[Historybuff]

I know, as time goes on, my memory fades but I thought I saw Carroll & Cleo pictured many times together at events since 2010. Even in the huge Rinsey Mills biography (the authorized biography published in 2012) it implies everything was hunky dory and pictures them together. Would that be likely if Carroll had filed for annullment back in 2010? Also as regards the name issue, I have seen her name in print prior to marrying Shelby as two different names, but woman previously married can choose to use whatever previous husband's name they choose. Cleo Randell Roberts or something like that is one name I remember. Also in England they hyphenate names, I don't know who is entitled to do that, if it's only the upper classes or what, such as Anthony Armstrong-Jones. (In Spanish speaking countries, they also sometimes have the last name of the maternal side worked into the last name as well).

As far as "estranged" I heard only a couple months before his death that Cleo had removed the carpets from the Bel Air mansion and Shelby had slipped on the slick wood floor and broken or cracked his ribs afte rhe got up in the middle of the night, so their prescence together would mean they were living together in 2012. As far as her assets go, it's hard to believe Shelby would be worrying about if she had money, since he appeared to have plenty of his own.

I think what we are seeing is just the opening salvo in what could be a long drawn out epic battle...