Malcolm Pray frames his daughter!
Tina Pray pleads not guilty, “looks forward to her day in court”.
A quick Googling of the phrase, “looks forward to his day in court” yields 74,500 hits. I’d estimate that of all the defense lawyers who have ever employed that stirring phrase, 74, 497 ended up plea bargaining. Maybe Tina will be the fourth.
30 Comments
November 13, 2009 at 10:02 am
Say, old boy, it’s POSSIBLE, just POSSIBLE that the father-in-law is, in fact, the dirt-bag in this story. “Possible”, that’s all I’m saying…
November 13, 2009 at 10:12 am
It is also possible, and just as likely, that the air in your living room will suddenly disappear. Shall I bring you an oxygen tank?
November 13, 2009 at 11:02 am
Pay heed to Gideon. Ford married two wealthy women and has tried to embroil his friends in a series of slippery ventures. One hears that he was in fact selling items belonging to his late wife which in fact belonged to Tina including jewelry, etc. He has remarried and has moved his fresh wife into the house which belonged to the late Natasha and now Tina. Ewwww. Tina is no saint, but neither is Ford. Lots of discussion over the lunch tables of a certain circle. You never know. Anyway, with Riccio on her team, she scored a point.
November 13, 2009 at 12:43 pm
It’s also sad if there’s been family estrangement all the way around with the Prays. To quote Fitzgerald, “The rich are different from you and me” and the problems due to settling estates and picking sides in paternal divorces are much worse and dramatic. The rest of us get to live down or distance ourselves from our indiscretions, but members of a prominent family can’t.
Lots of the negative actions in the past by Ms. Gagne I’m sure had extenuating circumstances, too, and since the last time I checked the witch trials were over, so maybe it’s time to let her lawyer, Ford’s lawyer, and the justice system weed it out.
He has to have a deep resentment of her owning the house he lives in, and her mother must have loved her very much to leave her the whole thing. It’s a sad thing she’s not around to oversee or guide her.
November 13, 2009 at 1:00 pm
The whole thing stinks.
November 13, 2009 at 2:48 pm
A gentleman does not call his step daughter “a shady character” no matter what the circumstances. If he felt he was “wronged” he always could have called Tina’s father before calling the police. This is payback for Tina patrolling the house and making him feel like a gigolo. He was screwing around with Bunny when he was still married to Hope, wife #1, which is when Bunny bought the house so he’d have a place to go. My bet is Tina has some pretty good dirt on him, thus Riccio’s statement. Riccio takes no prisoners. This is going to be bloody.
November 13, 2009 at 4:31 pm
In hindsight we always thought Ford was a Madoff like character, although no one ever heard of Madoff – or the Noels – for that matter. If I were Dick Ford I would get the best criminal attorney my allowance would afford.
November 13, 2009 at 9:55 pm
Yes, you got it right!!
His new blushing bride is enjoying my familys heirlooms: sleeping in my great grandmothers bed, sleeping on my grandmothers monogrammed sheets: serving dickeypoo dinner on my greatgranndmothers silver!!! and get this, the new wife won’t even give me my own wedding dress that my mother had stored for me in the cedar closet before she died!
If it looks like it, smells like it, you guessed it !!
SELFISH GREED!!
Oh, and how dare I be a bug in his champagne!!!
November 13, 2009 at 10:51 pm
Tina, we’ve discussed this many a sessions — you mustn’t hold grudges. You can’t change people, only the way you respond to them. Didn’t you learn that in Psych 101?
[by the way, which wedding dress are you talking about in the cedar closet? ]
And for all you evil bloggers out there, be warned .. Tina doesn’t like to be aggravated. Watch below:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6434412284195033953#docid=5311177906027570692
November 13, 2009 at 11:16 pm
Tina:
Let your lawyers handle this. Everyone knows Dickie and the new Mrs. for what they are. Fool me once shame on you. Fool me twice shame on me. You think she washed the sheets before she slept in them?
November 14, 2009 at 9:14 am
To Tina’s Therapist – Although the video has nothing to do with Tina Pray, thanks for giving me an early morning chuckle.
I think that’s Telly Savalas in that video – Pre-Kojak.
November 14, 2009 at 1:25 pm
Gideon, it’s her STEP-FATHER
not her father- in-law.
Just to be clear
November 15, 2009 at 3:25 pm
Tina,
You must keep a lower profile. You are being seen out at events and it is terribly tacky to be defending yourself (without your lawyer present) to the towns “good” people.
Try to help us understand why you could have a $17,000 memory loss.
If you had forgotten, what about your husband? Perhaps the hair dye has caused him some brain damage…as well.
November 15, 2009 at 8:22 pm
The evil step father. A fairy tale for our time in Greenwich. I see Tina sweeping ashes from the fireplace as Dickie gives the fresh wife Countess ZaZa’s jewels and they roll around in granny’s monogrammed linen sheets. Someone should get first wife Hope to weigh in here.
November 15, 2009 at 8:31 pm
This just in from the club circuit Saturday night: Malcolm has reconciled whatever differences he might have had with Tina and is going after Ford with all – meaning all – of his vast resources. If I were Dick Ford, I would be scared, very very scared. He’s still kind of cute for an old guy. I am sure he could have a very fulfilling prison life.
November 15, 2009 at 11:51 pm
From “The Great Gatsby”:
“They were careless people — they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made…”
Sounds a lot like Tina and company. Their toxic banter is out of control. They know damn well that Dickie’s so called “fresh wife” is not wearing the family heirlooms or rolling in the hay in granny’s sheets.
I think we need to keep in mind that Tina’s stepfather, Dick, and wives #1 and #3 are all octogenarians. They’re a too little old and above it all to be behaving like the cast of ‘Dynasty.’
Please explain to me, Tina, — why is this all of the sudden the ‘evil’ stepfather’s fault? And what exactly is Malcolm going after — his pride?
Why don’t you look in the mirror Tina — stop blaming others and take responsibility for your actions. Stop being so careless … it’s about time, don’t you think?
November 16, 2009 at 12:21 am
Peeps,
Re: the u-tube link. That is indeed Telly in his Pre-Kojak years.
I know the video has nothing to do DIRECTLY with Tina Pray — it was sort of a subtle joke on her breed of vengeance. Sorry you missed it.
Off to read “Interpretation of Dreams.”
Good nite.
Dr. Feel Better
November 16, 2009 at 6:59 am
To Tina’s Therapist – I was sincerely thanking you for making me laugh that morning…it was funny how you came up with a clip like that. From what you posted, I was expecting some old cable news clip showing her angry at someone, and instead saw that. Reread my post – all I was doing was thanking you for the laugh…nothing to get testy about
– This story just shows how entangling some will stipulations can be. Did Tina get along with her stepfather before her mother died? If not, then it was a bad decision to leave the house to her with him still in it. If not, mom should have stipulated that they’d sell the house and piece by piece, itemized the contents. Then, if one could buy the other out, it would be over. If not, they could split the proceeds and be done with each other. It’s very sad, and it’s what I think will happen in my family someday, but it won’t be newsworthy because we’re not a well known family.
If polygraph testing was foolproof, you could just strap ‘em all up and see what’s at the root of this.
Did Tina really forget she sold the painting?
Did Dick set her up?
This story, and others like it would all be over fast if the testing was 100% accurate and trusted, but then there would be many fewer attorneys and too many layoffs in the court buildings.
How is Grayson doing?
November 16, 2009 at 7:34 am
“Me thinks she protest too much”.
November 16, 2009 at 9:36 am
Peeps et al,
I question how could someone…anyone forget about a $17,000 payout. I don’t think that dickie set her up as much as he just got sick and tired of her looking for a handout like her mother gave to her. Tina and dickee got along very welll as she used to call him dad and flaunt that to Malcolm, her ‘real’ father.
He may be living in the house but tina with her “tude” came and went as she pleased for so long. Evidence states that she was caught “redhanded” with other items leaving the house….another painting and oh yes…a blanket stuffing the items into her car. Tina- were you cold? Husband not keeping you warm at night?
With that evidence, Dickee just pointed a finger and ’suggested’ that the police look into her as she had stolen in the past. (Leopard doesn’t change his spots). And lo and behold…he was right to point that finger. He obviously didn’t ‘give’ her the painting so where could it have gone……
November 16, 2009 at 10:00 am
The town is taking sides. Dick Ford denouncing his step daughter and landlord as “a shady character” to the police would cause her mother, who loved her dearly, to spin in her grave. He has disrespected the memory of his late wife and her family, who are funding his octogenarian lifestyle. So Tina is a back country girl who likes to have a good time, but also supports causes and gives back to the town. I think Dick Ford made his name back in the 60s or 70s in recycling. Seems to be doing it again.
November 16, 2009 at 10:27 am
Aw, come on. If the late Natasha had set Dick up in a nice flat in Armstrong Court instead of a villa off Round Hill, do you think there would be Mrs. Ford III? I smell a libel suit coming Mr. Ford’s way. I wonder if he’ll have to borrow the money from Tina to defend himself?
November 16, 2009 at 2:20 pm
Tina, Since you are here and interested with what we say, we are interested too.
WHAT THE HECK WERE YOU THINKING? Since you have obviously gotten away with so much in your past, did you think that the Greenwich Police would not check up on your inplausable story? “I’m truly baffled”.
Please enlighten us to how you thought to get away with this?
How about your husband?
Is he standing by his gal? Seems to me that he should be paying for his wife and not you running to your daddy for help.
Dick Ford is in the house that your mother wanted him to have till he died. Lucky him to have a wife who felt that way.
November 16, 2009 at 9:07 pm
What goes around comes around.
November 16, 2009 at 9:19 pm
The quote is actually “Me thinkist she protesth too much.” A blanket in the car? Who else would know these things? Hire a lawyer, hire a PR firm or move out of town. You are toast, you low life. Your own kids have done better than your step kids? I don’t think so. Shall we go down the list one by one?
November 16, 2009 at 9:41 pm
If I had wanted Dick to own the house I would have left it to him, wouldn’t I.
November 16, 2009 at 9:52 pm
My hair is my natural color and I am still a lot cuter than you ever were.
November 16, 2009 at 11:26 pm
You can’t tell me that whatever happens now with Tina, her legal team can’t go after Ford as the tenant for causing harm to his landlord and widow’s child. He who has the most money wins this one. Let a jury decide. Armstrong Court anyone?
November 17, 2009 at 10:13 am
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December 11, 2009 at 10:41 am
Not clear what Dumb Dick is referencing. How are the Kids and step-kids involved?