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Mon Mar 18, 2013, 03:44 PM Mar 2013

Bill O’Reilly’s Divorce Is So Ugly, God Got Involved [View all]

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Bill O'Reilly wants his ex-wife to go to Hell. Literally. As we previously reported, the Fox News falafelist became separated from his former wife Maureen McPhilmy at some point in 2011, and later went on an apparently corrupt crusade to destroy the career of the Nassau County Police detective she was dating. We have now confirmed that O'Reilly and McPhilmy have been formally divorced, that she has since married the detective, and that O'Reilly is in the midst of a scorched-earth custody battle—dubbed, appropriately enough, Anonymous v. Anonymous—over the ex-couple's two children. It involves a surreptitious attempt by O'Reilly to undermine his custody arrangement by hiring, as a member of his household staff, the woman he and his ex had agreed on as a neutral arbiter of their disputes. It also involves O'Reilly's attempts to annul his marriage and have McPhilmy potentially booted from the Catholic Church.

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Another indication that it has become poisonous: the Catholic Church has gotten involved. Gawker has learned that McPhilmy has been formally reprimanded in writing by her church for continuing to take communion in her Long Island parish despite having been divorced and remarried—a no-no according to the Pope. The reprimand also instructed her to stop telling her children that her second marriage, to the Nassau County detective O'Reilly tried to destroy, is valid in the eyes of God. It warned her that if she didn't comply, harsher measures may be in order.

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While he's busy harassing McPhilmy for asserting the holiness of her second marriage, O'Reilly is trying to deny the existence of his first: He is, Gawker has learned, seeking an annulment of his 15-year marriage, which produced two children. Null and void. Invalid in the eyes of God. Never happened. This despite his manifest belief in the "stability" that straight marriage brings to the culture and concern at the (purportedly) declining marriage rates in countries that allow gay people to marry one another. If successful, the annulment would presumably render his 2004 escapade with former producer Andrea Mackris, whom he repeatedly and vividly sexually harassed with threats to take "the falafel thing...and put it on your pussy," retroactively kosher with Jesus. (It would also make him even more of an asshole than his familial nemesis Joseph Kennedy, who tried and failed to have his 12-year marriage annulled.)

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And then when his kids turn out all screwed up he'll blame it on godless liberals. tanyev Mar 2013 #1
Freud would have loved O'Lielly lpbk2713 Mar 2013 #2
Who does O'Reilly think he is? Frank Sinatra? joeybee12 Mar 2013 #3
At least Frank Sinatra was honest about being an entertainer. madinmaryland Mar 2013 #4
Frank Burns nt Shankapotomus Mar 2013 #12
Henry VIII? MisterP Mar 2013 #39
Was thinking the same thing question everything Mar 2013 #43
Bill O' Reilly is a warm lump of shit. Rex Mar 2013 #5
Go into any working-class tavern. Ikonoklast Mar 2013 #11
he thinks he can because he's not been called to account for his actions. PDJane Mar 2013 #6
FUX version of Limbaugh rurallib Mar 2013 #7
Seems like he is bribing as many officials as he can so that does not happen still_one Mar 2013 #9
She should get a book deal and scorch HIS earth! nt tblue37 Mar 2013 #32
The Romanist Bill O'Reilly? The anti-choice, anti-gay O'Reilly has decided to Dawson Leery Mar 2013 #8
Actually he has paid the church big bucks so his ex gets the blame still_one Mar 2013 #10
Corruption. Dawson Leery Mar 2013 #13
Now do people see why I'm an ex-Catholic? 47of74 Mar 2013 #28
I left Rome's influence along time ago. Dawson Leery Mar 2013 #30
Just avoid the holy water PaddyIrishman Mar 2013 #34
Yeah, that's probably a good idea. 47of74 Mar 2013 #46
This message was self-deleted by its author angrychair Mar 2013 #14
Question then: angrychair Mar 2013 #15
Annulment is a money maker. The Church could keep this going for ages..n/t monmouth3 Mar 2013 #17
I never understood the idea of annulment question everything Mar 2013 #23
They'd be considered illegitimate, I suppose. Mariana Mar 2013 #24
No, they're considered legit Benton D Struckcheon Mar 2013 #27
Scumbag, Hypocrite, Racist, Liar, Philanderer, Pervert SamReynolds Mar 2013 #16
Man, I hate victim-blaming, but c'mon!!!! sadbear Mar 2013 #18
Wow, telling the ex-wife to go to Hell is one thing Hayabusa Mar 2013 #19
Two things: OH DEAR GOD! HE SPAWNED???? And: McPhilmy sounds like a joke name. Squinch Mar 2013 #20
Really! At first I thought it was the Onion. McPhilmy? mountain grammy Mar 2013 #31
And he cheated on her with McLoofah. But he's a bastion of old fashioned Mcvalues. Squinch Mar 2013 #33
My thoughts exactly. nt LWolf Mar 2013 #36
Wait...this is the family values guy right? nadinbrzezinski Mar 2013 #21
Too bad his kids can't divorce him. n/t duffyduff Mar 2013 #22
I'm a guess he will blame her timdog44 Mar 2013 #25
I am shocked I tell you!! I almost falafel my chair!!! underpants Mar 2013 #26
Now thats funny right there. Never heard that before. skydive forever Mar 2013 #51
Ironically, he's doing her a favor by pursuing the annulment. pnwmom Mar 2013 #29
She should have actually taken the action first to annul the marriage due to his immoral behavior. olegramps Mar 2013 #37
We don't really know that she didn't. pnwmom Mar 2013 #40
Its possible, but I would think that it would have come out by now. olegramps Mar 2013 #41
Quelle Surprise! Spotty-Man is an asshole in his private live as well . . . hatrack Mar 2013 #35
This guy shenmue Mar 2013 #38
Paging Senator Franken! edbermac Mar 2013 #42
If either parent gets their marriage annalled...Won't that make their children illegitimate? Auntie Bush Mar 2013 #44
Awww Billo amuse bouche Mar 2013 #45
Ok there are some things I don't want to think of... 47of74 Mar 2013 #47
He's a piece of work now, isn't he? nt silvershadow Mar 2013 #48
probably wants this done before PatrynXX Mar 2013 #49
What about the kids ? dusty trails Mar 2013 #50
No. See post 27, above question everything Mar 2013 #52
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