Ed McMahon May Lose Beverly Hills Home

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douglas9 (253 posts)       Wed Jun-04-08 06:28 AM
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Ed McMahon May Lose Beverly Hills Home
 Advertisements [?]Source: Wall Street Journal

Ed McMahon, the longtime sidekick to television star Johnny Carson, faces the possible loss of his Beverly Hills home to a foreclosure action initiated by a unit of Countrywide Financial Corp.

Howard Bragman, a spokesman for Mr. McMahon, said late Tuesday that his client is having "very fruitful discussions" with the lender and hopes to find a resolution. It isn't clear whether that would allow the 85-year-old Mr. McMahon and his wife, Pamela, to remain in the six-bedroom home.

A Countrywide spokeswoman said the lender couldn't comment in such cases "due to privacy issues."

Mr. McMahon, a jovial fixture of American television for decades, is one of the most prominent people caught up in a wave of mortgage defaults that has devastated low-income areas, suburbia and even a few posh gated communities, such as the one where the McMahons live. U.S. Rep. Laura Richardson, a California Democrat, recently lost a home in Sacramento to a foreclosure. Rep. Richardson didn't respond to requests for comme

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superconnected  (1000+ posts)       Wed Jun-04-08 09:15 PM
Response to Reply #25
34. Excuse ME? The old man has been in on a multi-milllion dollar scam of the poorest in america
 playing on their deams of getting rich by lying to them in dishonestly worded and often illegal(they've been sued for their wording) letters, telling people "they've already won" but buy some cheap useless merchandise to get in a better winner circle, for decades.

Disabled, elderly and poor are the typical victims in his fraudulent postal scheme.

Dreamer Tatum (307 posts)       Wed Jun-04-08 10:13 AM
Response to Reply #2
24. Yeah, it's Bush's fault that an 85 yo can't work
 Please.

Ed McMahon worked for Carson for HOW long, and he shilled for HOW MANY products? He can't pay his mortgage because he can't work?

That's stupid on his part. Most 85-year-olds who are not DEAD yet and who have earned what that guy had to have earned throughout
his career should have (a) socked a few bucks away, and/or (b) paid off a mortgage on a very nice home LONG ago.

He's a moron.
 

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3337870

Actually there's not much sympathy at all for him at DU. I have to say I agree with those saying that he should have made a bit more effort to live within his means earlier on in his life.

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Dreamer Tatum (307 posts)       Wed Jun-04-08 10:13 AM
Response to Reply #2
24. Yeah, it's Bush's fault that an 85 yo can't work
 Please.

Ed McMahon worked for Carson for HOW long, and he shilled for HOW MANY products? He can't pay his mortgage because he can't work?

That's stupid on his part. Most 85-year-olds who are not DEAD yet and who have earned what that guy had to have earned throughout
his career should have (a) socked a few bucks away, and/or (b) paid off a mortgage on a very nice home LONG ago.

He's a moron.
 

Hi5, ya Marxist. 

[bijou]

Dreamer Tatum (307 posts)       Wed Jun-04-08 10:13 AM
Response to Reply #2
24. Yeah, it's Bush's fault that an 85 yo can't work
 Please.

Ed McMahon worked for Carson for HOW long, and he shilled for HOW MANY products? He can't pay his mortgage because he can't work?

That's stupid on his part. Most 85-year-olds who are not DEAD yet and who have earned what that guy had to have earned throughout
his career should have (a) socked a few bucks away, and/or (b) paid off a mortgage on a very nice home LONG ago.

He's a moron.
 

Hi5, ya Marxist. 

DU has it's blind squirrel/nut moment every now and again.