it s almost laughable in a way when i get faxes from banks saying i owe $3.5 million because i don t even have a concept in my head of what $3 million is. eventually, michelle learned that mark weinberger had left her $6 million in debt. we first met michelle in february 2005. five months after her husband had vanished. at that time, michelle s home was in foreclosure and she had realized she had no choice but to file for divorce. i don t know how ready to say i am filing for divorce, but financially it s a necessity right now so it s something that has to be done in order to try to separate myself from the debt that he s accrued. in october 2005, a little over a year after her husband literally jumped ship, michelle filed for bankruptcy. the person that i fell in love with, the person that i knew for five years, that person
he was an excellent doctor. that s why it really infuriated me to see his name dragged through the mud. the real culprits, michelle felt, were former patients egged on by greedy lawyers who were suing him for malpractice. i think it s a big opportunistic, but that s the state of our legal system in this country. that s what doctors have to face every day. how can you stand up for him now? because i know how much he cared about his patients. in the end, i think that he was a very scared man. had it actually been one of those patients who caused mark weinberger to flee, forfeiting all he worked for? michelle was sure of it. she had often heard mark mention a former patient in the weeks and months before he left. a woman with terminal cancer. she had a cough that wouldn t go away, sore throat, hoarseness. these are things that a first
gotten through doing a stint in neuroscience at the university of chicago. we were just making jokes about the medical milieu. he was very funny. so you hit it off right off the bat? we went out to dinner. it was thursday. i spent all weekend with him and by monday i was enamored and smitten. within months michelle had moved out of her parents home and into mark s townhouse in chicago. the whirlwind was on, athens, miami, caribbean sunsets and french champagne. michelle, you look beautiful. for a southwest chicago girl whose father was a pipe fitter, this was head-turning stuff. just want to say this is the best vacation ever. i love you, baby. her new love was a philosophy quoting poetry writing renaissance man. he professed his love in a poem. he just swept me off my feet. you had an unbelievable life.
certainly not mark weinberger s new bride michelle. a northwest indiana doctor is apparently on the run tonight and he s left behind serious legal trouble. in the weeks and months after her husband left her in greece, michelle was bound and determined to find out why her husband had abandoned her. coming up lying low, living large. i think he bought about maybe $500,000 worth of diamonds before he left. 500,000. uh-huh. and where did the diamonds go? with him, i suppose. i didn t find out anything about diamonds until after he had left. c. it can cause damage to the enamel. with the new pronamel repair toothpaste we can help actively repair enamel in its weakened state.
just the kind of tip that s found in a book michelle discovered among mark s things after he left. michelle came to see that her husband had been planning his vanishing act for months. he had apparently packed two huge suitcases full of water filtration systems, gps equipment, language tapes. all types of bizarre things, and he shipped one of the bags to kahn and another bag to athens. a meticulous plan, perfectly executed, though even in hindsight michelle now remembered how nervous he had been on the day they flew to greece. he was yelling at everybody and he s, like, i have to make this flight. i m like, we re not going to miss the flight. we re not late. he was just completely uncontrollable in the airport. oddly enough, even knowing her husband had deliberately deceived, humiliated and abandoned her, michelle continued to defend him.