Bridget Marks says her nasty custody battle with a philandering ex-lover has transformed her from a buxom nude model into a full-blown political activist.
"Who would have thought a fun-loving party girl like me would become a feminist activist for other women's rights?" Marks told Page Six. "Ha, ha! You never know where life's road will take you."
Last year, the former Playboy pin-up, now 43, got state Assemblyman Jonathan Bing and Sen. Tom Duane (both D-Manhattan) to craft "Bridget's Law," which protects parents from being penalized in custody cases for making "good-faith efforts" to protect their kids from child abuse.
"Who would have thought a fun-loving party girl like me would become a feminist activist for other women's rights?" Marks told Page Six. "Ha, ha! You never know where life's road will take you."
Last year, the former Playboy pin-up, now 43, got state Assemblyman Jonathan Bing and Sen. Tom Duane (both D-Manhattan) to craft "Bridget's Law," which protects parents from being penalized in custody cases for making "good-faith efforts" to protect their kids from child abuse.
- 4/5/2009
- NYPost.com
Call it Bridget's Law. When Playboy model Bridget Marks got her twin daughters back in a landmark custody battle, she didn't forget about all the other moms and kids still separated by the strange ways of justice in Family Court. Marks enlisted the help of State Sen. Tom Duane and Assemblyman Jonathan Bing, who played knights in shining armor to pass a bill in Albany so that no other parent has to go through what she did. Marks temporarily lost custody when the judge didn't believe her accusations of abuse by their father. The bill...
- 7/10/2008
- NYPost.com
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