Mother poses as son’s wife

Christopher Crowe had pleaded guilty to domestic battery. When the judge asked his wife to stand up and state if she accepted the plea deal, 47-year-old Rebecca Crowe stood up and said she did. But Rebecca was actually his mother. (Let's hope she was just pretending to be his wife, and it wasn't anything weirder.) The court realized the deception when a prosecutor later saw a picture of Crowe's actual wife.

The article also notes: "Courtroom personnel later admitted they thought the woman looked too old." But that wouldn't have been a good basis for suspecting fraud because older woman/younger man matches are becoming much more common. The most frequently cited example are Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher, who are 15 years apart in age, but I'm in this demographic too because my wife, Beverley, is ten years older than I am. Though she definitely would never be able to pass for my mother. I think I seem older than she does.

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Posted on Wed Aug 15, 2007



Comments

The article doesn't actually say where the wife was during this whole proceeding...it would be interesting to know.

And I'm kind of in the complete opposite demographic. My husband and I are only a month apart in our ages (he was born in July, me in August) but I look about ten years younger than I am.
Posted by Nettie  on  Wed Aug 15, 2007  at  06:28 PM
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