"The thing that really upset me was the idea that I was this gold-digger, " she said.

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Some said she was the ultimate gold-digger and for many she became a figure of fun.

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He calls her a gold-digger.

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"It's had an emotional toll on her that people are calling her a bimbo, trailer-park trash, a gold digger, " says Jones' lawyer, Joseph Cammarata, who argues she should not have to wait until 2001 to begin clearing her name.

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He ran through his past hits ("Gold Digger") and current chart-toppers ("Stronger"), whipping the crowd of tastemakers, fashionistas, and celebrities like Beyonce into a frenzy.

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The prospects of a big payday have left Mills, 38, fighting accusations that she is a "gold digger" who married the 63-year-old McCartney for his money.

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Pilar Sanders also filed a separate suit against her husband and his daughter, Deiondra, after she called her stepmother a "gold-digging (expletive)" and "the number one gold digger of the year" in Twitter posts.

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In an extreme example of a gold digger, Cher Thompson of Manhattan preyed on a nearly deaf, 90-year-old widower with dementia.

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