Family Law
Judge Blasts Actress for ‘Callous’ YouTube Video, Upholds Prenup
Posted Jul 22, 2008 6:48 AM CST
By Debra Cassens Weiss
A New York judge has blasted a British actress for ranting against her husband in a YouTube video and upheld her prenuptial agreement that limited her divorce settlement to $750,000.
Judge Harold Beeler gave actress Tricia Walsh Smith a month to leave the swank New York apartment she had shared with her husband, Broadway producer Philip Smith, Reuters reports.
Beeler said Philip Smith had been “publicly humiliated to an unprecedented extent" because of his wife’s “calculated and callous campaign to embarrass and humiliate” him.
Walsh Smith told the New York Post she thought the ruling “sucked.”
In the YouTube video, Walsh Smith said she discovered her husband had horded Viagra even though they never had sex. The New York Post summarizes Beeler’s ruling this way: “Tricia Walsh-Smith finally got what she was asking for--she got screwed.”
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kay sieverding
Jul 22, 2008 12:57 PM CST
So is it solely a matter of upholding the prenupt contract or did she have tort claims also—invasion of privacy???
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ABC
Jul 25, 2008 3:44 AM CST
Since when is sticking with the bargan one make originally “getting screwed?”
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Bill
Jul 25, 2008 5:36 AM CST
It’s the liberal New York mentality - I don’t want to have to be stuck with what I actually bargained for, I want everything. And if you don’t gimme gimme it, you’re a big meanine and it’s unfair.
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Al DeMeola
Jul 25, 2008 6:33 AM CST
I watched some of these YOO-tubers. He is about 20 years older than her. I sympathize with the old codger, but believe me, getting rid of her for $750K is a bargain. It’s sad that older men go for younger women, but once they start to turn, it’s smart to head for the hills. And I can understand why he didn’t have sex with her.
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Anon Observer
Jul 25, 2008 7:49 AM CST
Look, she was a trophy wife and she couldn’t fulfill that part of her role. She signed the prenup, there was no question that the judge was going to uphold the agreement.
Here’s a video of her lashing out at the person who made the whiner video: http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/8527500c2c
Honestly, this women makes it clear she is insane plus she is only opening up the doors for more pain and suffering down the road…
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Anon Observer
Jul 25, 2008 8:16 AM CST
She also claims in another newspaper that if she didn’t fight or post the video, she would have gotten only $50,000. Read the prenup, Section 15.2(A)(1)(d) - less than 10 years of marriage equals $750,000.
http://www.triciawalshsmith.com/uploads/walsh-smith_prenup_doc.pdf
She got only what she would have got no matter what ranting and raving she did. Probably a better strategy for her lawyers should have been to argue that Section 3.3 - claiming she is an educated person - was an error that materially affected the validity of the agreement:)
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kate hudson
Jul 25, 2008 10:31 AM CST
Kay—It would be really nice if you (as a non-lawyer) would actually bother to pull up the docs and take a look before you post more nonsense.
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Faith Colish
Jul 25, 2008 4:15 PM CST
Learn to spell “hoarded.”
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