EVANSVILLE/HARRISBURG—The daughter of a southern Illinois public official may have avoided trouble after a difficult situation thanks to who her father is: the mayor of Harrisburg.
It’s been reported to Disclosure that Alecia Paige Gregg Burk, 25, ran into some trouble at Casino Aztar in Evansville a few weekends ago when she was apparently trying to find someone to entertain her other than her husband.
The lovely couple in question
Vanderburgh County court documents show that in case 82D04-1302-DR-00194, the mayor’s daughter, who goes by Paige, had a divorce filing against her by her husband of a couple of years, Addison W. Burk, on February 25, 2013. However, the documents show that they have been split since November 2012, with Paige going to live with her family in Harrisburg, and Addison staying on in Evansville.
Our sources indicate that about three weekends ago, Paige and her husband, “trying to patch things up,” had gone to the casino boat and were reportedly staying at the motel or hotel there.
However, apparently Paige wasn’t happy with this and she went to one of the bars on the boat, where, witnesses say, she began “flirting and hitting on” different gentlemen, most of them old enough to be her father.
When one of the gentlemen rebuffed her, we’ve been told, she left in a snit…and, returning to her room where her husband sat, allegedly beat him bloody. And then, in order to offset the whole thing, she reportedly cleaned up the husband with hotel towels, and left them in front of the door to another room in the hotel to make it appear as though the bloody incident had occurred there.
A quick check with Vanderburgh County authorities showed that there was no police report made, although casino boat employees confirm that indeed there were bloody towels found in a room other than where the two had stayed.
The question is: how would something like this have occurred and nothing come of it? And many feel the answer is that the “influence” that being a mayor—and a state employee making $86,000-plus annually—may have tells the tale.
Disclosure attempted to contact Paige via Facebook messaging a week ago today but she denied any knowledge of any incident; however, her father confirmed it last Friday night, when he said “there were no police reports made; and they’re trying to work things out,” which might explain why there’s been no movement in the divorce filing since late March…but doesn’t explain how a 25-year-old young mother saw fit to go hit on other men while her husband was waiting back in their room, under the impression that they were trying to “work things out.”
We’ll have more on this incident in the print version, which is on stands beginning Tuesday, July 2; be sure you get your renews in, as postcards have already gone out in the mail, as this is a Special Edition (as previously announced) and there will be TWO papers in July!