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UK couple in real-life divorce over virtual affair
Wife twice found husband's avatar having sex with virtual women
By Kylie MacLellan
updated 10:36 a.m. ET, Fri., Nov. 14, 2008
LONDON - A British woman is divorcing her husband after discovering his online alter-ego was having an affair with a virtual woman in the fantasy world of Second Life, media reported on Friday.
Amy Taylor, 28, said her three-year marriage to David Pollard, 40, came to an end when she twice walked in on him watching his online character, Dave Barmy, having sex with other virtual women.
Second Life enables players to create online lives in which their virtual alter ego, or avatar, can socialize, develop relationships, buy property and set up businesses in an imagined world using the game's virtual currency.
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The couple met in an internet chatroom in 2003 and married in real life and in a fantasy tropical setting in Second Life.
However, Taylor always had suspicions about Pollard's online loyalty. At one point she hired a virtual detective to test whether his avatar was cheating on her, after finding him at the computer watching his character having sex with a prostitute.
Pollard passed that honeytrap test but earlier this year Taylor found his character in a compromising position with another virtual woman.
"He confessed he'd been talking to this woman player in America for one or two weeks and said our marriage was over and he didn't love me any more," said Taylor, who filed for divorce the next day.
"The solicitor wasn't at all surprised — she said it was her second divorce case involving Second Life that week."
I found a picture of the guilty party.Link is working today if anyone wants to see the actual story!!!
Oh my................no comment.I found a picture of the guilty party.
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thank god. i can tolerate craig and belto's nips but that dude is too much.I had to get rid of it, Im scarred for life.