Judith Giuliani: Gracious First Lady or Psychopath?
by Elisa
Tue Aug 07, 2007 at 08:21:19 PM PDT
Ooh! Ooh! I recently ate up this Vanity Fair piece as it had the proper dose of salacious gossip and the GOP.
The profile, aptly titled Giuliani's Princess Bride, had to do with Rudy Giuliani’s wife, “Do not call me Judi!” Judith, and her conspicuous spending. Excuse my giddiness, ladies, but I think she is a huge liability for the presumed GOP frontrunner!
Apparently, Mrs. Giuliani has been married three times -- all for money. She practically bankrupt her second husband, Bruce Nathan, and has clawed and lied her way to the top. The things that she lied about -- like Nathan’s salary -- were simply bizarre:
Her second husband, Bruce Nathan, was, Barbara Walters mentioned in a March interview with Judith, a man of "means"—a notion Judith promoted. A former boyfriend tells me that after the divorce Judith often referred to her ex-husband as a "millionaire." But in 1991, the year before their separation, Nathan earned exactly $72,775. Judith would later insist that Nathan had a trust fund worth perhaps $1 million and a yacht. However, as Bruce has informed friends, there was only a boat—and no trust fund at all. "Do you honestly think I'd be selling wallpaper if I had all that money?" he would ask.
Inside the marriage, according to friends, Bruce considered himself a "golden retriever, who put a lot of faith and trust in things," only to find that trust misplaced. "Some people can fool you," he would declare sorrowfully. There were expenses incurred by Judi—large sums, considering his modest salary, he complained, mostly for her clothes or tuition for their adopted daughter, Whitney, at elite schools. Toward the end of their marriage, when Bruce's credit cards were no longer at her disposal, Judi was incensed.
The family was then living in a small rented house in the pricey neighborhood of Pacific Palisades, California. Although Judith also claimed on ABC that she had to "re-enter the workforce, after, oh gosh, more than a decade of being a wife and mother" following her divorce, she had actually resumed working in surgical sales months before leaving Nathan.
Oh, but this story gets better. Remember how the Repubs freaked out over John Edwards’s $400 haircut? Let’s see how the presumed GOP frontrunner and the missus stack up: They take private Gulfstream IV jet rides to Europe, own both a $4 million home in the Hamptons and a $5 million home in the Upper East Side, and the missus is always adorned with Dolce & Gabbana even though she insincerely claims there’s “no room for shopping in my life.” My favorite detail of this story: She even has a seat in their private jet for “baby Louis.” Her Louis Vuitton handbag that is.
Of course, the details of this VF piece will only magnify once the general election rolls around. I can’t imagine the “values crowd” overlooking Rudy’s own multiple marriages, his estrangement from his children or his current wife’s misbehavior. To the horror of bystanders, Mrs. Giuliani and her entourage of body guards apparently trampled Hillary Clinton at a Ground Zero event. “"The nerve of that woman!" Hillary exploded, adding that her own daughter’s Secret Service detail was dismantled as soon as hubby Bill left office. “Who does she think she is?”
I, for one, will be watching this story unfold. So what say you, MotherTalkers? Are you sitting back and waiting for Judith’s next misdeed? Or, should the candidates’ wives be off limits to the press?
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