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Jamie and Frank McCourt are in the middle of a typical high-profile, contentious Los Angeles divorce. Jamie McCourt — nee Luskin — was the guest speaker at a Women’s Philanthropy of Jewish Federation conference in Irvine earlier this week where she discussed myriad issues, including the marital woes, during which time she made the following remark, according to the Ocean County Register:
“I do keep saying, ‘I’m Jewish. I can be bought,’” she jokingly said to a reception of laughter and applause. “But he likes litigation. We’ll see what happens.”
But not everyone is happy with her portrayal of Jews as money-grubbers.
Larry Brown, a sportswriter and sports radio anchor in Los Angeles (and not the basketball coach), put this on his website:
I’m not quite sure what Jamie is, but whatever she is I don’t want to be included in the same category. I do know that Jamie speaks for herself and that her comments make her look like a money-hungry, utter fool. Check that — we already knew from Jamie’s million-dollar-a-month spousal support demands that she was all about the money — this remark only confirms it. What’s worse is that Jamie wasn’t content letting her pathetic views on life speak for herself; she had to speak for the rest of the Jewish people instead. Let me just say that putting a price tag on dignity is an individual choice and has nothing to do with culture or religion. It has everything to do with character. Quite obviously Jamie has little of that. Ditto the people in attendance who found her remark to be humorous.
The only side I’m on is the one that eschews celebrities as held in esteem for no other reason than they are in the spotlight.
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