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The Key West Citizen
Key West, Monroe County, Florida
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Joan Scott Baker, 21-year-old model, claims her 1953 Virgin Islands divorce from stockbroker Seth H. Baker is invalid due to non-residency, seeking separation and support in New York court. Baker, now honeymooning in Hawaii with Jack Benny's daughter Joan after their recent Hollywood wedding, denies the claim and cites a $5,000 settlement. Benny's team confirmed the divorce's legality beforehand.
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NEW YORK ( ) - Joan Scott Baker, a 21-year-old model, claims she is still legally married to the man who last week married comedian Jack Benny's daughter in a lavish Hollywood wedding.
The blonde, blue-eyed model said a Virgin Islands divorce granted Jan. 29, 1953, was no good because neither she nor New York stock broker Seth H. Baker, 26, was a bona fide resident of the islands at the time.
She filed a suit in New York State Supreme Court asking that the divorce be set aside and that she be granted a separation plus support and maintenance. She said she and Baker were married in Florence, S. C., July 19, 1951, when he was an Army private.
Baker—now honeymooning with Benny's adopted daughter Joan, 21, in Hawaii—filed a denial through his attorney, claiming the divorce was valid and that Miss Scott had accepted a $5,000 settlement.
In Hollywood, a spokesman for Benny said the comedian's attorneys had checked Baker's divorce before his wedding to Miss Benny and "found the divorce entirely legal."
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New York, Virgin Islands, Florence S.C., Hollywood, Hawaii
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Jan. 29, 1953; July 19, 1951
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Joan Scott Baker challenges the validity of her Virgin Islands divorce from Seth H. Baker, claiming non-residency invalidates it; she seeks separation and support after Baker's recent marriage to Jack Benny's daughter Joan.