YouTube video helps grant Broadway mogul divorce

Day in court

Exhibit A: YouTube video

A Broadway mogul whose wife trashed him in a widely viewed Internet video was granted a divorce from her Monday. A Manhattan judge gave Philip Smith a divorce from Tricia Walsh-Smith on the grounds of cruel and inhuman treatment. Walsh-Smith lashes out against Smith in the tearful and furious YouTube video, which has attracted more than 3 million hits. She makes embarrassing claims about their intimate life and then calls his office to repeat those claims to a stunned assistant. Judge Harold Beeler blasted Walsh-Smith for her video stunt, and said Monday that the prenuptial agreement, signed three weeks before the couple's 1999 wedding, was valid.

Online

Ancient Bible

The oldest surviving copy of the New Testament, a 4th century version that had its Gospels and epistles spread across the world, is being made whole again — online. The British Library says the full text of the Codex Sinaiticus will be available to Web users by next July, digitally reconnecting parts that are held in Britain, Russia, Germany and a monastery in Egypt's Sinai Desert.

People

27 months in jail

Blake Fielder-Civil, Amy Winehouse's husband, was sentenced Monday in London to 27 months in jail for assault and obstructing justice. He has admitted beating up pub manager James King in a barroom fight in 2006 and then offering him $400,000 to keep quiet about it. Winehouse, who has regaled concert audiences with appeals for the release of "my Blake," was not at the court. Fielder-Civil has spent almost nine months in jail and could be freed in December, after completing half his sentence.

Today in History

1933: American aviator Wiley Post completed the first solo flight around the world as he returned to New York's Floyd Bennett Field after traveling for 7 days, 18 ¾ hours.

1934: A man identified as bank robber John Dillinger was shot to death by federal agents outside Chicago's Biograph Theater.

1942: The Nazis began transporting Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto to the Treblinka concentration camp.

1946: Jewish extremists blew up a wing of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, killing 90 people.

Today's Birthdays

Former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, R-Kan., 85. Actor-comedian Orson Bean, 80. Fashion designer Oscar de la Renta, 76. Actress Louise Fletcher, 74. Game-show host Alex Trebek, 68. Singer George Clinton, 67. Actor Danny Glover, 61. Actor-comedian-director Albert Brooks, 61. Rock singer Don Henley, 61. Actor Willem Dafoe, 53. R&B singer Keith Sweat, 47. Actor Rob Estes, 45. Actor John Leguizamo, 44. Actor-comedian David Spade, 44. Singer Rufus Wainwright, 35. Actress A.J. Cook, 30.

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