Auction of Deadbeat Dad’s Goods Held
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Marilyn Nichols Kane watched as crowds of strangers picked through her former husband’s lavish belongings, put up for sale to pay the hundreds of thousands of dollars he owes her for child support. Described as America’s worst deadbeat dad, her former husband, precious metals consultant Jeffrey Nichols, is in jail in New York City. He owes an estimated $640,000 in back child support and pleaded guilty last month to a federal charge of leaving a state to avoid the obligation. The contents of the large Colchester house he shared with his new wife, Suzan, were auctioned off to about 350 people.