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Ex-Wife Illegally Bugs Ex-Husband with Daughter's Teddy Bear

January 8, 2009

So, you thought your ex was evil? How about this woman, Dianna Divingnzzo, that planted a bug in her daughter's teddy bear? They should have her picture in the dictionary next to the definition of a Bitch. The ex-husband, Duke Lewton is suing her for invasion of privacy in the amount of $700,000, plus legal fees. I hope he wins. Even so, collecting the money will be another whole ordeal. He'll be lucky if he gets more than a couple of grand if that.

According to court papers, Duke Lewton has accused his ex-wife, Dianna Divingnzzo, and her father, Sam Divingnzzo, of hiding a listening device inside the child's favorite toy, Little Bear, in order to spy on him.

The lawsuit claims Miss Divingnzzo put the bug inside the teddy to monitor her five-year-old daughter's visits to Mr Lewton after he gained partial custody of the child. The girl took the bear with her everywhere, according to court papers.

The secret recordings lasted from December 2007 to May 2008, the ex-husband claims. His lawyer, John Kinney, said they contained nothing other than the normal interactions between a father and his daughter.

Mr Lewton, of Omaha, Nebraska, said he only found out about the recordings when Miss Divingnzzo and her father tried to use them at a custody hearing.

The judge hearing the case, however, refused to listen to them, saying they violated Nebraska law which states that at least one person in a conversation must consent to its being recorded. He would not even read any transcript of the tapes, saying they could constitute a crime.

Mr Lewton said that he had no idea his conversations were being recorded.

"I just can't fathom the thought of somebody taking that little bears head off and putting a bugging device for whatever reason," he said.

Mr Lewton and several other people recorded by the bear, a gift he gave his daughter several years ago, are seeking punitive damages for invasion of privacy of $700,000 plus legal fees.

The divorced couple's custody dispute has raged for more than four years. According to local media, Mr Lewton alleged that his ex-wife also hired private detectives to follow him and planted GPS devices on two of his cars.

Mr Lewton said he still searches his daughter's toys and microwaves her teddy bears for a few seconds in search of any devices that could be hidden inside.

His custody dispute with Miss Divingnzzo, who has refused to comment to the media, continues.

I recently read a prediction from The Futurist magazine that "Everything you say and do may be recorded."

Implanted nanodevices will allow all our conversations and activities to be recorded and recoverable

That's because digital storage capacity will grow so large that it will be measured in "yottabytes" - 1 septillion bytes of data - allowing "the ability to record and store every second of one's life on a computer (and no doubt post it on Facebook)."

Big Brother is watching ... and so is your Ex-Wife!

Back in May 2007, a fan did the same thing to Britney Spears - Fan gave Britney Spears bugged teddy bear, tried to blackmail her