As the mistress of multimillionaire Henry Mudd, Eleanor Lorraine Oliver had it all--mink coats, fancy cars and a thoroughbred or two. The co-founder of Harvey Mudd College treated Oliver, 37 years his junior, to rides in limousines and a flight on the Concorde. But when Mudd and Oliver had a falling out shortly before his death at age 77, he revoked the trust fund and demanded that Oliver pay rent on the house, she said.
It is scheduled to go to trial Aug. Neither will Harvey Mudd College. Mudd was the retired chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Cyprus Minerals Co.
Seeley W. Mudd, who reopened ancient copper mines on the island of Cyprus. The family history boasts a number of other colorful characters, from about 20 Mudds who fought in the Revolutionary War to television newscaster Roger Mudd.
Ancestor Dr. Samuel A. The college has been rated for three years by U. Mudd was chairman of the board of trustees from to , and remained on the board until his death.
The documents state that Mudd often traveled with several of the mistresses at one time, alternating women from night to night. Oliver, who talked of meeting Mudd on the cocktail party circuit, said that after she met Mudd their relationship graduated from friendly lunches to very friendly trysts. Oliver left her husband in It was a few months later, as Mudd and Oliver resumed their romance in the Polo Lounge at the Beverly Hills Hotel, that Mudd presented her with a delicate gold band encircled with diamonds, Oliver said.
