THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1994, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Thursday, December 1, 1994 TAG: 9412010423
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B8 EDITION: FINAL
SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS
DATELINE: CHARLESTON, W.VA. LENGTH: Short : 43 lines
A former Virginia beauty queen convicted of attacking the family of her romantic rival has agreed to a network television interview, her lawyer said.
Tracy Lippard, 23, of Newport News, will appear on the NBC program ``Dateline,'' Lewisburg attorney Paul Detch said Wednesday.
Lippard will be interviewed in the next few days, but the airing date has not been scheduled, program officials said.
She will not be paid for the interview, Detch said.
The appearance would be Lippard's first since she was convicted of seven misdemeanors last week for the February attack on family members of Melissa Weikle Scott. Scott was pregnant by Lippard's former boyfriend.
A Greenbrier County Circuit Court jury cleared Lippard of four felonies, including two charges of first-degree attempted murder.
Lippard carried out the attack a day after crowning her successor as Miss Williamsburg.
Since the verdict, Detch said, his office has been flooded with proposals on ``everything from talk shows to movies.''
Lippard is considering the offers but probably will not decide until after she is sentenced on Jan. 4, he said.
``The opportunities are there,'' he said. ``I think if something can be done in a positive way to help others from making her mistake, she does not want to do anything negative to hurt anyone further.''
One proposal, made Wednesday, was from a public relations firm that says it represents LaToya Jackson and John Bobbitt.
Bobbitt became a household name last year when his penis had to be reattached after his then-wife, Lorena, cut it off. ILLUSTRATION: Photo
Lippard
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