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The first witness will take the stand on Wednesday in the criminal trial of Rose Marks, a clairvoyant who is accused of defrauding clients including best-selling author Jude Deveraux, of $25 million over decades.

Marks, 62, has psychic powers that have run in her family for over 1,500 years, says her attorney, Fred Schwartz.

"She said she uses psychic powers to help advise people as a life coach and that she's a spiritual advisor," Schwartz said in an interview with ABC News.

More than a dozen alleged victims, including romance novelist Deveraux, are expected to testify in the trial, for which jury selection began on Monday. Opening statements are scheduled to take place on Wednesday, followed by attorneys' opening statements.

Deveraux, 65, the author of 37 New York Times bestsellers, is declining to comment during the trial, according to her publicist. Marks preyed on Deveraux's problems related to relationships, the death of her son, and difficulty having children, police say. She reportedly handed over $20 million to Marks.

 

The indictment states that Rose Marks "a/k/a Joyce Michael, along with co-conspirators, represented herself as a psychic and clairvoyant, gifted by God to communicate with spirit guides to assist her clients through personal difficulties."

Her services included "Tarot card readings, palm readings, astrology readings, numerology readings, and spiritual readings for her clients," the indictment states.

The indictment continues, "The conspirators would offer services to walk-in customers, some of whom would be suffering from mental and emotional disorders, who had recently gone through personal traumatic events and/or who were emotionally vulnerable, fragile and/or gullible."

The client "would need to make 'sacrifices', usually consisting of large amounts of money (but also at times including jewelry, gold coins and other property) because 'money was the root of all evil'," the indictment states.

Schwartz said Marks' family members provided some of those services and not his client.

"She was more of a life coach," he said of Marks.

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The only thing you can learn by paying a 'life coach' $20m is that you will utterly waste $20m giving it to a 'life coach'. I'll teach you that lesson for an awful lot less.

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A true psychic is not going to BS you, that 'money is the root of all evil'. :laugh:

I do believe that any true seeker will not charge you. I can't see the Buddha saying I will preach you a great sermon when you give me $5.

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