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Ladies' man and fake Navy SEAL Eric Cooper was sentenced to 15 years in prison today for tampering with one of his ex-wives' car titles. The sentence came after Cooper decided to withdraw his not-guilty plea during testimony against him from a parade of former wives and lovers, which Cooper's lawyer maintained had nothing to do with the matter at hand:

It only took a jury an hour and a half yesterday to convict Eric Cooper, a bigamist accused of lying to a string of ex-wives and girlfriends, of a crime unrelated to any of that. Cooper was found guilty of tampering with one of his ex-wives' car title by signing his name without permission and forging her father's name on the title. And that's not so interesting — but the accusations of womanizing and lying are, and they started to come out when the string of jilted women began testifying.

Eric Cooper's trial for tampering with a government document, which begins this week, could end up just being about a man accused of signing his name to his ex-wife's car title without permission. But it could also open the door to a lot of grief for Cooper, the guy a variety of ex-wives and girlfriends say is a smooth-talking con man who built relationships on lies. Either way, we bet it'll be pretty interesting. If...