Anne Melican is a psychological counselor in Florida, who was the mistress of millionaire car dealer Harvey Strother for the last seven years of his life.http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/cobb/stories/2008/07/17/cobb_mistress.html

In April of 2009, the Georgia State Supreme Court heard arguments concerning changes to his estate made in Melican's favor the last six months before Strother's death in January 2004.http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/cobb/stories/2008/07/12/strother_0713.html

In October 2009, Georgia's highest court ruled against Melican, saying she was not entitled to the money and property stipulated in Strother's amended will.http://www.ajc.com/news/cobb/court-rules-against-mistress-166134.html?cxtype=rss_news_128746

When Anne Melican met Harvey Strother in June of 1996, he was already an alcoholic. He told her he was a widower, but confessed several months later that he was still married. By the end of his life, his doctors said he was consuming between four and five bottles of wine a day, and had a blood alcohol content of .40. At that point, it would have killed him to stop drinking; but the drinking did kill him in January of 2004.Atlanta Journal Constitution: Cobb millionaire's final chapter to play out in court (July 13, 2008) Atlanta Journal Constitution: Trial: Sex, a Jag, allowance were in written agreements (July 17, 2009)

Three times during the last year of his life, Strother changed his will in her favor, adding a codicil that any heir who contested the will would be left out. The lawyer who made the changes argued that he would not have made the changes had he believed Strother had been drinking.Atlanta Journal Constitution: Cobb millionaire's final chapter to play out in court (July 13, 2008) Atlanta Journal Constitution: Trial: Sex, a Jag, allowance were in written agreements (July 17, 2009)

Dr. Walter Young visited Strother several days before he died. He reported that Strother was drunk, and unable to stand up. He died of congestive heart failure three weeks after making changes to his will.Atlanta Journal Constitution: Cobb millionaire's final chapter to play out in court (July 13, 2008)