After getting shot in a plot by her rich lawyer husband and his mistress, she files for divorce, then reconciles with him. Apparently, money can buy happiness despite three attempts on her life.
MURDER-FOR-HIRE MISTRESS WORTH $500,000, ATTORNEYS SAY
By Brian Rogers
Houston Chronicle
March 10, 2012
The mistress of a prominent Bellaire lawyer should pay for medical expenses and emotional distress inflicted upon her lover's wife when she tried to kill her in three separate 2010 murder-for-hire plots, according to the wife's attorneys.
Yvonne Stern this week filed a lawsuit against Michelle Gaiser, who has admitted in court to solicitation of capital murder.
"Recently, Mrs. Stern learned that Gaiser accumulated substantial wealth," said Yvonne Stern's attorney, Chip Lewis. "Mrs. Stern feels it is only right that she and her family are justly compensated for the irreparable harm suffered at the hands of this evil woman."
Lewis said he believes Gaiser has about $500,000 in savings and holdings, including more than $100,000 invested in a restaurant. He said he interviewed former lovers, business partners and people who know Gaiser.
"She was known to walk around with $10,000 to $20,000, in cash, all the time," Lewis said. "And that certainly explains how she had cash to pay all these men who couldn't shoot straight."
Attorneys for Gaiser said she remains in the Harris County Jail in lieu of $500,000 bail.
"If she had that kind of money, she would just post a cash bond, because she would get it all back after the trial," said James Stafford.
Gaiser has agreed to plead guilty to solicitation of capital murder with a sentence capped at 25 years in return for testifying against her former lover and the hit men she hired to try to kill his wife.
Jeffrey Stern also has been charged with solicitation of capital murder, accused of masterminding the plot with Gaiser as the go-between.
After Gaiser was arrested in May 2010, Jeffrey Stern confessed their affair to his wife, who then filed for divorce.
The couple has since reconciled, and Yvonne Stern maintains that her husband had nothing to do with the plots.
Gaiser's attorneys said the lawsuit is a legal maneuver for Jeffrey Stern's lawyers to get more information about Gaiser before his trial.
Jeffrey Stern's lawyers disagreed and said they are prepared to defend him at trial, which has been scheduled for April.
Prosecutors trying to convict Jeffrey Stern are expected to argue that Gaiser was the middleman, funneling money from her lover to would-be hit men.
Gaiser has testified that she hired Damian Ricardo Flores, 28, whose trial last year ended in a mistrial because of a hung jury. He is expected to be retried.
Flores was accused of shooting Stern in the abdomen on May 5, 2010, the only plot that ended in injury.
On April 15, 2010, Nhut Nguyen knocked on the Sterns' door, then fired a shot through it at Yvonne Stern and her son. He was sentenced last year to 45 years in prison after being convicted of aggravated assault.
Before that shooting, Yvonne Stern was targeted in a drive-by shooting with no result.
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Marriages are often much more of a financial arrangement than anything else. These people are just a little more realistic about that end of the deal than many are.
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