I agree that he deserves to be taken to the cleaners, but I don’t see how standing there in the ultimate humiliation is going to affect the outcome of the divorce. It would seem that it would backfire because his lawyer could say that she supported him and was going to stick by him. Here’s evidence of that......now someone obviously convinced her to go after him.
She was the First Lady of New York State, and he was resigning the governorship. She might have felt obliged to appear for that reason if no other.