Giuliani: Another Repub Who Can't Keep His Zipper Zipped
James Chamblee
http://www.dailykos.com/archives/002803.html#002803
May 25, 2003
Steve Gilliard
Rudy Giuliani's first wife was also his third cousin.
When he divorced her, surrounded by the most sordid rumors, he quickly
met up with Donna Hanover, once a newswoman in Miami, then New York.
Giuliani, the on the make US Attorney, who played fast and loose with
the law and who's publicity seeking indictments fell apart like a East
German Trabant, was largely elected with her help.
She "humanized" him, as they say.
His repayment for her support?
He took up with a ungainly young woman, Cristyne Lategano, who went
from selling sneakers to alienating the NY press corps as his press
aide.
He was caught buying her a pricey skirt on Madison Ave, New York's
Gold Coast or Rodeo Drive, by the Daily News.
The second Mrs. Giuliani was none too pleased.
They say the explosion came one Father's Day, where the workaholic
Giuliani and his "loyal" aide were caught by an enraged Hanover, who
soon stopped using her married name.
Giuliani was not particularly subtle for a married man, much less a
politician.
Pictures of Giuliani and his aide were everywhere, Chinese
restaurants, pizza places, the common meetinghalls of New York life.
Which would have been fine, if he were single.
One time, reporters saw them drink from the same can and eat from the
same slice of pizza.
Now, being a single man, I can only imagine the reaction my wife would
have if I did that.
Sharing food is an intimate act, I would think.
The relationship continued under the snickers of the media, who never
informed the public that their mayor was using their money to
philander on his wife.
But t some point in the summer of 1999, Giuliani dumped his aide and
somehow, she wound up with a job as New York City's head of the
Convention and Visitor's Bureau, forcing out the previous loyalist who
had been given the $250K job.
By the spring of 2000, there was a new woman in Rudy's life, Judith
Nathan.
She had been camoflauged in the mayor's entourage from the fall of
1999 on.
No one knew who she was, at least not obviously.
But, as Giulani's bout with cancer became news, Nathan, who was
trained as a nurse, was seen to have been accompanying him to doctor's
meetings.
Meanwhile, his wife was left clueless as to her husband's new
infidelity.
As it became clear that he had forsaken his marriage once again for
the bed of another woman, Hanover grew disgusted by her husband's
behavior.
Finally, on a rainy late spring day, as the Giuliani senate campaign
gained steam, he annouced he was leaving his wife.
Well, a couple of hours later, Hanover, now seen on the Travel
Channel, announced her reaction about the homewrecking strumpets her
husband was squiring around.
Seems he forgot to tell he wanted a seperation and she found out when
we did.
Now, the irony of this was that Giuliani was quite the strict public
moralist.
When a 16 year old black teenager was walking home from midnight
basketball and shot and wounded by a police officer, his reaction to
the grieving relatives was "he should have been home at that hour."
Giuliani's dim view of black men was not just relegated to mere
civilians, but encompased every black male elected official, whom he
simply refused to meet unless in the midst of a racial crisis.
He also pushed porn out of Times Square and onto side streets.
To say that the divorce was ugly, would be like saying Gettysburg was
bloody.
Mere words do not the spirit of it justice.
Within a week or so of the breakup, Mother's Day weekend came.
So how did the then mayor celebrate?
While his wife was home in LA visiting her family, he took a stroll
along 2nd Avenue with the press in tow.
The pictures of the mayor and his paramour greeted his now estranged
wife as a Mother's Day gift.
Things only got uglier, of course.
New York is not a no-fault state.
You need grounds.
And only Hanover had them.
Now, this is why this story becomes evil.
Over the next year, they fought like pit bulls over control of Gracie
Mansion.
Giuliani reduced his wife's security, fired her press aide.
She banned Nathan from the parts of Gracie Mansion.
For the next year, they fought over control of the building like the
Red Guards and German 6th Army fought over the Tractor Works in
Stalingrad.
No advantage was too slight to gain. Giuliani's lawyer, showboat Raoul
Felder, once called Hanover a greedy pig after a contentious court
session.
At one point, Giuliani banned Hanover's parents from staying in the
city-owned building.
While Giuliani's own father was a convicted felon who avoided military
service in WWII, Hanover's father had survived the kamikaze attack on
the USS Intrepid in 1945, and was attending a reunion of the ship's
surviving crew.
In the nadir of his behavior towards the mother of his children,
mayoral aides forcibly ejected Hanover, who rushed to see her
children's grandmother after she had been taken ill and rushed to the
hospital.
The shouting match was heard throughout the ER as Hanover was forced
to leave.
Finally, in the spring of 2002, all the cards were on the table.
Hanover's lawyers were ready to call a bunch of witnesses to ask about
his sex life and affairs.
He suddenly found $8m to give her, made off the backs of the dead and
wounded after 9/11.
Hanover, who is engaged to be married to an old boyfriend for her
third marriage, was nowhere in evidence, as opposed to her grimly
unsmiling children.
Now, in an act of unimaginably petty revenge, Giuliani decides to
marry in the house which caused his family so much pain and anguish.
It is amazing that this incredibly evil act is merely noted in the
newspaper.
One can imagine how his children felt to see their father marry
another woman in their former home.
Hypocrisy is banal in most cases, but I'd love to see Giuliani run
against Hillary Clinton or Chuck Schumer with such an interesting
backstory.
GLC1173
>Giuliani reduced his wife's security, fired >her press aide.
Forget Donna Hanover. QUESTION: what was the NYPD doing providing
out-of-state bodyguard service for Judy Nathan in the year-plus since Giuliani
was no longer mayor - and she was neither his wife nor any kind of city
official?
Another reason why NYC is broke!
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