This is so bizarre. We passed one of this lady's billboards here in Atlanta
last weekend, and I couldn't figure out who this couple was, nor why I should
care about them. I find it hard to believe this lady was with this dude for
eight years and didn't know he was still married. But whether she knew he was
married, or whether he just chumped her by going back to his wife, this is a
classless tacky move. I know she's hurting, but why do people outside of their
inner circle need to know their private issues? That's the price of love:
sometimes you get taken, sometimes you let yourself get taken by going into
situations you know aren't right. Whatever, bottom line is she should just move
on and keep their private affairs...private.
Since this Brother runs Oracle and is a high level member of the Obama gang, I
wonder if this will hit the major airwaves like Fox in the next couple of
days...?
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Revenge by billboard: Scorned lover pays £150,000 for street posters to reveal
affair with Obama aide
By David Gardner
Last updated at 9:57 PM on 23rd January 2010
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The spurned mistress of one of Barack Obama's top economic advisers has exacted
revenge by plastering details of their affair on giant billboard posters across
the U.S.
YaVaughnie Wilkins is said to have paid £150,000 to reveal her relationship
with Charles Phillips to the world after he went back to his wife.
The posters, which are three storeys high, show Miss Williams and the senior
member of the president's hand-picked Economic Recovery Advisory Board below
his initials and a quote saying: 'You are my soulmate forever.'
Wilkins
Shamed: YaVaughnie Wilkins poses with former lover Charles E. Phillips in a
poster she placed in New York
There is also a link to a website that is a shrine to his eight-year affair
with Miss Wilkins, 41.
It includes pictures chronicling their travels around the world as well as
intimate notes and ticket stubs from concerts, films, sports games and Mr
Obama' s inauguration a year ago.
One of the giant signs is posted on Broadway near Times Square in New York -
one of the world's most prominent advertising hoardings.
A further two have appeared elsewhere in New York as well as one in Atlanta and
one in San Francisco, where Miss Wilkins lives and her married ex-lover owns a
family home. Each are said to have cost £30,000 to display.
The billboards baffled Americans when they first appeared – with speculation
mounting over whether it was a marketing ploy or an apology.
Her extraordinary actions had the desired effect. The chief executive has been
forced into an embarrassing public statement in which he admitted their affair.
YaVaughnie Wilkins.jpg
YaVaughnie
Adventures: Wilkins set up a website of photos of the couple's world travels,
including Sydney, right
President
Powerful: Phillips, circled, is an adviser to U.S. President Barack Obama
Yesterday Mr Phillips, 50, who is also president of internet giant Oracle,
issued a brief three-sentence statement saying: 'I had an eight-and-a-half year
serious relationship with YaVaughnie Wilkins.
'My divorce proceedings began in 2008. The relationship with Ms Wilkins has
since ended and we both wish each other well.'
There has been speculation that YaVaughnie deliberately timed her campaign to
coincide with a major Oracle event next week. Website Gawker noted that the
company was due to host an all-day live event on January 27.
Mr Phillips was paid £12million last year and has made around £30million since
2007.
He has recently reconciled with his wife, Karen, according to reports in the
U.S.
The couple were seen at an awards ceremony in New York and pictured together at
a gala held by the American Museum of Natural History in the city in November.
They have a ten-year-old son, Chas.
Miss Wilkins, a California-based actress and writer, was not available for
comment yesterday.
Karen
Reconciliation: Phillips is back living with his wife Karen (centre) and their
10-year-old son in New York
YaVaughnie
Pressure: Phillips said he wished Wilkins well after intimate photos posted
online forced him to admit the affair
YaVaughnie
'Soulmates': The website, paid for by Wilkins, shows photos of the pair
enjoying holidays abroad
YaVaughnie
YaVaughnie
Pressure: Phillips was forced to admit the affair after the billboard posters
and website went live
Wilkins
High-profile campaign: Wilkins paid £30,000 for each poster - including this
one in New York
YaVaughnie
YaVaughnie
Promises: Wilkins put the love notes sent from Phillips during their affair
online
Her website shows Mr Phillips and her standing arm-in-arm on the Great Wall of
China and posing in Sydney wearing matching 'Australia' jackets.
One of the photo albums from 2001 is set to a karaoke performance of the Smokey
Robinson song Cruisin', where a man and a woman can be heard singing: 'This is
not a one-night stand.'
There is also a huge collection of notes from Mr Phillips.
One gushes: 'You're all that matters to me.' Another reads: 'I have never met a
woman as fascinating as you. You are exactly what I've been looking and waiting
for.'
Miss Wilkins wrote: 'Charles, You have my heart for ever - I love you so
much.'
California-based web designer Bela Kovacs claimed he was asked to build the
site, charlesphillipsandyavaughniewilkins.com, as 'a present for Charles'.
Last night visitors to the website were met with a 'service unavailable'
message.
The White House refused to comment last night on whether the billboards would
affect Mr Phillips's position.
But an administration aide said it was being treated as a 'private matter.'
An expert software analyst, Phillips is viewed as one of the most powerful
people in the industry. He joined the company in 2003 and previously worked for
Morgan Stanley. He is a former captain in the United States Marine Corps.
New York bloggers have gone into overdrive today with some claiming Phillips
led a double life - presenting himself as a divorcee while still married.
YaVaughnie Wilkins
Revenge: YaVaughnie Wilkins paid for three posters, which baffled Americans
when they first appeared
Tsarinamisha, who claims to be a 'close friend' of the couple,' wrote on
Gawker's website: 'I can assure you he portrayed himself as having been legally
divorced in 2003.
'Their closeness and the fact that their relationship was very public led no
one to believe otherwise.
'They attended family and professional events as a couple, lived together for
eight years and bought a home about two years ago.
'I was a guest at numerous of their parties and he introduced her to numerous
people, including his son, as his girlfriend.'
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Intimate: Love notes were posted on the website, which Wilkins paid £860 to
have built
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Spurned: Wilkins posted the details on the affair online after Phillips went
back to his wife, Karen
Dbishty, who like Tsarinamisha, left a post on Gawker's website said: 'There
was never any indication there was a third party in their relationship.
'Charles and YaVaughnie spent quite a bit of money on their estate so it
doesn't make sense that things have turned out this way.
'The realtor at Coldwell Bankers and contractors at Genesis, Inc. and Bethe
Cohen Design associated with the couple have nothing but glowing things to say
about YaVaughnie and Charles.
'If he is married, YaVaughnie did not know. She believed him, as we all did,
when he said he was divorced.'
However, another blogger on the Gawker site said Phillips was still attending
events with his wife – including the American Natural History Museum’s gala
event last November.
Read more:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1245296/Spurned-mistress-YaVaughnie-Wilkins-takes-revenge-Charles-E-Phillips-plastering-U-S-cities-compromising-posters.html#ixzz0db8XEQU8
