By noon, it was effectively over, though the formal machinery would grind on for another year.

The court froze Julian’s corporate assets pending formal fraud proceedings.

It ordered a full forensic accounting of everything the marriage had touched.

And it referred the medical evidence and the financial evidence, together, directly to the district attorney’s office and to the tax authorities, which is the legal equivalent of handing a man to two separate sets of people who each want a piece of him.

Selina left during the lunch recess.

She did not come back.