Why she didn't just say... "We must accept that it is time for us to spend Steves money"

"As anyone can imagine, this is a difficult day for our family there is so much money to spend and so little to spend it on...."

He is an ex Fossett.

He is no more.

He has run down the curtain, and joined the Choir Invisible....

Ah, the nice people are here to take me back to the ward....

*EIGHT* figures... childless....and how long ago was this will last updated?

/wonders if Mr. Fosset was really even aboard any aircraft in the first place. Perhaps he's buried under the garden out back:P

....he's just having a luau with Elvis and Amelia Earhart

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Accordingly, Peggy Fossett has now asked a judge to "begin the process of distributing her husband's assets according to his will", the Telegraph explains. The petition, filed in a Chicago court, said: "[Steve] Fossett's wealth is vast, surpassing eight figures in liquid assets, various entities and real estate."

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Now that's the kind of stuff that usually turns you into Prime Suspect. Hey, boo-hoo, my husband's dead ... SHOW ME THE MONEY!!!

IF Fossett's alive, I think the first thing he must do after being rescued is file a divorce and disown that "human being". I might have believed the "we gotta admit he's dead" feeling, except it was immediately followed by "start distributing his wealth". Sheesh.

I chose the pirate avatar 'coz this smells like plunder, matey! Arrrrr!!!

...he had no life insurance!

We all know how strict the no-fly-zone over Area 51 is.. maybe he was knocked off course, right in the middle of some ultra-secret test flight.

SO he's probably working out some of the bugs in the B-3a Visual Stealth (tm) system...

There's a good reason for the long wait before presuming death (7 years in the UK).

Five years ago police called off the search for a canoeist who went missing at sea, and everybody but the law presumed he was dead.

Yesterday he wandered into a police station.