How is she supposed to live on $100,000 allowance a year?
her family ought to be ashamed of itself...that doesn't even cover the average person's bill for smokes and lottery tickets.....

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Anne-Marie Peladeau, 40, is also charged with obstructing justice and fleeing the scene of a crime after an incident involving police officers. She returns to court on Friday for a bail hearing. Her alleged accomplice, Erik Kennedy, 29, also faces several charges. Two police officers are under investigation for allegedly using excessive force in Peladeau's arrest.

Peladeau looked pale and lost as she sat in court Thursday.

A TV crew from the French-language TVA TV network, which is owned by Quebecor, was in a helicopter when they videotaped the officers arresting a man and a woman and throwing the female suspect violently against a patrol car.

Quebec provincial police and Montreal police are investigating the incident. The officers involved have been assigned to desk duty.

"It's something the police service takes very seriously," Mario Gisondi, an assistant director with Montreal police, said of allegations the officers used excessive force.

Peladeau is the daughter of Pierre Peladeau, the founder of Quebecor Inc. who died in 1997.

She grabbed headlines in 1999 when she went to court to sue her brothers Pierre-Karl and Erik for $21 million, which she said she deserved as part of an inheritance from Pierre Peladeau when he died.

Anne-Marie Peladeau had suffered from substance abuse problems and was living on an allowance of $100,000 per year. When that was reduced, she went to court.

An out-of-court settlement was reached but her brothers then sued her lawyers, who then counter-sued