Father to interview 12 perspective brides
Arthur Brooks showed up in Coeur d’Alene this weekend ready to find a suitable mate for his son, Salt Lake City businessman Baron Brooks, and left with around a dozen prospects.
The thoroughbred horse breeder from California made headlines around the world last week after he bought a full-page newspaper ad inviting women to interview for a chance to meet and possibly marry his son.
Baron Brooks, 48, said he had no idea what his 78-year-old father was up to and reacted with shock and embarrassment when he learned about the “Looking for a wife” ad seeking a conservative woman “ready, willing and able to have children as soon as possible.”
“It was so shocking that I wasn’t even sure what I was reading, even though I read it twice,” he said. “I thought it was a joke at first.”
He described his father as “nuts,” “neurotic” and knowing no boundaries. But he let the elder Brooks go ahead with his plan to contact and interview candidates at the Coeur d’Alene Resort this weekend.
Baron Brooks said Sunday that resort management asked his father not to conduct the interviews there after all, following a wave of news and social media coverage of the audacious plot. But Arthur Brooks still gathered the names of about 12 women who expressed interest in the ad, published June 18 in the Coeur d’Alene Press, and he plans to interview them in the next few weeks/Scott Maben, SR. More here (subscription required).
