Let’s start at the end, shall we?
They quickly became New York royalty and acted accordingly.
They owned box seats at the New York Yankees, bought high-value properties, and went to the opera.
Rudy’s problems with fidelity are hardly news to us.
“Our attraction was instantaneous.
There was almost something mystical about the feeling,” Giuliani toldThe New York Times.
It’s now the stuff of legend.
Hanover found out that she was separating in 2000, via a news conference (viaThe Washington Post).
“They’re all there to stay,” an ex-staffer toldVanity Fair, “until they’re gone.
And the staff usually knows before they do.”
Hanover got $6.8 million out of her divorce.
During it, she accepted a part inThe Vagina Monologues, wedding ring on.
Was it a play at embarrassing Giuliani?
Then, in 2002, her high school sweetheart, Ed Oster, gave her a call.
The two have been married since 2003 (viaCBS).
Giuliani’s 14-year marriage to Peruggi ended in 1983 (viaThe New York Times).
They didn’t get divorced.
We don’t have a lot of information about who Regina Peruggi was when she was married to Giuliani.
We do know who she became after.
Between 2004 and 2013, she served as the first female president of Kingsborough Community College.
During her tenure there, she was honored as a 2006 New York State Senate Woman of Distinction.
She was, in other words, the educational equivalent of a rock star.
