Elizabeth libet johnson biography

It’s hard to remember after the vicious custody battle, after the charges of kidnapping and countercharges of extortion, that the whole thing started because Libet Johnson had fallen in love. Deliriously in love.

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Of course, Libet, one of the richest women in New York, fell in love with some regularity—she’d been married, and divorced, five times and had had a slew of boyfriends besides. But at the beginning, she was certain that this romance would last.

For Libet, heir to the Johnson & Johnson fortune, the romance arrived in the nick of time.

She’d been worrying that at her age—she was 53—she’d never have another boyfriend.

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Lionel was, she thought, her last shot.

In fact, her life seemed to be improving across the board. As her relationship with Lionel developed, she was growing more deeply involved with an orphan community she’d founded in Cambodia. The charity work had given her a sense of purpose that, for all her wealth, hadn’t been there before.

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