TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — She claims she was duped into marriage by a closeted gay man who needed the cover of a wife to advance his political career. He says he gave her a child and the coattails she rode to the governor’s mansion, thus fulfilling the marriage contract. As Jim and Dina Matos McGreevey’s three-and-a-half-year separation approaches the duration of their marriage, the former first couple is about to become unhitched.
Their divorce trial began this week. New Jersey’s former first couple are fighting over custody of their 6-year-old daughter — he’s seeking a 50-50 split — alimony and child support. Matos McGreevey, 41, is seeking $600,000 as compensation for the time she would have lived at the governor’s mansion in Princeton had her soon-to-be-ex not resigned in disgrace. McGreevey’s political career unraveled during his first term after an affair with a man he put on the state payroll as homeland security adviser.
McGreevey says in his book that the marriage was “a contrivance on both our parts.” McGreevey “will testify at trial that he needed to have a disrobed male present in the room with them when the parties had sexual relations in order to maintain an erection,” his lawyer, Stephen Haller, wrote in court papers. “This tends to prove that plaintiff was at least bisexual, a fact which should have been obvious to defendant prior to the marriage.”
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