Ranting YouTube divorcee wins just £350,000 from her multi-millionaire ex-husband

Tricia Walsh-Smith, who is British and appeared on the Benny Hill Show, was given 30 days to leave the £4.5million New York flat she shared with Broadway theatre mogul Philip Smith.

Mr Smith, 76, who is worth an estimated £15million, must also pay his 52-year-old ex-wife £375,000 - far less than she wanted - after a judge in Manhattan ruled that a pre-nuptial agreement signed before the couple's wedding in October 1999 was valid.

Divorce battle: Tricia Walsh-Smith arrives at the New York State Supreme Court in New York yesterday

Happier times: Phil Smith and Tricia Walsh Smith in 2006

In her video, which received more than three million hits, she claimed her husband would not have sex with her because he said he had high blood pressure, but that she found Viagra at their home.

She then calls his office to repeat those claims to a stunned assistant.

On the video, Walsh-Smith also goes through their wedding album, describing family members as 'bad', 'evil' or 'nasty', and expresses concern about eviction from the couple's luxury apartment.

Judge Harold Beeler said the video amounted to 'cruel and inhuman' treatment and granted Mr Smith a divorce. His ex-wife plans to appeal.

Smith yesterday said after the ruling he was 'sorry it had to come to this'.

'I'm happy with the decision of the judge, and I'm happy with the outcome,' he added.

Walsh-Smith didn't see the decision the same way.

'I think it's disgusting,' she said. 'I'm really, really disappointed with the decision.'

She accused her ex-husband of 'basically throwing me out on the street'.

One of her attorneys, Joseph P. McCaffrey, said they would appeal.

The famed divorce attorney Raoul Felder began representing Walsh-Smith after she made the video. Felder previously had termed the whole thing 'funny, but there's also sadness'.

'This is a victim who is holding her head up,' he said. 'I think she comes off well.'

Unhappy times: Tricia Walsh-Smith in the posh New York apartment she has been asked to leave

Felder has explained that his client was 'acting out of passion'.

He called the prenuptial agreement she'd signed with her husband, who is 25 years older than her, 'stupid'.

So why did his client sign?

'Why do women sign these things? Love is blind, and sometimes it is deaf and dumb, too,' Felder said.

He added that the video was the act of a powerless person, and 'revolutions are made by powerless people'.

Rant: A still from one of the YouTube videos posted by Tricia Walsh-Smith