# Spousal abuse **URL:** \ **Category:** Uncategorized\ **Created:** [October 22, 2003, 2:49am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/spousal-abuse/33658 "2003-10-22T02:49:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![reverendflash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f08c70/32.png) [@reverendflash](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/reverendflash)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2003, 2:49am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/spousal-abuse/33658/1 "2003-10-22T02:49:25Z")
> _from [www.thesmokinggun.com](http://www.thesmokinggun.com)_ > OCTOBER 21–David Gest, the estranged husband of Liza Minnelli, claims in a lawsuit filed today that the singer regularly beat him during the couple’s 16-month marriage. In the below New York State Supreme Court complaint, Gest, 50, describes Minnelli, 57, as an overweight, raging alcoholic who seriously injured him during a June attack (the couple separated the following month). According to Gest, whose lawsuit seeks $10 million in damages, he became a “victim of domestic violence” who, as a result of Minnelli’s beatings, now lives in “virtually constant, unrelenting pain” that requires “11 prescription medications per day, some more than once.” Gest’s complaint chronicles alleged beatings in London, Italy, and New York and claims that Minnelli once threw a lamp at him, punched a security guard, choked a male employee of Gest’s, and bit another security official. Gest even recounts a pre-marriage incident in December 2001 as the couple traveled, via a chauffeured Mercedes, to enroll Minnelli in a Pennsylvania rehab facility. Gest claims that the singer drank an entire bottle of red wine in the car and then began beating him “about his head with open hands and closed fists.” go figure… Liza’s a free swinger, and likes to bite people & drink red wine… my kinda girl… :beam: Rev ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2003, 2:52am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/spousal-abuse/33658/2 "2003-10-22T02:52:12Z")
oh well - I’m sure he deserved it anyway. What did he expect marrying Liza? :ogre: ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2003, 2:53am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/spousal-abuse/33658/3 "2003-10-22T02:53:12Z")
that’s what I was wondering… her mom was a abusive drunk drug addict… looks like it is hereditary… oooh, that was in bad taste… 😃 Rev ![](http://aulman.com/rev.gif) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2003, 6:42am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/spousal-abuse/33658/4 "2003-10-22T06:42:35Z")
what a \*\*\*\* weenie…getting beat down by a woman…too funny. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2003, 6:50am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/spousal-abuse/33658/5 "2003-10-22T06:50:56Z")
yeah, but a woman who’s biography will be played by a man… 😉 Rev ![](http://aulman.com/rev.gif) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2003, 2:55pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/spousal-abuse/33658/6 "2003-10-22T14:55:14Z")
Nothing like a good cat fight. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2003, 3:12pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/spousal-abuse/33658/7 "2003-10-22T15:12:22Z")
cat fight? I wouldn’t want a drunk Liza beating on my arse… Rev ![](http://aulman.com/rev.gif) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2003, 3:21pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/spousal-abuse/33658/8 "2003-10-22T15:21:16Z")
I always figured Liza was the PItcher and David was the Catcher. Must suck when the man in the relationship is a woman. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2003, 3:24pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/spousal-abuse/33658/9 "2003-10-22T15:24:19Z")
yup, like I said, the actor who plays her in her life biography will be a guy in drag… One of the most popular themes on karaoke night at the clubs in Shakeytown… Rev ![](http://aulman.com/rev.gif) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2003, 6:43pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/spousal-abuse/33658/10 "2003-10-22T18:43:37Z")
> \*Originally posted by reverendflash \* > \*\*cat fight? I wouldn’t want a drunk Liza beating on my arse… Rev \*\* My point was that her husband is more fem than most women.