Now maybe we know why Dina Matos McGreevey had that strange smile on her face when her husband, then the governor of New Jersey, told the world "I am a gay American."
She was probably thinking, "This is going to be a great chapter in the book!"
Who can blame her for being a little pissed off at Jim McGreevey, who cheated on her with a man the night she gave birth to their daughter? I will be interested in what she has to say in her tell-all book which is set for release on May 1. But even before the book comes out, things are getting pretty ugly between the former governor and first lady of New Jersey.
In divorce papers filed this week, Dina Matos McGreevey alleges that her husband had little time for his daughter while he was running the state and exposed her to a picture of a nude male model at his home. She wants legal and primary residential custody of the couple's 5-year-old daughter, Jacqueline.
When McGreevey filed for divorce in February, he said the couple had resolved custody issues, according to The Advocate.com. But Matos McGreevey said no such agreement had been made. The former governor has filed revised complaints seeking joint custody and a parenting coordinator to help settle visitation disputes.
''Unfortunately, divorces are contentious by nature, if not painful,'' McGreevey said Thursday. ''I believe Dina and I want to serve the best interests of Jacqueline. Hopefully, with the court's assistance, we'll come to an amicable resolution.''
In her filing Thursday, Matos McGreevey accuses her husband of not shouldering his share of their daughter's $995 monthly preschool tuition and exposing her to media during his book tour. She also wants the court to prohibit Jacqueline from seeing the ''life-size photograph of a nude male model'' by artist Richard Renaldi. McGreevey and his partner took down the photo from the master bedroom, Matos McGreevey said, but only after she threatened to withhold visitation.
And now all the dirt is being dished: She said that McGreevey didn't bother to meet her at a hospital emergency room after their daughter fell and cut her chin in 2003.
''We were there...between five and six hours,'' she said. ''Plaintiff never even came to the hospital even though he passed not too far away en route to a Democratic Party function.''