14 DAY TRIAL // Gary Dean, a British businessman who had worked in advertising all his life, managing to earn enough money to afford a luxurious existence, was accused of leaving his wife and the rest of the family almost insolvent after the divorce.
To put an end to the rumors that were becoming truly annoying, since the man actually paid over ?3.17 million to his ex-wife, along with other benefits, Dean created a webpage, very suggestively entitled "The Truth about: Helen Louise Dean v. Gary Dean."
"I have been painted in some quarters as a greedy, tight, ruthless bastard who abandoned my wife and children, walking off with millions and leaving my family almost destitute. It's simply not true at all and I've decided that instead of allowing the rumor-mill to continue churning out nonsense - I'd just set out the actual facts to stop it," Gary Dean wrote on the website in his defense.
On his thematic webpage, he basically depicts his entire life, which took a turn for the better when he decided to start his own advertising business. All this time, his wife didn't have a job, since they both agreed that she should just spend her time taking care of their four children.
The thing that probably annoyed him the most and that made him start a website was the fact that the judge presiding the divorce case concluded that his wife had supported him in his career all along. As a direct consequence of this loving behavior, she was not able to get a job, so the man had to pay her for the loyalty she had displayed all this time. "With no disrespect to her [the judge], or indeed to my ex-wife, success in business or on the playing field, at least in my opinion, are based on the abilities of the 'player'," the webmaster said.
In the end, people probably couldn't care less about the problems of someone they never met, but the fact that the Internet has become a channel where anyone can give vent to their frustrations sort of makes us wonder about what we're to expect next.