When it comes to lawyers’ fees, this Boca divorce takes the cake.

And the Mayor of Splitsville, divorce guru Joel Weissman, is getting sued over it.

Weissman and his firm received between $5.3 million and $6.1 million in fees in the two-year divorce of money manager David Polen from wife Rosa.

At one point, Rosa was accusing her now-ex of beating her with a patio umbrella. And there was also big money involved, with David filing financial papers that showed he made $2 million – a month!

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Will he show this time?

After blowing off a debate against his Republican opponent, lawyer Tom Rooney, U.S. Rep. Tim Mahoney is scheduled to be the keynote speaker at tomorrow’s Kiwanis fundraiser in the heart of Fort Pierce.

The yearly shindig, dubbed Farm City Barbecue, was created to foster links between the farmers and downtown dwellers. (Read more…)

Update: The event starts at noon Friday. Doors open at 11 a.m.

The man who, some say, should’ve been president returns Friday to ground zero in the controversial election that saw him lose to George W. Bush.

Former Vice President and 2007 Nobel Peace Price winner Al Gore, and his wife Tipper, are announced at an afternoon rally for Barack Obama at the Palm Beach County Convention Center in downtown West Palm Beach.

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U.S. Rep. Tim Mahoney reportedly told the lawyers who negotiated his payoff to a former mistress that he and his wife of 23 years, Terry, had an open marriage, Page2Live has learned.

“He didn’t seem too worried that his wife would find out he had a girl on the side,” said a source familiar with the March negotiations. “He said something about how he and his wife were not getting along, and that the two of them had an understanding.”

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