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Hi, it's Andrea Gunning, the host of Betrayal. I'm excited to announce that the Betrayal podcast is expanding. We are going to be releasing episodes weekly, every Thursday. Each week, you'll hear brand new stories, firsthand accounts of shocking deception, broken trust, and the trail of destruction left behind. Listen to Betrayal Weekly on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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On September 6, 1985, Elkin's biological father, Elkin, who was pretending to be Peggy's brother but is really her son. Yeah, Elkin's biological father, Elkin Simpson Sr., was killed in a plane crash. At the time of his death, Elkin Simpson Sr. was in the process of divorcing Elkin's mother, Peggy, but a final divorce decree had not yet been entered.
Accordingly, Peggy filed a wrongful death suit against the airline company as a surviving spouse from which at least $200,000 was set aside for Elkin's benefit. Apparently, the last of the settlement funds, approximately $50,000, was used by Peggy in around 2005 as a down payment for a condominium she purchased in Louisiana. I'm Jonathan Walton, and this is a bonus episode of Queen of the Con.
The Athlete Whisperer, episode eight. It's a very crazy family where my buddy Evan Goldstein and I review a bunch of insane lawsuits and appeals filed by Peggy and her son Elkin for various scammy reasons. Woo, this is like a novel here. So I'll tell you the CliffsNotes. Peggy's first husband died in a plane crash.
Wow. But when he died in that plane crash, they were separated for five years, but they were not officially divorced on paper. They were just separated. But she had remarried someone else while she was already married on paper, married to this guy who died in the plane crash. So five years after they separate, the guy dies in a plane crash, which is Elkins biological father, the one who died in the plane crash. Peggy seizing that she's still married to him on paper.
tries to get the rights to the settlement that the airline made in the lawsuit that was filed for wrongful death.
in the amount of $200,000. Peggy tries to get that $200,000 for herself. So in 1985, Peggy is newly married to Dr. Forest King and living in a mansion in Atlanta, down the street from Whitney Houston, when she plans to scam the airline and her previous husband's current live-in girlfriend, Monica, out of that $200,000 wrongful death settlement.
And Peggy's childhood friend, Pamela Carey, is actually a witness to this fraud in progress. I remember Peggy said she was married to Dr. King, but she had to annul the marriage so that she could get the benefits from Elkin's father. And it didn't make sense to me, but that's what I was told initially.
But she was about to come into a large sum of money. She files a lawsuit trying to take possession of that $200,000 settlement. Simpson v. King, Supreme Court of Georgia, decided September 11, 1989. Appellee Mrs. Forrest King, that's Peggy, was named administratix. Sounds like a dumb matrix. I know, it sounds sexual. It's just a female administrator. This is a court in Georgia.
Appellee Mrs. Forest King was named administratix of decedent Elkin Stanley Simpson's estate. Decedent is a term that's generally used in law governing estates and trusts in reference to a person who has died. An application challenging the appellee's appointment filed by the appellant, Monica Simpson, was denied by the probate court. So Monica was the woman Elkin Sr. was going to marry.
Monica was the woman Elkin's dad, Elkin. It gets confusing because they're both named Elkin. Yeah.
He was going to marry her. He'd been separated from Peggy for five years. They weren't legally divorced on paper, but they were divorced for all intents and purposes. She'd married someone else in the meantime. So obviously, whatever. So Monica is the woman who fought to get this $200,000 because they were going to get married and she has a kid for him too. So she fought and the court denied her marriage.
Okay. So she appealed and appealed and appealed, but she lost and lost and lost. I reached out to her. She didn't want to talk to me. Shocker. But...
Peggy swooped in and early on, Peggy successfully manages to be named the administrator or administratrix under Georgia law for Elkin Senior's estate so she could get her hands on that $200,000 wrongful death settlement from the airline. And Elkin Senior's girlfriend, Monica, referred to here as the appellant, challenges that decision.
The appellant appealed to the Fulton County Superior Court where her motion for partial summary judgment was denied and where the appellee's motion for summary judgment was granted. We affirm in part and reverse in part. The prose here is just, I feel like I'm reading Ray Bradbury. The appellee and the decedent were married in 1978. Referring to Peggy and Elkin Sr.'s marriage in 1978. And she gave birth to a child, Elkin Simpson II.
The couple separated in August 1980, but did not obtain a divorce. Sometime in 1985, the appellant moved into the decedent's home to live with him. Again, the appellant here is Monica, the woman Elkins Sr. was with.
After he and Peggy separated, Monica lives with Elkin Sr. for years. In the course of their cohabitation, the appellant became pregnant and they told various family members about their future child. Mr. Simpson instituted divorce proceedings against the appellee, meaning Peggy, and on June 25th, 1985, a final alimony and property settlement agreement was entered into by the parties. The agreement gave Mr. Simpson custody of Elkin II,
and awarded the appellee, that's Peggy, $2,500 for her share of the home in which Mr. Simpson and the appellant resided. So in Peggy's pending divorce from Elkin Sr., she was going to get $2,500 and that's it. Full custody of her son Elkin Jr. was actually awarded to his father, Elkin Sr., and not to Peggy, which isn't the first time that happens.
Shockingly, earlier that same year, in 1985, Peggy married and divorced another guy named Irving Rivers, and he got full custody of the baby they had together too, not Peggy. So at this point, Elkin is the second child that Peggy did not get custody of, for reasons I can only imagine but do not know for sure.
The agreement was made in order of the court on August 22, 1985. On September 6, 1985, before the final divorce decree was entered, Mr. Simpson died in an airplane crash in Wisconsin.
The appellee, aka Peggy, applied to be named administratix of Mr. Simpson's intestate estate as surviving spouse on September 11, 1985, five days after the fatal accident. And that to me just says she's a con woman.
She's separated from this guy for five years. The divorce is almost final. She married a whole other guy. And then she's circling back to say, oh, I should get this is my husband. He's still my husband. Yeah. Like how low? I don't know. How low? Knowing full well she's cheating the other woman who he was with and had a kid with out of the money. She doesn't care.
the fulton county probate court judge appointed the appellee as temporary administratics of the decedent's estate on september 13 1985 the appellant as next friend of the decedent's unborn child tristan filed a petition to remove the appellee as the administratics of the estate and this is monica monica had the son tristan and monica's trying to get the rights to that money because he was with her before he died and according to her they plan to get married
Subsequently, the appellant claimed to be Mr. Simpson's common-law wife. After a hearing, the probate court found that no common-law marriage existed between the appellant and Mr. Simpson. The court ruled that the appellant had no standing individually or on behalf of Tristan to petition the court for appellee's removal.
After Tristan was born, the decedent's parents voluntarily underwent blood tests, which showed a 99.7% probability that the decedent was Tristan's father. Exactly! The trial court did not err in the part of its order which granted summary judgment to the appellee on the issue of the common-law marriage. There was no common-law marriage between the appellant and the decedent. I'm looking up common-law marriage in Georgia. Ooh, Georgia is not a common-law state.
So that's why she got fucked there. Georgia doesn't recognize common law marriages. You see, score one for a scammer Peggy. Yeah, seriously. Peggy was still married on paper, even though she wasn't really married, and she married a whole other guy. Meanwhile, the woman he's really with for years and has his son is not allowed to get this $200,000. That's so sad. It really is the system fucking the victim over. God. Ugh.
Mr. Simpson's actions indicated that he was in the process of taking all the necessary steps to ensure that the child whom he and the appellant had conceived would be born into a legitimate family environment. He proudly told his family and friends that he and the appellant were going to have a child. Everything necessary for his divorce from his estranged wife, Mrs. Forrest King, was complete except for the final decree.
One, he planned to marry the appellant as soon as the divorce became final, which would have been prior to Tristan's birth. And this just shows you the two kinds of people we're dealing with here. He was waiting for an official divorce on paper before he married again. She didn't fucking wait. Yeah. She went and married again, even though that's technically against the law. Did anyone prosecute her? No. No. Meanwhile, she's married. She's reaching back in time to try to get her ex-husband. The money that should be going to them. Yeah. Yeah.
It's so... The fact that Mr. Simpson listed the appellant on his insurance suggests that he had already begun to think of them as family. There is clear and convincing evidence that Mr. Simpson intended for his unborn child to be born into a legitimate family environment. Thus, his unexpected death will not defeat Tristan's claim. The trial court should not have granted summary judgment to the appellee, and the trial court should not have denied partial summary judgment to the appellant on that issue.
the only reason mrs king can be considered a surviving spouse is because the final divorce decree had not been entered however she may not inherit from the decedent's estate
Mr. Simpson's child, Tristan, may inherit under the doctrine of virtual legitimation, and the appellee has no interest in the estate of the decedent and may not serve as administratix of his estate as a surviving spouse. Judgment affirmed in part and reversed in part. All the justices concur except Bell J, that fucking asshole, who dissents, and Welter J not participating. Here's where it gets interesting.
Once Elkin becomes an adult, he files a scammy lawsuit too, and you won't believe against who after the break.
Hi, it's Andrea Gunning, host of Betrayal. I'm excited to announce that the Betrayal podcast is expanding. We are going to be releasing episodes weekly, every Thursday. Each week, you'll hear brand new stories. Firsthand accounts of shocking deception, broken trust, and the trail of destruction left behind. Stories about regaining a sense of safety, a handle on reality after your entire world is flipped upside down.
From unbelievable romantic betrayals. The love that was so real for me was always just a game for him. To betrayals in your own family. When I think about my dad, oh, well, he is a sociopath. Financial betrayal. This is not even the part where he steals millions of dollars. And life or death deceptions. She's practicing how she's going to cry when the police calls her after they kill me.
Listen to Betrayal Weekly on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hi, I'm Molly Conger, host of Weird Little Guys, a new podcast from Cool Zone Media on iHeartRadio. I've spent almost a decade researching right-wing extremism, digging into the lives of people you wouldn't be wrong to call monsters. But if Scooby-Doo taught us one thing, it's that there's a guy under that monster mask.
I've collected the stories of hundreds of aspiring little Hitlers of the suburbs. From the Nazi cop who tried to join ISIS, to the National Guardsman plotting to assassinate the Supreme Court, to the Satanist soldier who tried to get his own unit blown up in Turkey. The monsters in our political closets aren't some unfathomable evil. They're just some weird guy. And you can laugh. Honestly, I think you have to. Seeing these guys for what they are doesn't mean they're not a threat. It's a survival strategy.
So join me every Thursday for a look under the mask at the weird little guys trying to destroy America. Listen to Weird Little Guys on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Welcome back to Queen of the Con. Here's where it gets interesting. While they did not grant Peggy as a surviving spouse the right to that $200,000 settlement from the airline for wrongful death, they did earmark it for Peggy's son, Elkin, who was also Elkin's senior son, Elkin.
to get when he's 18 years old. So they put it into an account with Dr. Forrest King's name, which is Peggy's third husband who she was with at the time when all this transpired, and Peggy's name is on the account too.
So years go by, apparently because of this lawsuit, nobody tells Elkin he's got $200,000 in an account with his name. In November of 2018, Elkin sues his stepfather, Dr. Forrest King, and several crazy appeals follow. This was filed in May of 2023, so like seven months ago.
Seven months ago. So this is still...
All a diversity suit means is that it involves parties from different states. So remember, Elkin's biological father, Elkin Sr., died in a plane crash in 1985. And his stepfather, Peggy's third husband, is Dr. Forrest King. And in November of 2018...
Elkin King brought a diversity suit against his former stepfather, Forrest King Jr., alleging that Forrest owed him a fiduciary duty to disclose the existence of certain settlement funds arising from the wrongful death of Elkin's biological father. Peggy filed a wrongful death suit against the airline company as a surviving spouse on behalf of herself and Elkin.
In 1989, when Elkin was approximately 11, Peggy and the airline company reached a settlement agreement from which at least $200,000 was set aside for Elkin's benefit. Peggy's attorney suggested that the settlement funds should be placed in an account in her then-husband Forrest's name. Peggy agreed, and so the settlement funds check was made out to both Peggy and Forrest on behalf of Elkin.
Forrest then placed the settlement funds in a separate account entitled Elkins Account with Custodian of Forrest King at Charles Schwab in Atlanta, Georgia. The parties dispute whether Peggy was also a party to the account. There is no evidence that a formal written trust governing the use of these settlement funds ever existed.
Forrest and Peggy divorced in approximately February 1999 when Elkin was 20 years old. The parties dispute whether Forrest turned over control of the account to Peggy following the divorce, but it's undisputed that Forrest's name was on the account until at least the divorce. Apparently, the last of the settlement funds, approximately $50,000, was used by Peggy in around 2005 as a down payment for a condominium she purchased in Louisiana.
OK, so that sentence is the most damning of this whole thing. Yeah, he's basically saying my mom spent that last $50,000 on this condo in Louisiana. And if history is any indicator, what does that infer about the rest of the money? She probably spent the rest of the money, too. Yes, she spent the last of it. So can you figure out why the hell Elkin is suing Dr. Forrest King for this and not his mother? Why are you suing Dr. Forrest King?
When Peggy went out of her way to try to get that money for herself, could not get that money for herself, instead got the money deposited into an account that her and Dr. Forrest King held in trust for Elkin when he turned 18. Nobody told Elkin about the account. I suspect because by the time Elkin turned of age, there was no money left. Elkin testified in a deposition that he first learned about the settlement funds in 2017 from his maternal grandfather.
Elkin also testified that he would have taken control of the settlement funds had he known about them when he was 18. That's a gaping chasm of a hole in Elkin's story and in Peggy's story. So Peggy didn't even tell him about the account. She's his mother. Yeah, I would have I would have taken I would have taken control of the account when I was 18 had I known about it. Although my mother spent the last $50,000 of it.
And I think she's either in prison or about to go to prison at this point. So maybe he didn't want to bother her with this. Mom, I know you're going to prison, but why didn't you tell me about the 200 grand I should have got when I was 18? And keep in mind, that account had both Peggy's name and the name of Peggy's third husband, Dr. Forrest King, who was Elkin's stepfather. It does seem like a money grab here. Ah, yeah.
Forrest, meanwhile, testified in a deposition that he informed Elkin about the existence of the settlement funds when Elkin was around 17 or 18 years old. So it's like he said, she said.
kind of thing. It's a he said, he said. And I believe... He said, he said, yeah. Well, because we have a well-documented history of Elkin lying to Dennis Rodman and pretending to be Peggy's brother for literally years. Yeah. I don't believe anything Elkin says. I believe Dr. Forrest King, who was a doctor who's never been accused of any fraud or crime or lie... Right. ...who built a successful life, a successful practice...
a management company, started a sports management company that Peggy took over. I believe Dr. Forrest King here. On November 30, 2018, Elkin sued Forrest in the Middle District of Florida. In his amended complaint, Elkin alleged that Forrest converted Elkin's settlement funds and that Forrest breached fiduciary duties to Elkin under Georgia law because he won...
failed to disclose and concealed the fact of the settlement, and two, failed and refused to account for the settlement fund proceeds or to pay the proceeds to Elkin. Elkin is accusing Forrest of stealing the money. When he says converted...
In Georgia law, when you lawfully obtain another person's money or property and then unlawfully convert it to your own, theft by conversion is applicable. So when he said he converted it, he's accusing Dr. Forrest King of stealing the money. Which, keep in mind here, Dr. Forrest King is a rich man.
He lives in a baller mansion in the neighborhood where Whitney Houston and Usher lived, you know, outside of Atlanta. And he's got he's a doctor. He started this medical management company. He started a sports management company that eventually got to Peggy. He really did make a lot of money in Wall Street. He really was a doctor. He didn't pretend to be a doctor like she pretended to be a lawyer.
He was a successful good man. He's got a lot of money. He doesn't need to be stealing or swindling Elkin out of anything, nor do I think he would. But this lawsuit's claiming he stole that money, which I don't believe he did. And like, let's say in a world where you're wrong, right? Like, he did, but so did his mother. So like, that's the anomaly of this. I agree. If you want to give the benefit of the doubt to Peggy, though I don't imagine anyone should or could or would...
Maybe they both stole it. But what's more likely? The convicted con woman sitting in prison stole the money? Or this doctor who's never done a bad thing in his life stole the money? And the fact that he's not mentioning her. We need a Judge Dredd type society.
where people aren't allowed to pursue this bullshit. - Judge, jury, and executioner. - Yes! You have three intelligent people saying, "You know what, Elkin? This doesn't make any fucking sense. Your mom's a convicted con woman. You're saying she spent some of the money and now you want to hold Dr. Forest King responsible? No, no, no. Dismissed." - Yeah, yeah. - We need a Judge Dredd society because these frivolous lawsuits are clogging up the system and harming innocent people like Dr. Forest King.
Another thing I want to point out here is that Dr. Forrest King was actually a loving stepfather to Elkin when he was growing up. Dr. King was extremely nice and very kind. Showrunner Andrena Hale again, who got to know Dr. Forrest King and Elkin very well while producing American Gangster Trap Queens, that BET documentary about Peggy. Dr. King would not steal money from Elkin. I don't know what happened to the money,
But well, I mean, if you had to guess what happened to the money, this is true. But to blame it on Dr. King, it's just like it's just so fair. It's so many levels. Yeah. I can't believe it. And he's like, I feel like, you know, he suffered that relationship with Dr. King because, you know, Dr. Force felt like he had helped to raise Elkin and that treated him as his own son. Elkin even talks about when Elkin was playing like ball, like football in college.
Dr. Forrest would fly from Florida to the West Coast, whatever school Elkin was in, and he would watch him play. He'd be there for his games. So you're going to sue him? The official phrasing is breach of fiduciary relationship. He's accusing him of not telling him about the money.
Which Dr. King says that's not true. I did tell him when he was 17. And of course he did tell him. Dr. King's not a scammer. No. He's not a hardworking doctor who can make tons of money doing anything. Exactly. Yeah. So, I mean, that's unfortunate. It's a very crazy family.
Back to my conversation with Evan. Following discovery. Reading from one of the many legal filings chronicling Elkin's quest to sue his stepfather, Dr. Forrest King. Forrest moved for summary judgment on October 14, 2019, on both his statute of limitations defense and on the merits.
In turn, Elkin moved for partial summary judgment on his claims on March 30, 2020. And what happens next in this crazy court case I could have never predicted after the break.
Hi, it's Andrea Gunning, host of Betrayal. I'm excited to announce that the Betrayal podcast is expanding. We are going to be releasing episodes weekly, every Thursday. Each week, you'll hear brand new stories. Firsthand accounts of shocking deception, broken trust, and the trail of destruction left behind. Stories about regaining a sense of safety, a handle on reality after your entire world is flipped upside down.
From unbelievable romantic betrayals. The love that was so real for me was always just a game for him. To betrayals in your own family. When I think about my dad, oh, well, he is a sociopath. Financial betrayal. This is not even the part where he steals millions of dollars. And life or death deceptions. She's practicing how she's going to cry when the police calls her after they kill me.
Listen to Betrayal Weekly on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hi, I'm Molly Conger, host of Weird Little Guys, a new podcast from Cool Zone Media on iHeartRadio. I've spent almost a decade researching right-wing extremism, digging into the lives of people you wouldn't be wrong to call monsters.
But if Scooby-Doo taught us one thing, it's that there's a guy under that monster mask. I've collected the stories of hundreds of aspiring little Hitlers of the suburbs, from the Nazi cop who tried to join ISIS, to the National Guardsman plotting to assassinate the Supreme Court, to the Satanist soldier who tried to get his own unit blown up in Turkey. The monsters in our political closets aren't some unfathomable evil. They're just some weird guy. And you can laugh. Honestly, I think you have to.
Seeing these guys for what they are doesn't mean they're not a threat. It's a survival strategy. So join me every Thursday for a look under the mask at the weird little guys trying to destroy America. Listen to Weird Little Guys on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Hi, I'm David Eagleman from the podcast Inner Cosmos, which recently hit the number one science podcast in America. I'm a neuroscientist at Stanford, and I've spent my career exploring the three-pound universe in our heads. We're looking at a whole new series of episodes this season to understand why and how our lives look the way they do. Why does your memory drift so much? Why is it so hard to keep a secret? When should you not trust your intuition?
Listen to Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
I'm Andrea Gunning, host of the all-new podcast There and Gone. It's a real-life story of two people who left a crowded Philadelphia bar, walked to their truck, and vanished. Nobody hears anything. Nobody sees anything. Did they run away? Was it an accident? Or were they murdered? A truck and two people just don't disappear. The FBI called it murder for hire. It was definitely murder for hire for Danielle.
Not for Richard. He's your son, and in your eyes, he's innocent. But in my eyes, he's just some guy my sister was with. In this series, I dig into my own investigation to find answers for the families and get justice for Richard and Danielle. Listen to There and Gone South Street on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. There and Gone.
Welcome back to Queen of the Con. My buddy Evan is reading from the latest round of court filings in Elkin's attempts to sue his stepfather, Dr. Forrest King. On August 24, 2020, the district court granted summary judgment for Forrest. With respect to Elkin's failure to disclose claim, we
We certified the following three questions to the Supreme Court of Georgia. It baffles me how Peggy doesn't come up in any of these questions. No. Because she's the mother. Her name's on the account. Her name was on the check. Yeah, he's going pretty hard after this guy. He's just like, you know, now in an appeal. This is 2023. Like, he wants...
He wants this to happen. He wants money from Forrest King. Forrest King, you know, sounds like he's got a lot of money. If the adult fiduciary does have an obligation to disclose to the minor beneficiary directly without a written agreement, when must the adult fiduciary disclose or redisclose to the minor beneficiary? This is just enthralling sentence structure. It is, but earlier...
It was admitted that Dr. Forrest King told Elkin about it when he was 17 or so. So that's disclosing. What else? You remember when you were 17, if someone told you, hey, there's an account with $200,000 for you, are you going to forget that? No way. I will definitely take it. Exactly. So someone's lying. Who do you think it could be? The doctor or Elkin? And then if he only found out...
Like, what, recently that his mom spent the last $50,000 in that account? Like, when was that, you know? Yeah. The only claim left for us to resolve is whether the district court erred when it granted Forrest's summary judgment on Elkin's breach of duty for failure to disclose claim. I'm not surprised they ruled in favor of Dr. Forrest King.
I am not surprised that Elkin tried and tried and tried and tried to squeeze him and shake him down for money with this bullshit claim. Well, it sounds like he's appealing and, you know, he's trying to hit it from different angles. You know, it's like, okay, that didn't work. Let's just keep throwing shit at the wall. Exactly. But it's puzzling why he would include in this lawsuit that, oh, by the way, my mom spent the last $50,000 in the account, but I'm holding Dr. Forrest King responsible. Well, that's the giant mystery of this whole thing.
thing, this whole lawsuit. It's just, there's a just basic discrepancy there. It's like you hold this guy accountable, but not your mom, where you're saying, oh, she spent like a considerable amount of the $200,000. What a quarter of it, you know? In the end, after the courts first ruled in favor of Dr. Forrest King, they reversed their decision in part and ruled in favor of Elkin.
Then suddenly, one month later, in June of 2023, Elkin's attorney files a motion to withdraw from being Elkin's attorney. Then in August of 2023, Dr. Forrest King and Elkin file a motion to dismiss the case entirely, which a judge granted. So it's over now.
Maybe Dr. Forrest King paid Elkin off, or maybe Elkin came to his senses and changed his mind about suing his stepfather. Or maybe Peggy, who was released from prison a few months before this case was dismissed, had something to do with it, too. I don't know what to believe, but you can't say with certainty, but it's definitely an interesting theory that would add a lot more kind of another layer of the onion on that whole scenario for sure.
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