Man Wins Divorce From Angry Wife In YouTube Video

NEW YORK — A Broadway mogul whose actress wife trashed him in a widely-viewed YouTube video has been granted a divorce from her.

A Manhattan judge granted Philip Smith a divorce from Tricia Walsh-Smith on Monday on the grounds of cruel and inhuman treatment. Judge Harold Beeler said a prenuptial agreement signed three weeks before the couple's 1999 wedding was valid.

That means Walsh-Smith must leave their Park Avenue apartment within 30 days and Smith must pay her $750,000.

In the tearful and furious YouTube video, which has attracted more than three million hits, Walsh-Smith lashes out against Smith.

She makes embarrassing claims about their intimate life and then calls his office to repeat those claims to a stunned assistant.

Smith's lawyers said they were "appalled" by the video.

Famed divorce attorney Raoul Felder began representing Walsh-Smith after she made the video.

Smith is president of The Shubert Organization, the largest theatre owner on Broadway.

Tricia Walsh Smith, the woman who made rich guys think twice about marrying a trophy wife, took the stand on the first day of her divorce trial, and the spectacle was as brilliant as the YouTube videos the aspiring actress and playweight posted, lambasting her wealthy husband for an assortment of ills.
 
Her soon-to-be-ex, Shubert Theatre impresario Phillip Smith says that calling him "a pile of blubber," threatening to "cut your balls off and eat them for breakfast," and going on YouTube and telling the world they'd never had sex be cause he couldn't was grounds for him leaving her and wanting to enforce the pre-nup agreement.
 
Tricia Walsh-Smith said "horrible, terrible things, and she did it for the world to see, in front of millions and millions of people," her husband's lawyer, David Aronson, said at the start of their divorce trial today. The "Bonkers" playwright's hubby, Philip Smith, hasn't uttered a word pub licly since his wife slammed him in a now-infamous YouTube video in April.
"We never had sex. He said it was because he had high blood pressure," she said in the first of her online rants. "I accepted that. Then last year . . . I found Viagra, porn movies and condoms."

Smith, 77, finally got his day in court today, when Aronson argued before Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Harold Beeler that Walsh-Smith had been "cruel and inhuman" to him "and then some."

His first witness was Walsh-Smith, 52, who at turns cracked jokes, shouted, shrieked, pouted and sobbed in expletive-laden testimony from the witness stand as she talked about Smith, the head of the Shubert Organization.