanton’s fevered
imagination has her believing that my family is living a Hamptons kind of life on my father’s dime,
all while hiding him from the feds, here are some facts:
I have not seen my father since
last year and have no idea where he is. Neither does any other member of my
family.
Erika and I struggle to make ends
meet, just like most Americans, and we do it on my income with no assistance
whatsoever.
Erika has worked off and on in
the seven years since Sarah was born, but is not currently working due to heath
problems and the cost of day care.
My mother has been selling her
personal possessions to pay for living expenses.
My sister lost her house and is
on food stamps.
And none of us complain about it
because we take responsibility for ourselves (like adults are supposed to) and
we do not feel entitled to whatever money my father may or may not have earned
over the years. We are not the ones who earned it.
On the other hand, Susan Stanton
lives in an upscale home in Los
Angeles that was paid for with cash. Her neighbors
include Hillary Duff, Annie Lenox, and George Lopez…In 1998, around the time
she married my father, she sold a home for $196,000. And one year later, she
moved into a home that was bought with $620,000 cash; i.e., no mortgage. Then, she
sold that home for $710,000 in 2010, after
moving to her mortgage-free home by the stars.
What I wrote in the above
paragraph I know to be true. In addition, I have heard (but not independently
verified) that she pocketed all of the proceeds from the 2010 sale, and that
she had $1.1 million in the bank at the beginning of last year.
Yet, she claims that she is broke
and we are wealthy. Fortunately for us, our happiness has nothing to do with
money…Sadly for her, and tragically for her son, she does not know what
happiness is and gets pleasure only
from money …But as the existence of this blog shows, our lack of materialism
does not mean we will allow her to attack and threaten us while she no doubt
plots to take whatever possessions we do have.
