Family Law

Divorce going to heat up after billboards placed by scorned lover

By Robert M. Kisselburgh, Esq.

Billboard photos could cause problems in divorce

Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. Usually that statement is in the context of a wife scorned by her husband. However, over the last week, billboards appeared in New York, San Francisco, Atlanta, and other cities showing a romantic photograph of the co-president of Oracle, Charles E. Phillips, Jr., with a woman. The woman was not his wife, but his ex-mistress. And the billboard in New York's Times Square also has a note stating, "You are my soulmate forever!" Mr. Phillips came out on Thursday to say the woman on the billboards, YaVaughnie Wilkins, was his mistress of 8 1/2 years, who he has since ended a relationship with.

The first thought is Mrs. Phillips spent some money to embarrass and get back at her husband. Well, in this case, the scorned lover was the ex-mistress, according to the New York Times, who paid to have the billboards placed in an attempt to embarrass Mr. Phillips and no doubt cause him problems with his current divorce proceedings. Seems Mr. Phillips has another girlfriend and Ms. Wilkins was not happy about being sent packing. Ouch.

I think the divorce settlement discussions just heated up with Mr. and Mrs. Phillips.

Reported by: Robert Kisselburgh, Mississippi Divorce Lawyer

Full post as published by Mississippi Family Law Blog on January 24, 2010 (boomark / email).