The Psycho Ex-Wife

The Psycho Ex-Wife (thepsychoexwife.com) was a blog that operated in the United States between 2007 and 2011. The site was shut down following an order by family court judge Diane Gibbons (Pennsylvania) who said that the website subjected the blogger's ex-wife to "outright cruelty" and could be harmful to the couple's children. The case received widespread news media attention as the blogger and his girlfriend argued online that the family court's decision was violating of his rights under the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and as he sought crowd funding to take the case to Pennsylvania Superior Court. Ultimately, a case was not heard before the Pennsylvania Superior Court, and the thepsychoexwife.com remained shut down. The Psycho Ex-Wife was the second website business of the bloggers closed by court order.
History.
Starting in May 2006, Anthony Morelli and Misty Weaver-Ostinato, his girlfriend, began publicly chronicling Morelli's custody battle and grievances about Morelli's wife, Allison Morelli, on BPDFamily.com, a support group for family members of people suffering from Borderline Personality Disorder. The Morelli's had been divorced since 2004, with shared custody of their sons and Morelli was fighting his ex-wife's accusations of child abuse and other violations of the divorce agreement. Morelli and Weaver-Ostinato posted 4,500 messages at BPDFamily.com anonymously as "Mr. M" and "mmm".
In response to increasing pressure from the moderators at BPDFamily.com to temper his aggressive and caustic style, Morelli and Weaver-Ostinato set up an online blog. There Morelli wrote anonymously as "LM" and used pseudonyms (e.g. PEW for "Psycho Ex-Wife") when referring to his ex wife.
In December 2007, ThePsychoExWife.com domain was created by Morelli and Weaver-Ostinato.
In September 2009, Morelli and Weaver-Ostinato started a quasi-legal consultation service together, named Mr. Custody Coach, for clients going through high-conflict divorce and custody cases. Misty Weaver-Ostinato had previously sold quasi-legal consultation services (bankruptcy filings) and had been shut down by the Federal Bankruptcy Court in North Carolina for fraudulent, unfair and deceptive acts and for practicing law without a license.
ThePsychoExWife.com attracted an audience who shared their own divorce and custody experiences in the couple's advice column. Morelli and Weaver-Ostinato eventually expanded the website to include a members-only message board to publicly discuss divorce, child custody, borderline personality disorder, and parental alienation syndrome. Morelli started writing reviews for divorce-related books and websites for its "suggested reading" list. They also began selling advertising space on the website.
Morelli and Weaver-Ostinato claimed that within four years of its launch, ThePsychoExWife.com was attracting over 200,000 followers a month, however independent tracking services like Alexa showed a significantly a smaller audience.
Controversial Editorial Content.
Morelli and Weaver-Ostinato wrote thousands of controversial blog posts on this subject. Morelli claimed that he had spent $80,000 on legal expenses subsequent to the divorce fighting his ex-wife's accusations of child abuse and other violations of the divorce agreement.
According to Morelli, blogging was a healthy place to "vent" his feelings about his failed marriage, divorce, and subsequent custody battle over their two children. Amongst the more choice insults for his former partner Allison Morelli were that 