Judi Giuliani is already the Third Wife. Now she wants to be First Lady.

[Bluebear]

One loyalist was overheard saying that on chartered jets, "we need two seats for Judith—one for her and one for her Gucci bag."


If everything works out, it may be the last great political deal brokered in a smoke-filled room. On a balmy June night in 1999, Judith Nathan was having a drink at Club Macanudo, a cigar bar on East 63rd Street. Her companion was Dr. Burt Meyers, an infectious-disease specialist at Mount Sinai hospital and one of the many physicians she had befriended as a hospital sales rep for Bristol-Myers Squibb. Nathan, then 44, was at ease amid the upmarket manliness, a woman of the world among many middle-aged men of the world, including, that night, the mayor of the City of New York, Rudolph Giuliani.

Club Mac, with its wooden Indians, leather sofas, and “state-of-the-art ventilation system,” had become a well-known late-night haunt for the mayor. Perhaps it was also something of an escape: He was still living at Gracie Mansion with his second wife, television personality Donna Hanover. Here, he could kick back with a tumbler of Glenlivet and relax with City Hall aides and political associates. Sometimes a woman would approach him, interrupting his cigar-smoking to express her admiration, maybe get an autograph. Perhaps flirt mildly. So it wasn’t surprising when Nathan, a pretty woman with rich brown hair, came over and said hello...

At other times, their presentation has been lovey-dovey to the point of queasiness. Their displays of affection got so gooey during the taping of the Walters interview that the ABC News doyenne is said to have joked, “Enough already!” They held hands and cooed; he called her “baby” and she called him “sweetheart” as they kissed on the lips. At one point, after he absolved her of responsibility for his divorce from Hanover and his alienation from their two children (“She’s done everything she can. She loves all the children”), Judith, who was serenely feminine in a sea-green sweater, with another, lavender sweater tied casually around her neck over it, French preppy style, reached out to caress his cheek. When Walters asked her if she was “bothered” by her affair with the married mayor, Judith responded, blandly, “It was a rocky road, absolutely. But when you have a partnership that is based on mutual respect and communication, the two of you know what’s going on.”...

Judith Giuliani’s biggest drawback—her three marriages—reminds voters of Rudy’s own three and the associated tawdry drama. The first, to his second cousin, was annulled after fourteen years. His second, to Hanover, ended with Rudy’s televised May 2000 announcement that he intended to separate from her; Hanover’s shocked, tearful, also-televised response blamed Rudy’s “relationship with one staff member,” i.e., his communications director Cristyne Lategano. That was before much was known about Judith. By the summer of 2001, Judith’s face, along with Donna’s and Rudy’s, was plastered on the cover of People magazine with the tawdry headline INSIDE NEW YORK’S NASTIEST SPLIT … THE MAYOR, THE WIFE, THE MISTRESS.

Six years later, the rollout of Judith-as-wife, as potential First Lady, is still tainted by the smoke of that thunderous extramarital night at Club Mac....MORE

http://nymag.com/news/features/31812/

[TheCowsCameHome]

1. That picture isn't too flattering.

[AlCzervik]

2. The Veruca Salt of political spouses.

[MADem]

3. I know why he married her.

They wear the same size...from dresses to gloves to shoes.

[rurallib]

4. Rudi only wants the job for the blowjobs in the hallways

that he's heard about. Judith better not plan on being first woman for long. Rudi likes to slough them off every decade or so.

[AndreaCG]

5. Dammit!

I read this article last week and composed a very snarky letter to the editor. Basically I said that even a gossip columnist (which the author is) should be able to report that after Nathan finished demonstrating the surgical staples, the dogs were killed. I can't find the letter now. It must have been written when my email was acting up and not sending mail out.

Oh well.

[Bluebear]

6. Write it again! :)

[bumblebee1]

7. I can think of a few terms to describe Judi Guiliani

However, First Lady is not one of them.

[Egnever]

8. lol love the thread title

I want a bubmper sticker!

[Bluebear]

9. Thank you, thank you. :)