Posted on 02/28/2007 12:38:31 PM PST by Ol' Sparky
Giuliani Accused Of 'Notorious Adultery'
NEW YORK, June 21, 2002
(AP) Former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's estranged wife has filed for divorce, citing adultery.
The filing by Donna Hanover, 52, came more than a year and a half after Giuliani filed to divorce her, citing cruel and inhuman treatment.
Hanover's lawyer, Helene Brezinsky, said her client rejected the grounds on which Giuliani's divorce was based.
"If there's going to be a divorce, let's have the truth about why — Rudy's open and notorious adultery," she said.
Giuliani spokeswoman Sunny Mindel replied: "There is no purpose in responding to this mudslinging."
Hanover's filing came June 10 in State Supreme Court. During the last months of Giuliani's tenure, his girlfriend, Judith Nathan, became the city's de facto first lady and appeared with him at official functions.
Meanwhile, the judge hearing the divorce agreed Thursday to increase the amount Giuliani pays to support his two children with Hanover — Andrew, 16, and Caroline, 12 — and for other expenses.
The amount will be raised to $24,000 a month from $1,800 a month. The judge said the change was justified by Giuliani's own admission that this year his income from speaking engagements alone will exceed $8 million.
Hanover had asked for nearly $1 million a year in child support and other expenses.
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Donna Hanover was also a liability for the mayor, as she opened her own office in Gracie Mansion and starred in "The Vagina Monologues." I'm not sure that the divorce was all his fault.
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No. But no one here is comparing him to Clinton.
Meanwhile Giuliani is still a notorious adulterer and would make a lousy president.
I'd rather him go down because he is wrong on most of the issues. That is the high ground and it should be taken.
I don't know. Why did the LA Times argue that Schwarzenegger was infit for Governor in 2003 because of an alleged grope 20 years earlier, but San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom shouldn't step down because of an affair with his campaigner manager's (and best friend's) wife?
Why was Rudy's divorce when mayor such a big deal, but Newsom's affair when mayor is not?
-PJ
Yes MS. VAGINA MONOLOGUE DONNA HANOVER! She used Rudy's Mayor status to further her journalism and tv acting career and use all the perks she could to further that too.
Now I see she is not doing much better:
GIULIANI'S EX-WIFE BECOMES AN ONLINE LOVE AND SEX COACH...
Move over, Dr. Ruth and Dr. Judy: There's a new sex advice guru in town, and her name is - gulp - Donna Hanover.
The former first lady of New York has jumped headfirst into her new gig as AOL's love-and-sex coach, mincing few words as she dishes out tips to the lovelorn and the lustful.
You know...you guys keep saying the media is pumping Giuliani up as the front runner, but then you start a gazillion threads a day about what a terrible guy he is.
You seem to be chasing him pretty hard....are you sure he isn't the front runner?
Actually, one divorce for someone from Hollywood is pretty impressive...
Good grief, not this again! You sound like every airheaded celebrity in 1998.
Nobody cared where Bill Clinton stuck his pecker. It's the fact that he lied about under oath.
Nice try, though. Thanks for treading that one out again.
Notorious? Is in contrast to the "reputable adultery"? This is nothing but a hit piece by AP.
Then you'll need to run personal background checks on every single candidate on the ballot before you cast your vote.
It's a silly criteria, because the most prolific adulterer might be the one who's best at hiding it, and thus you'll never know whether you're voting for a hero or a cad.
That's a sorry position for you to be in as a voter.
Gentlemen, synchronize your watches!
Is there such a thing as "Honorable Adultery" or "Respectable Adultery"?
Serial Adulterer comes to mind. He was openly having an affair while still married to wife # 2.This is Rudy's third marriage.
Will there be more???
If the Republican nominee does not get the endorsement of the Christian Right-wing base of the GOP, then Hello Pres. Hillary!
Rudy has no chance of winning the White House.
None.
I think it was Notorious, because it was not well-concealed and discrete. It was "open and notorious." The papers openly reported on his relationships with Christine and Nathan.
Defeating him with his record is sufficient.
"Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us."
Same book as don't commit adultry?
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