34 h. ago Last texts kayaker who faked death to start new life with other woman sent wife

Ryan Borgwardt vanished after kayaking in a lake, leaving his wife and children devastated - but had actually been plotting his disappearance for months to start a new life with a woman from Uzbekistan

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35 h. ago Final texts man sent to wife before faking his own death for woman he met online

A man carried out an elaborate plan to fake his own death, allowing him to leave his wife, children, and life behind for an Eastern European woman whom he met online

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4 d. ago Man who faked his own death to start new life with woman says plan was 'crazy dream'

Ryan Borgwardt, 46, text his wife Emily he loved her and he had gone to a lake to watch the Northern Lights, only to overturn his kayak in the water and disappear.

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4 d. ago Candid comments from kayaker who faked his death to start new life with other woman

Ryan Borgwardt was so desperate to start a new life with a woman in the country of Georgia he went to some extreme lengths to fake his own death on Big Green Lake, Wisconsin

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5 d. ago Kayaker who faked his death to leave wife for Ukrainian woman says plan was a ‘crazy dream’

Ryan Borgwardt, 46, was convicted of obstruction last month. His wife divorced him in May

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5 d. ago Woman killed by falling tree branch in Manchester pictured as 'vibrant' wife

Jen Higgins, 49, was killed when a branch fell on her as she was walking along Barlow Moor Road in West Didsbury, in Manchester, on August 30 - emergency services tried but were unable to save her

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9 d. ago Former Labour councillor sexually assaulted woman at wife’s leaving party in London’s Square Mile

The woman was left ‘feeling dirty and worthless’ after the incident at an upmarket cocktail bar near Liverpool Street Station

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2 w. ago Ben Affleck, 53, shaves off his scruffy beard after failing to make the Hot Actors Over 50 list... see him now

The movie star has been producing a number of new films: one of his next is a new version of Kiss Of The Spider Woman which stars his ex-wife Jennifer Lopez.

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3 w. ago Love as a business deal? Whales, unicorns and why Materialists and Anora have a lot in common

Both films explore the forfeiting of love for the financial security of a rich man. Sadly, the theme resonates for many in these straitened economic times“Marriage is a business deal and it always has been.” So says Dakota Johnson’s Lucy, an elite Manhattan matchmaker in Celine Song’s second feature, Materialists. Lucy may be a modern woman, but her world looks eerily similar to the marriage mart of Jane Austen’s day. For Lucy and her clients, it is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife. Or rather, a “high quality woman”, as Lucy would unironically put it.Materialists drops us head first into a world where coupling off with a partner is a purely financial endeavour; where foolish notions of love are not merely ignored, but deemed to be irrelevant; where women must choose passion or practicality. Continue reading...

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