Posted on 12/01/2006 6:28:50 AM PST by TommyDale
TRENTON, N.J. - The man former New Jersey Gov. James E. McGreevey identified as his gay lover said Thursday he believes McGreevey is not gay.
Appearing on "Larry King Live," Golan Cipel, an Israeli citizen hired by McGreevey first as a campaign aide and later as his homeland security adviser, said that McGreevey's 2004 resignation speech admission that he is "a gay American" was "part of the spin."
Through lawyers, Cipel had threatened to sue McGreevey for sexual harassment shortly before and after McGreevey's resignation. A lawsuit was never filed.
"I think McGreevey had no choice. There was a sexual harassment lawsuit against him. And he didn't know what to do, and his advisers told him, 'come out first,' and he would be perceived as the victim" and thereby gain control of the story, Cipel said.
While he said McGreevey did make sexual advances toward him on several occasions, Cipel said the former governor also frequently spoke about heterosexual encounters, including sex with prostitutes on trips to Germany and the Dominican Republic.
"I believe that Jim McGreevey is bisexual," Cipel said.
Cipel, 37, in his first extended national television interview since the publication in September of McGreevey's memoir, "The Confession," also urged the gay community "not to embrace McGreevey," saying the former governor committed sexual harassment against him and others.
Cipel, who has repeatedly denied being gay, again insisted that McGreevey's often graphic portrayal of their relationship in the book is untrue.
In the book, McGreevey, 49, writes that he was forced to resign after Cipel threatened to reveal his homosexuality unless he was paid millions to keep quiet.
McGreevey released a statement Thursday night saying, "I stand behind the truth and accuracy of every word in this book." He said he and Cipel had a consensual relationship that lasted for months.
"My only wish for Golan is that he find peace and acceptance in his life," McGreevey said in the statement.
McGreevey now works as an educational consultant and a childhood anti-poverty advocate, and lives in Plainfield, N.J., with his partner, Mark O'Donnell. Cipel has been living in Israel
Im glad this has been cleared up. Now I can sleep at night.
Now all I have to worry about is Clay Aiken.
There's an Andrew Dice Clay bit on this point that's fitting...
NOPE, not one bit! IMO, if you are bisexual it is the same as gay. Once a man has been with another man or a woman been with another woman it is crossing over to the other side, no going back!
Well, if we have Jim McGreevey's word on it, I guess the matter must be considered closed.
No .. but it's a good way to make money from a lawsuit and book deal
Oh like that's better. Bisexuals are just greedy.
Gays really don't like bisexuals. They despise, sexually, anyone who has anything to do with the opposite sex.
At least that what I've heard.
I believe homosexuals can 'go back'. That is, I believe they can become hetero and renounce homosexuality. The liberals don't want this to get out, though.
Well, no, but I see the point in the story. If he says he's homosexual, then he's saying he has no other outlet for sex except with men. Thus the need to be secretive and shameful, and play the victim.
If he would admit to being bisexual, it would be harder for him to play the "gay" card. (Does that make sense?)
Oh well, then. Guess that makes everything alright.
Glad we cleared that up.
Too bad this creep isn't registered as a sexual predator.
And enquiring minds would like to know just who is that hired this pervert.
Either you do or you don't.
He could still be heterosexual, with a strong desire to dominate and degrade others, including making men perform degrading acts.
The power over others becomes the drive, not sex, or sexuality, or even gender issues.
Thus he'd "go after" almost anyone.
But I think, like many others, that his "coming out" was planned to align the press behind his case and deflect attention to the other elements of the case, like misappropriated or missing funds, nepotism, and who knows what else.
I can't think of which Dice Clay bit, but I seem to recall Woody Allen say "The good thing about being bisexual is that it doubles your chance of a date on a Saturday night."
"Or down the hatch"...
Andrew Dice Clay? He's still alive?.......
Hmmmm..............
There's no such thing as a bisexual man. They are just gay men who use women for social or political cover.
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