She forced Swede love on him!
The lurid countess-vs.-mogul smackdown unspooling in a Connecticut divorce court reached new lows yesterday, with the multimillionaire hubby insisting his much younger aristocrat wife was a Swedish fireball who would drag him to bed against his will.
“I recall one instance when she was very forceful, and I declined, and she exploded,” insisted George David, chairman of the board and until recently CEO at United Technologies.
David, 66, made the startling accusation against his beautiful blond countess wife, Marie Douglas-David, 36, on day four of their divorce trial, as her lawyer grilled him on whether he kept bedding his wife even while keeping a mistress in the months after he filed for divorce in the summer of 2007.
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How about that November ’07 trip to Malta, asked the wife’s lawyer, William Beslow.
David admitted that he slept in the same bed with his wife that night they’d come to the island so he could accept an award for a record-setting finish in his 90-foot racing yacht. But there was no sex.
“She initiated I declined,” the mogul explained, sounding a bit like a CEO discussing contract negotiations.
“Did you have sex with Mrs. David on that one occasion [a month later in Sweden] when she forced herself on you?” the lawyer pressed, his voice tinged with incredulity. “That was against your will, wasn’t it?”
“Yes it was,” David answered.
“And that wasn’t the first time Mrs. David forced herself on you, is that correct?” the lawyer asked.
“No it was not,” the mogul asserted.
“There was that time she grabbed you by the arm and pulled you to the bed?” came the next question.
“Yes, frequently,” he answered.
After court, the wife sniffed at her husband’s account. “I’m just very sad that he’s being that dishonest. I trusted my husband,” she told The Post.
“I’m very disappointed at the very low level of his accusations.”
Another of her lawyers, Robert Cohen, noted his client weighs 120 pounds soaking wet. “The notion that she could be raping a 226-pound man who’s 6-foot-3 is beyond the pale,” Cohen said.
Who slept with whom when is at issue in this tawdry, dripping-with-money trial, in which both sides accuse the other of affairs, greed and cruelty.
The countess’ side is hoping to prove that the couple shared love and togetherness in the months after the divorce was filed. If the judge believes they reconciled albeit briefly he may toss out a 2005 postnuptial agreement granting her a measly 600,000 shares of United Technologies stock, currently worth around $36 million, or so they hope.
The husband’s side contends that the postnup is rock solid and that she’s being greedy in grabbing for any more of his hard-earned, $329 million fortune.
“She always wants more, more, more,” complained his lawyer, Anne Dranginis. “Too much is never enough.”
Testimony continues today.