Ted Turner Steals Married Woman

Mandy @ Gone Hollywood | Wednesday, August 1, 2007

This story was just so bizarre, I had to share. Elizabeth Dewberry, wife of Florida State professor Robert Olen Butler, has left her husband for media mogul, Ted Turner. The crazy part is the shocking e-mail Butler sent out to his graduate students and colleagues concerning the separation.

“Put down your cup of coffee or you might spill it. Elizabeth is leaving me for Ted Turner.”

“She has spoken openly in her work and in her public life of the fact that she was molested by her grandfather from an early age, a molestation that was known and tacitly condoned by her radically Evangelical Christian parents,” Butler wrote. “And it is very common for a woman to be drawn to men who remind them of their childhood abusers. Ted is such a man, though fortunately, he is far from being abusive.”

“She will not be Ted’s only girlfriend. Ted is permanently and avowedly non-monogamous,” Butler writes. “But though he has several girlfriends, it is a very small number, and he does not take them up lightly and he gives them his absolute support when he does.”

Even stranger? Apparently, he showed Dewberry his e-mail before sending it off and, “She was weepingly grateful to me for it. It’s full of love and compassion.”

Florida State should use this as recruiting propaganga. What parent wouldn’t want their child taught by this man?

Source: NY Post