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Stasi: Robin Williams’ $30M alimony to ex-wives contributed to his death

Robin Williams' paid more than $30M in alimony to his ex-wives, Valerie Velardi and Marsha Garces. Indie Chicks will be marching around New York with typical negative cover lines from women’s mags pinned to their clothes Monday.

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

Sunday, August 17, 2014, 1:52 AM

http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/stasi-robin-williams-30m-alimony-ex-wives-contributed-death-article-1.1906241#ixzz3AfQW3onM

Did alimony kill Robin Williams?

At least in part it sure did. Paying out over $30 million to ex-wives who were allowed to attach themselves to Williams’ bank account like comatose patients on feeding tubes would be enough to make Gandhi angry and depressed.

While states are finally, gradually catching up to the modern age in terms of alimony (now they call it “maintenance” — as in “high maintenance”) the practice of men paying women because they once were married is not just primitive but, yes, sexist.

Yeah, go ahead, call me anti-feminist, call me whatever you want, but the truth is alimony (which is different from child support and fair distribution of assets acquired during the marriage) doesn’t mean the non-working spouse is entitled to live as high as the Kardashians. It’s that concept that is fundamentally anti-feminist.