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Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Meet Judith Giuliani

posted by on July 31 at 11:20 AM

Or, as Vanity Fair calls her in a withering profile, Judith Stish Ross Nathan Giuliani.

The piece paints Mrs. Giuliani as a classic type: The rich-husband-seeking climber, desperate to shake off her humble background but not exactly suited to the glamorous political life that her multiple marriages have brought her.

Who does Judith Stish Ross Nathan Giuliani think she is? These days, even with her husband, a freshly minted multi-millionaire, far ahead of the competition in the Republican presidential polls, no one, least of all Judith, 52, seems to have a clue. In a way, this is understandable. There have been so many different Judiths. As her second husband, Bruce Nathan, has told friends, “She is in an ever changing mode upward.”

Three decades ago, Judi Ann Stish, as she was known in Hazleton, Pennsylvania, left her parents’ home, a gray two-story house fronted by potted geraniums and a ribbon of flagstone. Fifteen years ago, while working for $1,200 a month as a part-time receptionist, she was living on borrowed money and the hospitality of friends—and threatening her estranged second husband with prosecution over a $3,500 rug. “Judi started from scratch, so of course she grabs every opportunity that comes into her life,” Manos Zacharioudakis, her onetime live-in companion, tells me. “Of course she was attracted to Giuliani.”

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1

REALITY CHECK .... Rudy is ahead of who? I thought the frontrunner for the GOP was "other"

Posted by Cato the Younger Younger | July 31, 2007 11:31 AM
2

She's a... gold diggah! You'd have to love money a whole lot to be with Rudy "The Pinguin" Giuliani.

Posted by monkey | July 31, 2007 11:32 AM
3

Have you seen Mrs. Fred Thompson?

I was running on the treadmill at the gym the other night and couldn't help but see that Access Inside Hollywood Edition or whatever was doing a very special report on whether America is ready for our first Trophy Wife First Lady. You know, with the huge boobs and couture jeans that say "Juicy" across her ass.

At this point, sure why not?

Posted by Original Andrew | July 31, 2007 11:44 AM
4

Does anyone else not give a shit?

Posted by Dianna | July 31, 2007 11:44 AM
5

Judy won't make it to the Iowa caucus.

Posted by DOUG. | July 31, 2007 11:58 AM
6

sorry -- no one beats kucinich's wife.

Posted by infrequent | July 31, 2007 12:18 PM
7

Not enough last names. She needs to throw an "Onassis" in there if she really wants my attention.

Posted by Boomer in NYC | July 31, 2007 12:41 PM
8

This article is just freakin' mean. It's like a teen movie where the poor girl gets the football star and all the rich cheerleaders are jealous and start talking shit. What wankers.

Posted by meks | July 31, 2007 1:12 PM
9

What? You’d prefer: “The impoverished-husband-seeking slumer, desperate to shake off her proud background but not exactly suited to the tedious political life that her marriage has brought her.”

Posted by You_Gotta_Be_Kidding_Me | July 31, 2007 1:47 PM
10

kucinich's wife is a scary elf vampire.

Posted by Bellevue Ave | July 31, 2007 1:53 PM
11

I'm sorry, I'm confused.

Is this wife #2, the mistress during wife #1, or wife #3, the mistress during wife #2, or are we now on wife #4, the mistress during wife #3?

And, if we're still on #3, sorry I outed you, I'll send a card when the divorce is finalized, you family values Red Republican!

Posted by Will in Seattle | July 31, 2007 2:18 PM
12

Glad to see the Rethuglicans are still looking to "bring honor and integrity back to the Whitehouse"

Politics is a dirty game and the Dems have been plaing nice for too long. What happens when you play nice with the fascists called Republicans? You end up with Cheney and his fratboy sidekick running the country, starting wars, destroying the last shreds of usefulness gov't had. The Dems need to take info like this and the juicy assed jeans and hammer it over and over until there is no way these people will be elected.


Posted by K X One | July 31, 2007 2:31 PM

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