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Gay Ex-Gov’s Trial Figures to Get Messy
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
New Jersey's gay ex-governor Jim McGreevey and his estranged wife Dina
Matos McGreevey showed up for court Tuesday morning to begin the
process of ending their marriage.
The first three days of the trial will be closed to the media as Union
County Superior Court Judge Karen Cassidy considers custody issues
surrounding the couple's 6-year-old daughter.
The issues to be decided in the divorce settlement involve custody,
alimony and child sup****t, and whether McGreevey, now openly gay,
committed fraud by marrying a woman.
Matos McGreevey, 41, is seeking $600,000 for time she would have spent
at the governor's mansion had her husband not resigned in disgrace.
McGreevey, 50, stepped down during his first term after a nationally
televised speech in which he acknowledged being "a gay American" and
having an affair with a male staffer. The staffer has denied the
affair and said he was ***ually harassed by McGreevey.
Since his resignation in the fall of 2004, both McGreevey and his
soon-to-be-ex have written books about their time together, including
their *** lives. She claims she never knew he was gay until just
before he told the rest of the world. He claims their marriage was "a
contrivance on both our parts," but that he fulfilled the marriage
contract by providing companion****p and a child.
The couple has continued to stay in the news through a series of
public spats and catty comments. Neither has heeded stern suggestions
from the judge that they settle the case rather than expend the
emotional energy and significant money for a divorce trial.
The most sensational witness could be Teddy Pedersen, a 29-year-old
former aide who claims he had regular three-way ***ual encounters with
the McGreeveys beginning when they were dating in 1999 and ending two
years later, after they were married and McGreevey had been elected
governor.
John Post, a lawyer representing Matos McGreevey, is seeking to bar
Pedersen's testimony. Matos McGreevey claims the encounters never
happened. McGreevey says they did.
McGreevey, who often described himself as a devout Catholic while in
public office, now lives with a male partner and has officially been
received into the Episcopal religion as a priest. He also has been
accepted into the Master of Divinity program at Manhattan's renowned
General Theological Seminary.
Matos McGreevey, who until recently worked at Columbus Hospital in
Newark, can often be seen providing commentary on cable television
shows, most recently providing analysis when New York Gov. Eliot
Spitzer resigned amid a prostitution scandal.
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