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Runaway Bride in the News - AGAIN!
CNN.COM
'Runaway bride' inks deal with firm pitching movie
Officials who searched for her aren't amused
Thursday, June 16, 2005 Posted: 7:27 AM EDT (1127 GMT)
Wilbanks appears earlier this month in a photo from the Gwinnett County Sheriff's Department.
ATLANTA, Georgia (AP) -- "Runaway bride" Jennifer Wilbanks made a deal with a company that is pitching a movie about her life to networks -- annoying officials who spent thousands of dollars searching for her.
ReganMedia, a New York multimedia company, told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution for a story in Thursday's papers it has acquired all media rights to the "life stories" of Wilbanks and her fiance, John Mason.
The company did not say whether any money had changed hands.
"I am looking forward to developing the scripted project with Wilbanks and Mason," company president Judith Regan said in a statement. "Theirs is an unexpected and compelling story of love and forgiveness that has certainly taught me a thing or two."
The 32-year-old bride-to-be disappeared from her home in the Atlanta suburb of Duluth on April 26, four days before her wedding in a ceremony with 600 guests and 28 attendants.
She took a bus to Las Vegas and then Albuquerque, New Mexico, and claimed she was abducted and sexually assaulted. She later recanted, saying she fled because of unspecified personal issues.
Wilbanks pleaded no contest earlier this month to making a false statement and was sentenced to two years of probation and 120 hours of community service. She also was ordered to continue mental health treatment and pay the sheriff's office $2,550. (Full story)
Duluth spent nearly $43,000 to search for her. Wilbanks has repaid $13,249.
"It's disturbing to me on a personal basis that she's willing to profit from this, but there's nothing I can do about it legally," said Gwinnett County District Attorney Danny Porter, who pursued charges against Wilbanks.
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Re: Runaway Bride in the News - AGAIN!
It makes me want to puke when people profit from bad behavior. Though she's not the first and she won't be the last.
Even though the prosecutor said that he can't do anything legally, I think there should be a civil suit against her for the balance of the money, since she is going to make all that money.
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| Posted 6/16/05 9:10 AM |
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Lichi
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Re: Runaway Bride in the News - AGAIN!
She just looks scarier & scarier in every pic... wth!
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| Posted 6/16/05 9:13 AM |
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dld4e
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Re: Runaway Bride in the News - AGAIN!
Posted by Lichi
She just looks scarier & scarier in every pic... wth!
I agree!
So, sick of hearing about her!
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| Posted 6/16/05 9:26 AM |
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CaseyGirl
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Re: Runaway Bride in the News - AGAIN!
Please, make her go away.
Again.
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| Posted 6/16/05 9:31 AM |
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Moehick
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Re: Runaway Bride in the News - AGAIN!
Looks like she needss to repay $30,000 more!
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| Posted 6/16/05 10:29 AM |
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dm24angel
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Re: Runaway Bride in the News - AGAIN!
Shes plain crazy!-
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| Posted 6/16/05 10:30 AM |
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danielleandscott
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Re: Runaway Bride in the News - AGAIN!
Hearing about her is driving me crazy. If this is news that needs to be played every day, then we truly live in a scary world. I cannot believe that she dsold her story to make money, and I also cannot believe that her fiance is still with her
Scott
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| Posted 6/16/05 10:31 AM |
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FeliciaDP
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Re: Runaway Bride in the News - AGAIN!
Well as much as I will admit I am SICK and TIRED of hearing about her and her story...
I will shamefully admit that I plan on watching the interview that Katie Couric did with her (I think its going to be on Dateline next Tues or Wed night?)
I JUST HAVE to hear what this moron has to say, and of course I will only be annoyed once I listen to her!  
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| Posted 6/16/05 10:37 AM |
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Tany
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Re: Runaway Bride in the News - AGAIN!
Posted by FeliciaDP
Well as much as I will admit I am SICK and TIRED of hearing about her and her story...
I will shamefully admit that I plan on watching the interview that Katie Couric did with her (I think its going to be on Dateline next Tues or Wed night?)
I JUST HAVE to hear what this moron has to say, and of course I will only be annoyed once I listen to her!
Me took, I need to know her reasoning for doing what she did.
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| Posted 6/16/05 10:56 AM |
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MsMBV
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Re: Runaway Bride in the News - AGAIN!
Posted by danielleandscott
Hearing about her is driving me crazy. If this is news that needs to be played every day, then we truly live in a scary world. I cannot believe that she dsold her story to make money, and I also cannot believe that her fiance is still with her
Scott
ditto
it is almost like sending a message that it is ok to do wrong, b/c if you get off or you get punished, there is still a story to sell when it is all said & done
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| Posted 6/16/05 10:59 AM |
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Posted by FeliciaDP
Well as much as I will admit I am SICK and TIRED of hearing about her and her story...
I will shamefully admit that I plan on watching the interview that Katie Couric did with her (I think its going to be on Dateline next Tues or Wed night?)
I JUST HAVE to hear what this moron has to say, and of course I will only be annoyed once I listen to her!
I plan to watch too.
I have no problem with her giving her "side" but I do have a problem with her making money off what she did, which includes causing her fiance to be under extreme police scrutiny and causing her parents, friends and other families to worry that she was dead. I can't imagine how that must have felt to her parents.
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| Posted 6/16/05 11:01 AM |
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