“Chicagoan Pays $25,200 Alimony To 3 Ex-Wives” - 1931

FULL TEXT: The record for alimony in Cook County was held today by Hugo Meyer, $25,200 a year. Meyer’s third wife yesterday was granted $300 a month as temporary alimony. Other payments of $1,000 a month to his second wife and $600 a month to his first rate are being made by him.

[“Chicagoan Pays $25,200 Alimony To 3 Ex-Wives,” syndicated (AP), Rochester Journal (N.Y.), May 19, 1931, p. 14]

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For more revelations of this suppressed history, see The Alimony Racket: Checklist of Posts

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