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FOR ELEVEN MONTHS AFTER MY FATHER DIED, MY STEPMOTHER TOLD EVERYONE I WAS TOO UNSTABLE TO CONTROL THE $5 MILLION ESTATE HE LEFT ME—THEN SHE WALKED INTO FEDERAL COURT WEARING …

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THREE WEEKS AFTER MY MIDNIGHT-BLUE VERSACE DRESS VANISHED FROM MY CLOSET, I WALKED INTO MY FATHER’S FUNERAL AND FOUND MY HUSBAND’S 28-YEAR-OLD MISTRESS SITTING IN THE FRONT ROW WEARING IT—HER …

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AFTER MY HUSBAND WAS LOWERED INTO THE GROUND IN FRONT OF TWENTY EMPTY CHAIRS MY OWN MOTHER MADE SURE WOULD STAY EMPTY, I WENT BACK TO THE WESTCHESTER ESTATE THINKING …

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ON WHAT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE MY FIRST PEACEFUL DATE NIGHT IN MONTHS, I LOOKED ACROSS A CANDLELIT RESTAURANT AND SAW MY 50-YEAR-OLD FATHER SITTING HAND-IN-HAND WITH ANOTHER WOMAN LIKE …

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MY PARENTS SOLD MY 10-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER’S RARE FIRST-EDITION BOOK COLLECTION—THE ONE MY GREAT-GRANDMOTHER HAD SPENT YEARS TEACHING HER TO PROTECT—for $165,000, THEN POURED EVERY DOLLAR INTO A LAVISH HOME-THEATER WING …

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I WON $89 MILLION IN SECRET, BUT SAID NOTHING WHEN MY 44-YEAR-OLD SON LOOKED DOWN AT HIS DINNER PLATE AND ASKED, IN FRONT OF HIS WIFE AND CHILDREN, “MOM, WHEN …

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I SPENT THE NIGHT ALONE IN A HOSPITAL HOLDING MY GRANDFATHER’S HAND WHILE MY PARENTS IGNORED MY CALLS, THEN WOKE TO FIND THEY WERE ALREADY TRYING TO SELL THE PRIVATE …

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AT 3:00 A.M., I RUSHED TO MY DYING FATHER’S STUDY AND FOUND MY BROTHER GUIDING A PEN INTO HIS MORPHINE-SLURRED HAND WHILE A NOTARY SAT READY TO SIGN AWAY EVERYTHING—THE …

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THE NIGHT BEFORE MY WEDDING, I LAY AWAKE IN A ROSEWOOD HOTEL SUITE AND HEARD MY FIVE BRIDESMAIDS THROUGH THE WALL LAUGHING ABOUT HOW THEY WERE GOING TO RUIN ME—SPILL …

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AT MY FATHER’S LAVISH 70TH BIRTHDAY GALA, HE STEPPED ONSTAGE, HANDED HIS ENTIRE HOTEL EMPIRE TO MY SMIRKING BROTHER, THEN CALLED ME UP IN FRONT OF THE ROOM AND GAVE …

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