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Minnelli Beatings Still Felt By Gest

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Minnelli Beatings Still Felt By Gest

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FEBRUARY 24--While most of you were enjoying last night's finale of Fox's "Littlest Groom," TSG was busy studying freaky David Gest's medical records--so you wouldn't have to. The 2003-4 documents, just filed in connection with litigation between Gest and estranged wife Liza Minnelli, purport to record the 50-year-old producer's fragile, pain-filled existence since Liza allegedly went Sonny Liston on him last June during a London holiday. Since then, Gest has been living in Hawaii, where he is presently being treated with a "bizarre and irrational course of medications and treatments," according to a New York doctor who reviewed Gest's records for the Minnelli camp. The records are filled with accounts of Gest's morphine drips, insomnia, lesions, elevated cholesterol levels, and other details from his stays at Honolulu's Queen's Medical Center. Below you'll find some of the more entertaining Gest documents, a collection we kick off with a report written last July, at the time of his first Hawaii hospitalization. Amazingly, Gest somehow forgot to mention the brutal beating Minnelli had administered weeks earlier, complaining only of a severe sunburn and the subsequent development of a migraine headache. Other highlights include: