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Youtube Used for Public Display of Disaffection in Divorce
Former actress and playwright (“Bonkers”) Tricia Walsh-Smith is using the popular video sharing website Youtube to vent her displeasure at her ex-husband Philip Smith, President of the Shubert Organization, the largest theatre owner on Broadway.
Phillip Smith is in the process of divorcing Walsh and is allegedly trying to enforce their prenuptial agreement by evicting her from their luxury Park Avenue apartment.
In the video, Walsh is seen in the apartment airing her predicament, then calling her husband’s assistant and making embarrassing and personal statements about her husband. Further along she displays her wedding photos and provides unflattering commentary about her ex-husband’s daughter, who is allegedly also trying to keep Walsh from realizing anything on Smith’s assets.
This is the first time that Youtube is being used by an aggrieved party in a divorce to throw very public salvos at their ex-spouse. Walsh’s lawyer has stated that the video is “funny but there’s also sadness. This is a victim who is holding her head up. I think she comes off well”. Some legal commentators feel that Walsh can gain leverage in the divorce proceeding by humiliating her former spouse, while others are seeing this as potentially prejudicing Walsh, as being the kind of thing judges frown upon and which could be subject to defamation claims.
The video has received 150,000 hits on Youtube and it will be interesting to see what effect if any it will have on the couple’s divorce proceedings.
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