Well it's Sunday. Lifetime Sunday to be exact. Sunday is the one day of the week that most Americans choose to relax. It's that last day before the work week begins, school starts back, & the interstate is bumper to bumper. I personally LOVE Sundays. Don't get me wrong, I dig Saturday as well, but Saturday is just SO busy ! I learned the hard way the the Galleria mall on a Saturday is PURE chaos ! You are going to drive around for 10-15 minutes trying to find a parking spot only to get into the M*A*C store to find it completely congested.

*Sigh*

Sundays run WAY more smooth.

By this day you have already gotten all of your errands & weekend duties out of the way so you are free to lounge around, eat spinach dip, drink Lambrusco & watch Meridith Baxter-Birney give one HELLA of a performance as Betty Broderick in "A woman scorned".

Yup...Sunday living.

Anywho, another thing I like to do on Sunday is catch up on current events & gossip blogs. While reading some of my favs I see that one of the top stories this week was about Charles E. Phillips Jr., the president of Oracle Corporation & President Obama advisor who was victim of the ultimate dose of revenge of a jump off scorned. Phillips is a handsome, clean cut "boy done good" type executive who makes an impressive 20 million a year.

But ooohhh Chuckie had a secret.


Charles, who is very married to wife Karen whom he shares a 10 year old son Chas has had a sidepiece name YaVaughnie Wilkins for the past 8 1/2 years. Their relationship included luxury vacations, sporting events, movie dates, & even president Obama's inauguration. YaVaughnie was even living large & lavish thanks to Charles in an impressive 11 million dollar love nest in affluent Hillsborough, California.


Damn...


Apparently things begin to go sour, or perhaps it had something to do with the fact that Charles & Karen who had filed for divorce in February 2008 had decided to reconcile. Nonetheless Charles ended his relationship with YaVaughnie & sold the home she resided in to a private equity investor December 16th of last year.


Looks like she didn't take the news very well.


YaVaughnie paid an impressive 50 stacks apiece for...*ahem*...count 'em THREE large billboards, one in Atlanta, on in San Francisco, & one in lovely Times Square all with a lovely intimate picture of her & Mr. Phillips with the tag line "You are my soul mate forever - CEP". She also mentioned on the billboards a website (now removed)that served as a shrine to the now defunct relationship.


Revenge is a dish best served cold eh ?

YaVaughnie succeeded in her task. She even allegedly sent an email to the web designer that stated "I've become famous". Charles & his indiscretion is now front page news everywhere you look.


Tiger Woods is somewhere doing the Cabbage Patch.


Now we all know that "loose lips sink ships", but was YaVaughnie justified or should she have walked away quietly ?


Opinions seem to be split. Some say that living like a Queen for almost a decade & then being sent away with not so much as a severance package is just bad business. Others say that is the chance you take when rolling the mistress dice. Sometimes you win, sometimes you get craps. Now me personally I'm torn. A part of me (albeit the part that has a flair for juicy drama worthy of a whole 2 hours on Lifetime)thinks that Charles got his "just desserts". He too rolled the dice & lost, the cheater dice. He had a beautiful, mistress who for years played her position fabulously. He didn't plan on her taking it all "ending" so hard.

It's all a gamble kids.


Now another part of me thinks that YaVaughnie kind of played herself. Now until this all dies down no man in his right mind is going to want to come anywhere NEAR the new Karrine Steffans. She is now blackballed in the world of "kept women", not to mention that 9 times out of 10 this will only strengthen Charles' marriage with his wife because let's face it, the wife hardly ever goes anywhere in cases like this (see former Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick for reference).

Not to mention she is effin up the game ! Damnit YaVaughnie !

I kid, I kid *CHEEZ*


Later gators,

XoXo