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TV’s millionaire bachelor cuts university out of his will over article
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) — Television bachelor Rick Rockwell says he’s taking Penn State, his former alma mater, out of his will because of an article in a campus magazine.
Rockwell, a 1979 Penn State graduate who was the groom on the 2000 Fox reality show Who Wants to Marry a Multimillionaire?, phoned in to Penn State President Graham Spanier’s call-in show, To the Best of My Knowledge, on Tuesday night.
Rockwell said he wanted to counter the negative portrayal of him in some media reports, and he was especially angry about a story that ran in The Penn Stater, an alumni magazine, that he said “roundly slammed me.”
He told Spanier that he had planned to bequeath Penn State $500,000 US, but was removing the university from his will. Spanier merely thanked Rockwell for being on the show.
He later said in an e-mail message that the article was accurate and fair.
Shortly after the show created a sensation in early 2000, it was revealed that Rockwell, a real estate investor and former standup comedian, had once been under a restraining order sought by a former fiancee who said he had hit her and threatened to kill her.
His on-air marriage to game show contestant Darva Conger was annulled within weeks.

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 27 November 2003 20:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Further proof that money != class.

― Tenacious Dee (Dee the Lurker), Thursday, 27 November 2003 20:55 (twenty-two years ago)

B-b-but, IIRC, he wasn't really a millionaire!

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 27 November 2003 20:55 (twenty-two years ago)

I've just adopted this practice as my new counter to whatever. I don't have any money, but if I ever do, I'm not leaving any to you. And, yes, I was going to. Really. I really really was.

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 27 November 2003 20:59 (twenty-two years ago)

"You're out of my will!" so has to be a new ILXMeme.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 27 November 2003 23:37 (twenty-two years ago)

u r gay! you are not the future of rock and roll! and YOU'RE OUT OF MY WILL!!

― the surface noise (electricsound), Thursday, 27 November 2003 23:38 (twenty-two years ago)

You joke about this, but really. My mother has made my (totally freaking crazy) brother executor of her will. Which effectively cuts me out of her will more effectively than writing me out.

(In Victorian times at least they'd cut you off with a farthing. This actually happened to one of my great great grannies.)

― Citizen Kate (kate), Friday, 28 November 2003 10:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Wills and suchlike have been a real bane for me. My dad managed to weasel out of honoring an inheritance committment and pissed some of the cash away trying to open some awful blues bar. Twat.

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 28 November 2003 10:14 (twenty-two years ago)

My granny knew that my dad would probably try some such nonsense. So she very specifically left trust funds to my brother and I. So we could be trustafarian layabouts of our own accord!

― Citizen Kate (kate), Friday, 28 November 2003 10:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah well so did mine. It's amazing how such a shiftless, lazy pig can manage to discover diabolical, devious forms of intelligence just when you need them not to do this. Or in my dad's case, he married Planet.

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 28 November 2003 10:27 (twenty-two years ago)

My gran was very wiley. She set it up so that the bank required *every single signature* of consent from every single heir before anyone could access the capital of the trusts. So, basically, no one person could legally touch any money unless everyone was consulted. So they were legally unable to screw anyone. Boy, were my family nice to me for the six months during which I was hemming and hawing and going "well, I really don't want the capital now..."

God, this makes my family sound like the Ewings from Dallas. It wasn't like that, really. (Well, unless it makes it all sound more glamourous.)

― Citizen Kate (kate), Friday, 28 November 2003 10:31 (twenty-two years ago)

My gran would have been able to do the same had Planet not moved her in with her and my dad, started 'wondering' about whether or not she had Alzheimer's, found an Elvis doctor to prescribe her Haldol so she wouldn't go wandering (yeah, RIGHT) and so two years before she died, when she inherited a ton of money from her cousin, Planet got her to sign a new will while she was on drugs. Planet also picked fights with us and then made my dad take sides, including weaseling out of the grand a year he had to pay towards my college, and when my gran was in day care we couldn't speak to her without Planet's permission. Six months later she died weighing 86 pounds and I guess several million lighter as well.

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 28 November 2003 10:42 (twenty-two years ago)

You probably had grounds to legally contest the new will, but that's another story, and would have required either a lot of money or an ambulence chaser.

― Citizen Kate (kate), Friday, 28 November 2003 10:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Ah, and being a trustafarian is overrated anyway.

::ducks::

― Citizen Kate (kate), Friday, 28 November 2003 10:45 (twenty-two years ago)

"Just a fool to believe..."

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 28 November 2003 10:48 (twenty-two years ago)

It was actually brought to the attention of the police by the county coroner, but the police really couldn't be arsed in that district. My uncle, Lieutenant Vice and Special Forces, said if it was his lookout he'd have taken them in, but unfortunately the suburb they lived in was outside his jurisdiction. My mom also blames herself because having rebuilt her friendship with her former mother-in-law (they were really close because her mother's lights may have been on, but nobody home, but when my dad remarried that changed due to generational mores), she received her one Christmas Eve to be told 'that bitch is spending all my money' in a moment of lucidity, and did not refuse to hand her back to my dad.

I think I hate money more than I like it.

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 28 November 2003 10:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, I can think of two people who are definitely...wait for it...OUT OF MY WILL!

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 28 November 2003 14:41 (twenty-two years ago)

I knew I should have just shut the fuck up. :(

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 28 November 2003 14:43 (twenty-two years ago)

not you

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 28 November 2003 14:44 (twenty-two years ago)

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