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First Lady of the Hamptons, Judith Giuliani (Come On In & Get to know Judy!)
Hampton Style ^ | 7.04.06 | HamptonStyle

Posted on 02/01/2007 12:52:29 PM PST by Registered

 


Judith Giuliani is creating a rose garden at the Hamptons summer home she shares with her husband, Rudy Giuliani. And while there are many people on both sides of the aisle who hope this foreshadows a bid for the White House, Judith will say only: “I just love digging in the dirt; I am obsessed with gardening.”

Of course it requires uninterrupted downtime, something that has become a rarity for the woman whose role has developed into one half of a power couple on the move. In the past four years, the pair has traveled to over 20 countries. This spring his emphasis shifted to domestic pit stops where he stumped for Republican candidates in Iowa, Georgia and Michigan. Judith's weekend reading has recently included The Emancipator's Wife, a biography of Mary Todd Lincoln she borrowed from Rogers Memorial Library in Southampton. But, in reply to the question on everybody's mind: “Will Rudy be on the ballot in 2008?” the discreet Mrs. Giuliani will say only, “My parents were married for more than 50 years. All I've ever wanted is a happy marriage and Rudy and I have one. My mother used to tell me the trick was in knowing when to say, ‘whatever makes you happy.' Well, if it makes him happy, I will support him every step of the way.”

Judith Giuliani was not overtly political when she met her future husband. “I remember one of our first conversations. I was explaining that I am a nurse, that I had been working with Bristol-Myers Squibb, and that my arena was in infectious diseases,” she reflects. “We both had our passions; we each brought something unique to the table.” Their partnership has drawn Rudy closer to the medical charities with which Judith aligns herself, and last week the American Heart Association honored the Giulianis at its annual Heart of the Hamptons benefit in Water Mill. “The real champion of the night was Dr. Valentine Fuster,” injects Judith. “He is known around the world as the father of cardiology.” Judith chose to focus her attention on the topic of heart disease, particularly in women, because she says, “heart disease is the number one killer of women in America.” Seven times more women die from heart disease than from breast cancer, she added, and women's symptoms are different. “Whereas men will get the classic symptoms, women may get those, or other flu-like symptoms such as general malaise or nausea. Because many women are such multi-taskers they often just attribute this to fatigue and may not seek treatment.”

An inveterate multi-tasker herself, Judith is also working on developing a Level One trauma center for Saint Vincent's Hospital in Manhattan. It will serve as a response center for potential nuclear, biological, and chemical attacks: “N.B.C., that's become the buzzword in medical circles,” she adds. “The center will mean a physician from every different medical specialty will be on call 24 hours a day.” Judith also raises money for Cabrini High School for Girls in the Bronx, a template for educating at-risk women that has since been copied in states across the nation. And in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Judith rallied the Giulianis' friends to address the crisis in New Orleans. “When Katrina hit, I wanted to do a fund-raiser for inoculations and hospital supplies. I called Donald Trump and we put together a golf tournament. Donald was wonderful. We raised well over $1 million.”

The couple has made a point of golfing on many of their international trips. “I will tell you how fanatical we are. We flew to an event in Singapore and arrived early in the morning. We left the plane in golf clothes, played the course, then showered at the club and changed into black tie for the event we were attending. After that we headed back to the plane.”

Rudy Giuliani discovered golf as a young boy sneaking onto the Garden City Country Club at night with friends to hit balls, later buying his first set of clubs as a law student at NYU. Now the man associated with cleaning up the urban jungles of New York finds a retreat from the public eye on the bucolic green links. On a recent Saturday afternoon, he joins Judith on her HamptonStyle photo shoot, fresh from a day spent on the course and full of anecdotes from the game. For the mayor Americans see as an indelible New York institution, the transition from his native Brooklyn to the South Fork has been natural. He spent his first full summer in the Hamptons just a few years ago when he was writing his memoir and serving his last year as mayor. “The spirit of Long Island is an extension of New York City for me. When I was about 16 and learning how to drive, I can remember winding down North Fork roads; the farmland, the beaches...it's a unique part of this country.”

When the couple is in residence at their new home, Rudy also uses the respite to read and unwind with a cigar; his humidor is never far afield. As Judith remarks, “One of my favorite pictures of Rudy is of him reading with a cigar on the porch out here. My husband is so brilliant; he can read two books at once. One will be the biography of a political figure, and the other will be something lighter: for him that might be a history of Russia.” More recently, Rudy has been alternating between Doris Kearns Goodwin's biography of Lincoln and Cobra II, the harrowing account of the Iraqi invasion, written by Michael Gordon and Bernard Trainor.

But for a moment, in the late afternoon sun, the man known as “America's Mayor” has a moment to think of lighter things. First of all, there's baseball. The Yankees are up. And then, there's his lovely wife. Of Judith, his multilingual, philanthropic spouse, he says simply, “She gets me to unwind from all of the pressures and just relax. I love her.”



TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: 11rootless; 1cosmopolitans; 2008; burnnycburn; giuliani; hamptonsis4libs; nooyawkliberal; nooyawkyuppies; nyscks; rudy; slut
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To: Registered
Interetsing fluff piece. LOL
61 posted on 02/02/2007 12:23:00 AM PST by nopardons
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To: isthisnickcool

LOL, I concur.


62 posted on 02/02/2007 12:27:29 AM PST by MaxMax (God Bless America)
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To: Spiff
Nope, it was for THE DISASTER RELIEF FUND, which took place shortly after 9/11. It just sticks in your craw, that he managed to get *gasp* homosexuals to donate $200,000 to the DISASTER RELIEF FUND, in Oct. of '01.
63 posted on 02/02/2007 12:29:10 AM PST by nopardons
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To: Clemenza
No, actually he is NOT a "member" at all. That list you refer to also includes JFK Jr., who was all of 14 or 15 at the time and the then 9 year old Elliot Spitzer.

Lies and innuendos and specious propaganda with profit you nothing.

64 posted on 02/02/2007 12:33:21 AM PST by nopardons
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To: fishtank

They "discovered" they were second cousins? How could anyone NOT know that?!


65 posted on 02/02/2007 12:36:20 AM PST by Pan_Yans Wife
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To: Guenevere

His son is out of the military, is NOT in Iraq right now and hasn't been in a while and and Hunter is one of the BIG crooks caught stealing from the House bank, to the tune of close to $150,000 in overdrafts.


66 posted on 02/02/2007 12:36:37 AM PST by nopardons
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To: nopardons

Did HETEROSEXUALS donate too?! LOL


67 posted on 02/02/2007 12:37:42 AM PST by Pan_Yans Wife
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To: onyx

Not in the least; NO!


68 posted on 02/02/2007 12:37:43 AM PST by nopardons
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To: BigSkyFreeper
I've corrected him many times over, tonight and I see that he is still lying about it.

Earlier, he asked me two questions. I answered them and because I stated the facts and they were NOT what he wanted to have me post, he not only ignored my reply, but fled.

69 posted on 02/02/2007 12:39:40 AM PST by nopardons
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To: nopardons
that he managed to get *gasp* homosexuals to donate $200,000
to the DISASTER RELIEF FUND, in Oct. of '01.

Thats it. Not only am I going to support Rudy,
now i'm seriously considering turning gay. /S

70 posted on 02/02/2007 12:40:03 AM PST by MaxMax (God Bless America)
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To: television is just wrong

The Roosevelts were NOT Jewish.


71 posted on 02/02/2007 12:40:33 AM PST by nopardons
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To: Pan_Yans Wife
Yes, of course they did; but not because he did a walk-on on an HBO T.V. serial about queers. That's how he got the homosexuals to cough up an extra $100,000. LOL
72 posted on 02/02/2007 12:42:25 AM PST by nopardons
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To: nopardons
There are more than enough Northeastern liberals in the Republican party.

We don't need one as President.

I won't vote for him.

Period.

L

73 posted on 02/02/2007 12:45:51 AM PST by Lurker (Europeans killed 6 million Jews. As a reward they got 40 million Moslems. Karma's a bitch.)
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To: Pan_Yans Wife

Some families have members who break away and never talk anymore. I can see it happening. I have second cousins out there, whom I have never met and never knew existed, until a family update tree was done by one of my second or third cousins; I get confused by the numbering system of that. And PLEASE don't ask me about the once removed bit...I'll have to go look that up and it gets me even more muddled. :-(


74 posted on 02/02/2007 12:46:06 AM PST by nopardons
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To: MaxMax

Funny...I always thought you were gay, but now I see that you are just grumpy. ;^)


75 posted on 02/02/2007 12:47:15 AM PST by nopardons
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To: Lurker

Nobody cares who you vote for; you're in IL --- solid BLUE state. Period.


76 posted on 02/02/2007 12:47:26 AM PST by onyx (DEFEAT Hillary Clinton, Marxist, student of Saul Alinsky & ally and beneficiary of Soros.)
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To: Lurker

Okay, I take it that you will be helping Hillary or Obama or Edwards then. I'll mark that down. :-)


77 posted on 02/02/2007 12:48:28 AM PST by nopardons
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To: Spiff; nopardons
To: Spiff

Nope, it was for THE DISASTER RELIEF FUND, which took place shortly after 9/11. It just sticks in your craw, that he managed to get *gasp* homosexuals to donate $200,000 to the DISASTER RELIEF FUND, in Oct. of '01.

63 posted on 02/02/2007 2:29:10 AM CST by nopardons

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78 posted on 02/02/2007 12:50:15 AM PST by onyx (DEFEAT Hillary Clinton, Marxist, student of Saul Alinsky & ally and beneficiary of Soros.)
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To: onyx

LOL


79 posted on 02/02/2007 12:51:58 AM PST by nopardons
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To: nopardons
Okay, I take it that you will be helping Hillary or Obama or Edwards then

The next time you post something try to have a point that makes sense. Doing so will make things ever so much more interesting for the readers on the forum. It will also have the added benefit of preventing, somewhat anyway, you from looking silly.

Nothing could prevent that entirely of course. But every little bit helps.

L

80 posted on 02/02/2007 12:52:44 AM PST by Lurker (Europeans killed 6 million Jews. As a reward they got 40 million Moslems. Karma's a bitch.)
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