Why is susan hill pleading poverty

A favorite is the chic Renaissance on Forest Avenue, a boulevard where thatched cottages and Swiss chalets evoke an Old World charm, despite the presence of street-corner grunge bands and robed devotees of the Hare Krishna sect. If lack of money is indeed a concern, Olds, who is working as a paralegal under California's expansive notion of what law practitioners can do, disguises his poverty well. Over the course of three days last week, the more Olds described his new life in California, the more contradictions emerged.

Some of those contrasting themes will play out on Tuesday when the Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission ARDC looks into Olds' affairs, which include insider stock trading and violating judges' orders to stop transferring large sums of money to Hofer in Germany, pending the outcome of Dean and Suzanne Olds' divorce.

He is aware of the high stakes, complaining that "I've got my jugular vein sitting out on the counter. At every opportunity, Olds blames his wife's divorce lawyers for "grinding" him down financially. Referring to Hofer, who Olds says he believes killed his wife in order to end a judge's injunction that froze marital assets, Olds says: "You get people mad enough and they act irrationally.

I was his sugar daddy, and I was about to be financially killed. Previously, Olds maintained that Hofer was innocent, railroaded by the Cook County state's attorney because "he is gay and a foreigner. Hofer moved back to Germany after his trial and, according to friends, has gone into business painting houses. He did not respond to a request for an interview. DNA evidence introduced during Hofer's murder trial showed that the odds were million-to-1 that the blood found on the Taurus' seat cushion, which Hofer was driving that night, belonged to anyone other than Suzanne Olds.

Meanwhile, Wilmette police say their investigation of Dean Olds "is not active at this time. The Olds family--daughters Kristin Glavin and Courtney Olds, and a son, Stephen Dean Olds--have found some solace amid the tragedy of losing their mother, and in effect, their father too.

And I think the Olds family felt that way in regards to the criminal trial of Helmut Hofer. I believe it was less about money," Anderson said. Civil lawsuits have been used, with some success, in other Chicago area murders. Nationwide, wrongful-death lawsuits have jumped percent since in cases where there was criminal violence, according to data compiled by the National Victim Center in Virginia. Simpson case, we think that that alternative road to justice will become a more widely used option.

Yet Dean Olds, a brilliant litigator who in won what was then the largest trademark-infringement judgment in U. He's still able to scratch out a living, even if it is in the legal profession that he now bitterly blames--along with his dead wife--for triggering a downfall as steep as Southern California's craggy cliffs. Despite his ability to spring back, Olds cannot ignore the drain of the past eight years since he met Hofer at a New York City hotel. I was found guilty in the civil proceedings , yet the only thing you could get out of the trial was that I was a skunk.

Ergo, once you have a skunk, you know who killed my wife. I don't think that's fair. Olds is more haggard than a year ago, and the deterioration is plain to see in other ways. Hollywood needs authors. Five of the nine films nominated for best picture at this year's Oscars were adapted from novels, and one from a non-fiction book. Big studios might be struggling without the imagination of Jonathan Safran Foer, Michael Morpurgo, Brian Selznick, Kathryn Stockett and Kaui Hart Hemmings but they do not seem to want to pay much for this precious commodity.

There is even a phrase for it, " Hollywood accounting ", describing the extremely creative practice of turning healthy film profits into losses to avoid royalty payments. The Tolkien family's eventual settlement was confidential and Hill's deal for The Woman in Black is similarlyshrouded in commercial confidentiality although she tweeted it was "peanuts against million plus".

So although I have money to pay them, I haven't much over. But for other authors it's a lifesaver. But he believes "there is no excuse for authors not making money from films".