Patrick and Marianne called Scott as an adverse witness on the afternoon of the fourth day of trial, when it became clear Scott was not going to testify on his own behalf. Patrick confronted him on his behavior right out of the box. 

Patrick: 

Mr. Williams, between the date of your marriage and the date of your separation, did you have sexual intercourse with any women other than your wife?

Scott:    One the advice of counsel, I’m taking the Fifth Amendment.

 

Patrick: 

Mr. Williams, between the date of your marriage and the date of your separation, how many women did you have sexual intercourse with other than your wife? 

Duff:      Objection.

Judge:   Overruled.

Scott:    On the advice of counsel, I’m taking the Fifth Amendment. 

Patrick: 

Mr. Williams, between the date of your marriage and the date of your separation, how many women did you have oral sex with other than your wife? 

Duff:      Objection.

Judge    Overruled.

Scott:    On the advice of counsel, I’m taking the Fifth Amendment.

It was classic courtroom theater, right out of an episode of Law and Order SVU. Those three questions concluded the soft core porn portion of the day however, and Patrick finished the afternoon by questioning Scott about the more mundane (but important) topic of how he was paid by his company. Patrick told me later he wanted Scott to stew on it over the weekend, which I agreed was great strategy, if not the most sensational way to end the day. Must have been one hell of a weekend for Scott!

On the next and, as it turned out, final day of trial, Patrick returned to peppering Scott with questions about his behavior. Scott continued to use the Fifth Amendment privilege to avoid answering:

• Whether he had sexual intercourse with Haley Kendrick (Miss Massachusetts), Renee Kent (Miss Connecticut) or Wendi Morton (Miss New Jersey) before we separated in Fall of 2012
• Whether he had sexual intercourse at specific hotels (in Boston, Connecticut, New York City and New Jersey) with women other than his wife before we separated in Fall of 2012
• Whether he had sexual intercourse in specific cities (including Las Vegas, Seattle, Los Angeles and Chicago) with women other than his wife before we separated in Fall of 2012.

However, Scott was willing to answer some questions about his extramarital relationships. He admitted he did the following, all prior to our separation:

• Paid for an attorney for Haley Kendrick (the attorney having been hired because we subpoenaed Ms. Kendrick)
• Originally met Wendi Morton through Craigslist, and knew only her first name when they first arranged to meet at a restaurant (Craiglist personals – the premier site for finding a sleazy hook up!)
• Met Wendi Morton’s children and purchased gifts for them
• Helped to pay Wendi Morton’s mortgage and purchased jewelry and other gifts for her
• Was a member of Ashley Madison, singles.net, sugardaddyforme.com, Match.com and many other dating websites. He even admitted he couldn’t remember all of the sites he had joined!
• Had the hidden phone, which he used to call these women
• Had used the alias Bill Douglas
• Had unilaterally taken all of his year-end profit distribution (over $200k) and deposited in his personal bank account. This typically was money we used to pay our tax obligation so we were in the hole for our quarterly filings. He loaned $60,000 of it to his new girlfriend, testifying she paid him back two months later, though who knows if she actually did.
  

It was not a good day for Scott. He thought his behavior would be off limits because we had settled on the dissipation dollar amount moments before the start of trial. Bad bet on his part as the judge allowed us to discuss Scott’s behavior, as long as the actual amount of money spent was not mentioned.

But there was a bombshell of new information we didn’t even use at trial. I found A NEW ROUND OF DATING PROFILES and these were even more salacious than everything else, which was already extremely disturbing!

Scott’s new dating profiles came from an investigation of his post-separation financial records. We subpoenaed them three months before our divorce to get an update on his banking and credit card records. We specifically wanted to know whether the 200K he took had also been used to fund other mistresses, prostitutes and girlfriends.

On his September, 2014 statement I found a payment to “SuccessfulMatch” for $135. I googled SuccessfulMatch and learned it was a shell company for a number of dating websites.

 

At that time (early 2015), if you entered your phone number, SuccessfulMatch would identify the dating sites that included you as a member and your username (that feature has since been eliminated, probably as a result of the Ashley Madison hack). I entered Scott’s phone numbers (legitimate and hidden) and found he was a member of MillionaireMatch with the user name “Wdboyfriend1.”

Knowing Wdboyfriend1 was the username to his MillionaireMatch membership, I then created a dummy membership and searched for his username to find his profile:

Nothing new in this profile — he was still looking for sugar babies. Still, I was appalled he mentioned our daughter. In an equally creepy move, he used a picture he had asked ME to take on his phone while we were on a romantic vacation in France! I continued googling, using Scott’s MillionaireMatch username (Wdboyfriend1) and different sections of text from his profile. Up popped an entirely new set of profiles. In some, Scott continued to seek hook ups with women:

These weren’t all, however. Imagine my surprise when I started finding profiles showed Scott had “expanded” his sexual preferences.

Identifying as bisexual and searching for everyone? You would think at this point nothing would faze me, given all I know knew of his sex addiction. But I was speechless.

Even so, I did get a few laughs from how he described himself, “I am really good at explaining things and making other people feel comfortable.” Translation: Get a comfy seat because I plan to do all of the talking! He certainly didn’t want anyone discovering his new sexual endeavors saying, “Unfortunately some of my colleagues and family would not appreciate my choices so I am not able to post a picture here.” How many hits do you think you are going to get in the “casual sex” dating world when you don’t post a picture?

Another profile popped up from a more targeted dating site, BiCupid.com:

Seeking a hook up with a couple? I had already found threesomes with women in his repertoire but a woman and a man? Equal opportunity, I guess.

Finally, the bolder, bisexual Scott put his picture in a second profile on OkCupid, though he didn’t on another profile on Plenty of Fish

JUST MEN? I wondered how his rock solid conservative mother would feel about being mentioned in her son’s, trolling for men, dating profile (his overactive brain “Used to drive my mom crazy”). A psychotherapist would have a field day explaining his mention of his mother, given his reluctance in another bisexual profile to “go public” with a picture, due to the conservatism of his friends and family.

At this point, an explanation of Scott’s sexual preference and psyche was way above my pay grade. Even my therapist wouldn’t comment other than to say it was impossible to discern Scott’s real sexual preference unless he first recovered from his sex addiction. The net was, Scott would need a twelve step program, a psychotherapist, and a psychiatrist prescribing drugs to get to the bottom of it, whichever type of bottom that might be for Scott.

I wanted Patrick to out Scott with the bisexual profiles in his testimony. Perhaps I thought Scott would explain himself and it would make me feel better. Regardless, I was disappointed when Patrick wouldn’t use them, saying Scott posted the profiles after our separation and they were therefore not relevant. If he brought them up, he worried he would piss off the judge. He was right fo course so we didn’t use them. Huge bummer – it would have been another great Law and Order SVU moment. But it was the right decision.