Belly Dancing Sinks New York Woman’s Disability Claim

April 19, 2011

A Staten Island woman who was getting $850 a month in alimony because she was supposedly disabled and unable to work had to give the payments up after her ex-husband spotted photos of her belly dancing on the Internet.

Brian McGurk went to court after discovering a blog that showed his 43-year-old ex-wife dancing at a gallery in Manhattan.

In other Internet postings she wrote about dancing vigorously for several hours every day.

Dorothy McGurk told the court that the dancing was physical therapy for injuries she suffered in a car accident in the mid 1990s.

A county judge didn’t buy it, and reduced her payments to $400 per month.

The judge also ordered her to pay her ex-husband’s legal fees and 60 percent from the sale of their home.

Topics New York

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  • April 21, 2011 at 10:21 am
    wudchuck says:
    so the next chapter, has she filed for ssn for disability? if so, then is that not FRAUD! why are the feds not involved? if we can say its a felony to file a fraud for insu... read more
  • April 21, 2011 at 7:58 am
    Scott says:
    Okay, so she commits fraud and still gets $400/month. Welcome to America, land of opportunity!
  • April 20, 2011 at 2:29 pm
    youngin' says:
    Who got custody of their son Fromunda?

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