The ashes of a Brooklyn man who married his fourth wife without actually divorcing his third one are the crux of a highly unusual family dispute. Shirley Majors Mack, the third wife of nursing home worker Joseph Mack, and the rest of the Mack family is suing fourth wife Regina Brown for having Mack cremated instead of buried. "It's awful, very awful. I know nothing about this woman," said Majors Mack. more ›

Some wives are surprisingly understanding when their husbands tell them out of the blue that they have a ten-year-old love child with their former mistress. Other wives are so understanding, they get court orders to extract sperm from their recently deceased husband so that his girlfriend can have his baby. more ›

A new book, The Devil's Casino: Friendship, Betrayal and the High Stakes Games Played Inside Lehman Brothers, depicts the lives of Lehman Brothers wives as pampered, yes, but also lonely and rather mundane. One wife gave "tours of her vast shoes closets," and lived with her husband Joe Gregory on an annual personal budget of $15 million. They had both "a seaplane and a helicopter ready for the daily commute," but beyond all that stuff, keeping up appearances was simply exhausting. more ›

"Uncompensated" MTA board members are not the only ones benefiting from a policy of free E-ZPasses. As the board found it necessary to pass toll and fare hikes to regular commuters, it made sure that not only were they insulated from the cost of traveling around NYC, but their wives were as well. One member even gave his girlfriend an all-inclusive Metro-North rail pass. The value of these perks is in the thousands of dollars annually for each individual. more ›