Spurious lawsuits are just the best, aren’t they? Particularly when they get picked up by the news and cause the plaintiff further embarrassment than the actual cause of the suit – like that one where a lawyer sued his ex-wife for giving him herpes.
So it’s with a huge dollop of delicious schadenfreude we enjoyed the story this week that 30-something Toronto harlot Gabriella Nagy is suing telecoms behemoth Rogers Communications for $600,000 after her husband discovered that she’d made a string of mega-long phone calls to an unknown number. The husband called the number, and the gentleman on the other end confirmed all manner of sexy shenanigans with the husband’s wife. The husband then walked out on the wife and their two kids.
Apparently Nagy is unhappy that Rogers combined her personal cellphone bill with the family broadband bill, which allowed her husband to discover the (booty) calls. She claims that her husband walking out caused her to underperform in her job as a rental agent, from which she was subsequently fired. Even better, the gentleman managed to obtain Nagy’s voicemail password from Rogers after she ended the affair, which he used to harangue her and her ex-husband.
Here’s something stupid she said: “I lost everything. I want others to know what a big corporation has done. I trusted Rogers with my personal information. We had a contract — and agreement that put my life right in their hands.”
And here’s something smart that Rogers said: “[We] cannot be held responsible for the condition of the marriage, for the plaintiff’s affair and consequential marriage break-up, nor the effects the break-up has had on her.”
Mmmm, delicious schadenfreude. Tastes like meringue.
Toronto woman sues Rogers after her affair is exposed [via The Toronto Star]
#1 by John Bottom at 16th July 2010
A salutary tale well told. Serves her right for being naggy, anyway.