Millionaire Bruce McMahan is one sick man. He “loved” Linda Marie so much, when he was 65, he married the 30 year old–ceremony and all. The problem, she is his biological daughter.

Oh yeah, problem #2 (and small in comparison), she was already married to another man. It appears that if you are committing incest then the issue of adultery doesn’t really register.

Problem #3, father was married at the time too.

The Glowing Couple?

After exchanging rings at Westminster Abbey in unholy union, the father and daughter flew back to the States and the new bride back to her legal husband. They kept in touch via email using codes to refer to each other as husband and wife and sugar-sweet-sickening also referring to her as “Yummy Puppy.”

Awhile later McMahan filed to divorce his fifth wife, and Linda moved out of the home she shared with her real (i.e., non-father) husband. She moved near him and started spending daddy’s money at a prodigious rate (including running up a $74,000 bill at Barney’s New York). There were also jewels, a Bentley Continental GT, and a Versace Club membership. He even through her on the corporate payroll raising the rare question if you put your daughter on the payroll is it nepotism if you are also married to them?

It was only a matter of time before their secret sexual relationship, not to mention, marriage was discovered. When it was lawsuits were filed by all parties giving publications like the New Times ample information for a very detailed article.

In court papers, McMahan denies that he ever had a sexual affair with his daughter. But he doesn’t explain how his and Linda’s DNA turned up on a vibrator that Linda’s husband uncovered in her luggage. (Here’s the DNA report.) [Pretty safe to say that there is no innocent explanation for that one.]

Then, on September 13, as the New Times article was being prepared for print, all lawsuits were settled on undisclosed terms. As part of the settlement, a federal judge in San Diego sealed the files of the California lawsuit and took the rare step of wiping out any record that the lawsuit had ever existed.

It pays to have money, especially when you’re divorcing your daughter.

tags: bad parenting Bruce McMahan

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