If y'all have some time to kill, this might be of interest. 
So my cousin randomly reached out to me last weekend and asked me to check out a family court hearing YouTube link. He said I'd be shocked when I see it. I was.
No soliciting
The court hearing was from Oct 2023 about a Temporary Protection Order filed by a married couple against a woman . It's a long video and the lawyer is one of the most incompetent ones I've ever seen, but if you have the patience to watch it, you will find stories and subplots that sound eerily like threads from JFO or the Wayward Side forums. The weird part here is that both the WH and the OW happen to be in my extended circle of acquaintances.
Background
is a former NFL Wide Receiver who played for several years with the Atlanta Falcons. If you are a Madden NFL fan,
The OW, seemed familiar to me but I couldn't place her until I recalled that her profile used to pop up in my LinkedIn "recommended contacts" list not too long ago. Apparently, she was a peer and a co-worker of my financial advisor some years ago. But since then she worked her way up to be a big shot relationship banker for very high net-worth individuals, like former pro-athletes and celebrities. She is in her early 50s and is married with two teenage kids. Not to stereotype, but if you look at her pic below (right), she looks like someone sent by central casting for the role of a homewrecking OW in a MLC. 
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The affair
It sounds like she and WS met in the mid-2010s at the wedding of a recently retired football star, who was a client of . Allegedly, she aggressively pursued WS and they had a 4.5 year sexual affair. Some nuggets from the testimony:
* Using her $ and client network, she would buy tickets to celebrity pro-am golf tournaments and invite him. They'd have sex in the golf course, in the woods, in the clubhouse etc.
* She would make five figure donations to charity fundraisers that he was involved with and book hotel rooms during their gala events for them to sneak away and have sex
* She purchased a "Be the program director for a day" pass at the local radio station where he worked
As with all As, the fantasy started to unravel when one party pushed to make things legit. In 2022, she proclaimed her luuurve for him and asked him to leave his marriage. But he did what all cake eaters do and dumped her like a week old airport salad, blocking her on all social media and on the phone. But Shannon was having none of it. One fine day in late 2022, a well lubricated she stopped by their house when he was out and dropped the bomb on BW (in front of her teenage son). Like any blindsided BS, she was shocked but regained enough strength to tell WP to get out of dodge and never set foot in her property or contact her again.
The (other) woman scorned
The next day, WP showed up at the radio station where WH worked and confronted him as he was leaving for home. Like a true macho man, WH quickly ran to his car and tried to get away. But WP wasn't about to let him scoot. She broke off the rear windshield wiper and went ham on the car and created such a ruckus that police patrol showed up and escorted her out.
But true luuuurve can't be stopped. Over the next months, WS would harass BS with messages interlaced with graphic evidence of the A. When her phones were blocked, WP would use her husband's phone as well as her friends' to torment BW. Fast forward to 1:47:15 in the video for the dramatic evidence and testimony from Erin the BW. Highlights include:
* Screenshots of past IG DMs and texts between the two cheaters showing how they planned and celebrated their trysts
* Pictures of a shared handwritten journal where she wrote 1980s teenage girl-esque sappy diary entries describing their hookups
* Texts detailing their sex acts in the rental/vacation homes
* A picture of her tramp-stamp tattoo - can you get any trashier?
It's clear that the BW wanted to keep the scandal private but WP crazy actions made that impossible. The filed for a Temporary Protection Order against WP, but it expired as she was able to dodge the process server. BShad to up the ante by filing a new TPO and had the sheriff's deputies serve WP at her house, in front of her teenage daughter (just desserts, huh?!).
The verdict and the shaming
The judge denied the TPO petition because state law requires a high bar for threats of violence needed to qualify for such relief. But before she finalized the verdict, (2:17:30 timestamp) Judge Manning let both (WH) and (MOW) have it for their scandalous and juvenile behavior. She warned MOW that if she ever attempted to contact the BW again, the court will come down on her like a ton of bricks. In her statement at the end, (2:27:30 mark) MOW provided comic relief by claiming that she won't ever contact them again because she wants to preserve her "good reputation" 
None of this dirty laundry would've been aired if MOW stayed faithful to her poor husband and if WH kept it in his pants. This should serve as a cautionary tale for wannabe affairers but then again...
[This message edited by SI Staff at 8:57 PM, Monday, April 29th]
