The Missouri Court of Appeals has turned down Deanna Daughhetee Vinson’s appeal to the end of her subprime marriage to fellow mortgage dynamo Ray Vinson.
A three-judge panel of Roy Richter, Glenn Norton and Clifford Ahrens said St. Louis County Circuit Judge Michael Burton got it right the first time.
Mortgage broker Ray Vinson — whose famed ads have annoyed multiple TV viewers — seemed to draw the same reaction Tuesday from a state appeals panel that affirmed Vinson’s divorce from his wife, Deanna. Judge Roy L. Richter, writing for the Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, expressed aggravation with how long the couple’s legal squabbling took to resolve. “This dissolution matter, which had no child custody or support issues and no request for maintenance by either party, consumed eleven days of hearings and over 2,700 pages of transcript,” Richter wrote for the unanimous panel. “The trial court’s detailed judgment is 54 pages long.” Vinson is known for his twangy “ninety-nine, ninety-nine” phone number in ads for American Equity Mortgage, the company founded in 1992 with his then-wife.