Let's swing, baby!
Posted on 12/15/2004 6:39:12 AM PST by Tumbleweed_Connection
WHEN titian-haired publish ing titan Judith Regan took up with former top cop Bernard Kerik, she thought she'd met her match. And vice versa.
But the illicit relationship came tumbling down, a friend of Regan's told me, not when she discovered her married lover had another mistress. It ended horribly after Regan learned Kerik's wife was pregnant.
After that jolting discovery, Regan — as volatile, driven and foul-mouthed as any man — began using other words to describe her lover.
"He's maniacal. Insane," a terrified Regan confided in a pal. Kerik, she said, had Regan followed to Los Angeles. He showed up at her house. Threatened her.
Now that Regan has emerged as the final nail in Kerik's bid to serve as chief of Homeland Security, questions are erupting over whether Kerik's admitted mistakes — he once used city cops to research his memoir — extended into even more intimate areas.
One thing is clear: This man had serious issues with impulse control.
The Kerik-Regan pairing may look unlikely — she's Vassar-bred, he's a high-school dropout. But two friends used almost identical terms to describe the duo. "They are male and female versions of the same people," they said of the "power-addicted" couple.
One friend told me Kerik lured Regan into a relationship with the oldest line in the married man's playbook: "My wife doesn't understand me. I'm in a loveless marriage."
Said the friend, "Judith is smart. I couldn't believe she'd fall for that." But she was also "crazy about the guy."
The yearlong affair, which began as Regan prepared to publish Kerik's memoir, was an open secret in town. Yet Regan used a "beard" — a male friend with whom she pretended to be involved.
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Ya know, he does have that balding-evil-genius look goin' on. I wonder who they will get to play him in the Lifetime movie :P.
Reminds me of a woman I knew who was having an affair with a baseball player over thirty years ago.
She got mad when she found out her lover was sleeping with his own wife!
To quote Sargent Schuultz........"Very Interesting"
bump
This whole sordid story gives short, bald, unattractive men a whole new lease on life!
Al Queda never would have guessed that the Dept. of Homeland Security was in the hollowed out volcano on the Lee Parkway.
What a heartless Bastard!
Bad people often do good work...for a time. Their lack of moral character always catches up with them in the end. Even if these revelations had not come out, Kerik would have tripped himself up, in time. Thankfully, he didn't get a chance to do it while serving as a Cabinet Secretary.
Well stated. I could not agree more.
Did Jim McGreevey's appointments team get jobs at the White House ?
"If every impulse you've ever had is wrong . . . do the opposite!"
pictures please - not of the bald guy though
I'm glad this came to light. People like him should not be rewarded.
well said.
Perhaps he will be John Edwards running mate at some point?
Whadaya mean? People like him who happen to be Democrats get elected President.
After reading this, I think Judith Regan is even worse trash than Bernie Kerik. I wonder if that was the intent of the article's author, or did she think she was saying good things about Ms. Regan?
Too bad, he would have been a perfect fit in the Clinton Administration.
Let's swing, baby!
I fail to see why these two would be considered and unlikely pair. He never learned and she got it learned out of her going to a liberal bastion.
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