Woman Sues Cheating Husband for Giving Her STDs

The Post reports a woman is suing her husband for $25 million, claiming that the sexual transmitted diseases she has now are the result of his indiscretions. Stephanie Lerner says after being infected with "several severe incurable strains of the human papilloma virus," she's had a number of operations and now is in constant pain She says her venture capitalist husband Mark first give her trichomoniasis in 1996 (he admitted to cheating then); when she learned about her HPV in 2005, he apparently "admitted to her and their marriage counselor that he'd continued having unprotected sex with hookers in Asia, as well as with a mistress in New York." He also allegedly said, "I wish you would just die already" when she was ill. The two are reportedly in the middle of a divorce.

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By Jen Chung in News on July 31, 2008 3:19 PM

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bizpal

He is just a bad guy. I wouldn't do business with him. These kind of guys find nice women. He cheats on everyone and with everyone.

cornholioNYC

they're both morons. unprotected sex with asian hookers?? LOL. sooner or later his dick will fall off, and then he can throw in the towel. maybe he secretly hates asians and wants to infect as many as he can... that hater.

interlard

Why would he have unprotected sex with these Asian hookers? Now he's got all these STDs too! That's just plain weird.

I hope she wins.

angry_pickle

She loved the luxury lifestyle that her husband afforded her. That's why she stayed with him I assume.

Aaron Richard

Sounds like a nice guy to me. Very honest. What's the problem here?

babyhitler

can I sue someone for giving me the flu by just breathing on me?

circusatari

There are many different types of HPV. Some are very common and go away on their own. There are some that are more serious and do not go away and lead to bigger problems. What a douche-bag her ex is. It's pretty disgusting.

Tgirl

how romantic

1987porsche944

And I thought my ex's were jerks! Wow!

zodak

CDC: "Approximately 20 million Americans are currently infected with HPV, and another 6.2 million people become newly infected each year. At least 50% of sexually active men and women acquire genital HPV infection at some point in their lives."

i don't think she's going to win.

Deca

Lucky for her he didn't catch Hepatitis B. It's endemic in all of Asia, except for Japan. Or even more lucky he wasn't whoring in Africa or India. Then she'd probably have AIDS by now.