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Betty Broderick: Wife
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Betty was certainly not left entirely destitute. In fact, Dan voluntarily awarded his wife alimony to the tune of 9,000 dollars a month (later increased to 16,000 a month) and bought her a new home with an ocean view at La Jolla for over 650,000 dollars.
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Betty is definitely not a villainess, nor is she a heroine by any means. Some women's groups use her case as an example of how not to give oneself totally to a man. But, that's hindsight. The fact remains she did, and while she lived (what she mistakenly thought was) the life of an American woman and wife in the total American dream, there was a reality check waiting to dent the armor of her Prince Charming.
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Betty continued to play her part of the loving wife of a successful lawyer. Doesn’t Betty look a lot like Meredith Baxter in this photo? That comment will become more ironic later.
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