I’m so happy when I correctly assess the potential for crazy divorce drama. And I totally predicted this Bobby Flay-Stephanie March mess. Flay has never been discreet, and there were always rumors about his wandering eye, especially around his female employees. So obviously, when March and Flay split up and he filed for divorce, I assumed (correctly) that we would be hearing about alleged affairs and just how much he (allegedly) fooled around on Stephanie. What I didn’t predict was the idea that Stephanie and her team would be using those rumors to try to throw out the pre-nup. Flay made March sign a prenup that would only guarantee her $5000 a month. I don’t even think she gets the NYC apartment.

Anyway, as we heard over the weekend, Page Six got some leaked information about Flay’s alleged three-year affair with his assistant, a younger woman named Elyse Tirrell. Flay’s lawyer slammed the story as a petty PR ploy by March’s camp, and Flay’s business partner slammed March personally by basically saying March was no angel either. And now we’re all caught up. So, March’s lawyer – who seems perfectly happy to play all of this out in press – issued a new statement about the Page Six allegations of Flay’s three-year affair and how Flay’s camp says March’s lawyer is behind everything.

March’s attorney, Deborah Lans of Cohen Clair Lans Greifer & Thorpe LLP, tells Us that this is not the case.

“Stephanie has worked through all of this to maintain her privacy and her dignity,” she says of March, adding that the actress had surgery last week and is now living with her mother in New York as she recovers.

“Stephanie is terribly upset by what she has been reading in the paper,” Lans adds of the divorce drama. “I would say that what Bobby’s lawyer and his friends are saying is a combination of speculation and projection on their part. There are profound issues with the agreement that was signed at their wedding but we will deal with those in the court,” the lawyer continues of the couple’s prenuptial agreement. “I’m confident a court will consider the agreement to be unconscionable… Stephanie hopes people will respect her privacy and be sophisticated enough to read through what’s coming from the other side.”

[From Us Weekly]

Huh. On one side, if I’m ever fighting a bitter divorce battle, I hope I have a ballsy, take-no-prisoners lawyer like this on my side. On the other side, for all of us out here in the cheap seats, March’s lawyer is being too cute by half. I respect the effort to turn this all around on Flay and his people, but it was Stephanie March’s friend who went to Page Six to talk about Flay’s affair. That story came from March’s camp. End of story. I’d also like to see March’s lawyers dial down the rhetoric a little bit – I mean, we all know Flay cheated (allegedly!) and I think most of us believe that March should get the prenup thrown out. But the prenup is not “unconscionable”. We’re not talking about genocide or human trafficking. It’s just a divorce battle!

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