Taxation & Estate Planning

Seth Tobias and the Sex Hex?

By Joel A. Schoenmeyer

No, that title isn't from an adult Harry Potter spinoff. Rather, it's the latest really weird installment in the Seth Tobias saga, which is detailed here. Mr. Tobias was a CNBC commentator who, according to reports, lived a pretty interesting life. The latest allegations (found here) are among the craziest -- that Mr. Tobias's widow, Filomena, hired a voodoo priestess named Madam Simbi M'Arue to put a curse on Mr. Tobias. (Allegedly the priestess also was hired to cast spells to "remove evil from [the Tobias] homes and bring more money and sex to [Filomena]."

Illinois has a so-called slayer statute, preventing someone who causes a person's death from inheriting from the person. Of course, I think we have to assume that curses don't actually work. So even if Ms. Tobias meant to kill her husband, would it matter?

More related to a slayer statute are the allegations that Ms. Tobias "drugged Seth by putting sleeping pills into his pasta, then lured him into the pool of their Jupiter, Fla., home with the promise he could have 'kinky sex' with a male stripper named Tiger." Mr. Tobias evidently died by drowning in the pool, although the relationship of pasta, sleeping pills, and the male stripper to his death is unknown at this time.

Full post as published by Death and Taxes Blog on January 09, 2008 (boomark / email).