Forget Rome and the Coliseum, to hell with gladiators’ swords at the ready, all you had to do was be sitting in Judge Hank M. Goldberg’s Department 82 for a battle of two legal titans. We have Neal Hersh of Hersh, Mannis and Bogen representing Melissa Etheridge and her millions against Stephen Knowles of Knowles and Collum and Melissa’s ex-love Tammy Lynn Michaels. Both of these legal beagles have offices steps away from one another in Beverly Hills.

Well the comments and oratory got so heated that Neal Hersh references some of Stephen Knowles work as “slobbing and sloppy,” Knowles looks at him as if to say “you said what?” and one point warns Mr. Hersh, “Mr. Hersh does not want to get into that” in Neal’s attempts to get this back to Judge Pellman’s court. The voices were loud and I had never seen either of these two lawyers in such a jaw lock. Hersh at one point looks at Mr. Knowles and in a stern tone asks, “are you done?” and Knowles looks back adjusting his glasses and states just as sternly, “ Yes, I am done.“ Much of this stems from the fact that Stephen Knowles bagged Etheridge in New York while she was at her hotel waiting for her former love of her life, Mrs. Tammy Etheridge to bring the kids to visit. Well Tammy Etheridge aka Tammy Lynn Michaels called in sick to Mr. Etheridge or Mrs….you get it. And then someone delivered room service LMAO but it was not a snack but DIVORCE notice! Well that was all it took for these two lawyers to realize there will be no playing nice. It was a great set up and Melissa got served!

Mr. Hersh wants this case in Judge Pellman’s courtroom and Stephen Knowles position is too bad, I bagged your client first and you have not even served my client with anything! Well Judge Goldberg would step off the bench and appear to be confused as to what to do. He would come back and if he could have would have “placed his hands under his butt and rocked”…his “honor” did not really know what to do or was so baffled that he was going to send it to the “PJ” for review…or something around those lines. Too bad it was not in front of Judge Gordon or Lewis, control would have been taken and a decision made right then and there.

Reflecting on Rome and Caesar, here is another thought. Neal Hersh and Stephen Knowles are gladiators, sandals and little short togas to match. Judge Goldberg is Caesar, not one of the strong Caesars, but Caesar. The two gladiators are battling and in the end, they don’t get thumbs up or thumbs down, Caesar finds he lacks any thumbs!

Knowles went on to say that Tammy is broke and often her credit cards don’t work, Neal was quick to remind all that Melissa pays all the bills, rent , lights and water, everything and gives Tammy two grand a month plus pays for the car lease too. Knowles shoots back that she makes “60 to 70? thousand a day and that her kids are “destitute” and that Tammy’s credit card is often declined. For many in the court that did not seem to be “destitute” and after nine years together playing house. So now my question is do you still really want to have all the rights of “straight” people? Along with the right to marriage, welcome to the world of DIVORCE and family law…write a song about that! The Neal Hershes and Stephen Knowles of the world will be happy to sing backup.

NOTE: We love the gems John J. Nazarian picks up in the court house and then shares them on Desperate Exes.com with the rest of us that t are not in Beverly Hills and Hollywood.

http://desperateexes.com/2010/07/16/no-love-songs-in-melissa-etheridge-court-battle/.

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Alright, here are a few details: “Here’s Daddy,” he is 23, we will call him “Guncile” and we have also have a Mommy, we will call her “Genie.” Guncile and Genie have an eight and ½ month old little girl, fragile right? These two lived for several months in the Beverly Hills area and in the course of “living together” it had all the outward appearances of a reality show that went bad…terribly, awfully, really bad. Now, Mommy’s biggest mistake was not to call the police when Guncile would act the fool, you know, punching holes in walls, breaking the mirrored sliding doors to the closet and crushing Genie’s laptop and screaming. All when under the influence of alcohol…when Guncile is sober he is a relatively delightful little human, but underneath, he would appear to be an immature little jerk who cannot handle alcohol, never mind “scotch and beer.”

Guncile, who proclaims he has no problem with alcohol. was arrested for drunk driving (recently), he wrote of going to visit a “relative” who had died, and placed that note on the windshield to assure that Genie was going to see it…most would consider this utterance a suicide note. He cut his wrist, and got so drunk that while attempting to get into a friend’s apartment he fell to the pavement and was in ICU for a few days, on this occasion Dipshit was beyond drunk and almost killed himself (we have the medical reports, the DUI reports, and photos of the cutting of the wrist, and of the damage in the former love nest). He also carved the little girl’s name into his arm with a knife! Is that not just sweet? This young man has issues and one day they will surface and god help those that may be in his path…

“Our Commissioner” is not understanding any of this, his term is, “Situational“, that being this is behavior that is demonstrated while the two love birds were together. This sounds like one of those “pay a bunch of money and go to a convention and learn” words that will make one look brighter and give little assholes excuses for bad behavior. Also keep in mind much of this nasty behavior was prior to the love birds wrecking their “Love Shack.”

Sure, you have guessed it, Guncile denies ever doing any of this and it is “she,” Genie who did much of this! Well, a little review, Genie was not arrested for DUI, Genie did not almost fall to her death while so stinkin drunk, Genie did not cut her wrist, Genie attends USC and works part time. (Funny thought just came to me, too bad this commissioner is not in the criminal courts, there would be no one in jail as is this “SITUATIONAL” issue would be perfect to keep our jails empty!)

Oh for sure this lawyer is earning his keep this day, what I thought was incredible was that the lawyers were not falling down laughing! Yes, laughing at how out of touch this “Commissioner” was, OMG. A big deal? Not necessarily in the world of divorce or in this case child custody.

Now for the trophy, Genie and Guncile have parents who are in battle for the sweet little infant. One wants the little girl to be safe, (wrong court people), the other wants their granddaughter to be closer to them in the mountains above Tahoe. Guncile, burps up, “I will take care of her, I will do whatever I have to”… “I will move back to the Los Angeles area and I will take care of my daughter” via his mouthpiece. OK, that means, get an apartment and get a job…Oh I almost forgot, guess what Guncile does for work in the mountains: he is a part time BARTENDER…get me a drink and quick!

Then somehow it goes into, well, “my brother has a girlfriend, who has a mother, who has a house in Glendale and I can take the portable crib.” Well how about this? NO ONE, NOT THE JUDGE, NOT EITHER LAWYER, THE GRANDPARENTS OR THE MOTHER (GENIE) KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THESE PEOPLE WHERE THIS Superior Court Commissioner IS APPROVING THE CHILD BE KEPT, for 12 hours twice a week!!!!!!

What happend to “I am going to take care of my daughter?” Bullshit, Guncile is conning the court and is going to find a third party to give him shelter and it is again a place that no one at all knows anything about!

This commissioner issued orders in support of such a plan. Guncile is as immature as they come, he drinks for his courage, he is a part time bartender, he has no car (DUI)…go get insurance with that hanging around your neck…and has no way to provide for this infant, and the court went along with much of this Tom Foolery! This sounds nuts, but it is the truth.

Before I forget, have you ever seen the guy who shows up wearing a suit that you can tell is either not his or so ill-fitting that you wonder what was he thinking when he put it on? Well Guncile shows up, sure, “look I am wearing a suit,” hmm the pockets were big enough that he could hold a 32 ounce in one pocket and a pint of scotch in the other…good job for whoever thought of the suit, but the haircut did not match, ya almost had it, but you missed the target. He still looked like a little jerk in an ill-fitting suit (Old Cop thinking).

I have never seen such a mockery of the family law courts in all of my years of working and investigating and writing on this very subject. I was wondering would this bench officer ever send one of HIS infants to live for 12 hours a day without knowing WHO are these people, is the place clean, do they have dogs, cats, a pool? None of this was even addressed, as Mr. Commissioner was having none of it.

Oh but wait, initially this legal beagle was going to give Guncile OVERNIGHTS with the infant of several months, Genie’s lawyer was up against a wall of ignorance. And how about this, there was not even a psychologist or a therapist to do an evaluation. Genie’s lawyer asked that he at least hold off on that till a mental health professional could look at Guncile…the comments this commissioner was making in chambers (heard second hand) and on the bench were some of the worst decisions/thoughts of any commissioner sitting in any divorce court that I have ever heard. You will seldom find us at DESPERATEEXES.COM not supporting a commissioner or a judge, but this is just off the board of taking care of a little baby girl.

****Mr. Commissioner, I am not going to use your name at this time. Your wanting for this child to bond with “Daddy” is a fine idea, however, you need to make sure that the person you are handing this child off to is what he says he is…the evidence presented to you in your courtroom showed vividly that he is not and will not be that person, not in the near future (advice from an old street cop). You made some major blunders this morning and this afternoon…neither of these two youngsters are without fault, but one certainly stands much stronger when the facts are read and you apparently either did not read, or ignored, the facts that were presented to you.

Will John J. Nazarian tell us which “Commissioner’s Court” this decision was handed down in on September 22? Will we get a follow-up from Mr. Nazarian as to just how well this works out for this precious infant girl? Will John J. Nazarian give us any hints who the young couple is, or if there were even any character witnesses in court? So many questions I have and such few clues from Mr. Nazarian as to who this “Commissioner was”. I guess we will have to wait and see as the old song goes.

Mr. Nazarian’s article is at this URL, as is a wealth of other articles from Courts, to Judge and Lawyer ratings, to trips Mr. Nazarian has taken, many on business.

http://desperateexes.com/2009/09/22/poor-judgment-commissioner/.

©John J. Nazarian
September 24, 2009
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