The "other woman" ordered to pay $1 million for breaking up her former boss's marriage wants to make clear that she isn't the hussy that his ex-wife has described her as.
Margie Cox Hutelmyer, who married her former boss, Joseph Hutelmyer, in May, says his marriage to Dorothy Hutelmyer really wasn't all that wonderful."Until this woman recognizes that this was not the fairy tale marriage she portrays it to be, people are going to keep on suffering," Margie Cox Hutelmyer, 38, told The News & Observer of Raleigh.
"I did tell her once I was truly sorry for what we were going through, but I couldn't take the responsibility for the breakup of the marriage," she said. "Practically speaking, there was no marriage to break up."
That is not how the jury saw it. It awarded Dorothy Hutelmyer $500,000 for "alienation of affection," the legal term that says Margie Cox Hutelmyer stole her husband's love, and another $500,000 for "criminal conversation," which means Margie Cox Hutelmyer and Joseph Hutelmyer committed adultery.
"I loved him," said Dorothy Hutelmyer, 40. "I believed in him. I thought he was as true to me as I was to him."
Joseph Hutelmyer, 41, left his wife in 1996. He said he was going to end the marriage as early as 1988, but Margie Cox talked him out of it.
Dorothy Hutelmyer took custody of the couple's three children. She lives in the $300,000 house she once shared with her husband, an insurance executive. She is getting $4,000 a month in child support and temporary separation support.
Joseph Hutelmyer and Margie Cox Hutelmyer live in a $500-a-month apartment with her two children. She says she has no money; she hasn't worked for a couple of years.