A Swedish countess has asked a judge to negate her prenuptial agreement with the wealthy executive who is divorcing her, insisting she can't possibly live on $43 million. Marie Douglas-David, 36, wants at least twice that much from former United Technologies Corp. chief executive George David, 67, saying she has weekly expenses of $53,000. Her attorney said that David had figuratively "put a gun" to her head to get her to sign a pre-nup requiring her to survive on only $43 million.

At $53,000 per week, times 52 weeks per year, her existing divorce settlement would barely last her 15.6 years. Though we have no photograph to show, she is a lovely young woman who no doubt has many wealthy older men that are either stupid enough, wealthy enough or masochistic enough to sweep her off her feet and away from this court-imposed life of poverty ($2,756,000 per year) that she has been forced to endure after being divorced from that cad George David. Let's not even dwell on the "figurative gun" (again, we have no photos but imagine someone holding their hand out like a gun with the thumb straight up and the index finger representing the "figurative barrel"). It's scary stuff.

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