SHORT TAKES : Ruling Favors Divorcing Diva
- Share via
NEW YORK — Frederica von Stade’s celebrity and career as an opera singer are not marital assets that can be measured and shared with her estranged husband, a judge has ruled.
Manhattan Judge Walter Schackman rejected the claim of Von Stade’s husband of 18 years, Peter Elkus, who said he sacrificed his career to nurture hers as her voice coach, manager and adviser.
More From the Los Angeles Times
Podcasts
The latest effort is coming from the L.A. County Board of Supervisors. They just announced a $3 million program in conjunction with some nonprofits groups to test and clean the soil at homes still standing in the areas impacted by the Eaton Fire.
California once bet big on offshore wind to help power its clean-energy future, but the Trump administration is now paying developers billions to walk away from their projects. As California’s remaining offshore-wind leases hang in the balance, the state is fighting back in court.
The Hillside Strangler murders terrorized Los Angeles in the late 1970s. The killers were a pair of sadistic cousins. One confessed. The other was set to stand trial—until L.A. prosecutors flinched.
