I'm starting to feel a little bit sorry for Jessica Seinfeld. Only a very little bit - I still think that she's a bit of a spoiled brat who maybe crossed a line or six in not acknowledging the unoriginality (ahem) of her recent best-selling, kid-deceiving cookbook - but still: some. After all, she's taking a bit of beating, and even the Teflon-coated popularity of her husband isn't really shielding the blows. The latest: The New York Times has been asking uncomfortable questions about the precised circumstances of her divorce, eight years ago. Did she or didn't she dump her newlywed husband, Eric Nederlander, just days after their honeymoon? Did she or didn't she immediately take up with Jerry Seinfeld? Isn't it true that she was involved with Seinfeld prior to that brief, ill-fated marriage?

Jessica's been warding off the questions with lame denials ("my marriage was already in trouble before the wedding;" "I met Jerry at a gym weeks later") but nobody seems to be buying it,  not least The New York Times, which points out that "Ms. Seinfeld's account contradicts the unfolding of events as described in the news media at the time -- namely, that she left her husband for the comedian -- and which her own statements seemed to confirm."

Poor Jessica. This is how people treat you when you don't bribe them with $21,000 worth of designer shoes. Life just ain't fair.

Source: Jezebel