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    XyloGabrielle Bluestone
    1/29/14 9:16pm

    Sad to say, I know of a situation like this (not ultra rich though) - a man who won custody of his kids, despite the fact that he beat his wife black and blue throughout the 70s and 80s, hooked up with another woman and told the kids' mom that the only way he would let her see them was, if she moved into the basement apartment and cleaned house for them. She did it. Ahhh, the good old days of 1970s and 1980s child custody decisions.

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      GregSamsaXylo
      1/29/14 9:20pm

      Wow. That would make a great sitcom.

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      ManchuCandidateGregSamsa
      1/29/14 9:22pm

      One Day At A Time?

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    NefertittiesGabrielle Bluestone
    1/29/14 9:41pm

    If they were millionaires and could afford alternate living arrangements, why the hell did she stay in the same house after the divorce? It just doesn't make any sense why they would both be okay with that.

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      lunchcomaNefertitties
      1/29/14 10:04pm

      According to the article, they both treated the divorce as a piece of paper. To me, that makes it sound like they reconciled at some point, and then split up again later.

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      Ms Patsy StoneNefertitties
      1/29/14 10:04pm

      The house was in both their names. The money was in his name. He wouldn't give her any money

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    PrayForDentonGabrielle Bluestone
    1/29/14 9:18pm

    I wonder how the ladies at Jezebel feel about this.

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      bumpdatPrayForDenton
      1/29/14 9:23pm

      Hey, you're a full-color dude now! Congrats!

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      ad infinitumPrayForDenton
      1/29/14 9:47pm

      I suspect both the ladies and the gentlemen of Jezebel, many of whom are frequent Gawker commenters, would react more or less the way Gawker has. Funnily enough, the main difference would probably be a lot more MRA trolling—those types tend to hover around the site looking for any excuse to spew their misogyny.

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    fagaliciousGabrielle Bluestone
    1/29/14 9:35pm

    She has been living in the same house for about 20 years but they are divorced. What was he supposed to do? She should have moved out and taken whatever was hers a long time ago.

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      stacyinbeanfagalicious
      1/29/14 9:42pm

      Why is the onus on her to move? You know nothing of the circumstances of their divorce yet you claim SHE should move?

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      fagaliciousstacyinbean
      1/29/14 9:46pm

      The point is that someone needed to move a long time ago. This is set up as a story where she is told that if she would like to continue living there she can make herself useful and get paid. He's not asking the new woman to clean the house, I notice. That pretty much tells me it's his house and she should have gotten out a long time ago.

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    raincoasterGabrielle Bluestone
    1/30/14 3:58am

    Aw, man. One hates to see these Blind Items in the colonial press. What Fergie and Prince Andrew do is their own business and nobody else's.

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      hedge-hograincoaster
      1/30/14 4:11am

      10mil is probably all Andrew is worth now, too.

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      raincoasterhedge-hog
      1/30/14 5:05am

      Sadly true. He was once so glorious.

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    Jerry-NetherlandGabrielle Bluestone
    1/29/14 9:13pm
    GIF
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      Jerry-NetherlandJerry-Netherland
      1/29/14 9:36pm

      Sorry folks, that was a Downton Abbey gif that just won't load.

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      ad infinitumJerry-Netherland
      1/29/14 9:43pm

      I can see it! A whole lot of people are having trouble seeing any images on Gawkerverse sites for the past few days, though. Kinja is being difficult again.

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    goldgoldergoldestGabrielle Bluestone
    1/29/14 9:21pm

    Job creators get no respect.

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      belgiumgoldgoldergoldest
      1/30/14 6:53am
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      sunstrokedgoldgoldergoldest
      1/30/14 7:39am

      She deserved a 6 pack of rolexes.

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    RussianistGabrielle Bluestone
    1/29/14 9:21pm

    She cleaned up alright, just not in the way this fool hoped for.

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      G3istbotGabrielle Bluestone
      1/29/14 10:18pm

      Weird! my ex also asked me if I would be her house keeper!

      But by house keeper she apparently meant lock me away in a tower that was guarded by a dragon; both of us cursed to live for eternity until a princess would come rescue me. So, suffice to say, I've been here for a while.

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        Cherith CutestoryG3istbot
        1/29/14 10:54pm

        I keep meaning to mount that rescue but... I mean they didn't have cable TV in Fairy Tale days, you know?

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        G3istbotCherith Cutestory
        1/30/14 12:34am

        eh, it's cool, totally understand.

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      benjaminalloverGabrielle Bluestone
      1/30/14 10:39am

      I was totally appalled by this story, and then I realize I'VE DONE THIS. I cooked and cleaned for my ex when I lost my job shortly after I moved out of his house.

      It's not that I'm a complete doormat with zero dignity, it's just that I was seriously broke and desperate, and he had money and was totally domestically useless. It was his idea, but he suggested it in the spirit of "Please don't punch me, but I heard you're in a difficult position and I might have a temporary solution" type of tone, not just feeling entitled to my labor, like this asshat.

      Obviously, as soon as I could afford to, I quit doing that shit. I actually quit slightly before I could afford to, when he asked me to make a dinner for two. Ya, that's not going to happen unless you want to risk me poisoning you and your fucking new girlfriend.

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        Gir1ScoutSniperbenjaminallover
        1/30/14 3:07pm

        I am in this situation... I divorced, moved out and let the ex-h have custody of the kids, the house (which was my aunts before we bought it), etc, etc. We were still friends. I wasn't able to find a job, ran into medical problems, got huge bills and I proposed to him the solution I move back into the house. I take care of the kids and the house like before.

        It works out well for all of us. Actually, it's even better, because he realizes now all that I do and expresses appreciation and regret he didn't realize before how much I do. Not that there's any romantics going on, and the reason why we parted was exactly that. So, we're in the same situation we were before, but with a new attitude and no hurt feelings about what a married couple should expect of each other.

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        benjaminalloverGir1ScoutSniper
        1/30/14 3:22pm

        I think that this is a negotiating point between separated couples that doesn't get talked about nearly enough.

        I do think that there are entirely different dynamics going on when you are co-parents though, which is a much more permanent relationship, with different rules than those that apply to what is/isn't kosher between childless exes.

        I would think it much more disrespectful, for instance, if your ex had asked you- not just as his ex/housekeeper but also the Mother of his Children- to make dinner for him and the new GF. I think there is a higher standard of respect reasonably expected of him for you in that situation, for the kid's sake.

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