Posted on 09/15/2007 3:39:47 PM PDT by DogByte6RER
McGreevey tells wife: You'll get zilch from me
BY ADAM NICHOLS
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Saturday, September 15th 2007, 4:00 AM
Jim McGreevey yesterday accused his soon-to-be-ex wife of "greedily" grabbing at the perks of being New Jersey's First Lady - and refusing to give them back.
In legal papers packed with snide and catty comments, the openly gay McGreevey told estranged wife Dina Matos McGreevey she can expect to get nothing from him.
Matos McGreevey had asked him to pony up $4,000 a month in alimony to help her live a lavish lifestyle like his.
"Her jealousy and contempt are almost out of control," he said.
"She greedily took the perquisites that my job offered her. ... Not only does she view [the governor's mansion] Drumthwackett as an entitlement, but she believes that she must be kept in that kind of lifestyle."
McGreevey resigned as governor in 2004 after announcing he was gay.
McGreevey's legal team said New Jersey law requires alimony payments only if the marriage lasted more than 10 years - and the McGreevey's is only three years old.
"As such, she is not entitled to alimony of any kind," said his lawyer Matthew Piermatti in the papers filed in Union Superior Court.
McGreevey, who pays $1,129 in child support, said his wife's complaint described his lavish lifestyle, concentrating on the 17-room mansion he lives in with his boyfriend.
"It does not belong to me," he said. "I have no lease and stay there only at the pleasure of its owner. ... I own no home."
And he lists his average income as $154,000 - a fraction of the $428,000 his wife claims he made last year and which, he says, included a one-time $250,000 payment for his book.
The pair's lawyers are due back in court next week.
ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwww! gross!
Who wouldn't have contempt for that guy?
Sure, if you say so. Guess you’re just the average straight conservative champion of all things gay, not that there’s anything wrong with that.
“McGreevey, who pays $1,129 in child support, said his wife’s complaint described his lavish lifestyle, concentrating on the 17-room mansion he lives in with his boyfriend.”
” ‘It does not belong to me,” he said. “I have no lease and stay there only at the pleasure of its owner. ... I own no home.’ “
What an unfortunate choice of words. Oy.
McGreevey resigned as governor in 2004 after announcing he was gay
McGreevey resigned as governor after he got caught hiring his boy friend (Golan Cipel) as Homeland Security advisor and Cipel threatened to sue him for sexual harassment
thanks for posting that...
I don’t know who came for your MONEY and is sitting around watching soaps, but it must have been someone.
No one has proved to me that she KNEW or was a BEARD. He probably wanted a wife for cover. That’s okay, but having a child for cover is not.
Sometimes the wife is the last to know, but whether she knew or not, he married her, he had a child and he is being supported in luxury by some ‘friend’ and he should be willing to share fairly with his wife.
His bitchy vitriole is making gays look bad.
Whatever she wants to do all day, it is probably as productive as going to seminary for a rat like that hoping to further destroy the Episcopal church.
I agree, she would not for sure.
And this is the guy who is going into seminary to be a “man of God”? What a joke.
It seems that even the “gay community” doesn’t like McGreevey:
http://www.queerty.com/queer/gossip/golan-cipel-speaks-20061121.php
Interesting website, btw.
I think probably anyone can be admitted to seminary...tho it does seem odd.
This does not mean he would be admitted to the priesthood; that is another matter altogether, altho the way the church is going these days, one wonders.
FYI; Cipal was hired for 110K a year. Maybe that is why McGreevey’s ex is so mad. McGreevey’s boyfriend would have been making more than twice what she asked for. You can’t make this stuff up..
Man what a reach, Unions and Democrat party members in one strike when the blame you speak of is on her father alone.
According to the link below, he had to go through a “discernment” process before entering the seminary.
(They don’t seem too discerning to me...)
http://blog.nj.com/ledgerupdates/2007/05/mcgreevey_mulling_episcopal_pr.html
She was even introduced to McGreevey by the former police director of Newark -- who certainly would have known about McGreevey's past because it included a number of encounters with various police personnel in parks, rest areas, etc.
Okay well I may be wrong then. It is beyond my comprehension why anyone would knowingly enter into a marriage like that.
It's worth noting that these are all positions that involve appointments by political figures and/or other influential people. Dina Matos was a waitress when she met McGreevey. Nothing wrong with that, but that sure doesn't qualify her to be the executive director of anything that requires intelligence, integrity, responsibility, etc.
I've seen a couple of her interviews, and I'm telling you that woman is dumber than a bag of rocks. I mean REALLY dumb -- like borderline retarded.
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