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$16,000 may last for 6-7 months, given the high rents and other living costs. What she will do after that? Returning to the old profession? OK... leave that. But what about the payment to the lawyer, which was made at the expense of the tax payers?
You'll have to research those details if they are interesting.
All things considered, it's very unlikely she will last much longer.
She just got out of rehab and now has enough money for drugs. She is going to be of obvious interest both to journalists who know some pretty wild stories can be bought from her, as well as of interest to any number of police officers who know she is one interview away from destroying their careers. The money wasn't to help her live, it was to help her die.