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The timeline is important:
September 2003: Jennifer’s dog, Sophie, dies.
December 2003: Jennifer meets Fotis at the Aspen airport.
January 2004: Fotis emails Jennifer. (“Test—Are you there?”)
March 2004: Fotis files for divorce.
July 2004: Fotis signs the divorce papers.
August 2004: Fotis marries Jennifer.
“It happened very, very fast, and that seemed out of character for Jennifer,” Carrie Luft said in an interview. “Jennifer’s very measured. She’s not a rash, impulsive person. She’s pretty much anti-impulsive.”
Every study I’ve read about homicidal husbands suggests that speed — the need to get hitched right away, before the other person realizes you’re crazy — is characteristic of psychopathy
Why did Jennifer, who’d waited years for Mr. Perfect, suddenly move with such haste? And why did she settle on Fotis, a mismatch in many ways? He was superficial, did not care about art, did not read novels, was neither Jew nor WASP and was definitely not Bank.
A half dozen friends offer a half dozen reasons. Some say it’s because Fotis was the first suitor with the strength and tenacity to get by Hilliard, who guarded his daughter like the Star of Artaban. If true, it means Hilliard had built obstacles guaranteed to deliver a psychopath, as only a psychopath could breach them. Some say it’s because Jennifer turned desperate in her mid-thirties. A man she’d hardly noticed in 1986 looked like the last train to Memphis in 2004.
“It happened so fast because it happened so late,” said Colette Burson. “Jennifer could see 40 right over the hill, and here comes a good-looking guy she’d known at Brown. She felt like she knew him because he’d been with her at school, and her father had said, ‘It’ll be someone you already know.’ ”
“If you look at it from Jen’s perspective, it makes perfect sense,” said Dan Rybicky. “There’s something she wanted her whole life and she was just about out of time. Then here is a man straight from central casting who arrives just before midnight, which makes for a great story. Jen is someone who loved great stories. If it happened to me like that, I would have married Fotis, too.”
“Jen was quirky and smart but had a bit of that beautiful-girl thing,” said D. J. Paul, who fell for Jennifer when they met on vacation in the Caribbean after college. They’d been at Brown at the same time, but never really knew each other. Jennifer liked D.J., but not in a romantic way. “She was superficial in certain regards, especially with men,” D.J. explained. “She wanted somebody pretty. And Fotis was pretty. And there was something exotic about him. Greek, European. And he really put himself together. It’s easy to see why she fell for him.”
Jennifer had waited for a storybook proposal all her life, but when the moment came, Fotis made it seem more like business than romance — an arrangement among royals. There was no great ceremony or fanfare. “I’m Greek,” Fotis explained. “We don’t get on one knee.”
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September 2003: Jennifer’s dog, Sophie, dies.
December 2003: Jennifer meets Fotis at the Aspen airport.
January 2004: Fotis emails Jennifer. (“Test—Are you there?”)
March 2004: Fotis files for divorce.
July 2004: Fotis signs the divorce papers.
August 2004: Fotis marries Jennifer.
“It happened very, very fast, and that seemed out of character for Jennifer,” Carrie Luft said in an interview. “Jennifer’s very measured. She’s not a rash, impulsive person. She’s pretty much anti-impulsive.”
Every study I’ve read about homicidal husbands suggests that speed — the need to get hitched right away, before the other person realizes you’re crazy — is characteristic of psychopathy
Why did Jennifer, who’d waited years for Mr. Perfect, suddenly move with such haste? And why did she settle on Fotis, a mismatch in many ways? He was superficial, did not care about art, did not read novels, was neither Jew nor WASP and was definitely not Bank.
A half dozen friends offer a half dozen reasons. Some say it’s because Fotis was the first suitor with the strength and tenacity to get by Hilliard, who guarded his daughter like the Star of Artaban. If true, it means Hilliard had built obstacles guaranteed to deliver a psychopath, as only a psychopath could breach them. Some say it’s because Jennifer turned desperate in her mid-thirties. A man she’d hardly noticed in 1986 looked like the last train to Memphis in 2004.
“It happened so fast because it happened so late,” said Colette Burson. “Jennifer could see 40 right over the hill, and here comes a good-looking guy she’d known at Brown. She felt like she knew him because he’d been with her at school, and her father had said, ‘It’ll be someone you already know.’ ”
“If you look at it from Jen’s perspective, it makes perfect sense,” said Dan Rybicky. “There’s something she wanted her whole life and she was just about out of time. Then here is a man straight from central casting who arrives just before midnight, which makes for a great story. Jen is someone who loved great stories. If it happened to me like that, I would have married Fotis, too.”
“Jen was quirky and smart but had a bit of that beautiful-girl thing,” said D. J. Paul, who fell for Jennifer when they met on vacation in the Caribbean after college. They’d been at Brown at the same time, but never really knew each other. Jennifer liked D.J., but not in a romantic way. “She was superficial in certain regards, especially with men,” D.J. explained. “She wanted somebody pretty. And Fotis was pretty. And there was something exotic about him. Greek, European. And he really put himself together. It’s easy to see why she fell for him.”
Jennifer had waited for a storybook proposal all her life, but when the moment came, Fotis made it seem more like business than romance — an arrangement among royals. There was no great ceremony or fanfare. “I’m Greek,” Fotis explained. “We don’t get on one knee.”
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