A LITTLE LEVITY: At least somebody found...
A LITTLE LEVITY: At least somebody found some humor in the bitter legal battle between Irvine Co. Chairman Donald L. Bren and Joan Irvine Smith. . . . When Bren returned to his office Tuesday after shelling out a quarter of a billion dollars to Smith and her mother, Athalie R. Clarke, his secretary asked him how it went. Turning his pockets inside out, Bren, a billionaire, admitted: “I’m a little bit lighter.”
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