Charlie the Dentist is a world away from his sun-kissed South Florida babes and Ferrari-owning lifestyle.Adelson is slated to go on trial in a Tallahassee, Fla., courtroom on Monday.
In 2014, beloved academic Dan Markel and his then-wife, Wendi Adelson, were in the midst of a bitter custody dispute. She wanted to take their two young sons to south Florida, where her parents live. The fixer was a woman named Katherine Magbanua, who worked in Charlie Adelson’s office and was a sometime playmate of the dentist. She was sentenced to life in prison, plus two additional 30-year sentences on charges of conspiracy to commit murder and solicitation to commit murder.
His legal eagles have scrambled to get evidence — particularly explosive wiretaps — tossed. But many of their arguments have been torpedoed by Judge Stephen Everett. — Markel and Wendi’s divorce papers will be admitted into evidence. Many of the motions were filed by Dan and included his mother-in-law Donna’s disparagement of him in front of his kids, alleged financial shenanigans by Wendi and her alleged breach of their marital settlement.