Donna Hanover, The Vagina Monologues
THE MAN WHO WOULD BE PRESIDENT This will document Giuliani's public infidelities, as well as his deliberate efforts to humiliate his wife and throw her, and their children, out of Gracie mansion in order to move his mistress in----gleaned from eyewitness news reports.
Nothing was too petty or savage for Giuliani especially when it involved women. Giuliani was always a serial philanderer (the first marriage to his third cousin ended with some really nasty rumors of abuse.) Rudy threw himself into the anti-family pro-abortion Planned Parenthood lifestyle early on.
Within six months of being elected Mayor, Rudy was pictured on the front page of the New York Daily News buying clothing for his young mayoral aide Christine Lategano on Madison Avenue. One day, Hanover rolled into City Hall unannounced, where she caught Rudy deep into Lategano, according to acknowledged rumors.
Giuliani was not subtle. He would take girlfriend Lategano to Yankees games WITH his kids, until Hanover had had it----pictures still exist of Lategano and the married Mayor in restaurants across the city. Lategano was widely disliked for her rank incompetence and arrogance. Eventually, Giuliani dumped her. But she got paid off---with an apartment and a cushy job when Rudy dumped his loyalist Fran Reiter so Lategano could run the city's Tourist and Visitor's Bureau, a job she was totally unqualified for (which paid $250K a year). People were horrified at the time. But Rudy was the mayor.
By 1998, Rudy had a new mistress (now his wife)---and would take her to a restaurant a few blocks from Gracie Mansion--so that his children and their friends would know about it. By 2000 things were getting insane. Rudy was squiring his mistress to city parades and other Mayoral public events.
Rudy then publicly announced to the press his separation from his wife WITHOUT EVEN TELLING HANOVER. Rudy would soon wage a savage war against his wife and children.
Soon after the humiliating Giuliani split-up, his mother became ill. When Hanover showed up in the emergency room of Mount Sinai hospital, concerned about her children's grandmother, Mayor Rudy got into a nasty, public fight with her, enraged that she showed up. Rudy demanded Hanover leave.
At the time, Rudy was taking his mistress---not his wife--- to cancer treatment sessions. He never bothered to tell his wife about his illness.
Rudy then decided he'd bring his mistress into the family's home (on the spurious claim that Hanover wasn't helping him through cancer treatments, an illness he had not even bothered to tell her about). Rudy announced he wanted to "divide the home" to bring in his mistress --- a transparent ploy to force his wife and children out into the streets. Hanover was forced to go to court to declare Gracie Mansion the marital home so as to exclude Nathan from it.
Thankfully, the judge said no to Rudy's cruel, insane request. Thwarted at this plan, Rudy moved in with a gay couple while his wife fended off his relentless efforts to replace her with his mistress.
But like an uncaged animal, Giuliani would strike at his own family like they were mortal enemies. On Mother's day 2000, he publicly paraded his mistress up and down Second Avenue for newspaper pictures. The evilness of this act astonished even blase New Yorkers.
The savage nature of Giuliani and his vendetta against his wife and children knew no bounds. He cut his wife's security detail (but provided government security to his mistress).
It's hard to imagine the brutality of this man---placing his children, and the mother of his children, in danger. Yet, nothing was too petty or savage for Giuliani, especially when it interferred with his love life.
Well, you've got to remember that once you've fearlessly kicked a homeless winshield scrubber to the curb, your baser instincts take over more than just the gonads.
Well hi LIZ, nice to see that same old rant once again. I guess you are the LT. in charge of the 'hes a bad husband / man contingent of the unappeasables.
BOO I am divorced!
Did you enjoy Donna Hanover's performance in the Vagina Monologues?
But I will. :) Just hang on.
Has anyone asked Donna Ann Kofnovec (aka Donna Hanover) why her first husband Stanley Hanover divorced her?
Hey, did you know that Rudy is NOT a social conservative? :-)
Liz, your judgment of political and cultural leaders is spot-on. You don't weigh in much (at least I don't see you posting all that much), but when you do, you're incisive and knowing.