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Imagine our surprise when we found out that Tricia Walsh-Smith — aka the YouTube divorce lady — actually liked the Judge Judy comic strip smackdown we created yesterday evening. She even linked it on her personal website. At least she has a sense of humor. [Tricia Walsh-Smith]
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Judge Judy Vs. The YouTube Divorce Lady, Tricia Walsh-Smith
On Monday, a judge granted a divorce to Philip Smith from Tricia Walsh-Smith, on the grounds of cruel and inhuman treatment. Tricia made a name for herself in April when she began posting googly-eyed rants about her divorce on YouTube, complaining that her husband was evicting her from her Park Avenue apartment, and going on about what a terrible person he is. It seemed to have hurt her case in divorce court, as the judge upheld her prenup. So we decided to send her to a different court: That of Judge Judith Sheindlin. More » -
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YouTube Queen Tricia Walsh-Smith Says She'd "Be Better Off In Baghdad"
Tricia Walsh-Smith, the playwright who made made headlines earlier this year for posting a series of YouTube videos in which she revealed her husband, theater magnate Philip Smith, to be an erectile dysfunctioning cold-hearted guy, was divorced by said husband yesterday on the grounds of cruel and inhuman treatment. Walsh-Smith has been thrown out of the couple's Park Avenue apartment and will receive a settlement of $750,000 — the amount laid out in the prenup she signed back in 1999. Judge Harold Beeler was distinctly unimpressed by Walsh-Smith's YouTube caterwauling, and wrote in his court decision, "[Tricia] has attempted to turn the life of her husband into a soap opera by directing, writing, acting in and producing a melodrama…[it was] a calculated and callous campaign to embarrass and humiliate her husband." Tricia has called the settlement "disgusting" and added "I'd be better off in Baghdad." [Ed Note: No.] More » -
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When Did Divorce Become The New Death?
Miscellaneous observations noted the day after seeing Sex & The City: The Movie and reading about YouTube divorcee Tricia Walsh-Smith in 'New York' magazine and the anxieties of the newly-slightly-less-rich in the 'New York Times', vaguely petitioning the godless void to find someone to marry me before I look like this.
•Divorce is the new Death. No one wants it, really, but for some reason everyone assumes its inevitability. But when it comes, what happens? Who's the greater fool? This can be prepared for, like the Afterlife. Contracts can be drawn, assets accumulated and shifted. Carrie says she came to New York in search of the two "Ls" — "love" and "labels." Of course, "marriage" is just another variation on "label," worn like an LV to designate oneself as superior, uncommon, discriminating somehow, dignified. Whatever that means.
•Tricia Walsh-Smith is the worst-case matrimonial scenario. If you don't get married, or if you botch your prenuptial agreement, or if he leaves you at the altar (a.k.a. Big) or sleeps with a random stranger (a.k.a. Miranda), you lose all dignity; all of it, gone. And without that dignity, what is left? Shoes. The end. More »
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New York State Court Says Dishing About Your Divorce Online Is Legal, But "Ill-Advised"
Tricia Walsh-Smith, the playwright and soon-to-be-ex-wife of theater executive Philip Smith who posted a tearful, angry rant about her divorce on YouTube, isn't the only divorcée talking about her plight on the 'net. Today's New York Times discusses the pitfalls of broadcasting a breakup for the world to see, profiling Laurie, a Manhattan lawyer who produces a podcast called DivorcingDaze and was sued by her ex-husband for telling the world he "was having an affair with his boss from e-mail on his BlackBerry." A New York State court decided that, though Laurie's podcasts were "ill-advised and do not promote co-parenting," Laurie had a first-amendment right to continue Daze. More »
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