Angry wife tries divorce-by-YouTube tactic

Spouse airs couple’s marriage secrets in tearful and furious video

NEW YORK - We're the YouTube Generation, living in the YouTube Era, in a YouTube World. And now we apparently have a YouTube Divorce.

Some prominent New York divorce lawyers couldn't think of another case where a spouse �?in this instance, the wife of a major Broadway theater operator �?had taken to YouTube to spill the secrets of a marriage in an apparent effort to gain leverage and humiliate the other side.

"This is absolutely a new step, and I think it's scary," said Bonnie Rabin, a divorce lawyer who has handled high-profile cases. It brings the concept of humiliation to a whole new level."

In a tearful and furious YouTube video with close to 150,000 hits to date, former actress and playwright ("Bonkers") Tricia Walsh-Smith lashes out against her husband, Philip Smith, president of the Shubert Organization, the largest theater owner on Broadway.

She goes through their wedding album on camera, describing family members as "bad" or "evil" or "nasty," and talks about how her husband is allegedly trying to evict her from their luxury apartment. She also makes embarrassing claims regarding their intimate life, and then calls his office on camera to repeat those claims to a stunned assistant.  "There's no such thing as a private life anymore."

See the YouTube video"   http://youtube.com/watch?v=hx_WKxqQF2o

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24140922/

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{ "There is no such thing as a private life anymore." That certainly seems true these days. There are sites on the internet where both men and women warns others to stay away from people they have dated that are "bad news". Both genders quite often go after their former partners with incredible cruelty. They write about their former lovers sexual inadequacies and short comings with no other purpose but revenge. Sometimes photos, names and addresses are included. People have been sued but it goes on.

It seems in the so called "information age" that information can be whatever you want it to be. Even a weapon. Information has become the new currency and many folks are spending like crazy. Power is directly related to what you "know". Those who know where all the bodies are buried in any field of activity are at the very top of the food chain. Knowledge is power and gossip and innuendo are the King and Queen of the state of revenge.

They say there is a thin line between love and hate and high tech has made that line thinner. Anger, frustration, hurt and embarrassment seem to be the fuel that motors this sort of extreme behavior. Could you do something like that? Has anything like this ever been done to you? Could you get angry enough at someone you love.....or hate.......to pull a stunt like this? Why do you think people have this need to hurt someone they love or once loved? Is "revenge" part of being human? No other animal does it as far as I know.

What do you think?}

Rose