Tuesday, June 14, 2005
"I died for your $5 million..."
"... and you spent it on what?"
I know a solution to her problem. And if I was her late husband I'd come back from the dead to give it to her.September 11 widow Kathy Trant ... has burned through nearly all the more than $5 million she received in compensation and donations [for her husband's death in the World Trade Center].
....She gave her former housecleaner $15,000 to buy a home in El Salvador. She's sent $1,000 checks to a friendly clerk at Bergdorf Goodman ...
After getting a facial in Las Vegas, she gave the beautician, a single mom, $4,000 for breast implants. She gave a friend $7,000 for a boob job because, Trant said, the woman "hated her breasts and didn't want to spend her son's college tuition money."
She buys wrinkle-reducing Botox injections for girlfriends. A plastic surgeon gives her a discount - $600 for three at a time....
Opening her walk-in closet, Trant said, "This is my addiction."
A floor-to-ceiling shoe rack is filled with $400 to $1,200 pairs: Prada, Marc Jacobs, Manolo Blahnik, Jimmy Choo, Emilio Pucci, Vera Wang. Handbags include Fendi and Judith Leiber, designs priced at $5,000 each. The gowns have labels like Versace, Christian Dior and Roberto Cavalli - each costing her thousands."It's disgusting. I'm ashamed of it," she said, adding she hopes that telling her story will help others with the same problem.... [NY Post]
