| lives almost amiably with her in the same apartment, together with their
elder son. She describes David Conway, father of her two younger children,
as "my best friend - he doesn't like publicity, but he was ready to testify
on Dorian's behalf".Meanwhile, she worries that all the glamour obscures
what she sees as the unjustified suffering that her lover is now going through.
She fondly recounts his romantic gestures: the simple bracelet that she is
wearing, which he made from the threads of regulation-blue prison sheets
and smuggled out, with a lock of his hair attached. (Not all of his gifts
to her were so simple: she wears the bracelet on the same hand as the
sapphire-studded diamond and platinum ring that she also received from him.)
She has had meetings with the publicity supremo Max Clifford ("a very nice man") about the possibility of handling her case She has been invited to Nassau for discussions about making a Hollywood movie. But she still seems slightly fazed by finding herself in the spotlight for all the wrong reasons "it'll always be a shadow on my name.
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She and her supporting cast of former partners have already
spent around $1m on her own legal costs. Now, she is determined to get
Lester free, too. If it takes the rest of my life, I'll be locked into a fight. "Few people would sympathize with me, ensconced in a Knightsbridge flat. I don't project the image of a victim I find it disgraceful to peddle my life. But it's something I have to do. Nobody cares about an obscure Virginian, after all." Her struggle seems set to go on. "I do n't want to go into any psychobabble I don't fall apart. But we were taught to fight back. If it takes the rest of my Life, I'll be locked into a fight." |
| Useful Contact Information: Countess Artsrunik (in the UK)- 0778-859-5474 or e-mail SaveDorian@aol.com Charlottesville Jail - 804-977-6981 jz@zwerlingkemler.com |
Contributions to the Campaign can be made to: Dorian Lester's Defense Fund Account # 70527750 Bank Code #204734 Barclays Bank, P.O. Box 4599 London SW31XE, England |