File No: 009937

License Number: 2009000937

Groom Information

Name: DAVIS , RICHARD CHARLES Age: 45
Birthplace: WASHINGTON DC Race: WHITE Res: 139 MARKET STREET
Town: CHARLESTON County: CHARLESTON State: SC Marriage No: 2

Bride Information

Name: ALEXANDER , VIRGINIA MACON Age: 29
Birthplace: NORTH CAROLINA Race: WHITE Res: 21 CRAVEN AVENUE
Town: CHARLESTON County: CHARLESTON State: SC Marriage No: 1

Application Date: 4/ 9/2009

Marriage Date: 4/10/2009

Yikes.  Wow.  Call me… well, call me whatever, but I never saw that coming!  Wow.

Richard C. Davis, who heads Team Trademark, intends to document the lodge’s rehabilitation as part of the real estate company’s reality series, due to air on TLC in April. The show had an 18 month hiatus.

Charleston County Court Records

Year: 2007 Type: DR Location: 10 Number: 004494

Plaintiff: DAVIS, RICHARD C. Defendant: DAVIS, KIMBERLY S.

Filing Code: DISSOLUSION OF MARRIAGE Disposition Code: FC DISPOSED OF BY TRIAL OR HEA
Filing Date: 11/29/2007 Disposition Date: 12/21/2007
Judge Code: JACK A LANDIS Disposition Type: 6

Event Desc: FINAL HEARING MIE File Number: n/a
Event Date: 12/21/2007 Date to MIE: n/a
Event Time: 0900 Date from MIE: n/a

If you have an answer (or an idea), comment here and share it.

In a nutshell, this is a Richard Davis promotion encouraging folks around the country to create local Trademark Properties affiliates.  An interesting concept!

It’s pure Richard.  But if you want “pure Ginger”, fast-forward to about 3:20 in the video (toward the very, very end) and you’ll get a candid shot of her being very… Ginger-like. 

To view, just click the background of the video (not the play button).  If you do click the play button, you’ll get a message about embedding (unless Team Trademark changes its mind; we can hope!), but click it again and it will open right up for you in a YouTube window.

However… I just helped a friend set up a MySpace page, and the default status comes up as “single”.  So, I thought, maybe Richard just never “flipped the switch” on the Single/Married setting over to Married?

But… his profile also says “Proud Parent”, and that little radio button is on the very same screen as marital status, so we’re back to thinking that the fact his MySpace page says “single” really can’t be an oversight.

Richard:  Just come out and tell us where you and Kim stand, okay?  If you are divorced, our condolences; after 18+ years, that’s gotta be hard.  Hang in there.

No, he wasn’t joking.  According to his bio, he was born in Washington, D.C.  A quick search of Charleson, South Carolina public records (free and available to the public) quickly turns up the following…

File No: 372476 License Number: 1988001103

Groom Information
Name: DAVIS , RICHARD CHARLES Age: 24
Birthplace: WASHINGTON,D.C. Race: WHITE Res: 893 QUAIL DRIVE
Town: CHARLESTON County: CHARLESTON State: SC Marriage No: 1

Bride Information
Name: SMITH , KIMBERLY ANN Age: 22
Birthplace: SOUTH CAROLINA Race: WHITE Res: 874 PICCADILLY CIRCLE
Town: CHARLESTON County: CHARLESTON State: SC Marriage No: 1

Application Date: 4/ 5/1988 Marriage Date: 4/16/1988
Roll: 0000108 Frame: 2329

So, there you have it.   Remember that the article mentioned elsewhere on this site was from March, 2006… so if he got divorced, it was a really recent thing.

I suppose someone could e-mail Richard and say, “Hey, what’s the deal?”… but that seems kinda tacky.  But maybe it’s equally tacky to discuss someone’s possible divorce on a web site?  I don’t know… but I sure know it’s a popular topic, and you’ve got to admit that it puts a different spin on his relationship with Ginger.  (After all, if Richard Davis is divorced, you can’t accuse him of having an “affair”, can you?)

Richard (and Kim), we know you’re out there reading these kinds of things; feel free to comment.  We’d love to have the real story.

Now, of course, that doesn’t mean he necessarily is single. Maybe he has an arrangement with his wife where he pretends to be single as part of his public persona to protect her from rabid fans and encourage speculation that he’s involved with Ginger and thus boost ratings for his show. Could happen. But that takes us out of the Trademark world of “teal helicopter” and into conspiracy theory “black helicopter” thinking, doesn’t it?

Looks like he’s single… and since he was married at one time, then it looks like he’s divorced. There’s your answer.

I’m fairly sure that Richard is/was married to Kimberly Smith Davis, based on publicly-available information.

Here’s a link with information and a photo of Dr. Kim Davis.

But, even if they were married, that doesn’t mean they’re still married; Richard’s biography over at TLC only mentions his three sons…

Where do they get that?

Maybe from this post at Realtor.org, quoting the Daily Real Estate News, with a source of Bankrate.com.  Wherever it actually came from, it’s about a year old so I suppose things could have changed, but I highly doubt that.

“Right now, you have people jumping in on frenzy and it will bankrupt a lot of Joes and Susies who have no business doing this,” [Davis] says. “I mean, my wife is a doctor; you don’t see me going out doing heart surgery.”

Interestingly — no conspiracy theory here (yet), just interesting — the post over at The Real Estate Pros discussion forum at TLC where this quote was mentioned had the quote itself removed by the moderator mod_ivy.   Don’t know why; there’s no law against quoting things.  Thoughts?