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'Be Gone, Girl': Fotis Dulos Attorney Responds to Author Gillian Flynn's Comments on Missing CT Mom Case

'Be Gone, Girl': Fotis Dulos Attorney Responds to Author Gillian Flynn's Comments on Missing CT Mom Case

Norman Pattis said "Candidly, Gillian’s ignorant fulminations about the Dulos case play to the very impulses she exploited in her book"

- NBC New York
The attorney for Fotis Dulos has a simple message for author Gillian Flynn: "Be gone, girl."
Norman Pattis made the comments after the "Gone Girl" scribe said she was "absolutely sickened" by the suggestion that missing Connecticut missing mother Jeniffer Dulos could have staged her own disappearance in a revenge scheme to frame her estranged husband.
While he complimented Flynn's novel, which was later turned into a major motion picture, as "the best book I've ever read on the...

Attorney Norman Pattis responds to ‘Gone Girl’ author’s statement

Attorney Norman Pattis responds to ‘Gone Girl’ author’s statement

- WTNH Channel 8
Fotis Dulos’ attorney Norman Pattis has responded to the author of Gone Girl novel Gillian Flynn’s statement regarding the Jennifer Dulos disappearance.
Gillian Flynn, the author of Gone Girl, a book published in 2012 which was later created into a movie in 2014, based on a woman who stages her death and frames her husband for her disappearance, has issued a statement in regards to her novel becoming a part of the investigation into missing New Canaan mother, Jennifer...

Russian billionaire fails to win back daughter in Bridgeport court

Russian billionaire fails to win back daughter in Bridgeport court

- CT Post
A Superior Court judge on Tuesday refused to force the reunification of Russian billionaire Shalva Chigirinsky with his 12-year-old daughter, who had accused him of sexually assaulting her.
“Given her somewhat gloomy history, the minor child appears to be doing reasonably well in her current environment,” Judge Mark Gould ruled, denying Chigirinsky’s request for visitation and granting a motion for sole custody by the girl’s mother, Tatiana Panchenkova.
The...

‘We’re Not Going To Rest:’ Police Determined To Find Missing Conn. Mother Jennifer Dulos

‘We’re Not Going To Rest:’ Police Determined To Find Missing Conn. Mother Jennifer Dulos

- CBS New York
Police in Connecticut are vowing to continue their search for missing New Canaan mother Jennifer Dulos.
The 50-year-old mother of five disappeared on May 24 after dropping her kids off at school.
Her estranged husband, Fotis Dulos, and his girlfriend, Michelle Troconis, were charged with evidence tampering and hindering the prosecution. They were allegedly seen on surveillance video throwing away trash bags that later tested positive for Jennifer Dulos’s...

Fotis Dulos: I Know What I've Done and What I Haven't Done – The Truth is Going to Come Out

Fotis Dulos: I Know What I've Done and What I Haven't Done – The Truth is Going to Come Out

Jennifer Dulos, a suburban mother of five from Connecticut, vanished May 24 after dropping her children off at school

- NBC New York
Fotis Dulos knows what the public thinks of him, and has a message for them: Wait until the facts come out.
"I know what I've done, I know what I haven't done," Dulos said in an exclusive interview with NBC 4 New York. "I have to stand and fight and hope the truth is going to come out."
It was Dulos' first interview since the disappearance of his estranged wife, Jennifer Dulos, more than a month ago. She went missing after dropping their five children off at school.
Fotis...

Estranged Husband Says He Had Dinner With Missing Mom Two Days Before Her Disappearance

Estranged Husband Says He Had Dinner With Missing Mom Two Days Before Her Disappearance

- Daily Voice
The estranged husband of New Canaan missing mother of five Jennifer Farber Dulos says he had dinner with her just two days before her disappearance in an interview with NBC News 4 New York's Sarah Wallace.
Fotis Dulos said he had an improved relationship with Jennifer Dulos before she disappeared without a trace on Friday, May 24.
"The interesting thing was the last month, I tried many times to make an opening and start communicating with her directly, and that didn't go anywhere...

Husband of missing mother of five floats theory she committed ‘revenge suicide’

Husband of missing mother of five floats theory she committed ‘revenge suicide’

- Washington Examiner
A Connecticut mother of five who has been missing for weeks could have killed herself to prevent her estranged husband from getting custody of their children, a lawyer for the man argued.
Jennifer Dulos, 50, vanished after she dropped her children off at school in late May.
Fotis Dulos, 51, and his girlfriend, Michelle Troconis, 44, have pleaded not guilty to tampering with evidence and hindering the prosecution.
“We are exploring all possibilities, including that she...

Fotis Dulos, husband of missing Connecticut mother, fiercely defends his innocence

Fotis Dulos, husband of missing Connecticut mother, fiercely defends his innocence

- AOL News
The estranged husband of a missing Connecticut mother insisted he's not a "monster" as he proclaimed his innocence in an exclusive NBC interview.
Fotis Dulos, 51, and his girlfriend, Michelle Troconis, 44, were arrested in early June in connection with the disappearance of Jennifer Dulos, 50, who was last seen in Connecticut on May 24 after dropping her children off at school.
Lawyers for Fotis Dulos have implied that Jennifer Dulos staged her own disappearance, claims that her...

‘Revenge Suicide Hypothesis’ Offered by Lawyer for Estranged Husband of Missing Woman

‘Revenge Suicide Hypothesis’ Offered by Lawyer for Estranged Husband of Missing Woman

The lawyer claimed Jennifer Dulos, who vanished in May, took her own life to prevent her husband from obtaining custody of their five children.

- The New York Times
In late May, Jennifer Dulos dropped off her five children at school in a Connecticut town, then vanished. Less than two weeks later, her estranged husband and his girlfriend were arrested in connection with her disappearance.
Now, as the search for Ms. Dulos, 50, enters its sixth week, a lawyer for her estranged husband is offering an unusual explanation for what happened: she took her own life to prevent him from getting custody of their five children.
The lawyer, Norm Pattis, said...

The sister of Fotis Dulos, estranged husband of missing New Canaan mother Jennifer Farber Dulos, says “he is not the person they say he is”

The sister of Fotis Dulos, estranged husband of missing New Canaan mother Jennifer Farber Dulos, says “he is not the person they say he is”

- Hartford Courant
The sister of Fotis Dulos on Monday spoke publicly in defense of her brother saying, “he is not the person who they say he is” and expressed how much her family loves his estranged wife, Jennifer Farber Dulos, who has been missing for more than a month.
“We really feel very worried first about Jennifer,” Rena Dulos said in a phone interview from Greece.
“Fotis is very sad, very emotional and very tired. This isn’t something that he was expecting...

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