NYC's Worst Deadbeat Father
Published June 28, 2004
Andy Keller of the New York Post has reported the following:
The ex-manager of the hard-rock band KISS was exposed yesterday as a $2 million deadbeat dad - the city's worst, authorities said. Jesse Hilsen, 64, once a top East Side shrink, was busted in the Catskills Saturday night after 10 years on the run, the feds said.This via Hard NewsHilsen, who used 10 aliases while hiding out in three countries, was arraigned in White Plains Monday on charges of violating a new federal law against evading court-ordered child support. He was held without bail. Hilsen raked in $300,000 to $500,000 annually in the four years he managed KISS but has filed for bankruptcy and refused to pay alimony of $950 a month to his ex-wife, Rita, 62, the mother of his three children.
Rita lost her East Side apartment in the bankruptcy proceeding and has lived in an 8-by-12-foot room in a shelter for the last eight years. "He complied with nothing. He laughed in the judges' faces," the angry ex told The Post. "His own children were on welfare and food stamps. We didn't have food. We had to go to food pantries."
Hilsen was found by Brooklyn private eye Steve Rambam, who tracked him from Holland to Israel to South Africa and finally to his uncle's home in Westkill, N.Y. Rambam learned that while on the run, Hilsen married for yet a third time, took out Israeli citizenship and obtained two South African ID cards. "This is one of the most outrageous deadbeat dad cases I've ever seen in my life," the private eye said.
Hilsen managed Kiss from 1988 to 1992, getting the job because guitarist/vocalist Paul Stanley, one of the group's founders, was his patient. On Oct. 29, 2002, a judge ruled Hilsen owed his wife $1.9 million. This puts him above Dr. David Lawrence Adams, the No. 1 deadbeat on the city Human Resources Administration's "Hall of Shame." Adams owes $1.5 million.
Hilsen went on the run in 1994 after a state arrest warrant was issued for his failure to pay alimony. Last July, he was indicted under the new federal law. Hilsen filed for divorce in 1984 after 19 years of marriage. Before the divorce was finalized in 1988, he took out huge mortgages on marital real estate and then filed for bankruptcy, court documents show. The bankruptcy stopped the divorce in its tracks. Ultimately, Rita's apartment was sold to pay other creditors.
- NYC's Worst Deadbeat Father
- Published: June 28, 2004
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- Section: Music
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- Writer: Marty Dodge
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Numbers work because that does not include child support, Alimony is seperate. 3 kids at a minimum would be about $1200 a month ($288,000..) but given his profession as a doctor, his amount was probably double that, so $600,000 roughly. And $228,000 for Alimony is $828,000. But my guess is he earned more than that , so it bumped it up.
I know a deadbeat dad who just bought himself a $10k motorcycle! he pays his support on time, because its garnished! (was always late otherwise). But his own son is in a wheelchair with seizures, and lucky to make it to 10 if he is lucky, and he is already 5. , he refuses to see this son. His "normal" daughter and son from another wife he takes but he will not take his disabled son ever, he sees as an untouchable I guess. Also ran off with his ex-wifes best friend. See what he bought at the sacrifice of his kids in the URL posted, you will see no reference that he even has children.
I have a dead beat sperm donor. He is a major jerk. I just recently wrote him a nice letter that my aunt died. Again no response. He abonded me and held me in the court room at 6 weeks old and fled to Milford, New Jersey knowing I was his daughter. He knows my mom and me struggled through life. Do you think he gave a fuck. He is a rich man with NO HEART. He plays the christian now at the flemington, New jersey church like he is Mr. Wonderful. What a jerk. He will face the maker then what will he say. He is not a MAN. He is a big coward. [Personal contact info deleted] He is going to have real bad Karma.
I sure would never be a dead beat dad.
My friend has a really unusual story. Her dad is an identical twin. They were trying to record an albumn is Hollywood and my friends mom's friends talked her into going to Hollywood. Her mom was only 15 yrs. old and a virgin.
She was given wine and never had a drink before and my friend was conceived. Her father and his identical twin was 24 yrs. old at he time. She found out she was pregnant a few weeks later when she did not start and confirms it with a test indeed she was pregnant [Personal identity info deleted].
Her mom and her mom's mom drove to the house the identical twins lived in at the time. She told him she was pregnant. She was then told if you can't handle it get an abortion. Well she did not believe in abortion. She had her child alone with no help from him.She brought the child into court [Personal identity info deleted] and at that time they did not have a test to differ identical twins DNA and so her grandmother said well if you both slept with her then you both can pay (they i guess told the judge they both had sex with her).
It was dropped and nothing could be enforced.There are tests for it now and my friend asked her dad and her uncle to do it so she could see it done by both [Personal identity info deleted] they refused-WHY????? GUILT????.
They don't give a damn, neither want to claim her. Her mom called his parents in Jersey to find him and his father said if that is his child (and my grand daughter) I will make him do the right thing. Well he died and time went on.
When my friend reached 18 she started to wonder about who her dad was. She only knew his name and the stories of the good times her mom told of her time with her dad. She told me she never really cared to really write him, but she was egged on to write him. Well after thinking about it she did finally write a letter and a month later got a letter back from her dad [Personal identity info deleted], he wrote from Texas he said he was on a business trip.
He said he wanted a blood test to be done and one was performed on her mom, my friend (the daughter)and [Personal identity info deleted] the father by mail through the a lab in Texas he set up with she took her blood and it was sent to a lab my friends mom sent her blood.
It came back 99.8% so upon the results He flew her out to visit him approx. a month later I guess for curiousity reasons only. It was nice she said. She said she had met his brother [Personal identity info deleted] and the rest of the family minus her grandparents they had passed a few years before.
Things went fine the first trip there. Then she came back home and felt good until her uncle [Personal identity info deleted] flew out to visit her, she was told [the father] wanted to know her living arrangements).
When she picked up her uncle at LAX they were going to her house and she mentioned she wanted to get her dad a postcard from Capitol records where he used to work. [Uncle] then said oh boy, I said what, he said no that was me who worked there????????????? She was confused by this and then that is when [he] told the mom they switched with her and both had sex with her because they were twins. I don't think this is the first time they did this. God knows how many kids they really have out there???
So, I called my dad right away [Personal identity info deleted] and said what is going on.[Personal identity info deleted] They turned it all on my friend (the daughter)and her mom. They told her that it was best this way that [Personal identity info deleted] be the father because [Personal identity info deleted] her DAD was already married and taking care of his wifes 3 step sons (not his), and his biological daughter 5 yrs. younger then my friend. She was told he already has a family. [Personal identity info deleted]
So it was very painful because she was told later they both had taken the DNA at the time she first found her daughter (they never talked about it or would with their own daughter). We all know this was there way out of everything. Neither wanted to be responsible for any child support and NEVER DID PAY A DIME.
So people know when a young adult 23 years younger going to college that the dad can pay child support. So it was after she turned 24 the calls were not made. Only on the holidays did they talk [Personal identity info deleted] refused to every converse with his own flesh and blood to discuss what happened even upon her begging him to talk to him, she wrote email and letters to no availability.
[Personal identity info deleted] would have his brother [Personal identity info deleted] represent him saying he dropped it and is not going to talk to you about it and will never ever talk about anything.
All the games these 2 people caused her was unbearable. She had years and years of therapy for the Panic attacks that started due to the stress she felt and how she felt abandoned again. She still continues with anxiety and depression. I think it will always pain her. That is heavy stuff.
I tell her to write a book for healing. Everyone she talked to all gave her the same answer. They are both dogs to have done what they did and that she was better off without them and there games. They were the losers. Mind you this is the very first daughter [Personal identity info deleted] and now is completely estranged and was just told it is over leave it and let it go don't contact us again after she tried to reach her father for one last time to see if he had changed with getting older and wiser and that she had written a nice letter August 2007 [Personal identity info deleted] it was not responded to(of course), she even said her only family left was her aunt and that she just died.
The only thing she got back was a letter from of course the middle man [Personal identity info deleted] that she can blame her mother for the mess((WHAT ARE THEY BOTH OUT OF THERE MINDS)), AGAIN TAKING NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANYTHING AS USUAL)). She was never helped with college or anything. She called asking for financial help when she was very sick and a few other times. No help.
Now keep in mind both these individuals are in the AA program and have been for over 30 years.This program if you know it has major steps they go through. They do not walk there walk or talk there talk. They both go to church. [Personal identity info deleted] is an elder at his church. I wonder if they know about her daughter's truth. NO!!!
They both have hidden behind there years in the community and she lives on the other side of the USA. So they think they can get away with what they did in this lifetime and they will and HAVE. But don't they think they will be judged in front of there GOD who they profess to follow in church and love???? Will he take them in as his sons, like they he did not do to his first born daughter???? Will God abandon him like he did his daughter??
How can these two people call themselves MEN??? Well I sure don't consider them men. I have friends who have daughters and sons and they are 23 doing the best they can taking care of there responsibilities.
These men walk around like Gods all powerful and prestigeous because they have clout in there community. Eveyone thinks they are great because they don't know the mess they made and what the the truth is that they just swept under the rug. It is wrong. Just another dead beat dad story.Another victim of a deadbeat.What a nice representative for the church and for the A program. Good job...
I am a producer with Good Morning America and I would like to talk to Scott who posted the blog on Oct 1, 2007. [Personal contact info deleted]


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What a deadbeat! Oh man. Can someone out there explain to me how they come up with those numbers? I mean $950/mo. x 20 years does not equal $1.9 million.
What an ass. He didn't pay a penny, but how do the numbers work?
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