Hoodwinked ‘Wife’ Wins Big Judgment

A judge has awarded $264,000 to an Alexandria woman who met what she thought was the man of her dreams on the Internet only to discover four months after their marriage last April that he was a she. Margaret Hunter, 24, will get $250,000 in damages and $14,000 to cover what she spent on the couple’s relationship--including $9,500 for their wedding. In 1995, Hunter met Holly Anne Groves, 26, of Bryan, Texas, on the Internet. Groves identified herself as Thorne Wesley Jameson Groves, a businessman dying of AIDS--a circumstance that kept “him” from being intimate. Hunter eventually became suspicious and learned the truth when she found Groves’ birth certificate.