Dr. Michael and Dr. Lauren Saltzburg tore part our once loving family
with sickening medical neglect, lies, betrayal and greed
exposing the truth
Dr. Michael Saltzburg Is a Perpetual Liar and Serial Adulterer
Just as my mother was just kept completely in the dark as to his deceptive intentions as to her will and trust, he had also managed to keep his countless infidelities secret from her.
Michael abused our mother’s incredible trust in and devotion to him and cheated on her with countless paid sex workers while on overnight poker trips to Atlantic City at the Borgata and to Las Vegas.
Our mother would have been deeply humiliated, hurt and betrayed beyond words to know that he had been cheating on her for literally decades, including with his longtime, paid “sugar baby”, Kelly. He cheated on her with Kelly the entire time she was slowly dying in hospice care, all while playing the part of devoted, grieving husband.
He had played the part of devoted husband, father and grandfather very well. He enjoyed the status of being the head of a large family and extended family.
I had the misfortune of discovering this by accident, over 20 years ago, while I was working on Michael's laptop (with his permission.) I regret the day I decided it would be too much to tell our mother. I feared for her health, feared whether she would believe me, and feared the entire outcome. I didn't know if it was my place to tell her. But the outcome after her death showed me how wrong I was.
I had been trapped in an abusive marriage myself, was pregnant and alone. I didn't have the strength to confront the truth about him myself, what to speak of help my mom through it. But his propensity for lies and cheating went far beyond his sexual infidelity.
It wasn't just the endless prostitutes, sugar babies and escorts and sex workers on payroll. He also had a long term relationship with this woman named Kelly, that had continued for years up until her death and for a while afterwards, until Kelly took her cash and moved on.
No One Suspected the Truth, Least of All Our Mother
Our mother held Michael in the highest regard. She saw him as hard working, honest, loving and generous. She trusted him to the core. She told me that.
I felt physically sick inside, knowing the truth about him. But my own feelings were complicated by the fact that he had been the only father figure I'd known for many years. I'd lived with him since I was one year old.
It felt like too much to put the truth out there. Now I'm a different person, and I would have chosen differently. But I did the best I could at the time, given my own precarious situation, pregnant and trapped with a violent, unpredictable, and abusive husband.
Just a few months ago, my daughter got a notification from Instagram suggesting her grandfather Michael as a friend. She clicked on his profile only to see that he openly follows dozens of PornBot accounts.
A Shameless Sex Solicitor - My Heart Breaks for The Women
During recent years, he became so brazen and shameless as far as paying women for sex, that he openly discussed it in front of me, my daughter, his granddaughter, and my sister. He used thinly veiled language talking about how the women he dates owed him “cuddles” when he pays the bill. My daughter, who was just 16 at the time, openly protested with disgust, but he ignored her obvious discomfort and forcefully argued his points.
His disgusting “pay for sex” conversation in front of his daughter and granddaughter just revealed how little care or respect he had even for his daughters or granddaughter. Just a few months ago, my daughter got a notification from Instagram suggesting her grandfather Michael as a friend. She clicked on his profile only to see that he openly follows dozens of PornBot accounts. She was understandably revolted but unsurprised.
Did Michael Report to the IRS the Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars in Ziop Stock, Cash and Other Gifts that He Gave to His “Sugar Baby” Kelly?
Michael gave not only ongoing financial support but a massive gift of $400,000 in stock in the biotech company $ZIOP to his sugar baby Kelly (all while he outwardly played the role of faithful husband to our mother Wendy.) Did he correctly file and report this gift to the IRS? It’s hardly likely since he was married to my mother at the time and they filed a joint tax return! The IRS needs to start digging and it won’t take long to find these discrepancies. Neglecting to pay required gift taxes would be yet another failure.
Kelly wasn’t the only woman on his payroll for sex. Did the others report their income and did he file 1099’s for them? There was Chrissy who came to his Stone Harbor home and many other women who were paid sex employees of him. All of his financial records should be investigated for tax fraud and tax evasion.
Kelly wasn’t the only woman on his payroll for sex. Did the others report their income and did he file 1099’s for them? There was Chrissy who came to his Stone Harbor home and many other women who were paid sex employees of him. All of his financial records should be investigated for tax fraud and tax evasion.
Did Michael Deliberately Delay Medical Care for Our Mother Because He Had His Long Term Sugar Baby, Kelly, Waiting for Him?
Just two months after our mother tragically died from belated medical care (more on this later), Michael trotted out his baby Kelly to our family with a ridiculous story of how he coincidentally met her in a casino. She was 27 years younger than him, with breast implants, bleach blonde hair and extremely fit and attractive for her age. She was an avid rock climber. Michael on the other hand, balding, 70 years old, overweight, short and barely hobbling from the kitchen to his remote control next to his Lazy Boy chair. And yet we were supposed to believe this absurd story that she approached him and they “hit it off” and started dating?
No one in the family believed his story and we were all shocked at how soon he was bringing this woman around. My mother - the loving matriarch of our family - had tragically passed away just weeks earlier. Yet Michael's sugarbaby Kelly's sudden and suspicious appearance hinted at much darker suspicious and questions around our mother's medical care decisions
My mother was in excellent health before getting an outpatient procedure to remove a superficial melanoma from her arm in July of 2017. She did have a well-managed blood clotting condition that required the use of blood thinners. It never made sense to me that she wasn’t medically monitored after having her blood thinners tapered to get this procedure.
Our parents had more than enough money to pay for care that wasn’t covered under insurance. Yet for three days after the simple procedure that had a few stitches, she was too weak to get out of bed and nothing was done. It wasn’t until she was nearly fainting and demanded an ambulance that any basic tests were conducted.
Then she was taken by ambulance to a very basic, local beach hospital and they determined her red blood cells were dangerously low and gave her blood transfusions. Given her delicate health history, why didn't Michael immediately have her taken to a Level I trauma center or university hospital? By the time she was eventually transferred and properly diagnosed, it was too late and then she developed septicemia, kidney failure, etc.
My mother - the loving matriarch of our family - had tragically passed away just weeks earlier. Yet Michael's sugarbaby Kelly's sudden and suspicious appearance hinted at much darker suspicious and questions around our mother's medical care decisions.
Michael Insisted on Being the Sole Person By Her Side In the Hospital
Days were lost during these delays in care and she would have likely been fine if she had been diagnosed earlier. While she was in intensive care, many of us, myself included, wanted to stay by her side, but Michael insisted that he was the only one who should be there for her day-to-day care. Finally, about 5 weeks after I’d last seen her, I insisted on visiting, only to find her gravely sick and in a severely emaciated condition. I wondered why she had never been given any kind of nutrition, such as a feeding tube.
Later, my brother Christopher, asked Michael why she had never been given a feeding tube and he had no explanation, which seems extremely odd given that he was a doctor in charge of her care for months. Knowing that he was almost certainly communicating with and texting Kelly during the entire time my mother was dying is sickening to the say the least. How convenient for him that our mother died and he had the sugar baby to pop into the scene.
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Michael’s lying, cheating and brazen contempt for her wishes and trust in him, in addition to his casual mentions of planning to kill my biological father, gives one pause to wonder just how evil is this man? Would he knowingly withhold medical care from our mother in the hopes she would die and he and Kelly could enjoy her wealth? I don’t know, but after all I have seen I wouldn’t put anything past him. My mother left many mllions in property and investments behind. With his pockets lined with our mom's money,
Michael
was already ready to move on with the much younger woman he'd been seeing behind her back for years.
With his pockets lined with our mom's money, Michael was already ready to move on with the much younger woman he'd been seeing behind her back for years.
A Life With No Morals Is A Slippery Slope
The bottom line is that my mom had a joint will, in writing, that expressed her exact wishes and that she fully intended for him to carry out. She had no idea Michael had a long time "sugar baby" who he continued to cheat on her with, while she was dying in the hospital. She had no idea he hated his adopted children and grandchildren and planned to take the entire estate for himself and his two biological children.
Not only would she have divorced him if she had known these facts, she would have been appalled and disgusted to an indescribable degree. While in the end our children will all be fine, it mattered to her, and that's what matters to me. She was proud of being able to give them that gift. Taking it away from them so he could gamble it away or give it to my spoiled younger siblings is just sick.
Read more about our tragic saga...My mother was a strong advocate for women and children. She would want the lies exposed so others can learn from her mistakes. It also is my hope that people can know the truth about Dr. Michael Saltzburg and Dr. Lauren Saltzburg so that, at least on some level, they are held accountable for their actions. Dark ethics deserve the light of truth.
Dr. Lauren Saltzburg
Dr. Michael Saltzburg
A once loving family torn apart by lies, betrayal and greed.