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Oracle co-president Charles E. Phillips is a handsome dude. According to a recent magazine profile, he has a lovely wife, Karen Phillips, and son Chas.
So why is he popping up on billboards across the country with his arms around another lovely lady, YaVaughnie Wilkins?
In a statement to NBC Bay Area, he confessed an affair:
“I had an 8½ year serious relationship with YaVaughnie Wilkins," the statement said. "My divorce proceedings began in The relationship with Ms. Wilkins has since ended and we both wish each other well."
The billboards, reportedly placed in New York, Atlanta and San Francisco, point people to a website that catalogs in meticulous photographic and video detail a long romance between Phillips and Wilkins dating back to at least As of Friday morning, the web site was receiving a "service unavailable" error -- it's unclear if it has been taken down or was overwhelmed by traffic.
It couldn't come at a worse time for Phillips, a top dealmaker at the Redwood Shores, Calif.-based software company. The company is in the midst of getting a multibillion-dollar deal to buy Sun Microsystems through regulatory approvals.
While Phillips says he and Karen began divorce proceedings in , evidence suggests that the couple may be in the process of reconciling.
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Update | a.m. Adding credit to Gawker and the apparent motivation for the creation of the billboards.
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Over the course of several days this week, a series of mysterious billboards popped up in New York and other cities showing romantic photographs of the co-president of Oracle with a woman.
On one of the billboards that appeared in New York on Times Square, the words Charles & YaVaughnie were posted along with You are my soulmate forever! The note was signed cep, referring apparently to Charles E. Phillips Jr., the Oracle co-president.
Last night, Mr. Phillips offered something of an explanation: he was having an affair, which he said had since ended. The woman in the photographs is not his wife, Karen, but his former mistress, YaVaughnie Wilkins, and he acknowledged a long-term relationship with her.
I had an 8½ year serious relationship with YaVaughnie Wilkins, Mr. Phillips said in a statement on Thursday. My divorce proceedings began in The relationship with Ms. Wilkins has since ended and we both wish each other well.
The billboards are apparently an attempt by Ms. Wilkins to embarrass Mr. Phillips. Ms. Wilkins could not immediately be reached for c