'Runaway bride' Jennifer Wilbanks suing former fiance
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LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. (AP) — Jennifer Wilbanks, who became known as the "runaway bride" after taking off just days before her lavish wedding in 2005, is suing her former fiance for $500,000.
Wilbanks and John Mason broke up for good in May, about a year after her excursion to Las Vegas and New Mexico made international headlines while hundreds of friends and family members searched for her back home in suburban Atlanta.

Mason has until Oct. 22 to respond to the lawsuit, filed last month in Gwinnett County's Superior Court. The suit, Wilbanks vs. JCM Consulting et al, was filed Sept. 13, according to court records.

In it, Wilbanks seeks $250,000 as her share of a home Mason purchased through the partnership with proceeds from $500,000 received for selling their story to an agent, plus $250,000 in punitive damages for allegedly abusing the power of attorney she granted for him to handle their financial affairs, according to Atlanta television station WAGA, which reported on the lawsuit Monday night.

She also seeks the return of personal property she claims he has kept.

Wilbanks disappeared four days before her April 30, 2005, wedding. Hundreds of police and volunteers searched for her for three days before she called Mason from Albuquerque, claiming to have been abducted and sexually assaulted.

She later recanted, saying she fled because of unspecified personal issues, and pleaded no contest to telling police a phony story.

She was sentenced to two years' probation and performed community service that included mowing the lawns of public buildings.

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people!

What was/is she thinking? hahah mebbe it went something like this...

"Hmm, I don't think the world remembers what a wack-job I am, I'd better pull off another bonehead incident to remind them!"

This woman is a complete loser!

kisscamille said:

The crazy eyes... they never seem to go away...




I bet this case will be thrown out.

what an idiot

ThreadBare said:

She has Graves Disease.

beret1022 said:

My gosh. That explains it. Thank you.

beret1022 said:

what is that?

cborgman said:

this.

cborgman said:

bulging eyes.

lesser know symptoms include the ability to dream up dumb ass plots of kidnapping and sexual assault, causing hundreds of hours of police and volunteer searches, 24-hour "white woman missing " coverage on cable and front page news fodder because you don't want to get married.

meltwithu said:

you beat me to it.

meltwithu said:

meltwithu said:

In Kazakhstan this woman would be sold to Uzbeks

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

doesn't barbara bush have that too?
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Borat said:

for shizzle...

beret1022 said:

Does Tracee Ellis Ross have the same condition?
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lilgish said:

i think she just got the bad half of Diana's genes

That woman is some crazy bitch. Mr. Mason has put up with too much already.