A Woman Scorned

If you love someone, set them free. If they come back to you, they’re yours. If they don’t, take out billboards around the country trying to shame them into realizing that you’re more important than their wedding vows.

That seems to be the logic used by YaVaughnie Wilkins, the mistress of tycoon Charles E. Phillips who, when dumped, spent a small fortune on billboards around Manhattan — not to mention similar ones in Atlanta and San Francisco — designed to humiliate the man for breaking her heart.

Proving that men really don’t see things the same way as women, Phillips told the New York Post that since he and Wilkins ended their 8-year relationship, they “wish each other well.”

Really? Damn, I’d hate to see what she does to people she doesn’t like!

Did I mention that there’s also a website — http://wwwcharlesphillipsandyavaughniewilkins.com (I can’t believe that was still available!) — at which the curious can see evidence of the pair’s love affair? (Whatcha wanna bet his wife, Karen, has the site bookmarked?)

According to the paper’s report, Phillips’ wife filed for divorce in 2008, but never followed through. The couple reunited, and YaVaughnie was, in the words of the paper, “kicked to the curb.” 

Given both YaVaughnie’s name and flair for the dramatic, it probably won’t come as a surprise to anyone that she is supposedly a “writer/actor.” It probably will also come as no surprise that it’s tough to find any evidence of her ever having done either.

A more cynical man than I might suggest that she was looking for publicity. Or maybe she’s just hoping to shame him into recognizing that he’s the love of her life.

Yeah, I’m gonna go with the first option.