21 YEARS FOR LI BRIDE WHO SLAYED HUBBY DAYS AFTER NUPTIALS

The cheating Long Island bride who killed her millionaire husband just eight days after their wedding ceremony - incorrectly believing she would inherit his wealth - was sentenced yesterday to 21 years behind bars.
A whimpering Kelly Forbes, 30, stuck to her discredited story of self-defense in a Mineola courtroom, telling Judge Jerald Carter she had "always been a loving, caring person" and claiming to have been abused by her husband, Michael Forbes, 50, of Merrick.

But she refused to face her husband's mother and his daughter from a prior marriage in the courtroom and would not look at pictures of Michael that were displayed in court.

"You are something. Kelly, can you see this?" Aretha Forbes, 73, said, holding up a photo of her son. "This is my son. I still believe that Michael was not only killed but robbed. His murder was premeditated."

Kelly - who, at 5-foot-5, 150 pounds, was about eight inches shorter and 100 pounds lighter than her karate-expert husband - had claimed she strangled him in self-defense after he attacked her in November 2007.

"The nerve of you to take my son's life. Who gave you the authority to take his life?" the teary-eyed mother said.

Michael's daughter, Michele, asked, "Kelly, why did you do this to my father?

". . . Who's going to walk me down the aisle when it's my turn to get married? In my eyes, you are nothing but a killer and a family destroyer."

Kelly Forbes told the judge she was not "cold, mean and greedy. Nothing could be further from the truth. Am I the perfect wife, sister, friend or mother? No. I am human, with flaws and weaknesses."

She was pregnant with another man's child when she married Michael and dated several men during their relationship, sources said.

Carter was quick to point out that after she strangled her husband with an electrical cord, she did not call for an ambulance for more than an hour. Instead, she called her boyfriend.

"To strangle somebody to death takes time, takes pressure, takes intent," Carter said. "Whether it was self-defense or not, a jury has determined it was not."

That jury convicted Forbes of manslaughter in June.

"Evil, that's what she is," Aretha Forbes said outside court. "I think she murdered him for the money."

Michael Forbes ran a successful barbershop in Brooklyn, was set to open two fast-food restaurants and had just moved into a $1 million Merrick home with Kelly. His assets, however, were left in his parents' names.

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Comment by ms_bossy_sb on August 20, 2008 at 6:34pm: the shit bitches do for money............ the funny shit is all his assets still went to his parents. so she took his life for nothing, and now 21 years of her life about 2 be wasted in prision and she still don't have shit 2 show for it.

Comment by Im His Mrs.Mainstar on August 20, 2008 at 8:20pm: Money hungry young yamp!........bitch u could of had anything u wanted u are the wife!
i bet that slut had another Nih on da side!.........they gave that bitch 21 years that hoe b out when she 41 moe time 4 that hoe she took a mans lyfe!............a rich one 2!

Comment by ORANGE MOUND VET.AKA MR.22 SHOTS. on August 20, 2008 at 11:52pm: THESE OLD NIGGA'S THINKIN CAUSE THEY TAKIN VIAGRA THESE YOUNG WOMEN WANT THEM THEY OUT FOR THE MONEY THEY WE WANT A OLD NIGGA DOUGH AND WANT A YOUNG NIGGA TO BEAT IT UP.THIS BROAD HAD THIS PLANNED FROM THE JUMP.

Comment by Luscious1 on August 21, 2008 at 12:40am: IF HE WAS A KARATE EXPERT THEN SHE HAD TO HAVE SOMEONE HELP HER KILL HIM SHE'S 5FT5 150 SHE HAD HELP NOW THE DUMB BITCH IS GETTING WHAT SHE DESERVE FOR BEING MONEY HUNGRY SHE'S NOT GONNA TELL ON HER ACCOMPLICE CAUSE HE PROMISED HER ASS A BUNCH OF LIES LIKE SHE DID HER HUSBAND,SHE NEED 42 YEARS DUMB BITCH!!!

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Comment by playboy on August 21, 2008 at 10:42am: whore throw her under the jail

Comment by MAC YO on August 21, 2008 at 4:01pm: Its tru crack baby grows up and do shit like dat so sad for da luv of money

Comment by Tekina on August 21, 2008 at 4:56pm: It happens all the time...

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