White man with African American wife blames her being black for his failure to integrate into Palm Beach high society and has her murdered. Afterwards marries multiple Asian women and has hapa kids.
James Sullivan was a white guy from Boston that grew up poor. He inherited all of his money ($5 million) from his uncle. People described him as having a charming personality like a showman. He had a love of exotic women. He met and married Lita McClinton who was a pretty 22 year old who came from an upper-class Atlanta African American family. Sullivan was obsessed with breaking into Palm Beach high society and rubbing elbows with all the social elites. However he became frustrated when he repeatedly failed and blamed it on his wife being black.
The 1985 murder of Atlanta socialite Lita McClinton, whose nouveau-riche husband, James Sullivan, was accused of killing her when she stalled his advancement in Palm Beach society.
Mr. Sullivan was accused of murdering his wealthy wife in 1987 because he blamed her for their failure to fit in with the country club set.
Him realizing his black wife holding him back [video snippet]
Their marriage broke down because of his social failure. She moved away and during the divorce proceedings he hired a hitman to kill her, so that she would not see any money from the divorce.
He then went off and dated then married a Korean woman. "He fell in love with a woman named Suki and that put him over the edge. She was exotic, She was Asian..." [video snippet] With Suki he was able to break into Palm Beach high society and became the head of the Palm Beach Historic Preservation Board.
He told her that he murdered his ex-wife at some point in their marriage. Apparently her English was very poor. "Suki's comprehension of English deteriorated under cross examination." She divorced him and said he was abusive and cruel. Sullivan's lawyers dug up her personal history and showed that she was a gold digger to trash her testimony in court.
He then went on the run abroad and married a woman in Thailand. He had hapa children with her (who went to Palm Beach Community College). He was arrested sometime and extradited back to the USA.
Let's play a little thought game. How many players can you implicate that were wrong in this scenario? James Sullivan for seeing ethnic women as exotic playthings and then having his black wife killed because she was inconvenient? Society for shunning his black wife, yet welcoming his Asian wife? The Asian wives for not only being gold diggers but knowingly marrying and sticking with an abusive man that mentioned he murdered his ex wife?
Posted Apr 3, 2017, 12:03 AM UTC · edited