While dating Thomson she set up her own PR firm with a partner in the financial district. The little girl remained with Thomson. "She was always very careful of what she said and did around him," says one. "I always saw her as the pale, nervous type." Some speak of Thomson having "a destructive side." She is seeking damages of $10 million for "the intentional infliction of nervous shock including but not limited to the intentional infliction of mental distress and harm.". "She just dabbled for too long for my taste," says someone who once advised her on the industry. He regularly picks them up from their private school, travelling with them to London and Greece during summers. The Globe, which has covered the business and personal travails of theAspersandBlacks, has done little on the Thomsons beyond running a front-page image of one of Ken Thomson's Krieghoffs every Christmas. This article was published more than 3 years ago. A dress code, meanwhile, stipulated that Miller should wear "black, grey and navy trousers" during the winter, "cream, white, stone colours" in summer while in Toronto - "Same for New York, LA and UK." "She never got a speeding ticket," he said, hinting at either luck or charm in talking her way out of traffic fines. "He gets great pleasure touching it," he says of Thomson's collection of ivories. 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See Photos. Lawyers shred diaries. In fact, I seek out places where I can go straight on in situations with people. "The only way he feels anything is to imagine being an artist - a tortured creative spirit," he says. Golf. Lynne's first foray beyond the family enclave was, inexplicably, to an equally cloistered environment - Utah's Brigham Young University, which holds students to a strictMormoncode, including bans on alcohol and coffee. Surprisingly, no one has asked to seal the court documents, which also reveal Ludwick's settlement of $5.4 million as per the terms of the pre-nup. "Social life in Canada, as you know, is very informal and I imagine it will be much different here," she said. Both the Globe and the Star have followed the Pellicano scandal. Miller later dropped her own claims. When buying Thai furniture, she does so in Thailand. Ludwick's lawyer sent a cease and desist letter on Jan. 12. She had become religious during the marriage, says one former colleague, to the point she said her pregnancy was "God's plan. "She was tenacious and determined and would never take no for an answer," he said. The conditions of the trusts ensure that control of the business will remain in Thomson hands for 80 years. Given the Thomsons' distaste for publicity, the prospect of a high-profile divorce, with its attendant disclosures, gives her considerable leverage. This is a space where subscribers can engage with each other and Globe staff. The heiress, meanwhile, has just purchased her fourth $5-million house on a secluded Rosedale cul-de-sac. Personnes qui sappellent Taylor Thompson Retrouvez vos amis sur Facebook Connectez-vous ou inscrivez-vous Facebook pour communiquer avec vos amis, votre famille et "It didn't seem like she had the stick-to-itiveness for a life in the theatre," says Daniel Osman, an actor who knew her in Lenox, noting that in acting, "nothing's handed to you.". There are 30+ professionals named "Taylor Thomson", who use LinkedIn to exchange information, ideas, and opportunities. Sources say he even refused to look at the child at a legal meeting with Ludwick in April. Her proposed monthly child care budget includes $840 in nanny car-lease payments, a nanny salary of $3,400 (with a nanny bonus of $141.67), four months of night nursing at $1,866.67, baby furniture and decor totalling $1,000, $800 in clothing and $900 in toys, books, CDs and DVDs. Their official separation date is Oct. 14. ", Thomson admits his actions can be antagonistic. Hockey. "The most beautiful music to me is a spot commercial at $10 a whack," he once said. Already the court filings provide a snapshot into a life with Thomson that Ludwick describes as "opulent and unconstrained." Join Facebook to connect with Taylor Thomson and others you may know. He also recalled a hair-raising drive up a hill in France with his mother and two younger siblings in an old Peugeot that seemed to have only two gears. There is no question that Taylor, then still known as Lynne, had the presence for a stage and screen career. She owns this 8,800 sq. "A friend from Eaton's arranged a lunch date, and we went from there," he recalled. Though she initially won the case, an appeal found that Christie's had not acted improperly and overturned the decision. His wife, Diana, whom he met at Woodbridge when she was his secretary, supports him as part of his racing crew. "She could not have lived with greater resolve or humanity," he concluded. She's known to leaf through Christie's and Sotheby's catalogues with the same glee others feel thumbing through catalogues from Pottery Barn or Holt Renfew. "He will go after you with the intention of hurting you," says one man, who views the behaviour as a bid to force people to stand up to him. Most visible is the public Thomson Corp., a $28.7-billion global digital media empire administered from Stamford, Conn., with electronic databases in law, health care, science, accounting and education. Asnewspaperproprietors, they have avoided ownership of tabloids as deliberately as they've ducked media scrutiny. at Stratford, Ms. Doherty Hannaford remembered that they stopped "to admire a boy sitting on the steps of the Avon Theatre playing the guitar and belting out song after song, like he was Elvis." Inspirational and comedic speaker, Laura-Lynn Tyler Thompson, is the former co-host for the national daily show, The 700 Club Canada. Born on July 27, 1930, she grew up in what is now Etobicoke, a suburb within Toronto, attended Vaughan Road Collegiate and studied piano at the Royal Conservatory of Music, where she earned an ARCT diploma. The Thomsons spent the early years of their marriage in Toronto, where he worked as president and chairman of Thomson newspapers, the chain of small-town dailies and radio stations that his father, Roy Thomson, later Baron Thomson of Fleet, had acquired beginning in the 1930s. Nannies follow dress codes, down to what colours are permitted in which seasons. Click here to subscribe. Peter, the youngest sibling, spoke of his mother's love of car racing, explaining that she often served as an unofficial member of his pit crew after the two of them had gone to racing school together 30 years ago. He boasted of his desire to own 200 newspapers, one of them in Toronto. David is said to have distanced himself and is now involved with a woman who works in New York City whom he dated briefy before marrying Ludwick. It is a violent painting, depicting Roman soldiers knee-deep in butchered babies, carrying out King Herod's edict to slaughter all young boys and eliminate the future Messiah. Eliteprospects.com hockey player profile of Tayler Thompson, 1993-05-10 Bredenbury, SK, CAN Canada. "You accepted the challenges and you won the game, but you lost so much in the process. She has faced adversity and come out smiling, having discovered the ability to change misfortune into opportunity. Those who did - even on the condition of anonymity - reported back to Woodbridge, boasts Beattie. This is a space where subscribers can engage with each other and Globe staff. "I become excited at the thought of measuring myself in varied situations, alongside Wellington in India . "We're not using the word 'integrated,' " says Teitelbaum. In a culture obsessed with money, the Thomsons illustrate that wealth is not reflexively synonymous with power and happiness; it also can summon a sense of "helplessness," to quote David Thomson. Welcome to The Globe and Mails comment community. Though he holds a position at Woodbridge as deputy chairman and sits on the Thomson Corp. board of directors, he is better known on the rally-racing circuit and was 2005 Canadian Rally Champion. Taylor Thomson, Actress: Catch That Shadow. Thomson, according to court documents, is unmoved. With timing reminiscent of his separation from his first wife, David filed a petition for divorce on May 4, 2001, their first-year anniversary. A breakdown of his monthly expenses, which includes $500 for clothing and $12,500 in child support paid to Ludwick on March 14, shows a monthly budget deficit of $1,063.69. The few who did socialize with them say Laurie was studiously low-key. Now, surrounded by his adoring family, Roy Thomson held court for the press in his living room. Yet the move coincided with an almost total withdrawal from public life. Rosedale was more socially variegated then than it is now, home to high school teachers as well as old money. FBI agents allegedly traced the warning to Pellicano. In her petition for divorce, Mary Lou said the split had been "difficult and contentious." An engineer from Utica, N.Y., Kolesa was bright, unassuming and of relatively modest means. Federal investigators, she claims, later told her she had been wiretapped. Instead, she returned to Toronto, passed the Ontario securities course, and took a job with brokerage McLeod Young Weir Ltd. A year later, the couple separated. She continued to release all claim to the matrimonial home and its possessions, and agreed to leave the house 60 days after a separation. If you are looking to give feedback on our new site, please send it along to, To view this site properly, enable cookies in your browser. ". The son of Sicilian immigrants, Pellicano grew up outside Chicago, coming to prominence in 1977 when he miraculously recovered the stolen remains of Mike Todd, Elizabeth Taylor's third husband, whose Illinois gravesite robbers had pilfered in search of a diamond ring. On Feb. 22, Ludwick charges, she was driving on the Glen Road bridge in Rosedale in her 2006 Porsche Carrera when she was "almost rammed" from behind by Thomson, who was reportedly driving a black SUV. Neither wife shared Thomson's passion for art. That surfaced with the unsealing in February of a U.S. federal indictment charging Anthony Pellicano, the notorious Los Angeles private detective, and seven others, with 112 counts of racketeering, conspiracy and other charges. If Pellicano did target the Millers and Kolesa, it would be in keeping with an MO described in the indictment. Miller nannied for Taylor in her L.A., Toronto and London homes for over six months. "Toronto clams up when anybody has that amount of money," says a Toronto forensic accountant. "When Ken is showing his art his love [for it] is palpable," says a family friend. Few will speak of the family, on or off the record. "If you can't sit down with a person and reason with them," he once said, "there is only one thing left and that is fear.". The couple's divorce proceedings could put a lens for the first time on the Byzantine financials of the Thomson scion. "Taylor has scrupulously tried to find her own way," says a man who knows her. Thomson, heir to the Thomson media empire, owns a smaller stake in his familys investment company than previously reported. The collection is unusual in its lack of a unifying theme. A server arrived at the new mother's door with the papers three hours after she returned home from hospital. Yet that freedom left her adrift. Trending. "Must be some fancy New York doll," he concluded, but then he read that she "was a model right here in Toronto.". profile. ", Laurie meanwhile busied herself fundraising for a local AIDS charity with such zeal friends were concerned for her health. One Toronto lawyer familiar with the case describes its destruction as "a group effort. Arriving in a Toronto courthouse on April 4, however, the nanny was confronted by Thomson's lawyer, who informed her she'd been fired. "When I asked Christie's for my money back, they said, 'get a lawyer,' so I did," she told a British newspaper. The job, which paid US$70,000, was contingent upon Miller's signing a confidentiality agreement, now filed among Los Angeles court documents, which forbade taking photographs of Taylor or her child without "prior written consent," or making "any disparaging remarks" about Thomson, her daughter or her family. Tears came to her eyes as Mr. Hetherington played, Mr. Corcoran recalled. "It's like he's constantly testing people to see if they'll defend themselves but people never do. On the morning of June 20, 2002, Anita Busch, then a reporter with the Los Angeles Times, walked out her door to find a dead fish with a rose in its mouth lying on the smashed windshield of her car, a note reading "stop" taped alongside. Today, the three Thomson children live close by their parents in Rosedale. Copyright 2021 The Globe and Mail Inc. All rights reserved. Thomson appears to be living in one of the properties. The couple married in a private ceremony in Thomson's minimalist 10,000-sq.-foot house on May 4, 2000, one day after signing a pre-nuptial agreement, 14 days before Ken announced David would be named Thomson Corp. chairman. Where the Thomsons' public and private lives intersect is in their involvement in the arts scene. The Thomson family donated $4.5-million toward the creation of the Toronto concert hall, which was named after Mr. Thomsons father. "Generally speaking a collector's vision is important to maintain." But his involvement may never have surfaced without a bizarre incident later that year. Sensational disclosures also clash with the Thomson-family mythology as modest penny-pinchers, prudent deal-makers and benign barons of culture whose good works include the current expansion of theArt Gallery of Ontario. Low grades forced him from UCC and he finished his schooling at Royal St. George's College. The films she helped fund either flopped or are forgotten. Some say Thomson sought pre-emptively to secure the child's custody in the event of separation; others that she had little use for Kolesa once she became pregnant. Kick back with the Daily Universal Crossword. In 1978, Thomson received his Bachelor of Arts (subsequently upgraded to an MA (Cantab)) at Selwyn College, Cambridge where he studied history. "I have almost totally acquiesced to David's wishes, plans, ultimatums and bullying since the date of separation," Mary Lou responded in her affidavit. She was to squeeze two drops of "essential oil" into the child's bathwater and, every other day, one of "sweet almond oil." A common denominator linking Pellicano with Thomson is her L.A.-based attorney and the detective's main client: Bert Fields, whose other clients have included Michael Jackson, DreamWorks Animation CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg, and Tom Cruise. "It's a really lonely, solitary existence they all have.". The pair's values, always different, had begun to clash. "Doomed," is how one associate put it. In. "There is an obliqueness about all of the Thomson men." Give a single gift or support this unique work as a monthly partner. Edith Jessie Thompson (25 December 1893 9 January 1923) and Frederick Edward Francis Bywaters (27 June 1902 9 January 1923) were a British couple executed for the murder of Thompson's husband Percy. They bonded over music and cars and "seemed to see eye to eye," he recalled in an interview. Soon, however, Pellicano's name and number are said to have been included under the heading "lawyers" in a contact list Thomson kept in L.A., though he is anything but. "I feel my journey has yet to begin," he said. In a eulogy, David Thomson, her elder son, told mourners that he "had learned early on that she always followed her heart." I think it will be very exciting.". Thomson and her ex-husband Rob Dale have two children together. The Thomson name will next be affixed to an addition being built at the Art Gallery of Ontario. An assistant at Woodbridge ships the purchases from around the globe, handling import taxes and customs. A Christie's representative assigned to advise the novice buyer is said to have encouraged her to make "just one more" bid to beat her competitor, Ann Getty, of the U.S. oil dynasty. The Globe's photo department refuses to sell photographs of the family, referring calls to Woodbridge. He challenges Ludwick's claims of a "high-risk" pregnancy, citing her decision to fly to Calgary at Christmas.