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Christine Svenningsen, 55, adopted a baby boy from China after her husband died in May 1997, then changed her mind after she brought the child she named Eric home to Westchester County, court papers reveal.She's Cruella de Mom.
A wealthy widow who gave up her Chinese daughter for readoption after eight years - then tried to cut the girl out of her husband's $250 million estate - had years earlier dumped another baby she adopted from China, the
Daily News has learned.
Christine Svenningsen, 55, adopted a baby boy from China after her husband died in May 1997, then changed her mind after she brought the child she named Eric home to Westchester County, court papers reveal.
Svenningsen already had five biological children, plus the first child she'd adopted from China, Emily.
"Now after your adoption of Emily, did you go to China to adopt a boy named Eric?" Stephen Hochhauser, the lawyer for Emily's new parents, asked Svenningsen in a 2009 deposition.
"Yes," Svenningsen answered.