Originally Posted by A Squared

What do you know about PE's relationship to the woman to whom he is legally married? There are a whole bunch of people who are estranged but still legally married, only because they haven't finalized the paperwork for a variety of reasons ... because it's not a big priority for them, or because it's a long drawn out legal battle, etc. There's enough folks who fit that description, that it's not necessarily a valid assumption that he had a faithful wife back home who had a reasonable expectation of his fidelity. It's real easy for a reporter to check on line his state's bureau of vital statistics and discover that technically, he is married. Less so to actually find out what the status of that marriage really is.