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Michelle Triola Marvin
1933–2009
Michelle Triola Marvin helped make “palimony” a household word.
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In her 1972 lawsuit against her former boyfriend, Oscar-winning actor Lee Marvin, she established the then-novel legal concept that unmarried people could sue for property settlements when a relationship ended.
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A Los Angeles native, she had sung on the Sunset Strip and danced on Broadway before meeting Marvin in 1964 on the set of Ship of Fools, in which she had a small part, said the Associated Press.
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