Jerry Garcia’s Ex-Wife Wins Suit Over $5-Million Divorce Pact
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SAN RAFAEL, Calif. — Jerry Garcia’s second wife, Carolyn “Mountain Girl” Garcia, on Wednesday won a lawsuit claiming her right to a $5-million divorce agreement from the estate of the former Grateful Dead leader.
Attorneys for Garcia’s widow, filmmaker Deborah Koons Garcia, and six other heirs charge that Carolyn Garcia took advantage of her drug-fogged husband by manipulating him into signing a 1993 divorce agreement giving her $250,000 a year for the next 20 years.
They say Garcia only signed the agreement so he could marry Deborah Koons Garcia in 1994. It was the musician’s third marriage.
Garcia paid his former wife about $400,000 before his death from a heart attack in a drug rehabilitation center in August 1995. But his widow cut off the payments.
Carolyn Garcia of Eugene, Ore. said the estate had reneged on the divorce agreement.
Marin County Superior Court Judge Michael Dufficy agreed, ruling that she was legally entitled to the money.
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