Prosecutors originally alleged that Stern, a prominent Houston lawyer, and his former mistress planned three failed attempts to kill Yvonne Stern. In the third alleged attempt on her life in May she was shot in the stomach while sitting in her car. Since the shooting, Yvonne Stern, 54, has reconciled with her husband and is now suing Gaiser. In a statement from her attorney today, Yvonne Stern expressed her relief that the case against her husband has been dropped.
Stern and her family are relieved this burden has been lifted," the Houston socialite said via her lawyer. The case, which had attracted extensive coverage with its details of the affair between Stern and Gaiser, had a fresh twist last month when Nugent held a press conference to claim Gaiser was plotting to have his client killed. Nugent read from a jailhouse letter Gaiser allegedly wrote in which the attorney said she ordered a hit on Stern.
Nugent said Gaiser wrote that the hit should happen near the Sterns' vacation home in Aspen. According to Nugent, the letter also said that if Stern was killed near the Aspen residence, "people will think the wife did the planning to kill him as revenge. Nugent said he turned the note over to the district attorney, who declined to bring Gaiser up on any new charges.
The first attempt to kill Yvonne Stern was a drive-by shooting at the couple's Houston home in February The house was sprayed with bullets, but Yvonne Stern, who has two children, wasn't home. Two months later, a man shot at her through the glass in the door but missed. The entire family was at home, but no one was hurt. The family moved to an apartment for safety after the second incident, but someone tracked Stern down there.
She was sitting in her car in the parking garage at the apartment in May when a man approached her window and shot her in the stomach. She played dead, then drove herself to a gas station to get help.
Yvonne Stern initially filed for divorce after learning of her husband's infidelity, but took him back. She has said she does not believe he was responsible for the attempts on her life. The socialite's two sisters are now speaking out about how they are standing by her and supporting her decision to stay with her husband, even though he's accused of plotting with his mistress to have her murdered. Teresa Flores, one of Yvonne Stern's sisters, told ABC News that it takes a strong woman to look past infidelity and stay in a marriage.
I mean They love each other. It's hard for her, but it goes back to forgiveness. For the love she has for her husband So this case is unique, but basically it's an affair. That's how she sees it," she said. Police say the shooting was the third attempt on Yvonne Stern's life. Prosecutors are making the case that Stern and his mistress worked hand-in-hand to hire hit men to shoot Yvonne. After her affair with Jeffrey Stern, Gaiser is now expected to testify against him at his trial in a few months, stating that the two conspired to hire Flores to kill his wife.
Jeffrey Stern maintains his innocence, as does his wife. I believe in him wholeheartedly, of his innocence. He had nothing to do with this, and he could not do anything with this. We are victims of a fatal attraction," Yvonne Stern said.
Paul Nugent, Jeffrey Stern's attorney, agrees with her assertion that the couple fell prey to an affair gone awry. Though the jury could return with a verdict as soon as Friday in Flores' case, the couple will not know its fate until next year. Jeffrey Stern's trial is scheduled for February, and Yvonne, his alleged victim, vows she'll be right by his side.
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