NEARLY a decade after John Ritter’s death, his widow, Amy Yasbeck, has found love again with handsome Hollywood lawyer Michael Plonsker.
The salt-and-pepper-haired attorney, 56, was part of the legal team that helped Amy, 50, and John’s children nab a whopping $14 million settlement in the wrongful death suit against medical personnel and the hospital John was taken to after he collapsed on the set of the sitcom “8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter.”
The “Three’s Company” star died of an aortic dissection on Sept. 11, 2003, at Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, Calif.
Amy maintained John was mistakenly treated for a heart attack and, after the initial settlement, went on to sue two doctors who had treated him for $67 million. In 2008, a jury ruled in the doctors’ favor.