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Divorcee one-upmanship exploiting Terri death?

by Judi McLeod, Editor,
Monday, april 18, 2005

Is one-upmanship against ex-husband attorney George Felos driving Constance D'angelis?

according to WorldNetDaily, D'angelis, an attorney and massage therapist, is offering her services to "interpret" the expected medical examiner's report on the late Terri Schindler Schiavo.

The Dunedin, Florida attorney was married to Felos, who represents Terri's husband, Michael Schiavo. d'angelis worked the Schiavo case as co-counsel to George Felos during guardianship proceedings.

"When Terri Schiavo's condition was argued in court, d'angelis presented a CT scam and other medical records to assert Terri was in a `persistent vegetative state'." (www.WorldNetDaily.com, april 16).

Is a War of the Roses-type residue of their divorce driving one-upmanship between the two attorneys in the aftermath of Terri's tragic death?

The divorce of d'angelis and Felos could give Barbara and Oliver Rose, played by Kathleen Turner and Michael Douglas in the 1989 movie War of the Roses, a run for their money.

Indeed, Felos may have been more right than he originally thought when he described on page 7 of his bizarre book, Litigation as Spiritual Practice that d'angelis "didn't need me anymore".

Felos sounded very much the embittered ex when he wrote about d'angelis, "To her, I seemed unattractive, sexually unexciting, balding, boring and just not enough fun to be with."

"For her, marriage to me inflicted a fate worse than death. She admitted for the past year or so, she had wished for my death, and whenever I flew hoped the plane would crash."

about his hostility toward his ex-wife: "I was on fire, fueled by thoughts of bludgeoning and tearing her apart." (P 27).

Describing the period when Felos was recuperating from his divorce, "it consisted mostly of dreams of being tormented in some inferno." (P. 27).

Felos seems to have got his groove back in the Estelle Browning matter, his first right-to-die case.

On page 246 of his book, Litigation as Spiritual Practice,Felos baldly states that he and his wife found power and success as "aphrodisiacs", in what seems to be a tattletale account of a sexual exploit: "I can truly say my wife was enamored with me. I suppose power and success really are potent aphrodisiacs as my spouse had made particularly evident at the Governor's Inn."

The old adage about "Gentlemen never tell" was lost on him.

Ego played a role in how Felos felt about the Estelle Browning case.

"I still got a kick that evening seeing myself on the TV news, notwithstanding my frequently displayed countenance in the media of late. If I had to urinate, I didn't wait until the next commercial, I immediately got up and went." (P. 292). Felos, detailed, too, an account of how he prioritized defecating, which CFP will spare its readers.

In the world of medicine, D'angelis, a common garden-variety massage therapist, has no credentials or expertise with which to "interpret" the medical examiner's report on Terri Schindler Schiavo to prove PVS.

If this is a case of divorcee one-upmanship, human decency should dictate that the death of Terri Schindler Schiavo by court-ordered feeding tube removal should not be exploited by any means.


Canada Free Press founding editor Most recent by Judi McLeod is an award-winning journalist with 30 years experience in the print media. Her work has appeared on Newsmax.com, Drudge Report, Foxnews.com, Glenn Beck. Judi can be reached at: judi@canadafreepress.com


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