DEF LEPPARD Singer's Ex-Wife Too Poor To Pay Workers In Her Failed Dublin Beauty Salon

January 5, 2011

According to the Irish Examiner, Karla Elliott, former wife of DEF LEPPARD lead singer Joe Elliott, is being pursued for outstanding salaries she owes to a former employee who worked at the beauty salon she owned in Churchtown, Ireland before its closure in January 2009.

In a letter written last February, Elliott pleaded that she was unemployed and relying on social welfare payments as a single parent for income.

Karla Elliott spoke to Barry Egan of Indepedent.ie in 2009 about her eight-year marriage (1989-1997) to the DEF LEPPARD singer, whom she began dating in 1986.

"I was madly in love with him," she said, "He was the love of my life." They married in his hometown in the late Eighties. "I remember coming out of the registry office in Sheffield and looking at the wall with all the graffiti on it and going: 'This is romantic!'" she laughed. "I think it was 1989? I'm not sure. I am brutal on remembering dates. I really haven't a clue what date I married Joe. That will tell you something."

She continued, "There were lots of private jets and it was great fun and everything but I think you are either the type of person that adapts to whatever is going on in your life at the time or you're not. I think that's when people run into problems: when they get so caught up in something and they believe it's real. For me, I adapt to whatever is going on in my world. I travelled as a child a lot and stayed in five-star hotels with my parents. So it didn't seem odd to me, that whole life."

Read the entire article from Indepedent.ie.

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