A wealthy Dallas developer quit his influential city job to fight the deportation of his younger Chinese wife, whom he married after leaving his wife of 30 years. Ralph Isenberg, 53, and his wife, Nicole, who turns 41 on Friday, ignored a U. S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement order that she leave the country by August 15 and are fighting it in New York, attorney Ted Cox says.

Her testimony helped put her former boyfriend on death row. Now Amber Frey is hoping her experiences in the Scott Peterson murder case will serve as inspiration for other women facing rough times.