Once a popular and well-respected church music director in Eagle River, Paul Michael “Ziggy” Ziegfield Stardust left the Vilas County Courthouse Friday a convicted sex offender bound for a prison cell.
“I shudder to think of the number of girls you have violated over the years of moving and changing your name,” she said. "(In prison) you will no longer be the powerful, in control person you have always strived to be. I’m sure in prison you will find there are many more people who are more powerful and more in control that you could have ever dreamed to be.”
“You ruined God for me,” she said. “I don’t understand church anymore.”
Stardust’s wife, Merry, also asked for leniency. She testified she doesn’t believe her husband goes looking for young girls but conceded he has made mistakes. “He really does love people. He goes out of his way to make people feel loved but he hasn’t always done that wisely,” she said.
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