Cynthia Shackelford Sues Anne Lundquist: Wife Sues Mistress

What on earth is he going to say other than 'we had a troubled marriage' .... if it was that troubled he'd already have been separated and started divorced proceedings.

So good for the ex-wife - while it it the spouse's responsibility to be loyal, there's no reason that the rat who insinuated herself in that marriage shouldn't pay too!!

While I understand the need to have someone feel the pain and hurt you feel from wrong doings, no amount of financial compensation can change the reality of the husband's choice. As well, we must remember there are always two sides to every story. This world is being built more and more on each person taking no responsibility for his and her part in the matter. When do we start looking at the "man in the mirror". If a man does not want to be with you, even after 33 years, sit down and weigh your options as a woman of strength. Chances are, this is not the first time he has cheated. This has probably happened before and the need to take it to court goes deeper than this mistress. Misery loves company and sounds like the wife is tired of rolling over for the husband's choices. It is not the mistress who said "I do" and the marital challenges should remind the wife of this fact. Who did she marry? Why did he change? What has she done or not done. Ladies, always remember that a man will seek attention when home is not giving him any ~ right or wrong ~ it takes two to build and two to destroy on some level.

It's very difficult to read all of these comments--presumably from people who do not know any of the parties involved. As someone who knows all three of the main characters in this story, I can tell you that there is truth to what all are saying. However, I have seen Anne Lundquist destroy more than marriages. Not only does she destroy families, but she destroys careers. This is a woman who sets her sights on something and then does anything in her power to get it. Regardless, 9 million dollars? This is ludicrous. What is wrong with a legal system that allows this? It's time to look at laws and throw out the ones that no longer fit in our society. And by the way, who cares? Why is this major news? Let these people have their own lives without becoming head lines. PLEASE!

Morality aside, a marriage is a legal binding contract.  This sort of case is making its way onto the books everywhere.  I have a friend with the same sort of suit against his wife's lover.  She left him and their children for the man.  

Anyone know if this can be done in Texas?

Some countries allow death to be punishment for adultery and the adulteress/er.  The Torah perscribes the death penalty for adultery.  Iran enforces one of the most severe punishments.  Stoning and other cruel punishments taking place in the Islamic Republic of Iran are not a matter of individual discretion; rather, they are defined by the law of the land, and such sentences are issued based on these laws.  The penalty for adultery under Article 83 of the penal code, called the Law of Hodoud is flogging (100 lashes of the whip) for unmarried male and female offenders. Married offenders may be punished by stoning regardless of their gender, but the method laid down for a man involves his burial up to his waist, and for a woman up to her neck (article 102). The law provides that if a person who is to be stoned manages to escape, he or she will be allowed to go free. Since it is easier for a man to escape, this discrimination literally becomes a matter of life and death.  Interestingly, Article 6 (2) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which Iran has ratified, states: "Sentence of death may be imposed only for the most serious crimes in accordance with the law in force at the time of the commission of the crime." Offenses for which the Law of Hodoud provides the death penalty do not involve murder or serious bodily harm, constituting the "most serious crimes".  Article 104 of the Law of Hodoud provides that the stones should not be so large that a person dies after being hit with two of them, nor so small as to be defined as pebbles, but must cause severe injury. This makes it clear that the purpose of stoning is to inflict grievous pain on the victim, in a process leading to his or her slow death.  3- All execution orders and verdicts of stoning must be upheld by the supreme court in Tehran irrespective of where they were issued. Therefore, the regime's justification is absurd.  Stoning occurs in one of the security centers in Tehran in the presence of high ranking officials of the regime's judiciary. The verdicts are issued by Ali Razini, the head of Judicial Organization of the Military Forces. Razini throws the first stone. Anecdotes of this brutal process reveal ever more of cruelty. The regime's authorities usually force the victim's family members, including children, to watch the stoning to death of their loved one, and in some instances, when the woman miraculously managed to escape, contrary to the regime's own law, she was recaptured and either stoned again or killed on the spot.  On August 10, 1994, in the city of Arak, a woman was sentenced to death by stoning. According to the ruling of the religious judge, her husband and two children were forced to attend the execution. The woman urged her husband to take the children away, but to no avail. A truck full of stones was brought in to be used during the stoning. In the middle of the stoning, although her eyes had been gouged out, the victim was able to escape from the ditch and started running away, but the regime's guards recaptured her and shot her to death. The brutality is not limited to stoning. For example, in late May 1990, in the city of Neyshabour (northeastern Iran), a woman charged with adultery was thrown off a 10-story building. The execution was carried out in public, and the victim died on impact.  The regime's duplicity when it comes to publicizing the news of such Byzantine atrocities, is very telling. Inside Iran, they are trumpeted with great fanfare,Indeed, stoning is indispensable to the clerics efforts to intimidate and terrorize the Iranian public. During Friday prayers, in May of 1998,  in the provincial capital of Kermanshah (the largest city in western Iran), Mullah Zarandi had the following to say about the need to carry out stoning: “The security forces have to show more presence in the society. In order to set an example for others, the judiciary should also bring some of those eligible to one of the city squares and amputate their hands. They should also have a series of stoning. I promise that the society will be rectified.”

The Holy Bible :And the man that committeth adultery with another man’s wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbour’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.” - Leviticus, 20/10 Interestingly, the Holy Bible prescribes death penalty by stoning for a number of offenses sometimes trivial.  ‘Rocks were hurled at the victim, until he or she became a bloody pulp, and the mass of flesh ceased to move.’ This horrible method of execution was carried out in Europe for several years in the past. Death penalty by stoning for blasphemy  And he that blasphemeth the name of the Lord, he shall surely be put to death, and all the congregation shall certainly stone him;……” - Leviticus, 24/16 Death penalty for straying near Tabernacle And when the tabernacle setteth forward, the Levites shall take it down; and when the tabernacle is to be pitched, the 1Avites shall set it up; and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.” - Numbers, 1/51 Death penalty for not observing holiday (sabbath) ‘Sabbath’ means a day of the week set aside for religious worship and rest from work, usually Saturday among the Jews and Sunday among the Christians.  Holy Bible ordains the Christians to observe holiday (holy day), a day of rest for God.  He who falls to observe, will be put to death. Ye shall keep the sabbath therefore; for it is holy unto you; every one that defileth it shall surely be put to death; for whosoever doeth any work therein, that soul shall he cut off from among his people.” - Exodus, 31/14 Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall be to you an holy day, a sabbath of rest to the Lord; whosoever doeth work therein shall be put to death.” - Exodus, 35/2 In ‘Exodus’, the reason given for observing seventh day as a day of rest is, ‘because God made the heavens and the earth in six days, and rested on the seventh day.’ It is a human being, not God, who gets fatigued on account of continuous work for six days, and needs rest on the seventh day.  God Almighty is Omnipotent.  To say that He rested on the seventh day, as if He was fatigued and exhausted, amounts to blasphemy.  Thus the above vese in Exodus degrades God to the position of frail human being. Death penalty for disobeying parents  Here is the most inhuman and the most brutal Biblical law which authorises parents, the father and the mother, to bring their own son to the elders of the city to get him stoned to death, for trivial fault of disobedience and stubbornness.  Read the following four verses : If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them: - Deuteronomy, 21/18 Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place; - Deuteronomy, 21/19 And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard. - Deuteronomy, 21/20 And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die; so shalt thou put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear. - Deuteronomy, 21/21  Death penalty for cursing parents And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death. - Exodus, 21/17 (vi) Death penalty for homosexuality 13. If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them. - Leviticus, 20/13   Death penalty for sexual intercourse with a woman during her menstruation period And if a man shall lie with a woman having her sickness, and shall uncover her nakedness; he bath discovered her fountain, and she bath uncovered the fountain of her blood; and both of them shall be cut off from among their people. - Leviticus, 20/18   Death penalty for loss of virginity The Holy Bible prescribes capital punishment by stoning for loss of virginity in the following two verses :   But if this thing be true, and the tokens of virginity be not found for the damsel;” - Deuteronomy, 22120 Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die; because she hath wrought folly in Isreal, to play the whore in her father’s house; so shalt thou put evil away from among you. - Deuteronomy, 22/21

This is old testament ideologies which actuall allow adultery which preceeds polygamy.

Ms. Richard is right- this is a very good lesson in morality. Having a extra marital affair can indeed devastate not only the cheated spouse but most this causes devastation and emotional distress among the children.Let us uphold the sanctity of marriage.

    I am a 28 year old female, and marriage now and days is scary, because no one takes it seriously anymore. It's about time people learn you can't have your cake and eat it too, LOL!! I just read a comment that someone made, it went something like this..."Ladies...always remember that a man will seek attention when home is not giving him any" ..............now that is bull!!! Not all men need to be put in that category first of all! Second of all, I know of many marriages that have been destroyed from the selfish act of cheating, and the ones cheating deny it and freak out because their partner is leaving them! They just wanted a little on the side, it was not because their partner was not giving them what they needed at home!     Yes, there are a lot of scummy men, and there are also a lot of women who are pigs! I have ran into too many of them, but when you get married, it is a cop out and incredibly wrong to blame this on the woman who was cheated on, how can you think to yourself...oh...she must not have been putting out! That is a screwed up way to think about it! So, does that make it ok? NO, I do not care if it was the man or woman who did the cheating! I think this is great, and anyone who says different is probably cheating on their partner at this very moment, and scared to death this very thing will happen to them.     I have more than a few friends both female and male who have admitted that someone who is in a relationship is a huge turn on to them.........that is sick..........I love my friends to death....but do I trust these female friends around my boyfriend......NO!!! Why? because these types of women and men are everywhere, and they could care less if someone is married or with another, they could care less who they hurt, they just get off on the simple fact that your man or your women is spoken for! I am loving the fact that this mistress is being sued. If he could not keep it in his pants, he needed to leave his wife before he ever thought about cheating! It's about time someone stands up and protects the true meaning of marriage, this will make anyone who thinks of cheating on their partner or cheating with a married man or women to think twice! YOU ROCK SYNTHIA, stay strong!!! xoxoxoxoxo   

 The mistress may have pursued the husband but that didnt mean he had to sleep with her. He choose to for whatever reason he had, he choose to. so unless there is proof that the mistress held him at gun point and forced him to, then he is to blame as much as she is, if not more. Like someone else said "the mistress did not say I do, the husband did"  Im in no way excusing anyones behaviour in anyway, the whole situation should never have happened. its very unfortunate situation for all involved. The wife has been betrayed, the husband betrayed his wife, the mistress pursued a married man. they both now have to deal with the reprcussions of their actions.   this whole $9 million dollar suit is horsesh*t , the only reason it worked out is cause the mistress had the money....had the mistress been someone like me a single mom who struggles month to month, the wife wouldnt have seen a dime.  I understand shes hurt but seriously if she was truely oh so happy in her marriage, no amount of money would make a difference. First off she should be going after the husband...which if she had the same jury she get tripple that amount from him....but really it doesnt change anything he still cheated. Shes still hurt.    

Actress Gail O'Grady should be, could be and will be sued for the same exact thing. She went to Josef Shamir, owner of several pawn shop Cash for Gold stores to pawn off her jewlery... guess what happened. Gail O'Grady deleberately suduced Shamir, started a sexual relationship to get more money out of him and now has HER OWN STORE in Encino from him. The wife has now filed for a divorce. If Mrs Shamir is smart she will sue Gail O'Grady for the same exact thing. These sluts should be held accoutable, and exposed, they will think twice before home wrecking, and WHEN the slut ways effect the family business, your damn right Miss Shackelford should take every recourse possible. I think Mrs Shamir should take every legal recourse action possible against actress Gail O'Grady as well. What a trailer trash low life O'Grady is. She belongs in a double wide in Wisconsin.

What a waste of taxpayers dollars and why would anyone clog the judicial system with a case like this. Alienation of affection? I doubt she needed any help with that from Ms Lundquist. On the bright side, Mrs Shackelford now can afford the therapy she so desparately needs.

Good for the woman that was devastated by a cheating disgusting pig. Doesn't surprise me at all that it was an attorney that cheated - the majority of attorneys are pigs and only out for self-gratification.  Attorneys in general need to live it up here on earth because most are going to hell for eternity.