The Michigan Daily-Saturday, July 25, 1981-Page 7
92-year-old man
finally pays alimony,
vows to hold grudge
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) - A
92-year-old man has been released from
jail after paying the alimony, he had
vowed not to give his ex-wife, and he
says he'd have to be "100 percent" in-
sane to ever again consider marriage.
Robert Rabinof was released from
the Pinellas County Jail in Clearwater
Thursday after handing over $1,632 in
back alimony payments and costs to his
ex-wife, Elsie, 75.
RABINOF SERVED 25 of a 30-day
sentence he received for refusing to pay
even one dime of the three $400 monthly
payments he owed.
"He would rather sit in jail than pay
it to her," his attorney Radford Smith
said at the time.
Rabinof, a frail, white-haired man,
gave up his fight Thursday after lear-
ning that his ex-wife's attorney had
asked the court to garnishee a bank ac-
count. He ordered his attorney to hand
over the $1,200, plus court costs.
"I WON'T FORGET this as long as I
live," said Rabinof, who is nearly deaf
and almost blind and complained of not
getting a good night's rest while jailed.
A bailiff pushed Rabinof in a
wheelchair to Pinellas Circuit Judge
Allen Anderson's chambers for the
brief hearing at which he was released.
The judge said the elderly man could go
straight home with his attorney and a
friend, and skip going back to the jail in
Clearwater to check out.
Rabinof married for the second time
at age 82. His first wife died in 1967. He
and his second wife were divorced in
February. "I want to get out and forget
about everything," Mrs. Rabinof said
yesterday. She said she was glad her
ex-husband was out of jail. As for
Rabinof, he was asked if he was happy
to be free again.
"I haven't been happy since my first
wife passed away just two months short
of 50 years since we were married," he
said.
Would he ever marry again?
"I'd have to be insane, 100 percent."
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