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Patricia Brentrup

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Why she might be annoying:

    She said she and Kit Culkin 'never found the need to formalize' their relationship with marriage.
    Macauley sued her and Kit to keep them from controlling the money he made as a child star (1995).
    She had to borrow money from Macauley when his temporary retirement from acting cut off her (and Kit's) income as his manager.
    Although she won full custody, the judge in the case recommended that she work harder at instilling 'discipline and good study habits' in her kids.
    After a fire started by a faulty heater in the Culkin family apartment killed four people in the apartment building (1998), she was sued for $80 million in a wrongful death suit on the basis that by leaving the apartment door open after she and the kids had evacuated, she created a 'blow torch effect' that allowed the fire to rapidly spread.

Why she might not be annoying:

    Agent Emily Gerson Saines said that Brentrup 'maintained strong family values, like the family having a meal together.'
    She recalled about a beating by Kit witnessed by their children, 'He punched me in the head and about the body and dragged me out to the balcony, threatening to push me over the railing. I suffered two black eyes and substantial bruising.'
    Her daughter Dakota died at age 29 after being hit by a car (2008).
    Kieran said, 'She's just an absolutely wonderful woman who took on raising seven kids in a studio apartment by herself,' adding about his father, 'There was a guy there -- he didn't do anything.'

Credit: C. Fishel


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