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Woman Divorces Husband After Catching Him Cheating in 'Second Life'

by Dan Reilly, posted Nov 14th 2008 at 1:04PM

It's safe to say most wives would be mad if they caught their husband having virtual sex in Second Life. When Amy Taylor caught her husband with another woman's avatar, the infidelity might as well have been real.

Taylor and her husband, David Pollard, are divorcing after three years of geekily wedded bliss after Pollard, described as a "jobless 40-year-old," was caught doing the online nasty with other Second Life women. The couple originally met in a chat room and moved in together after exchanging photos, emails, and calls. The 28-year-old Taylor actually caught Pollard having virtual sex only a few months after they started dating but they reconciled and got married, both in reality and in Second Life.

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Online Divorce Leads to Avatar Murder, Real Jail Time

by Dan Reilly, posted Oct 24th 2008 at 3:17PM

We've talked about it a million times, yet people still haven't learned that what you do online has real world consequences. Today's winner is a 43-year-old woman from Japan who's sitting in jail after murdering her online husband's avatar after he suddenly divorced her. The real crime she committed is hacking, as she illegally logged into his account and killed off his character.

The woman and her 33-year-old virtual beau played MapleStory, a MMORPG in which characters fight monsters and can get married, with special wedding services.Sounds like an interesting combination in a game, but we won't judge. Back in May, the husband decided on the divorce and the wife got her revenge, naturally leading the man to contact the police.

After admitting the allegations to the police, she said, "I was suddenly divorced, without a word of warning. That made me so angry." While apparently she wasn't plotting any head-in-the-freezer sort of revenge, she could face up to five years in jail and $5000 in fines if she's ever charged and convicted. Maybe MapleStory should offer a prenup scroll or something. [From: Yahoo!]

Husband Wins Divorce From Angry YouTube Wife

by Tim Stevens, posted Jul 22nd 2008 at 11:54AM

Remember the YouTube divorce story from earlier this year? The sad and disturbing tale of theater tycoon Philip Smith and his wife, actress Tricia Walsh-Smith, who posted a series of scathing and demeaning YouTube videos when Philip asked for a divorce? Well, the court case is over, and Smith has "won" -- or at least as much as anyone can win when there's a pre-nuptial agreement involved.

The agreement, signed before the two exchanged vows, states that Tricia must move out of the couple's New York apartment within 30 days of the finalized divorce, the core issue that sent her off on her Internet rampage That rampage didn't win her any points with the judge, who approved the divorce and said of Tricia: "She has attempted to turn the life of her husband into a soap opera by directing, writing, acting in and producing a melodrama."

Though she said she was "really, really disappointed," Tricia didn't come off too badly in the end -- she was awarded $750,000 as part of the agreement. That's more than we would have paid her, for sure. [Source: AOL News]

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