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March 20, 2006

A barber, a rich lady, and a gospel star

Here's an interesting story that has just surfaced. In the 1960s, a Milwaukee man named Richard Moore divorced his wife against the wishes of his eight childern and married a lady named Johnel Fisher who was twenty years younger than him. According to his obituary, they were still married when he died in 2004. If sources are accurate, an influx of money from his rich young wife was the key to his success as a barber. Moore owned the Handsome Barber Shop in Milwaukee, where he boasted of famous clients like basketball superstar Charles Barkley.

Mrs. Moore passed away as well last fall. She left all her money to the Greater Milwaukee Foundation.

Now there's a story circulating about Mrs. Moore and gospel singer Jessy Dixon who is a longtime member of the Gaither Homecoming Tour and a legend in black gospel music. Australian blogger Martin Roth (who has an uncanny ability for finding obscure stories about gospel music) has posted a link to a story about a lawsuit brought by Mrs. Moore's attorney against Dixon. In the suit, if the story is accurate, Dixon is being accused of fraud. When going through her records, Mrs. Moore's attorney discovered that she had made donations totaling more than $700,000 to Dixon over a period of several years.

Mrs. Moore's stepson Haralson Moore claims she and Dixon began a dating relationship after she met Dixon on a Gaither cruise. Although Haralson and his brother inherited his father's barbershop which his stepmother funded, Haralson feels he should have the money she gave to Dixon. He says he was the only child in the family who ever got along with her. Haralson is quoted in the story as saying, "It should go to me, because I'm the one in need."

However, the lawsuit is trying to recover the money so the wishes of Mrs. Moore's will can be carried out...that her assets be donated to the Greater Milwaukee Foundation. She left nothing to her stepchildren.

Dixon has yet to make any comments on the subject.

Those are the facts of the case as presented in the write up.

I think a few things are clear so far:
1. Gail Gina Barton who wrote the story for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel is clearly biased in her reporting. She refers to Dixon as a possible "gospel singing gigolo" in the very first sentence of her article. That's pretty harsh unless she already knows it to be a fact and proves that it's true in the story. She doesn't.

2. If following Mrs. Moore's wishes is really the ultimate goal of the estate, they're going to have a hard time proving she didn't wish to give money to Dixon...especially if it's true that her step children contend she used her money to lure their father away from their mother in the 1960s. They're going to say Dixon claimed to have a non-profit status when he really didn't, since Mrs. Moore claimed her gifts to him as charitable donations, but even so, it will be difficult to say she wanted the money to go somewhere else.

3. The big issue for Dixon is not what she claimed on her tax form, but what he reported as income on his. He has more to fear from the IRS than he does from Mrs. Moore's estate.
posted by David Bruce Murray @ 12:57:00 PM


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