Judy M. Nanni, Ex-Wife

The final deception, Judy Nanni’s actual motivation for requesting the four months reconciliation…

When he first met Ms. Nanni, she led him to believe that she was extremely successful, the CEO of a large payroll company that was getting ready to go public. Her offices and her own appearance, apartment, and wardrobe appeared to reflect the same.

Alas, that was not the case, for on a Saturday morning three months before their scheduled wedding, his intended best man called him up to his office, asking if he had seen the morning newspaper. When he responded, no, the best man showed it to him. The front page feature article was of his bride-to-be, her father, and their payroll company.

Virtually everything Judy Nanni told him about herself, her personal success, and her company was a lie. The company, Compucheck, she herself, and her father (who was the actual head of the company but was a convicted felon and therefore could not be an officer in a public company) were on the verge of bankruptcy. Worse yet, both of them were under investigation for income tax and stock fraud.

A few hours later he called Judy and informed her of what he had learned, that their engagement was over, and that he wanted the engagement ring returned. She responded by begging him to meet with her and her parents for an explanation. Long story short, even though he was fed a line of bull and his friends and family pleaded with him to leave her, on the recommendation of an attorney friend, he told Ms. Nanni that he would go ahead with the marriage plans—but only on the condition that she sign a prenup.

Judy Nanni received a $20,000 fine and filed for bankruptcy as she was approximately $250,000 in debt. One of her investors committed suicide after losing his life savings. Her father would later be sent to a federal penitentiary.

In reality he did not expect the marriage to last more than two years, so he considered the prenup to be an insurance policy. Unexpected by his family, friends, and even himself, was that at the end of two years their marriage was going extremely well—and for the most part continued to do so up until the very sudden end, when she moved into an apartment that she had previously rented.

Perhaps it should be added that she did offer to move back, but on the condition that he void the prenup, put the house in both names, let her refurnish the house at his expense, pick up her car payments… and after he asked her if there was anything else, she added, “Yes, there is just one more thing: I want $100,000 in cash. It’s non-negotiable, and if you don’t come up with the money our marriage is over.” Obviously, she went a bridge too far. Their marriage was over.

At one point they did go for marriage counseling. She was treated afterwards as the equivalent of a pathological liar. Later, a prominent psychiatrist stated, “Judy’s a world-class actress. I’ve been at this for many years, and she almost had me fooled.”

In January of 2001, Ms. Nanni lost a very expensive lawsuit to break their prenup. A few days later, she filed unfounded harassment charges against him, claiming he had threatened her—an attempt to “blackmail” him into paying her legal fees of almost $20,000. Her attorney sent a letter to his attorney to the effect that if Mr. Dizak paid Ms. Nanni’s legal fees, she would withdraw the charges.

Long story short, instead, a few days later a supervising ADA appeared in Judge Rainbow Morse’s courtroom and said, “Ms. Nanni has rescinded her charges against Mr. Dizak.” (The first $10,000 was payable to her attorney, which obviously upset Ms. Nanni even more.)

Not long afterwards, he had parked in the rear of Flex Gym, where they were both members. Ms. Nanni pulled in next to him. * He offered to leave, but astonishingly, she was quite pleasant. She had no objection to his staying. Too good to be true, for she was waiting for him inside, and in front of a group of people, she began screaming, “$50,000—it’s a pittance! It’s a pittance!” He responded, “Judy, what about your luxury lifestyle, the showpiece home, the 60 trips all over the world, the four- and five-star resorts, and oh, all that jewelry?”

Her response: “You owed me all that because I was your wife. I gave you 10 years of my life.” His response: “Gave me?” As his best man’s father said, “I rented your services, for which you were extremely well compensated.” Although her mother commented, “My daughter is not a prostitute.”

Shortly after their marriage, Judy had indicated jewelry was her only acceptable gift. To her credit, however, she did make two exceptions—one for a Coach handbag, the other for a fur coat.