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Byline: MATT PRESSMAN
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In his November 2005 article, "The Man Who Ate Hollywood," Mark Seal reported on the nasty legal battle between the heirs of the larger-than-life wildcatter turned Hollywood mogul Marvin Davis. Davis's eldest daughter, Patricia Davis Raynes, was suing her four siblings, her mother, and several of the family's advisers, alleging that they had all helped her father to systematically loot her trust fund before his death, in September 2004. It was a lawsuit filled with shocking allegations, including that Marvin had entrapped and beaten Patricia in an effort to get her to sign documents giving him control over her finances. As Seal noted …