Dawn Stensland Gives Exclusive Interview

Dawn Stensland Gives Exclusive Interview

January Issue of Philadelphia magazine Reveals New Details in Mendte/Lane Story

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- For the first time, Fox 29 Anchor Dawn Stensland, wife of former CBS3 Anchor Larry Mendte, shares her story. Until now, Stensland has been silent about her private struggle coping with the recent arrest and conviction of her husband for breaking into the email account of former co-anchor Alycia Lane. The January 2009 issue of Philadelphia magazine features an exclusive interview with Stensland by Philadelphia magazine Editor at Large Vicki Glembocki, in which the anchorwoman speaks for the first time about her husband's relationship with Lane. Stensland reveals new details, while speaking about the pain the Mendte family endures, her recent miscarriage, and why she has been able to forgive her husband, but can't yet forgive herself.

Quotes/noteworthy items include:

-- Stensland tells the magazine she believes Mendte when he says the
relationship between him and Lane was inappropriately close, and
included kissing, but the two did not have sex.
-- Stensland says that Mendte bought Lane a gift from Tiffany & Co. for
"more than $1,000."
-- Glembocki writes that on New Year's Day 2005, Larry had asked Dawn to
come up to his office, and there on his computer "were several e-mails
in Larry's inbox between him and Alycia, many with flirtatious subject
lines that, Dawn says, 'broke my heart.'"
-- Stensland reveals that she suffered a miscarriage in October 2008.
-- Asked to respond to these and other assertions made by Stensland in
the article, Lane's lawyer, Paul Rosen, calls Mendte a "lovesick,
obsessed stalker" and advises Stensland to get a divorce.

One of the most distinguished metropolitan monthly publications in the country, Philadelphia magazine was founded in 1908 as a quarterly illustrated magazine published by the Trades League of Philadelphia, and celebrates 100 years in 2008. The magazine was a General Excellence finalist the last two years in the National Magazine Awards. Philadelphia magazine is a division of Metrocorp.

Source: Philadelphia magazine

CONTACT: Corie Moskow for Philadelphia magazine, +1-215-518-5526,
corie@glosspr.com

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