Giuliani: Flawed or Flawless?: on Families & Children


Rudy Giuliani: Annulled 14-year 1st marriage because wife was 2nd cousin

In 1968, Rudy embarked for the first time on the sea of matrimony, marrying his second cousin, Regina Peruggi. While the two would remain husband and wife for 14 years, Rudy was known to have a roving eye, and theirs would soon become a marriage in name only. Then, in 1982, shortly after becoming associate attorney general in the Reagan Department of Justice, Rudy had their marriage annulled, claiming he hadn’t known that he and Regina were so closely related.

The end of Regina’s marriage to Rudy was mutual, not acrimonious. They had separated emotionally by the time they decided to do it legally, so the drama we saw in the second relationship wasn’t there.

His bachelor status would soon end: shortly after having obtained his annulment from Regina, Rudy met a Florida-based television news reporter, the recently divorced Dona Hanover. She accepted Rudy’s proposal of marriage and they tied the knot on April 15, 1984, at St. Monica’s Catholic Church, in Manhattan.

Source: Flawed or Flawless, by Deborah & Gerald Strober, p. 43-44 Jan 16, 2007

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