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ITEMS SEALED IN FMR. GAY GOV. DIVORCE
By Fayner | March 18, 2008
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The judge presiding over former New Jersey Gov. James E. McGreevey’s divorce today sealed some case records and hearings, after McGreevey and his estranged wife spent two days trading public accusations about who did or didn’t share a bed with them.
The one-page order from Superior Court Judge Karen Cassidy in Elizabeth directed that all proceedings and filings related to “custody and parenting time” of the couple’s 6-year-old daughter, Jacqueline, be closed to the public. Many of those papers and hearings have been accessible during the yearlong case.
: James McGreevey and Dina Matos McGreevey.
Cassidy’s decision followed a war of words between the former first couple that started when a former statehouse aide, Theodore Pedersen, said he routinely engaged in three-way sex with the couple during McGreevey’s gubernatorial campaign.
McGreevey said Pedersen’s recollection was accurate. His wife said it was “completely false” and had been part of a campaign by McGreevey to smear her.
Pedersen, who served as a driver to the former Woodbridge mayor, said he was speaking out to counter Matos McGreevey’s image of herself as an innocent and unsuspecting wife. She has claimed she did not know McGreevey was gay until the week he announced it and resigned as governor in 2004.
Matos McGreevey is seeking more than $600,000 in damages, claiming her husband duped her into a loveless marriage to further his political career. He has countered that he committed no fraud because he gave her a child and companionship.
Both sides are expected to argue the fraud claim during a hearing before Cassidy on Thursday. That hearing will be in open court.
Read more in Wednesday’s Star-Ledger.
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