NYC Woman Loses Lifetime Disability Alimony After Blogging About Her Belly Dancing Passion claim
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NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City woman who was getting $850 a month in alimony because she was supposedly disabled and unable to work had her payments slashed after her ex-husband spotted online photos of her belly dancing.
Brian McGurk went to court after discovering a blog that showed his 43-year-old ex-wife dancing at a gallery.
In other Internet postings, she wrote about dancing vigorously for several hours every day.
Dorothy McGurk told the court that the dancing was physical therapy for injuries she suffered in a car accident in the mid-1990s.
A county judge didn’t buy it — and reduced her payments to $400 per month.
The judge also ordered her to pay her ex-husband’s legal fees and 60 percent from the sale of their home.
Daily Mail:
‘My belly dancing is the reason why I adore myself so much,’ McGurk posted on the blog, including photos of herself grooving at the Chapel of Sacred Mirrors, a new age gallery in Chelsea.
‘Today I decided to dedicate myself more to my dance,’ she wrote. ‘Even though I dance everyday, it’s not enough. It won’t be enough until I dance for you all, until you feel my euphoria.
‘Today as I danced myself silly, I lifted my head and elongated my neck as I swirled around,’ she wrote in another post. ‘And then it happened, I got really, really high.’
In one Facebook entry, a friend asked Dorothy McGurk why she had not posted photos of herself from a recent belly-dancing performance.
‘Gotta be careful what goes on line pookies,’ she answered. ‘The ex would love to fry me with that.’
NY Daily News:
A Staten Island woman who lost her hefty divorce deal when her ex-hubby showed a judge her online belly-dancing photos said she was just posing in the pics.
“I wasn’t really belly-dancing in them,” Dorothy McGurk, 43, told the Daily News Saturday. “I was posing. In some of them I was moving a veil around with my arms, but I wasn’t belly-dancing.”
She said the photos showed her and another woman, but that only the other woman was dancing. “My girlfriend in front of me was belly-dancing with a sword,” she said, refusing to provide the photos. “I was just standing behind her waving a veil.”
Dorothy McGurk also said she has spoken to crowds about belly dancing and uses similar exercises as physical therapy.
“The only thing I do are gentle exercises,” she said. “One of them is undulating. What you do is suck in and flex the muscles of your belly.”
Dorothy McGurk, who said she does the undulating exercise lying down, said she also uses the exercises to stretch her hips.
“Stand up and push your hip side to side until you feel a gentle stretch in the hip,” she said. “I do my stretching exercises and undulating every day.
“It alleviates my pain and it builds a little bit of muscle,” she added. “I have to move somehow. It also helps me to lose weight.”
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Comments (158)
Nigel2
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 3:55pmI bet she is a liberal. LEECH!!
Report Post »tarbush
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 3:53pmMen, take this as a lesson. Be very careful with who you marry. Avoid nut-cases at all cost. Suggest a long engagement in order to be certain what you are getting into.
I especially like that unicorn outfit from her blog pictures.
Report Post »Ella
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 3:49pmShe got what she deserved.
Report Post »rightplanet
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 3:48pmJeez what a shame for her and how embarrassing… but then, a lefty like this probably feels no remorse, only anger that the courts would cut down her entitlement. She should have to pay her ex back all the way, in fact, why doesn’t she pay him alimony? Mo money, Mo money, Mo money!
Report Post »How great do you feel about dancing now?
Now everytime you dance, think of how stupid you are, mmmmkay?
Talmid of Yeshua
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 3:45pmShe’s human trash and a gold digger. Doesn’t surprise me though… as about 45-50% of Americans now are gold digging, entitlement-collecting, human trash.
Why work when the rest of us have our taxes stolen to take care of the lazy.
Report Post »Mainer forever
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 4:14pmYikes…kinda harsh wouldn’t you say? “human trash”? I mean yeah shes not honest…but human trash? I don’t believe God makes such a thing. Remember…thoes with out sin…cast the first stone.
Report Post »marine249
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 3:42pmdo you know what they work-men comm. here in Mt?
a 2nd JOB
Report Post »loadingmyclips
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 3:39pmToo bad for the parasite. Iam gonna have a hard time sleeping tonight knowing this.
Report Post »concealled9mms
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 3:38pmgod am i sick at looking at skanky looking liberals
Report Post »MeteoricLimbo
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 3:33pmOh drat the luck.
Report Post »RightPolitically
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 3:26pmAnother lost vote to Obama, KING OF THE GIVE-AWAYS!
Report Post »Its Gonna Getcha
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 3:15pmKismet seeing this article, was thinking about how some people will do anything for money, and how if they put yourselves underneath money, then they end up resenting money. How there are so many more people who would rather live with a lack of money than do anything for it. How Americans are great that way. They give value to money because it represents the honest hard work it took to earn it. It is a sum of a million good gestures in between, and during snack breaks. No one should ever feel owned or as if they do nothing but work. Refresh and restore.
Report Post »ThatCatGirl
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 3:24pm“Kismet seeing this article, was thinking about how some people will do anything for money…”
Except earn it honestly. :)
Report Post »Its Gonna Getcha
Posted on April 18, 2011 at 8:39pmYup
Report Post »lynnissmart
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 3:14pmJust waiting for the thugs in the unions and administration to get theirs!
Report Post »TheGreyPiper
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 3:10pmDo you post anything but spamverts for your own site?
Report Post »Reported.
captaincameron
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 3:08pmWhy does she not have to pay back the extra alimony that she already paid her husband?
Report Post »Why are there not charges of fraud being filed?
This is no different than the (I’m guessing at this amount) millions of people who have been bilking the government, collecting unemployment while not bothering to look for work or filing for government disability payments when there is nothing wrong with them. Try these people, and if they are found guilty, fine them. If they can’t afford the fine, put them on a work party. The same for welfare recipients who fail to pass a random drug test.
The guy my sister voted for for President keeps promising to expand entitlement programs–instead, why not eliminate the fraud so that the people truly in need can receive assistance and so you and don’t have to foot the bill for lazy sacks.
upstateny
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 5:02pmThat’s how NY works.
Report Post »tetonbuck
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 3:03pmAnother case of someone not taking any personal responsibility… another “Nanny Stater”…
Report Post »joefboschsr
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 2:55pmI really wish they would have said what her “disability” was and why the hubby was ordered to pay her for it.
Report Post »Exrepublisheep
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 3:05pmgood point.
Report Post »bikerr
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 3:08pm@joefboschsr It was alimony that he was paying. That amount was reduced because she was lying about being able to work. Thus his responsibility to pay her was lowered. I am surprised that alimony is still payed in this PC world.
Report Post »Dale
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 3:25pmjoefboschsr;
The article says she sustained the disability following a mid 90′s auto accident.
Report Post »Silversmith
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 2:55pmI’ve had enough of cheats. It’s rampant in the world today. It’s why we need to protect the republic and the rule of law. This kind of thing will be all we are left with if we don’t.
Silversmith
Report Post »4X4in
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 2:53pmMy brother took care of my parents, till DAD passed resently. Now just MOM! A (friend) of my brothers says he is lazy good for nothin….. To me he is a HERO! The (friend) collects disability, but works on the SIDE………….. ummm disability,works on the side? HOWS THAT WORK!
Report Post »Chicago Ray
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 6:18pmWhy should her ex husband have to pay for her disability anyhow, when she‘s likely already sucking off the public dole as well which they don’t say anything about in this article is what I wonder. He didn’t cause it, it‘s like it’s his fault she was in a supposed car accident?
I can see alimony and that‘s it depending on why they’re divorced. Now if he bailed on her because she’s disabled, that’s different, but they don’t indicate that in this article.
It sucks because people double dipping and mooching like this make things a lot harder for those out there who really are disabled and are doing everything they can do just to survive in a world that IS NOT and doesn‘t slow down for people who’s bodies won’t let them keep up with able bodied workers who outnumber them 100,000 to one..
Report Post »Dale
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 2:44pmNot only a cheat, but a liar as well – your erstwhile hubby is better off without you.
Report Post »felina g
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 2:44pm“It is to Madame Justice that I dedicate this concerto…………”.
Lalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalallalahahahahahahahahah
Report Post »lynnissmart
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 3:11pmDitto!
Report Post »supertas
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 2:42pmClassic idiotic lib. Makes up lies to get someone else to pay for their dumbass lifestyle. Guess now she’ll be getting a little less for her“undulating”. Willing to bet her ex-husband would have paid double alimony for her to take her freak show elsewhere.
Report Post »Salamander
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 3:56pmNow that she’s out of the closet, she can probably make 10x as much getting bills stuffed in her waistband by adoring admirers! Let’s see, maybe 300-500 a night in tips, 10 nights a month (assuming she doesn’t really want to work too much, a cool $3,000 – $5,000 per month, $36K 0 $60K for a ‘hobby’! If she really puts herself into ‘the business’, well maybe another 3-5x that amount. And, that’s without a movie role or book deal!
Report Post »The Gooch
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 5:45pmYou can assume ideological bent based on flower child stereotype, but at no point does the article directly indicate whether this woman presents herself as a liberal or conservative. Granted, it is easy to conclude from her “dirty hippy” utterances she is likely a left leaning tree hugger. I know plenty of so called “conservatives” who behave in just such a manner as presented by this chick. It’s all a matter of self-interest. You’d be amazed what some folks on the right can readily justify when they or their sons and daughters are gaming the system.
Report Post »Parasites exist all along the ideological spectrum and John Stossel recently did an excellent show on the worst of the worst in shameless leeches: The rich and famous… and it ain’t limited to one side, left or right.
You can politicize this matter… but there are bastards on all sides with this issue.
The Gooch
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 2:41pmOne of the primary sources of income in my home state of West “By God” Virginia is Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI). This is doled out to the fat, lazy, worthless, opportunistic, drugged and drunken in what appears to be an effort to shut them up and make them go away. What really infuriates me is the guys and gals who match the profile in this article: They’re “disabled” when the need to perform is presented… and then they go about their business of hunting, fishing, climbing ladders, riding ATVs and working for cash under the table. Report this nonsense to Social Security Administration and you can all but hear the rolling of the eyes on the other end of the phone. Way to go, America. Way to go, lawyers.
Report Post »This is a matter that requires accountability from the govt. and from lawyers. When you start making the lawyers own this racket (i.e., go after those who represent frauds and promote taking advantage of both a system and the taxpayer), you will see this nonsense dry up. But lawyers aren’t known for their willingness to accept laws that hold them accountable. So expect the status quo to remain.
Always nice to see a parasite picked from the host. Consider yourself fried, baby.
Slobaphobe
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 3:38pmNotice it was alimony from the ex. Is it possible to receive SSID while recieving alimony income? Or, will she be applying for government SSID pronto?
Report Post »BonnieBlueFlag
Posted on April 18, 2011 at 12:48am“‘My belly dancing is the reason why I adore myself so much,’ McGurk posted on the blog…”
(vomit)
You can see the “self-esteem” movement has really been a success with this one. Perhaps it’s why she has no SHAME.
Report Post »TulsaYeeHaw
Posted on April 18, 2011 at 12:03pmGood call Gooch. Which is also why SSi needs to go.
Report Post »wwjcdo
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 2:35pmThat’s one free loader down, now we only have about 20,000,000 to go !!!
Report Post »gofigureinternational
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 4:34pmUnfortunately, MORE!
Report Post »Stoic one
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 2:33pmSounds like a democrats; a zillion excuses…. instead of a simple admission.
Report Post »demint.disciple
Posted on April 18, 2011 at 7:43amDAW OF MORONS new girlfriend, and boy is he pissed… He was counting on that extra cash.. I hear now he hired a hit man for the ex.. DAWG its not worth it bro, just break up with her there are plenty of losers out there that you can hook your wagon to…
Report Post »CHOW
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 2:30pmWhat a sponge. She could always marry another sucker. They is one born every minute, so I heard.
Report Post »joe conservative
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 2:34pmCan you say Kharma? That’s awesome. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIMRNUGXxII
Report Post »Dale
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 2:43pm‘Gotta be careful what goes on line pookies,’ she answered. ‘The ex would love to fry me with that.’ – and he did.
Report Post »Mannax
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 2:55pmNever, repeat, NEVER leave video or photographic evidence of what you do unless you don’t care if it might be used against you later.
Report Post »FlatFoot
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 3:02pmSo much… Epic Win!
Here’s the blog that got her busted.
She goes by the handle ‘NocturnalGoddess’
http://people.tribenetwork.com/nocturnalgoddess
…
Report Post »theonefromabove
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 3:03pmGlad she was actually caught. What a sick leech.
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Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 3:03pmWhat goes around will come back around to you.
Report Post »Ironmaan
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 3:12pmA great example of the leeches among us. Even if she was disabled why should her have to subsidize her life.
Report Post »http://guerillatics.com
MEESHEL
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 3:15pmI’m so tired of the liars and cheaters. Fail.
Report Post »MEESHEL
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 3:25pm@flatfoot
Report Post »That was fast… thanks for the link! Now I’m a little creeped out though. She seems to live in her own little world. One I hope never to visit.
CatB
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 3:28pmBusted .. I love it .. .hopefully more will be caught and “explosed” ….
Report Post »Deb C
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 3:30pmDUH – Losing !
Report Post »Physicist_In_Training
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 3:44pmHaha. What a pair of nuts. I think they both got what they deserved; him for marrying such a fruitcake, her for being such a fruitcake. She looks really young for 43 in those photos, but not in a good way; she looks like she’s still pretending to be in highschool, instead of embracing the maturity of womanhood while still taking care of herself. I hope I still look good at 43 but…not like her. Gross.
Report Post »jaycee11
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 3:53pmChow………..at 43 she is probably a bit too old to find a sugar daddy.
Report Post »Rearden Steel
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 3:53pmHaha. I’d make her retroactively pay back what she took.
I catch flack for wanting a no-alimony pre-nup but see it abused constantly. The only two people I know who collect alimony could easily get married to their significant others (of many years) but they don’t want to let go of that money.
Report Post »MIBUGNU2
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 4:02pmOOOOOOP’s ! Poookie, I‘ll be dancing behind the counter at Mickie D’s
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 4:40pmThe judge should have cut it down to zero, IMO. If she can dance, she can work. (Same exercise if you’re in the right business!)
Report Post »My Sacred Honor
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 5:24pmThis is a Blaze-worthy story because….
We DO NOT have an active war starting in Lybia?
We DO NOT have a House of Representatives that cowered for some reason on the budget?
We DO NOT have gasoline prices skyrocketting out of control?
We DO NOT live on a planet whose axis is “unexplicably” tilting at a faster rate?
We DO NOT have a cyclical solar poop-storm heading our way any second?
We DO NOT have Snookie getting accidentally clocked in a bar….wait…
Scratch that one…
You get my point.
Report Post »This is tabloid, we-all-know-someone-in-our-neighborhood-whom-this-happened-to drivel.
Get to work and get your nose out of the Enquirer, Blaze “newsguys”. (Scott Baker)
mossbrain
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 5:38pmSo true, so many women are dishonest leeches. They should have a class in high school to teach the boys to be wary of womens bullsh*t.
Report Post »avenger
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 5:41pmhmmm….how ironic…
Report Post »walkwithme1966
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 5:59pmBusted!! http://maboulette.wordpress.com
Report Post »Love Bandit Bestid
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 6:13pmDoesn’t her nose get in the way of with her hips ?
Report Post »godlovinmom
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 6:17pmsacredhonor…I believe this is newsworthy…and fits right in on the topics of the day…namely…entitlements…HOW MANY people do you know that are sponges…I’m all out for helping the helpless…but too many people in America are this woman!
Report Post »robgc1
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 6:27pmthe Lord works in mysterious ways lol
Report Post »Cemoto78
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 6:41pmOne drain on the system revealed, millions more to go. Can you imagine how much of our taxpayer monies are actually going down the drain from all the leeches out there. Time to hold some of these low lives responsible and make them pay back the untold millions being squandered. But, that would mean we would have to use a little common sense and that seems to be lacking these days. Some of these government workers could be used to find waste and fraud instead of using their time to surf the net, Facebooking, twittering, etc. Another entitlement rich story and they just keep coming.
Report Post »pelosi galore
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 6:52pm@Joe: You say Karma, I say Kama Sutra!!!
Report Post »G.W. Dobbs
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 7:40pmAnother “seductress” who has taken advantage of a man FOR LIFE.
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 8:30pm@Mannax
Report Post »Posted on April 17, 2011 at 2:55pm
Never, repeat, NEVER leave video or photographic evidence of what you do unless you don’t care if it might be used against you later.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
AND, never write anything in a letter that you would not seen on the front page of a major newspaper!
Professional Infidel
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 10:01pmafter her scam, she probably thought she was bullet proof. What ****** me off is she was awarded anything to start with.
Report Post »oldoldtimer
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 11:42pmSame thing 90% of the leaches on Social security disability are doing. I know because I have 5 relatives that do it. I work 5days a week and they get disability and are in better health than I am. Just some of us are moral honest people and too many are not.
Report Post »Mee the People
Posted on April 18, 2011 at 12:18amshe should have to pay back all the money she got
Report Post »thepatriotdave
Posted on April 18, 2011 at 1:35amI hope she dances her way into the poor house!
Still can’t figure out why the judge only cut her payment in half? Good thing I wasn’t the Judge, she would have to pay back every penney and get checks for 5 cents every month (just to p*** her off).
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demint.disciple
Posted on April 18, 2011 at 7:38amI guess the judge coundnt take it all what with taking care of for all those years taking all of the money was like a death sentence… what a loser..
Report Post »mrsmileyface
Posted on April 18, 2011 at 8:10amWhich is exactly why I dont post anything of myself other than this anonymous MR. :) But then again in the age of Obama EVERYONE wants to be famous. What idiots.
Report Post »sts514
Posted on April 18, 2011 at 10:59amSo hey Judge… is there any reason the benefit payment couldn’t be reduced to ZERO? I have to give KUDOS to the ex-husband calling out the complete fraud of this welfare sponge piece of human garbage. It had to feel pretty good for him to have the solid evidence to call her out and have her finally held to full account for her deceit & treachery. I have my own piece of crap ex-wife that I’d immensely enjoy doing something like this toward. WELL DONE SIR.
Report Post »derweibhai
Posted on April 18, 2011 at 2:56pmAlimony should be done away with entirely, I think it is stupid as heck that someone can live off someone else’s hard work even after they split up. Grow up and get a job!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »28_ID
Posted on April 18, 2011 at 8:48pmThis chick is a Looter and remind me a lot of Reardon’s wife.
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