Quit Smoking. Take Up Bigamy Instead!
Douglass "Dude" Cigarette has been stubbed out, maybe for as long as ten years. It seems that the man who played the anti-smoking crusading cigarette pleaded guilty to bigamy. He may have had as many as four wives at one time, although that is still under investigation.
LYNCHBURG, Va. - A man who dresses up as a giant cigarette and uses hip-hop music to encourage children in Lynchburg and beyond to avoid smoking pleaded guilty Tuesday to bigamy. Phillip Dale Williams, 37, had as many as four wives at the same time, Chuck Felmlee, deputy commonwealth's attorney, said.
Williams' fourth wife, Lashawn Stevenson, became suspicious earlier this year when her husband began receiving child support notices in the mail. When the couple wed in 2003, he told her he had never been married, Felmlee said.
Stevenson's investigation led her to a Vallejo, Calif., woman, Antoinette Borum, who told Stevenson Williams left her in 2002 with two children and no child support. When Stevenson confronted Williams, he told her he had married Borum and two other women before her, Felmlee said.
Williams told police he divorced the first wife, but not the second or Borum. Police haven't been able to contact the first two wives, Felmlee said.
He's facing up to ten years in prison. You don't suppose he'll be the butt of jokes, do you? I mean, it's tough watching a career go up in smoke.
By Quilly Mammoth, Wednesday, 22 November , 2006 @ 7:41 am
Yup, he’s burned.