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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums*popcorn!1* O'LOOFAH's divorce predictably OOGLY!1 She violated his pontifical INFALLIBILITY!1
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[font size=5]Bill OReillys Divorce Is So Ugly, God Got Involved[/font]
John Cook
Bill O'Reilly wants his ex-wife to go to Hell. Literally. As we previously reported, the Fox News falafelist became separated from his former wife Maureen McPhilmy at some point in 2011, and later went on an apparently corrupt crusade to destroy the career of the Nassau County Police detective she was dating. We have now confirmed that O'Reilly and McPhilmy have been formally divorced, that she has since married the detective, and that O'Reilly is in the midst of a scorched-earth custody battledubbed, appropriately enough, Anonymous v. Anonymousover the ex-couple's two children. It involves a surreptitious attempt by O'Reilly to undermine his custody arrangement by hiring, as a member of his household staff, the woman he and his ex had agreed on as a neutral arbiter of their disputes. It also involves O'Reilly's attempts to annul his marriage and have McPhilmy potentially booted from the Catholic Church. ....
At a Second Department hearing in January, McPhilmy's attorney claimedand O'Reilly's attorney did not disputethat Kulakowski was earning a six-figure salary from O'Reilly. All of this, of course, made a mockery of the custody agreement's appointment of Kulakowski as a neutral arbiter of disputesO'Reilly rigged the game against his ex-wife. A lower court initially denied McPhilmy's request for a hearing about O'Reilly's co-optation of the therapist, but the appellate court agreed with McPhilmy and sent the case back for a hearing. In a highly unusual step for an appellate court, it also ordered the appointment of an independent attorney for the children, an indication that the dispute has become particularly poisonous.
Another indication that it has become poisonous: the Catholic Church has gotten involved. Gawker has learned that McPhilmy has been formally reprimanded in writing by her church for continuing to take communion in her Long Island parish despite having been divorced and remarrieda no-no according to the Pope. The reprimand also instructed her to stop telling her children that her second marriage, to the Nassau County detective O'Reilly tried to destroy, is valid in the eyes of God. It warned her that if she didn't comply, harsher measures may be in order. ....
The bow on this whole package is the matter of McPhilmy's attorney, listed atop the Second Department decision: She has hired a firm called Greenfield Labby, and is represented by one Casey Greenfield. Gawker readers will remember Greenfield as the daughter of network newsman Jeff Greenfield and babymama to CNN's Jeffrey Toobin, whom Greenfield had to sue for support in 2009 after the birth of their son. (Toobin was and remains married to another woman, and insisted for months that the child was not his; a paternity test proved otherwise.) Greenfield went on, according to the New York Times, to form a boutique divorce firm. She has apparently put her familiarity with TV assholes to good use.
We contacted Fox News, O'Reilly's attorney, Kulakowski, and Greenfield for comment; none did.
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*popcorn!1* O'LOOFAH's divorce predictably OOGLY!1 She violated his pontifical INFALLIBILITY!1 (Original Post)
UTUSN
Mar 2013
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Oh he still is. It's all the fault of that harlot and the cop (also a union member)!
progressoid
Mar 2013
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Berlum
(7,044 posts)1. Republican Family Scuzzbucket Values. As usual.
Overpaid chickenhawk Republican propaganda pimps like O'Reilly (R) love to lecture the rest of the world about how allegedly "superior" their freaking Republican Family Values are. Such hypocritical lying horsedung.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)7. Well said, thanks.
Fawke Em
(11,366 posts)2. Dear God, this sounds like a soap opera.
LongTomH
(8,636 posts)10. "As The Stomach Turns"
siligut
(12,272 posts)3. You are so right
Making egotists, like O'Reilly, look as stupid as they really are is about the worst thing you can do to them.
Zambero
(8,954 posts)4. Gawd. All this time I'd figured Bill-O was a sincere "Culture Warrior"
Don't tell me since I wouldn't be able to stand the shock. But is there a slim outside chance that Bill is in the holier-than-thou morality business strictly for the money?
progressoid
(49,827 posts)5. Oh he still is. It's all the fault of that harlot and the cop (also a union member)!
libodem
(19,288 posts)6. Oh, say it isn't so
In it for the money? Go figure.
Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)8. "the Fox News falafelist"
bermudat
(1,329 posts)9. OMG, read the entire article
Bill 'the shill' O'Reilly is such a shmarmy pr*ck, that this Schadenfreude is delicious.
Just wonder what this world would have been if Cardinal Dolan had been made
Pope. .. with O'Reilly having his ear.