Some of the long time posters take a look....

[Philb]

http://romancero.net/cgi-bin/profile.pl?cmd=show&lang=EN&text_lang=&mem_id=&id=3839

I wonder if his prenup held up

[vagn]

... in response to Some of the long time posters take a loo..., posted by Philb on Jun 9, 2003

[This message has been edited by vagn]

1. Mark Dante was the name of a character in the daytime soap opera
General Hospital.

http://www.geocities.com/akgrgators/EarlyYears3.html
"Mark Dante became attracted to Rick and Jeff's widowed sister,
Terri but he had a wife back in Boston. "
--google search

2. Checking the archives I find a reference to the travel agency.
But, the link is dead.

http://www.planet-love.com/wwwboard/search/searchdisplay.php?page=russian&archive=000135&id=58936&bold[]=mdante99
" My Russian/Lithuanian wife runs a travel agency;
www.travelandtrips.com"
--PL archive search

3. Checking the whois database for travelandtrips.com we find:
Administrative Contact:
     Zaki, Mark  mdante99@hotmail.com
     Eucam International
     950 Mass Ave.    #216
     Cambridge, MA 02139
     United States
     617-661-4747      Fax -- 617-868-6728

4. A google search for the phone number comes up with another
web site "http://www.afineimage.com/intro.htm"
Visiting the site, it's a wedding photography outfit.
Another whois lookup gives: Mark Zaki again.

looking at the "about us" page we get a middle initial.
It's now Mark S. Zaki, and his bio -- for what it's worth --

"MARK S. ZAKI is an experienced photographer who has studied
photojournalism. He produces fine art photography, shooting portraits
and commercial work. Mark has studied photography with some of the best
photographers in America including classic photographers like Monte
Zucker. He is an alumnus of New England School of Photography in Boston"

So how come his portrait stinks?

5. Google again for Zaki: we get a nice list of names
mohammed javeed zaki
jamila zaki oriental dance
Faisal Ahmed Zaki Yamani
Anis Zak
Suhair Zaki
I'm guessing that Zaki is an egyptian name.

6. From another post I get the name of his wife "jorune"
http://www.planet-love.com/wwwboard/search/searchdisplay.php?page=russian&archive=000129&id=56904&bold[]=mdante99

And following the thread, we find "She was a lawyer in her country"
of lithuania.

7. In a later post we have
"Here is a brief address.
http://photos.yahoo.com/mdante99
Click on Jorune."
So I follow the link, and there is no "Jorune" to click on,
but there IS a jennifer!  Same person?  Could be.  One of
the captions is "All Business as a lawyer."

8.  But wait!  There's more!  The same jennifer is not just
a lawyer, she's a top notch degreed Fine Arts type university
educated photographer!
http://www.afineimage.com/aboutus.htm#2
The resume -- again for what its worth -- reads
"JENNIFER J. JAKULYTE has been a professional photographer
since 1995; she has a University degree in Fine Arts. She
studied wedding photography at the New England School
of Photography in Boston. Jennifer spent her formative
years in Europe where she studied classic arts and
where she developed an eye for beautiful imagery. She
produces unforgettable wedding images, a combination of
formals with an emphasis on candid and documentary style
photography. Capturing the emotions of your day is the very
essence of her style. Jennifer has photographed weddings
in Europe and USA and is available to travel worldwide."

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A maze of twisty little passages.

[T P Cornholio]

... in response to Some of the long time posters take a loo..., posted by Philb on Jun 9, 2003

FYI --

http://romancero.net/cgi-bin/profile.pl?id=3839&cmd=show&lang=EN

[T P Cornholio]

... in response to Shorter link, posted by T P Cornholio on Jun 10, 2003

FYI-

http://romancero.net/cgi-bin/profile.pl?id=3839&cmd=show&lang=EN

cmd=show&lang=EN

[Dan]

... in response to Portions in URL being replaced with para..., posted by T P Cornholio on Jun 10, 2003

Differently on Opera than it does in IE.

As translated in Opera (my prefered web browser), it is unworkable. As translated in IE (which I resort to ONLY because many web pages are optimized for IE), it works just fine.

This is just part of the MS plan to dominate the world (well, at least, the browser --smile--).

- Dan

[Robert D]

... in response to Some of the long time posters take a loo..., posted by Philb on Jun 9, 2003

I am trying to recall the guy.   Is this the one with the very pretty Russian wife who was a travel agent?  If so, she seemed rather nice, so I do wonder what happened.

Robert D.

[BubbaGump]

... in response to Re: Some of the long time posters take a..., posted by Robert D on Jun 10, 2003

He had the nice looking Latvian girl that had an internet travel agency and they tried to arrange travel for guys hunting for brides to the Baltic region.  He annoyed people because he made a lot of posts that were misleading like: "You can get a wife for a little as $2500."  He made his wife pay her own way over and the whole marriage sounded more like a business deal rather than a marriage where any love was involved.

[Alfred]

... in response to Yeah, that guy, posted by BubbaGump on Jun 10, 2003

Actually, she was Lithuanian, not Latvian.  Same difference, unless you're married to her!

[Robert D]

... in response to Yeah, that guy, posted by BubbaGump on Jun 10, 2003

well not to cast him in a bad light, his pic looks like a person of strange convictions, or more like a person who might not be able to be trusted.

Robert D.

[Dan]

... in response to Some of the long time posters take a loo..., posted by Philb on Jun 9, 2003

n/t

[Dan]

... in response to Link Doesn't Work (for me, anyway)  n/t, posted by Dan on Jun 10, 2003

n/t

[JR]

... in response to Some of the long time posters take a loo..., posted by Philb on Jun 9, 2003

she started working within a week at his travel agency. The cheap F*** wouldn't buy her a car either, she had to use city transportation.

Had the most ASS-O-9 pre nup too. She was going to have to pay him in a divorce settlement. She must of been pretty desperate.

[Alfred]

... in response to I remember....He made his girl pay her o..., posted by JR on Jun 10, 2003

Unfortunately, we have no information on how things turned out between them.  It would be interesting to know what happened and what their intentions were. Perhaps is was never intended as a long term relationship...

[Patrick]

... in response to Re: I remember....He made his girl pay h..., posted by Alfred on Jun 10, 2003

The personal ad could be very old and either MDante never bothered to have it removed, or they never followed through with removing it.  There's lots of very old out of date personal ads on many of these intro sites.  I don't neccessarily think this means his marriage failed.

However, I do think his claims of having a legitimate pre-nup that required his ex to pay him if she does not return to her native country after divorce were pretty outrageous and unbelievable.

[Philb]

... in response to Or perhaps..., posted by Patrick on Jun 10, 2003

The ad appears to be about 2 years old.  His age is listed as 45 in the left hand column (this probably updates automatically) while in his discription his age is listed as 43.

I had an ad on this site about 2 1/2 years ago.  I sent an email to have it removed quite some time ago, but I had never gone back and checked.  Anyway, while checking I came across his ad and thought it might liven things up a bit.