Too Well Loved

"Is it, in heav'n, a crime to love too well?" As far as a Paris criminal court is concerned, the answer to Alexander Pope's question seems to be yes. For four years, red-haired Anne-Marie Di Tomazo, 30, and wealthy Paul Lozada. 42, were lovers. Five years ago, urged on by his wife, Lozada broke off the affair. Was Anne-Marie ready to give him up? Far from it. As Lozada described it in a legal complaint: "She pursued me in her car from my house to my office and vice versa." On Sundays, she sat behind the Lozadas in church. Once, she provoked a collision with Paul's car.

Haled into court on charges of harassment and moral violence, Anne-Marie admitted phoning the Lozada home six or eight times a week "to hear his voice." Amused but unmoved, the court convicted her of "injuring with premeditation," gave her a four-month suspended sentence, fined her $180 and ordered her to pay her ex-lover a similar sum. Lamented Anne-Marie's lawyer: "How low love has fallen in the land of love." Not all that low. As of last week, Anne-Marie was talking seriously about moving to a house just 200 yards from Lozada's in the fashionable Paris suburb of Neuilly. "She is determined to start all over again with Paul," her lawyer reported.

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