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Sandra Boss in court (AP Photo/Bill Greene, Pool)
…is how Sandra Boss, the Harvard educated ex-wife of Rockefeller perpetrator Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, explains staying married to a man who she says withheld food and kept her a mental prisoner throughout their 12 year marriage. Gerhartsreiter, who’s on trial for kidnapping the couple’s 7 year old daughter last year, spent his entire adult life pretending to be someone else, the most famous of which was Clark Rockefeller, heir to the Rockefeller legacy.
Details of the bizarre marriage included Boss’ claims that although she was the family’s breadwinner, earning $2 million a year as a highly sought after business consultant, her husband managed their finances, and controlled all of the money. So much so that she “woke up hungry most nights.” Boss said her husband would become verbally abusive and threaten to take their daughter if she ever tried to leave him.
When asked by Gerhartsreiter’s defense attorney how a seemingly brilliant, highly paid woman could fall for the tall tales of an imposter, Boss said “… it’s possible that one can be brilliant and amazing in one area of one’s life and pretty stupid in another.” I’ll say. Let’s hope Boss did better for her clients than she did for herself.
Source: The Associated Press
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