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Ailing opera impresario Rudolf Bing, 86, was abused and prevented from getting proper care by his wife, said witnesses at a recent hearing in New York to determine whether Carroll Bing, 48, should be thrown out of his home. Bing’s lawyer has asked a judge to annul the Bings’ January, 1987, marriage, claiming the 86-year-old former Metropolitan Opera leader, who has Alzheimer’s disease, didn’t know what he was doing when he married her. The attorney also asked that Carroll Bing be asked to leave the couple’s apartment because she posed a danger to her husband. She frequently disrupted the hearing by trying to take Bing from the courtroom and yelling that witnesses were lying. A court in Washington has declared her mentally incompetent to handle her affairs. Bing’s night nurse, Alice Brennan, said the elderly man has had only two baths in the last two months because Mrs. Bing did not allow nurses near him.