BY ANDREA PEYSER The New York Post
December 16, 2004 -- WAS Bernard Kerik a stalker? As the
illicit romance between former top cop Kerik and publishing
titan Judith Regan went down the drain in late 2002, the
jilted Kerik snapped, according to people who knew them
both.
He not only followed his ex-lover around town - he seemed to
be following her children, two business associates of
Regan's told me yesterday.
One associate, who has not seen or spoken to Regan in a year
and a half, said, "She had me in her office one day, raving
about how he was stalking her." That was in late 2002, long
before Kerik came this close to leading Homeland Security.
"He's insane!" Regan told the associate.
When Regan ate in a restaurant with another man, Kerik
called her cellphone, or had the management page her, said
the source. Once he got her on the phone, "He'd describe the
man she was having dinner with. He seemed to be watching her
through the window," the associate said. He kept a key to
her apartment, said another pal, and showed up unexpectedly.
On a business trip to Los Angeles, she said, he had her
followed.
But what frightened Regan most was a call in which Kerik he
claimed to be following her son as he drove back to college
in Massachusetts.
"He said, 'I'm following Patrick. I'm at this exit at the
turnpike. I want you to know this is where he is,' " the
associate recalled.
While the married Kerik has all but acknowledged that he
carried on affairs with not one, but two women in his
Battery Park love nest - an apartment that had been
originally donated to 9/11 rescue workers - he denied
stalking.
"These allegations are wrong, absolutely wrong. They're
outrageous," said Sunny Mindel, spokeswoman for Giuliani
Partners, where Kerik is employed. "It begs the question,
'Why is this coming out now?' "
But sources who told me of the stalking say the revelations
are not new. People in Regan's business and social circles
talked of Regan's fear of Kerik more than a year ago.
Regan first took up with Kerik in 2001, as she was to
publish his memoir. Months later, she discovered he had
another mistress. But the romance ended for good after Regan
found out that Kerik's wife - with whom he wasn't in love,
he told her - was pregnant.
One current friend of Regan's told me it was impossible to
determine whether Kerik was really a threat to her and her
family, or if he was just trying to "intimidate, scare and
totally overwhelm the woman."
"Whatever the reason, he wanted her back."
Like many who knew the pair, the former business associate
was stunned when Kerik was nominated to be Homeland Security
chief.
"I feel like we dodged a bullet," he said.
I've heard of multitasking, but this is nuts. Kerik had a
wife. Two little kids. Two mistresses. A love nest to
maintain. A pretty damn important job. And, evidently, a
temper.
What else was he up to?
>December 16, 2004 -- WAS Bernard Kerik a stalker? As the
>illicit romance between former top cop Kerik and publishing
>titan Judith Regan went down the drain in late 2002, the
>jilted Kerik snapped, according to people who knew them
>both.
>He not only followed his ex-lover around town - he seemed to
>be following her children, two business associates of
>Regan's told me yesterday.
Hell, he ought to have been just perfect then for hunting down these
terrorists...
<Ironic sneer>
You never know, he may have been the best guy for the job. He is pond scum.
In fact, I doubt he has a college degree, a mother that was a prostitute, or
a Nanny.
The rags to riches fiction story sells books and the nanny story was the
easy out of the nomination.
Mark
JAYSUS, Dolorous, how old are you? Do you know how freaking rude it
is to turn every topic onto your personal crap?
Behave like the senior which you're....
I bet you sniff the screen every time Harry posts that same dumb pack of lies
about me, see earlier post, currrent list.
> bet you sniff the screen every time Harry posts that same dumb pack
> of lies
> about me, see earlier post, currrent list.
>
No, I just feel very, very sad for your loneliness and bitterness.