[font style="font-weight: bold;" class="story"]I think they should change her name from "[/font][font style="font-weight: bold;" class="story"]runaway bride" to "psycho bitch". She's the one that started this whole thing...and now she wants to profit from it? [/font]
[hr style="width: 100%; height: 2px;"][font class="story"]'Runaway Bride' Sues Her Former Fiance
The "runaway bride," who took off days before her lavish wedding in is suing her former fiance for $500,000, claiming he defrauded her out of her share of their assets, including a ladder, a gold sofa and gifts. [/font][font class="story"] [a style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" href="vny!://search.breitbart.com/q?s=%22Jennifer+Wilbanks%22&sid=breitbart.com" title="You can also highlight word(s) and then shift-click to search."]Jennifer Wilbanks[/a] is seeking $250,000 as her share of a home she says John C. [a style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" href="vny!://search.breitbart.com/q?s=mason&sid=breitbart.com" title="You can also highlight word(s) and then shift-click to search."]Mason[/a] purchased through the partnership with proceeds from $500,000 received for selling their story to Regan Media in New York. [/font][/p][font class="story"] [img]vny!://www.breitbart.com/images/2006/10/10/D8KLRJU00/D8KLRJU00_preview.jpg" align="left" hspace="3" vspace="3"] [/font][/p][font class="story"] She also wants $250,000 in punitive damages for alleged abuse of the power of attorney she granted for Mason to handle their financial affairs. [/font][/p][font class="story"] In addition, she is seeking the return of [a style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" href="vny!://search.breitbart.com/q?s=%22personal+property%22&sid=breitbart.com" title="You can also highlight word(s) and then shift-click to search."]personal property[/a] she claims he has kept, including the ladder that belonged to her father, a gold sofa and wedding shower gifts. Mason's attorney in July wrote to Wilbanks attorney that his client had agreed to deliver those items. [/font][/p][font class="story"] Wilbanks and broke up for good in May, about a year after her excursion to [a style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" href="vny!://search.breitbart.com/q?s=%22Las+Vegas%22&sid=breitbart.com" title="You can also highlight word(s) and then shift-click to search."]Las Vegas[/a] and [a style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" href="vny!://search.breitbart.com/q?s=%22New+Mexico%22&sid=breitbart.com" title="You can also highlight word(s) and then shift-click to search."]New Mexico[/a] made international headlines while hundreds of friends and family members searched for her back home in suburban Atlanta. [/font][/p][font class="story"] Mason has until Oct. 22 to respond to the lawsuit, filed last month in [a style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" href="vny!://search.breitbart.com/q?s=%22Gwinnett+County%22&sid=breitbart.com" title="You can also highlight word(s) and then shift-click to search."]Gwinnett County[/a]'s Superior Court. The lawsuit, Wilbanks vs. JCM Consulting and Mason, was filed Sept. 13, according to court records. [/font][/p][font class="story"] Wilbanks' attorney, Michael Wetzel, and Mason's father, Claude, declined comment Tuesday morning. John Mason's attorney, James C. Watkins, wasn't immediately available for comment. [/font][/p][font class="story"] The lawsuit says the $500,000 was put into an account of JCM Consulting, based in Gwinnett County. After Wilbanks was "hospitalized and under medication," Mason bought a home in Dacula in his name with the money, the lawsuit alleges. [/font][/p][font class="story"] The lawsuit claims that Wilbanks asked JCM Consulting during the summer for various documents, but the firm didn't give her records of bank accounts. Through the lawsuit, she wants to inspect and copy those records. [/font][/p][font class="story"] Wilbanks also claims that Mason used the company to defraud her. [/font][/p][font class="story"] Wilbanks disappeared four days before her planned April 30, 2005, wedding. Hundreds of police and volunteers searched for her for three days before she called Mason from Albuquerque, N.M., claiming to have been abducted and sexually assaulted. [/font][/p][font class="story"] She later recanted, saying she fled because of unspecified personal issues, and pleaded no contest to telling police a phony story. [/font][/p][font class="story"] She was sentenced to two years' probation and performed community service that included mowing the lawns of public buildings. [/font][/p][font class="story"] News of the lawsuit was first reported Monday night by WAGA-TV. [/font]
