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Katherine Heigl to star in ‘Escape’
Wednesday, June 11th, 2008I suppose “Escape” is a much more exciting title than “Walked away, but now I need a source of income.”
From Variety
Katherine Heigl will star in and produce the feature film adaptation of “Escape,” the bestselling memoir of Carolyn Jessop, whose testimony helped convict polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs.
Relevant Entertainment and Como Court Prods. acquired the [...]
Ruling shocks Carolyn Jessop
Friday, May 23rd, 2008See, it’s the same as in 1953, except in this case the State of Texas wrongly assumed that the majority of people would be more than willing to overlook their abuses of power since the conviction of warren Jeffs. Again, they were wrong.
Perhaps Carolyn Jessop can go find a real job now, and leave [...]
Increasingly strange changes in the FLDS community
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008From Anderson Cooper 360
The following an excerpt from Carolyn Jessop’s memoir “Escape,” which recounts her life inside of a polygamist community and her dramatic flight.
By 1995, Warren Jeffs was becoming a subtle and more powerful presence in our daily lives. This struck me as odd because there were many other men who were more [...]
‘Escape’ from Polygamy
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008From washingtonpost.com
Carolyn Jessop, author of Escape, an autobiography of her upbringing in the polygamist Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints (FLDS) and flight from it with her eight children, was online Wednesday, April 16, at 1 p.m. ET to discuss her story.
Jessop will also discuss the current situation at the Yearning for Zion [...]
I shared hubby with 5 cult wives
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008“When Carolyn Jessop sums up the first 35 years of her life, she calls it a “horror story”.
But then beatings, polygamy and even child cruelty were part and parcel of her existence in the Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints cult.”
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