of second life affair leads to real life divorce

Second Life affair leads to real life divorce: British couple set to divorce after wife finds her husband's alter-ego chatting affectionately with a woman in the virtual world.

But fact and fiction have collided in heartbreaking fashion for a British couple who are divorcing after the wife discovered her real-life husband's online alter-ego, a goatee-bearded, medallion-wearing hombre called Dave Barmy, with another - virtual - woman.

Amy Taylor, who in Second Life is club DJ Laura Skye, said today that as far as she was concerned her husband, David Pollard, was having a real relationship with the human controlling her love rival.