Man wins divorce from angry wife in YouTube video

[Uncle Leo]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080721/ap_en_ot/youtube_divorce

 

Man wins divorce from angry wife in YouTube video

By SAMUEL MAULL, Associated Press Writer

48 minutes ago

 

NEW YORK - A Broadway mogul whose wife trashed him in a widely viewed Internet video was granted a divorce from her Monday.

 

A Manhattan judge gave Philip Smith a divorce from Tricia Walsh-Smith on the grounds of cruel and inhuman treatment.

 

Walsh-Smith lashes out against Smith in the tearful and furious YouTube video, which has attracted more than 3 million hits. She makes embarrassing claims about their intimate life and then calls his office to repeat those claims to a stunned assistant.

 

On the video, Walsh-Smith also goes through their wedding album, describing family members as "bad," "evil" or "nasty," and expresses concern about eviction from the couple's luxury apartment.

 

Judge Harold Beeler blasted Walsh-Smith for her video stunt, which he called "a calculated and callous campaign to embarrass and humiliate her husband" and to pressure him into settling the divorce case on more favorable terms than were stated in their prenuptial agreement.

 

"She has attempted to turn the life of her husband into a soap opera by directing, writing, acting in and producing a melodrama," the judge said.

 

He said Monday that the prenuptial agreement, signed three weeks before the couple's 1999 wedding, was valid. This means that Walsh-Smith must leave their Park Avenue apartment within 30 days and that Smith, president of the Shubert Organization, the largest theater owner on Broadway, must pay her $750,000.

 

Smith said after the ruling he was "sorry it had to come to this."

 

"I'm happy with the decision of the judge, and I'm happy with the outcome," he said.

 

Walsh-Smith, a former actress and playwright, didn't see the decision the same way.

 

"I think it's disgusting," she said. "I'm really, really disappointed with the decision."

 

She accused Smith of "basically throwing me out on the street." One of her attorneys, Joseph P. McCaffery, said they would appeal.

 

Renowned divorce attorney Raoul Felder briefly represented Walsh-Smith after she made the video. Felder previously said his client was "acting out of passion."

 

"This is a victim who is holding her head up," he said. "I think she comes off well."

 

(This version CORRECTS the surname of the wife's attorney to McCaffery instead of McCaffrey.)

[Tigz]

750K for 8-9 years of marriage....

 

Not too shabby in my book.

[Uncle Leo]

750K for 8-9 years of marriage....

 

Not too shabby in my book.

 

I also fail to see how that is throwing her "out on the street".

[undertakeress]

For a decent Manhattan apartment? That's not going to get her very far

[powers64]

 

(from: http://jezebel.com/5028919/judge-judy-vs-t...ia-walsh+smith)

Edited July 25, 2008 by powers64

[cinderella]

I checked out her blog from the link.............What is up with all the photos of her and celebs? Is she some sort of celeb now, elbow-rubbing with other salamander celebs? Or is she one of those goofballs that stalks celebs for photos they can frame and stick on their end-tables to remind them and their visitors of their self worth?????

 

It is hard to take her seriously with these photos, she looks like an attention-jezzebel with these celeb shots. She should take her $750k and disappear from the public eye.

 

 

 

http://www.triciawalshsmith.com/Images.html

 

ETA: LOOK!!!! Mrs. Walsh had provided a link for "contributions" to her legal fund you can pay through paypal!! Any takers????

Edited July 25, 2008 by cinderella

[Saria]

I checked out her blog from the link.............What is up with all the photos of her and celebs? Is she some sort of celeb now, elbow-rubbing with other salamander celebs? Or is she one of those goofballs that stalks celebs for photos they can frame and stick on their end-tables to remind them and their visitors of their self worth?????

 

It is hard to take her seriously with these photos, she looks like an attention-jezzebel with these celeb shots. She should take her $750k and disappear from the public eye.

 

 

 

http://www.triciawalshsmith.com/Images.html

 

ETA: LOOK!!!! Mrs. Walsh had provided a link for "contributions" to her legal fund you can pay through paypal!! Any takers????

 

Her ex-husband is the president of a company that owns something like half of the theaters on Broadway, so it makes sense that she would be at functions with those people. But I agree that posting them on her website is tacky and a bit creepy, as is she. Her eyes scare me...

[BlueButterfly]

I checked out her blog from the link.............What is up with all the photos of her and celebs? Is she some sort of celeb now, elbow-rubbing with other salamander celebs? Or is she one of those goofballs that stalks celebs for photos they can frame and stick on their end-tables to remind them and their visitors of their self worth?????

 

It is hard to take her seriously with these photos, she looks like an attention-jezzebel with these celeb shots. She should take her $750k and disappear from the public eye.

 

 

 

http://www.triciawalshsmith.com/Images.html

 

ETA: LOOK!!!! Mrs. Walsh had provided a link for "contributions" to her legal fund you can pay through paypal!! Any takers????

 

Her ex-husband is the president of a company that owns something like half of the theaters on Broadway, so it makes sense that she would be at functions with those people. But I agree that posting them on her website is tacky and a bit creepy, as is she. Her eyes scare me...

 

The eyes make me think she's one of Ozzy Osbourne's illegitimate drunken stupor children.

 

Donate to her defense fund? Hardly! If she were smarter, she'd have squirreled away some money for when/if it came to this.

 

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