We normally don’t dish much celebrity gossip (maybe we’d have more than three readers if we did), but this one qualified for a BiteMe:
According to the NY Daily News, Robert F Kennedy, Jr., sent an email to wife Mary’s family after one of their dust-ups, saying “Mary is a wonderful, generous, kind, and wise person but depression and illness are now killing her. I know you have told me that her frequent suicide threats are not real. I do not believe this is accurate. I see her now sinking into a terrible darkness. She desperately needs a family intervention.”
Newsweek says, ‘By then, family bitterness was so deep that her brother, Thomas Richardson, told him to stop sending such emails and threatening to embarrass him publicly if he persisted.’
via Robert F. Kennedy Jr. 2011 affidavit: Wife, Mary Richardson Kennedy, repeatedly threatened to kill herself to blackmail husband – NY Daily News.
News comes today that Donald Trump is digging in his heels on not releasing his tax returns ever, telling George Stephanopoulos “it’s none of your business” how much tax he pays or at what rate. But last night TPM Reader JJ sent in a link to a … well, it’s just a harrowing revelation that makes me think that actually releasing his tax returns could be like heading to the ego guillotine for Trump. Some clever sleuthing by Crain’s New York Business reveals that Mr Trump, as members of the entourage call him, qualified for a tax break that requires your income be less than $500,000 a year. Yes, if you make more than half a million dollars a year, you can’t qualify. But Trump did qualify.