This is from Friday July 2, Los Angeles Times. The full text is avaiable on their web site.
Long Story Short- Gen Yeager’s new wife is creating a divide between him and his children.
By Shawn Hubler, Times Staff Writer
Four years ago, shortly after his 77th birthday, Chuck Yeager went for his usual walk. The man who broke the sound barrier had been widowed for 10 years, lived next door to his daughter and was all but deaf in one ear. Still, when a much younger woman materialized on the path and struck up a conversation, he says, he got the message.
Twenty-four hours later, they were dating. Within a month, she had moved in.
It happened so fast, Yeager’s children would later say, that they couldn’t help wondering about the then-41-year-old girlfriend, an out-of-towner named Victoria Scott D’Angelo who claimed to have had careers in show business and investment banking, yet appeared to be unemployed and transient.
Discreetly, Yeager’s daughter Susan looked into her background. What she found — lawsuits, restraining orders, claims of harassment and misrepresentation, an alleged physical attack on an elderly woman — so troubled her that she confronted the couple.
D’Angelo denied everything, then blamed her accusers, then claimed to have changed her ways, according to Yeager’s children. Within months, acquaintances and business associates of Yeager contend, D’Angelo began telling them that Susan Yeager, who managed her father’s finances, was stealing from him. By the following year, the retired brigadier general had fired his accountant, his estate planning lawyer, his longtime personal secretary — and his daughter. Last year, in a ceremony to which his children and friends weren’t invited, Yeager wed D’Angelo.
Now, in a private legal proceeding scheduled to begin today, a court-appointed referee here will harvest the fruit of the now 81-year-old Yeager’s romance — a tangle of bitter lawsuits that officially center on two pieces of property, $113,000, a tractor, some lithographs and the rights to Yeager’s life story. The children, though, say it’s really about the woman who, as one son, Don Yeager, put it, “has pretty much succeeded in killing our family.”
Not so, she counters.
“They’re just trying to make a circus sideshow and use me as a decoy,” said the new Mrs. Yeager, who, with her husband, contends that the case is just about whether Yeager’s children broke the law in their zeal to thwart his new love. “They don’t really care about their father,” she said. “They just care about having his money for themselves.”
By: STORMBIRD262 - 19th July 2005 at 13:52
Waste of a thread
And these are the DAY’S OF OUR LIVE’S!!!!!!!!.
Sh*t, When I read the title of the thread, I thought old Chucky had finally bought the farm.
So he had a dislike for the pom’s, big deal :rolleyes: , how many other people in the world, can answer yea to that!!! :p 😀 .
I met an ex Qantas flight engineer, a few year’s back, who had crossed path’s with Yeager, and said he seem to have a real dislike for certain engineer type’s as well 😀 , how bad doe’s that make him :p .
Amazing how all the Vulture’s, alway’s start to circle over your bone’s, before you have even finished with them yet :rolleyes: .
Anyway at the end of the day Chuck was ” THE MAN ” :dev2: , with the right stuff and in the right place at the right time 😉 .
Chuck will still be one of my hero’s for ever, like Sir D.B. and say his mate J.J., but I have heard certain remark’s from ex vet’s here in Oz, about both of them, after meeting them at Airforce function’s year’s ago.
Not enough bad thing’s to turn me off them, (tid bit, Johnny would alway’s expect a free drink, and shirk his round :rolleyes: ), some found D.B. a bit pushy 😮 , but said they did not dislike him that much 😉 .
😮 NOW LET’S GET BACK TO BLOODY HISTORIC AIRCRAFT STUFF!!!! 😮
How about a Thread about ” Neil A. Armstrong “……you know, the moon guy :rolleyes: …
😮 Tomorrow it’s 36 year’s since that BIG MUTHA SATURN V 😮 , Dropped him and Buzz off there!!! 😎 .
Doe’s he fit in HISTORIC with the Saturn V :confused: .
By: duxfordhawk - 19th July 2005 at 09:45
Miles M.52 anyone….oh stoppit….
Makes me think of a Bullseye quote when i think of this Aircraft “Lets see what you would of won”. We all know the story and the fact that it should have been a British person who went supersonic first, But as they say the rest is history.
I can’t say nothing of the Man but just because he went supersonic and has been a hero for many does not make him a clever man with the women, But does make him a target for a Money grabber, Thats life though.
By: TEXANTOMCAT - 19th July 2005 at 09:32
Miles M.52 anyone….oh stoppit….
By: gbwez1 - 19th July 2005 at 00:00
Yes, when I met him he heard my accent and the first thing out of his mouth was “When I left England at the end of WW2 I hated the English more than I hated the Germans”. And he didn’t say it as a joke either.
Anyway I sensibly refrained from mentioning what one of his WW2 contemporaries told me…
“See the thing you need to remember is that there was a genuine fear of the sound barrier. There was a very real possibility that it was impenetrable for an aircraft, and anyone that tried to break the barrier would be killed. So next time you see Yeager acting all arrogant, keep one word on your mind… “expendable”. “
By: Melvyn Hiscock - 4th July 2004 at 22:34
Well i don’t know him personally but i havent read or know of anything bad about him ,oh well i’ll change good to respected airman then 🙂
I have not met him myself but I know of several that have had dealings with him and few have a good word. I am sure some of that is explainable but even so, he is not known for his diplomacy! This is the guy who has said publicly he would rather have fought the British than the Germans!
MH
By: Flood - 4th July 2004 at 21:09
That is not an opinion everyone shares!
MH
Opinions are like strings, every yoyo has one…
Flood.™
By: trumper - 4th July 2004 at 20:11
That is not an opinion everyone shares!
MH
Well i don’t know him personally but i havent read or know of anything bad about him ,oh well i’ll change good to respected airman then 🙂
By: Patty O'Doors - 4th July 2004 at 20:09
Anyone want to hear about my marital problems??
Nah? Didnt think so…..
By: Melvyn Hiscock - 4th July 2004 at 19:23
What a shame a good man…
That is not an opinion everyone shares!
MH
By: trumper - 4th July 2004 at 19:19
What happened to pre-nuptial agreements,i thought it was the done thing in America.Having said that he is a grown man but possibly now not of sound mind,oh isn’t love strange.
What a shame a good man is put through this in his Autumn years.
By: JohnH - 3rd July 2004 at 11:38
I read that in the paper today. The deal is, it wasn’t just one or a couple of ex landlords and associates of this female nutcase that had numerous problems with her, it was several they talked to. I’m sorry to hear it also.
John
By: whalebone - 3rd July 2004 at 10:22
Sadly it just goes to show the old saying is still true.
“A woman will draw you further than gunpowder can blow you”
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