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Chapter 7 - Diane's Desperation

Within six hours of the press conference, the story had gone completely viral.

The headline dominated every major digital platform: **BILLIONAIRE HEIRESS UNMASKS ABUSIVE HUSBAND ON LIVE TELEVISION.**

The video footage from the Whitaker hallway spread across TikTok, Instagram, and Twitter like wildfire, accumulating over forty million views before midnight. Commentators, celebrities, and legal experts dissected every second of the clip. Brandon Whitaker became the most universally despised man on the internet overnight.

Memes featuring the blue laundry bucket flooded social media, turning the Whitaker family name into a global punchline for misogyny and entitled arrogance.

By Thursday morning, Brandon and Toby were sitting in the holding cells at Rikers Island. Because of the high-profile nature of the case and the undeniable video evidence of physical assault, Brandon’s bail was set at five hundred thousand dollars cash. Toby’s federal bail was set at one million.

They didn't have five hundred dollars, let alone half a million.

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Meanwhile, Diane Whitaker was losing her mind.

She had returned to the Bayside house with Arthur to find yellow eviction warning notices already plastered across the front

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