Many knew it likely wasn’t going to happen, seeing how devastating it could be for Cynthia if she happened to say the wrong thing and open a vein of her life that had yet to be explored. Maybe it was safe if she kept quiet and hedged her bets, knowing full well that a judge might view her silence as a weakness. Cynthia’s defense called two witnesses. Cynthia had been seeing a therapist, Alan Kurzweil, during the period shortly before she and Jeff Zack had split. At first, Kurzweil talked about how Cynthia had been referred to him by her psychiatrist in January 2001. Kurzweil called himself a counselor, someone who sat, listened to problems and then offered solutions. Ed George’s wife was “depressed and stressed,” Kurzweil stated, when he began evaluating her condition. Cynthia’s demeanor mimicked that of a child’s, the doctor seemed to say. She was caught between a Cinderella world of wealth, which she had dreamt of as a young teen, and a lonely life inside that castle, once she realized she had gotten what she wanted.
