Betrayal

Epilogue

A WEEK AFTER the Academy Awards, Brigitte Parker was sentenced to eighteen years in prison. Based on the recommendation of the probation department’s pre-sentencing report, the judge refused to run her sentences concurrently, and ran them consecutively. She received a six-year sentence for her embezzlement from Tallie Jones and twelve years in the state system for the murder of Hunter Lloyd.

Tallie Jones was able to reclaim about a third of what she lost, from the sale of Brigitte Parker’s possessions. The proceeds of the sale of her home on Mulholland Drive went to the Internal Revenue Service for income tax evasion.

A year later, Tallie Jones and Jim Kingston were married on the beach in Hawaii, accompanied by their children.

A year after that, Victor Carson married a twenty-three-year-old Russian trade show model in Las Vegas.