This is interesting:
Higgs had said that the night before Augustine stopped breathing, she didn't want to talk with Higgs about him leaving because she wasn't feeling well. He said she went to bed early, at about 8:45 p.m., and received no phone calls.
But Michelle Ene, Augustine's former executive assistant, testified Augustine had called her house three or four times that night, and that she and Augustine finally connected by phone at about 10:15 p.m.
"They had been talking that night," Ene said of Augustine and Higgs, "She was upset. He had opened a bank account and he was going to leave."
When Higgs told Ene days later that he and Augustine has "worked it out" and reached an agreement, she said she was suspicious.
"I didn't believe that for a minute," Ene said. "She would not have let it go."
Long-time Augustine friend Nancy Vinnik testified she opposed the marriage with Higgs from the start, and was shocked and shaken the day before Augustine's funeral, when Higgs was at their Las Vegas house drunk and calling his wife names.
"He was on the phone talking to Kathy's mother and he said 'your daughter is nothing but a (expletive) whore and a (expletive),'" Vinnik said. "It was awful to hear that. I couldn't believe he could call her mother and say something so disgusting and despicable."
Chaz was sure a loving husband.
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The end seems to be near for the Angora Fire.
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