Article: Liza's friends say he had her pet terrier put down while she was out shopping and dumped her priceless furniture. David's friends blame her voracious drug habit. So what is the truth behind the break up of Hollywood's most bizarre marriage?

Byline: GLENYS ROBERTS

THE penny has finally dropped,' says an old friend of Liza Minnelli.

'There's nothing in that marriage for her and there is no hope of saving it.'

After only 16 months of their volatile relationship, it has surprised-almost no one who knows the couple-that Liza and her curious bridegroom, record producer David Gest, are now living 6,000 miles apart.

Liza is in New York in the midtown marital apartment, while Gest is currently in the Hawaii island home he only recently persuaded her to buy, surrounded by many of the prized possessions gathered in the course of her 30-year singing career, including some priceless ...

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