There was more drama for a former soap opera star on Wednesday.
Brenda Dickson, star of the show "The Young and the Restless" in the early 80′s, is now in a bitter dispute with her former divorce attorney.
"I was in a fixed courtroom today, no other judge would have given her a lien," Dickson says.
That was Dickson’s reaction to the court ruling that would allow her former divorce attorney, Madalyn Purcell, to file a claim of $128,000 in legal fees. Dickson argued to the judge that she was being overcharged.
"This woman has basically bloated up her fees and she failed to do the actual thing that she should have done and that is come in with a property chart and prove my half of the property," she says.
Dickson played Jill Abbot for years in the popular soap opera The Young and the Restless. During her divorce hearing four years ago, there was plenty of drama then too. She was brought into the courtroom in handcuffs after being in prison for 16 days for contempt, for refusing to move out of a California condo and put it up for sale. Dickson says the divorce from Honolulu Attorney Jan Weinberg has left her in deep debt, and claims it’s because Purcell did a poor job in representing her.
"I’m still hocking my jewelry because Weinberg is always late in paying these things, I’m hocking my jewelry which are the pink slips here. I don’t have money for my career," she says.
"Miss Dickson was on the stand for days and had full and fair opportunity to make her case verbally through her own testimony as well as through all the exhibits," Purcell says.
The drama is likely to continue as Purcell tries to get the money the court says she’s owed.
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