Finally! A New Jersey judge today ended the drama-filled marriage of Jim McGreevey and Dina Matos. The couple, of course, gained national prominence when McGreevey came out as a “gay American.” It was down hill from there.
“Broke” former New Jersey Governor claims that he really wants to pay child support, but simply can’t afford it. In fact, he’s been living off a $250,000 loan from his boyfriend. CONTINUED »
Homo-journo James Kirchick certainly doesn’t mince words when it comes to former New Jersey governor, Jim McGreevey.
Who could forget when McGreevey stood before the press and announced his homosexuality and resignation in the same breath? Kirchick sure as shit remembers, and he’d like to remind readers of a simple fact: McGreevey’s main offense is corruption, not cock sucking.
Jim and Dina McGreevey’s threesome scandal garnered plenty of gab this week. And now their divorce judge, Judge Karen Cassidy has taken steps to put an end to the tabloid sensation:
And the saga continues! For those of you not keeping up - and who can blame you? - Teddy Pedersen dropped jaws yesterday when he told the press that he used to canoodle with former NJ Gov. Jim McGreevey and then-girlfriend, Dina Matos-McGreevey.
The allegations punched a big hole in Dina’s story - she had no inkling of Jim’s gay ways. Sensing her advantage slipping - and the press light turning - Dina issued a statement denying Pedersen’s carnal claims, which in turn spurred Jim to release his own confirmatory statement, which then sparked yet another assertion from Pedersen:
Dina Matos-McGreevey’s big mouth got her into some trouble. The former New Jersey first lady stole the spotlight last week when she spoke out about Eliot Spitzer’s whore loving ways - twice! Now her own free-loving past seems poised to bite her in the ass.
Teddy Pedersen alleges that he used to have some wild nights with Dina and former Governor hubby, “gay American” Jim McGreevey.
Today marks Day 6 of our "NYP Writers Are Homophobes" coverage, and once more there's no shortage of material. A quick look at Page Six reveals the unoriginal staffers continue to gratuitously overuse the phrase "toe-tapper" when describing latent homosexuals, this time in the context of ex-Jersey gov Jim McGreevey.
The idiom first reared its ugly head in reference Larry Craig (who was, presumably, tapping his foot in the men's lavatory in order to send a gay bat signal to his would-be sexual partner over in the next stall) but its continued presence in the Post remains a veritable mystery.
"The scandal-plagued politician and his stoically supportive spouse." We've seen this scene a thousand times and yet, for whatever reason, it continues to transfix.
But what is it about this so-predictable-it's-almost-cliché tableau that nonetheless has us so entranced? Is it, as some lady we've never heard of* postulates, that "if you see a guy standing next to his wife, it offers some explanation that he might be telling the truth?"
Or is it that we're all, essentially, voyeurs, overgrown high school girls prone to spurts of schadenfreude and juvenile meanness, and invariably drawn to moments rife with awkwardness and public depravity?
Since you're probably sitting down to you computers, lunch in hand, looking for a quick read, we've taken the liberty of scouring the internets and rounding up the best headlines regarding Jim McGreevey's recent decision to become an Episcopalian priest.
• "He'd Like To Be Jim McRevvy" (NYDN)
• "The Day Jim McGreevey Upped The Ink-Grabbing Ante" (Queerty)
• "HEAVEN HELP US! MCG TO BE PRIEST" (NYP)
• "McGreevey's Life Journey Is Taking A Spiritual Turn" (Newark Star Ledger)
Truthfully, we're still partial to our own incarnations, "What Are You, A Priest? 'Actually, Yeah,' Says Jim McGreevey" and "McGreevey To Become Episcopal Priest; Catholics Still Swear He's Going To Hell," as well as Gawker's more risqué submissions.
But of the above entrants, we have to give the Daily News their due. And a free "Venti" beverage of choice (from the downstairs Starbucks) for whoever coined the name "McRevvy."
Catch yesterday's Oprah? The one with Jim McGreevey's future ex-wife Dina on, pushing her book and bashing her former roommate? Queerty did, and they aren't buying this whole "I didn't know he was a big homo" line. That's why she didn't have any time to prepare for that public appearance where he announced he was a gay American, whereas he had a whole lifetime. That's just rude.
"He kind of gave me the news in cowardly installments," is how Dina McGreevey describes the coming out process of her soon-to-be ex-husband and Gay American Jim McGreevey on today's Oprah (tune in! ABC! 4pm!). That is, when he asked her to wear a football helmet and pads during sex, he didn't just blurt out "and by the way, I'm a homo!" like normal married couples.
The Big O, who scored an exclusive sit-down with Jim last fall, is the first to land a sit-down with wifey, whose new book Silent Partner is, conveniently, hitting bookstore shelves today.
But Oprah's dealings aren't stopping Good Morning America's Diane Sawyer from letting the good times keep rolling. She's invited Dina to come by tomorrow at 9am to tape a segment to further promote her book dish more on her failed marriage. But audience members are in for a special treat: We hear producers are planning an "interactive" segment.
In an email sent out yesterday, a GMA producer asked her contact list to submit names – "your moms, aunts, friends, neighbors?" – who are "well-spoken, outgoing women of diverse backgrounds, ages, marital status, religions, who would be part of an interactive audience."
Because the last thing this segment needs are a bunch of white ladies nodding along to Dina's tribulations. Black faces are needed, too. They know about dudes on the downlow.
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Dina McGreevey, the beard to ex-governor and Gay American Jim McGreevey, was in on the whole "don't let anyone find out he likes teabagging" sham for much longer than the feuding couple fessed up to. Whether you believe Dina suspected-slash-knew before they were married in 2000, or, as McGreevey claims in his book, in 2002 when she caught him on the phone with Golan Cipal, one thing's for sure: the Post has the exclusive and the Daily News doesn't. Nah-nah nah nah-nah.
Instead, the News only got its hands on passages from Dina's Silent Partner, where she claims Jim ordered her to smile for the cameras during his coming out speech in '04.
The exciting conclusion – with enough material for both papers to share – is still to come. In divorce court. Where the evidence is getting us hot and bothered.
Jim McGreevey's ex-wife is a big homophobe. So claims the ex-governor in his divorce proceedings with Dina. He also wants his soon-to-be ex to stop bringing their daughter Jacqueline along on media tours. She's already hit Good Morning America and Live with Regis and Kelly, and joined mama during a meeting with Diane Sawyer. Dina does have a book to promote after all.
Jim wants none of it, filing papers with the court demanding their daughter be kept out of the media spectacle, which would likely include Dina's May 1 appearance on Oprah. It is, after all, a little unfair that Dina gets to parade around little Jacqueline when Jim also has a book to push.
• Billionaires continue to duke it out for control of Tribune. It's almost like watching a no-holds-barred Ultimate Fighting Championship except with boring rich guys.
• Diane Sawyer beats out NBC, CBS to score the interview with Dina McGreevey that nobody else wanted.
• "At breakfast yesterday, Dean Baquet looked an awful lot like the next executive editor of the New York Times." Sounds like someone ordered Wheaties!
• The Edwards campaign may have the most Facebook, MySpace friends, but Obama looks "way hotter" in his profile picture.
• The reviews are in on Onion News Network: "Funny to read, not funny to hear from mediocre actors with bad toupees."
• Jude Law and Lindsay Lohan went to a new LES bar called "The Box" together. And then they totally did it!
• Have J.Lo and hubby Marc "Skeletor" Anthony jumped on the Times' *new* separate bedrooms trend?
• Kirsten Dunst is taking college level art classes despite only reading at a 9th grade level.
• Robbie Williams drinks 36 espressos every day?? That guy must spend more on coffee every week than we make in a year!
• Gay adulterer Jim McGreevey inexplicably asks for sole custody and spousal support two years after resigning in disgrace as New Jersey's governor.
• Anna Wintour and Dominick Dunne are creepy new besties! We hear they bonded over a mutual hatred of that untalented Indian guy on American Idol!
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