Editing Rudy Giuliani (section)

== Personal life ==

=== Marriages and relationships ===
[[File:Nancy Reagan Rudy Giuliani Vito Fossella.jpg|thumb|right|Congressman [[Vito Fossella]], former First Lady [[Nancy Reagan]], and Giuliani, 2002]]

Giuliani married [[Regina Peruggi]], his second cousin, whom he had known since childhood, on October 26, 1968. The marriage was in trouble by the mid-1970s and they agreed to a trial separation in 1975.<ref name="Rudy Giuliani-2007">{{cite news |url=http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2007/0212072giuliani12.html |title=Rudy Giuliani's Vulnerabilities |date=February 12, 2007 |publisher=The Smoking Gun |access-date=August 16, 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070401203526/http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2007/0212072giuliani12.html |archive-date=April 1, 2007}}</ref> Peruggi did not accompany him to Washington when he accepted the job in the [[United States Attorney General|Attorney General]]'s Office.<ref name="Bearak-1997" /> Giuliani met local television personality [[Donna Hanover]] sometime in 1982, and they began dating when she was working in Miami. Giuliani filed for [[legal separation]] from Peruggi on August 12, 1982.<ref name="Rudy Giuliani-2007" /> The Giuliani-Peruggi marriage legally ended in two ways: a civil divorce was issued by the end of 1982,<ref>{{cite news |first=Lynda |last=Richardson |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/04/nyregion/public-lives-a-scholarly-fund-raiser-s-stroll-to-the-park.html |title=A Scholarly Fund-Raiser's Stroll to the Park |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=May 4, 2001 |access-date=March 31, 2008 }}</ref> while a Roman Catholic church [[annulment]] of the marriage was granted at the end of 1983,<ref name="Rudy Giuliani-2007" /> reportedly because Giuliani had discovered that he and Peruggi were [[second cousins]].<ref>Powell, Michael and Goldfarb, Zachary A. {{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/07/AR2006030701768.html |title=On 'Feeling Thermometer', Giuliani is the Hottest' |newspaper=The Washington Post |first1=Michael |last1=Powell |first2=Zachary A. |last2=Goldfarb |date=March 8, 2006 |page=A04 |access-date=November 15, 2006}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/giuliani-to-wed-at-gracie-mansion/ |title=Giuliani To Wed At Gracie Mansion |work=[[CBS News]] |access-date=August 16, 2016 |archive-date=May 15, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130515062740/http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/04/25/national/main551053.shtml |url-status=live |agency=[[Associated Press]] }}</ref> [[Alan Placa]], Giuliani's best man, later became a priest and helped secure the annulment. Giuliani and Peruggi had no children.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/03/05/giuliani.family/index.html |title=All not in the family for GOP hopeful Giuliani |publisher=CNN |date=March 6, 2007 |access-date=December 12, 2007}}</ref>

Giuliani married Hanover at [[St. Monica Church (Manhattan)|St. Monica's]] church in Manhattan on April 15, 1984.<ref name="Rudy Giuliani-2007" /><ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://nymag.com/nymetro/news/people/features/3262/index1.html |first=Lisa |last=Birnbach |date=29 May 2000 |title=Donna's Riskiest Role |magazine=[[New York (magazine)|New York]] |access-date=August 16, 2016}}</ref> They had two children: [[Andrew Giuliani|Andrew]] and [[Caroline Giuliani|Caroline Rose]], who is a filmmaker in the LGBTQ+ community and has described herself as "multiverses apart" from her father.<ref>{{cite news |newspaper=[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]] |title=Rudy Giuliani Is My Father. Please, Everyone, Vote for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. |first=Rose Caroline |last=Giuliani |date=October 15, 2020 |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2020/10/rudy-giulianis-daughter-on-voting-for-biden}}</ref>
[[File:New York Air National Guard Major with Giulianis.jpg|thumb|A [[New York Air National Guard]] major poses with Rudy and Judith Giuliani at [[Yankee Stadium]] in April 2009.]]

Giuliani was still married to Hanover in May 1999 when he met [[Judith Nathan]], a sales manager for a pharmaceutical company, at [[Club Macanudo]], an [[Upper East Side]] [[cigar bar]].<ref name="Konigsberg-2007">{{cite news |first=Eric |last=Konigsberg |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/05/us/politics/05judith.html |title=Drawing Fire, Judith Giuliani Gives Her Side |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=August 5, 2007 |access-date=August 14, 2007 }}</ref> By 1996, Donna Hanover had reverted to her professional name and virtually stopped appearing in public with her husband amid rumors of marital problems.<ref>{{cite magazine |first=Margaret |last=Carlson |authorlink=Margaret Carlson |url=http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,27945,00.html |url-status=live |title=In Rudy's Playground |magazine=Time |date=July 11, 1999 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010211125714/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,27945,00.html |access-date=February 15, 2007 |archive-date=February 11, 2001 }}</ref> Nathan and Giuliani formed an ongoing relationship.<ref name="Konigsberg-2007" /><ref>{{cite news |first=Heidi |last=Evans |url=http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2007/04/29/2007-04-29_eager_judi_left_coal_town_in_dust.html |title=Eager Judi left coal town in dust |work=[[Daily News (New York)|Daily News]] |date=April 29, 2007 |access-date=May 6, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629165632/http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2007/04/29/2007-04-29_eager_judi_left_coal_town_in_dust.html |archive-date=June 29, 2011}}</ref> In summer 1999, Giuliani charged the costs for his [[NYPD]] security detail to obscure city agencies in order to keep his relationship with Nathan from public scrutiny.<ref name="Smith-2007" /><ref name="Saul-2007">{{cite news |last1=Saul |first1=Michael |last2=Evans |first2=Heidi |last3=Saltonstall |first3=David |name-list-style=amp |title=Mayor's Gal Got Security Earlier than We Knew |url=http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2007/12/07/2007-12-07_judith_nathan_got_security_earlier.html |work=[[New York Daily News]] |date=December 7, 2007 |access-date=December 7, 2007 |archive-date=December 8, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071208115526/http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2007/12/07/2007-12-07_judith_nathan_got_security_earlier.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> The police department began providing Nathan with city-provided chauffeur services in early 2000.<ref name="Saul-2007" />

By March 2000, Giuliani had stopped wearing his wedding ring.<ref name="Bumiller-2000">{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/05/04/nyregion/mayor-acknowledges-very-good-friend.html |title=Mayor Acknowledges 'Very Good Friend' |last=Bumiller |first=Elisabeth |work=The New York Times |date=May 4, 2000 | access-date=December 7, 2007|author-link=Elisabeth Bumiller }}</ref> The appearances that he and Nathan made at functions and events became publicly visible,<ref name="Bumiller-2000" /><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/05/08/nyregion/metro-matters-good-friend-a-marriage-and-voters.html |title=Metro Matters; 'Good Friend', A Marriage, And Voters |work=The New York Times |first=Joyce |last=Purnick |date=May 8, 2000 |access-date=March 31, 2008}}</ref> although they were not mentioned in the press.<ref name="Drucker-2000">{{cite news |url=https://www.salon.com/2000/05/04/giuliani_48/ |title=Rudy's 'very good friend' |last=Drucker |first=Jesse |work=[[Salon.com]] |date=May 4, 2000 |access-date=December 18, 2007 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080209104410/http://archive.salon.com/politics2000/feature/2000/05/04/giuliani/index.html |archive-date=February 9, 2008}}</ref> The ''[[Daily News (New York)|Daily News]]'' and the ''[[New York Post]]'' both broke news of Giuliani's relationship with Nathan in early May 2000.<ref name="Drucker-2000" /> Giuliani first publicly acknowledged her on May 3, 2000, when he said Judith was his "very good friend".<ref name="Bumiller-2000" />

On May 10, 2000, Giuliani held a press conference to announce that he intended to separate from Hanover.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/05/11/nyregion/mayor-s-separation-excerpts-mayor-s-conference-concerning-his-marriage.html |title=The Mayor's Separation; Excerpts From the Mayor's News Conference Concerning His Marriage |work=The New York Times |date=May 11, 2000 |access-date=March 31, 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/14/weekinreview/july-7-13-national-pronounced-ex-and-ex.html |title=Pronounced 'Ex and Ex' |work=The New York Times |first=Joyce |last=Wadler |date=July 14, 2002 |access-date=January 5, 2007}}</ref> Giuliani had not informed Hanover about his plans before the press conference.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/05/11/nyregion/mayor-s-separation-overview-giuliani-his-wife-16-years-are-separating.html |title=The Mayor's Separation: The Overview; Giuliani and His Wife of 16 Years Are Separating |work=The New York Times |first=Elisabeth |last=Bumiller |author-link=Elisabeth Bumiller |date=May 11, 2000 |access-date=January 5, 2007}}</ref> This was an omission for which Giuliani was widely criticized.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=06h4AAAAMAAJ |title=Giuliani: Flawed or Flawless the Oral Biography |isbn=9780471738350 |last1=Strober |first1=Deborah Hart |last2=Strober |first2=Gerald S. |date=January 16, 2007 |publisher=Wiley |chapter-url=http://media.wiley.com/product_data/excerpt/52/04717383/0471738352.pdf |chapter=The Softer, Gentler Rudy Giuliani: The Mayor's Poignant Last State of the City Address |access-date=20 December 2023 }}</ref> Giuliani then went on to praise Nathan as a "very, very fine woman" and said about Hanover that "over the course of some period of time in many ways, we've grown to live independent and separate lives." Hours later Hanover said, "I had hoped that we could keep this marriage together. For several years, it was difficult to participate in Rudy's public life because of his relationship with one staff member,"<ref name="Grove-2007">{{cite news |first=Lloyd |last=Grove |url=https://nymag.com/news/features/31812/ |title=The Thunderbolt |work=[[New York (magazine)|New York Magazine]] |access-date=June 12, 2007 |date=May 10, 2007 }}</ref> in reference to another woman who worked on Giuliani's staff.

Giuliani moved out of [[Gracie Mansion]] by August 2001 and into an apartment with a couple he was friends with.<ref>{{cite news |date=January 7, 2007 |url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article1290219.ece |title=Giuliani fears ex-wife will hit presidential bid |newspaper=The Sunday Times |access-date=August 16, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070214202944/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article1290219.ece |archive-date=February 14, 2007}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://nymag.com/nymetro/news/rnc/9728 |title=Three's Company: Picking Up After Rudy |magazine=[[New York (magazine)|New York]] |date=August 24, 2004 |first=Jed |last=Heyman |access-date=June 29, 2021 }}</ref> Giuliani filed for divorce from Hanover in October 2000,<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/giuliani-divorce-settlement-reached/ |title=Giuliani Divorce Settlement Reached |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20021228071913/http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/07/10/national/main514784.shtml |archive-date=December 28, 2002 |publisher=CBS News |date=July 10, 2002 |agency=[[Associated Press]] }}</ref> and a public battle broke out between their representatives.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,127260,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070223190810/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,127260,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=February 23, 2007 |title=No Grace At Gracie Mansion |magazine=Time |date=May 20, 2001 |first=Margaret |last=Carlson |access-date=May 22, 2010}}</ref> Nathan was barred by court order from entering Gracie Mansion or meeting his children before the divorce was final.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/05/AR2007030501187.html |title=Hizzoner the Curmudgeon |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |date=March 6, 2007 |first=Jonathan |last=Capehart |access-date=March 30, 2010}}</ref>

In May 2001, Giuliani's attorney revealed that Giuliani was [[impotent]] due to [[prostate cancer]] treatments and had not had sex with Nathan for the preceding year. "You don't get through treatment for cancer and [[radiation]] all by yourself," Giuliani said. "You need people to help you and care for you and support you. And I'm very fortunate I had a lot of people who did that, but nobody did more to help me than Judith Nathan."<ref>{{cite news|first=Elisabeth|last=Bumiller|author-link=Elisabeth Bumiller|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/18/nyregion/giuliani-breaks-silence-citing-adult-and-mature-relationship.html|title=Giuliani Breaks Silence, Citing 'Adult' and 'Mature' Relationship|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=May 18, 2001|access-date=June 12, 2007}}</ref> In a court case, Giuliani argued that he planned to introduce Nathan to his children on [[Father's Day (United States)|Father's Day]] 2001 and that Hanover had prevented this visit.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.villagevoice.com/news/public-displays-of-disaffection-6424535|title=Public Displays of Disaffection|last=Barrett|first=Wayne|date=August 15, 2007|work=[[The Village Voice]]|access-date=November 19, 2015|archive-date=November 20, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151120145027/http://www.villagevoice.com/news/public-displays-of-disaffection-6424535|url-status=dead}}</ref> Giuliani and Hanover finally settled their divorce case in July 2002 after his mayoralty had ended, with Giuliani paying Hanover a $6.8{{spaces}}million [[legal settlement|settlement]] and granting her custody of their children.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/2119009.stm |work=BBC News Online |title=Giuliani settles divorce out of court |date=July 10, 2002 |access-date=January 4, 2010}}</ref> Giuliani married Nathan on May 24, 2003, and gained a stepdaughter, Whitney. It was also Nathan's third marriage after two divorces.<ref name="Grove-2007" />

By March 2007, ''The New York Times'' and the ''Daily News'' reported that Giuliani had become estranged from both his son Andrew and his daughter Caroline.<ref>{{cite news|first1=Russ|last1=Buettner|first2=Richard|last2=Perez-Pena|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/03/us/politics/03rudy.html|title=Noticeably Absent From the Giuliani Campaign: His Children|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=March 3, 2007|access-date=June 12, 2007}}</ref><ref>Daniel Saltonstall, "Wife Makes Strive: Judi cause of tension with Dad{{snd}}Rudy's son", ''[[Daily News (New York)|Daily News]]'', March 3, 2007</ref> In September 2024, while endorsing [[Kamala Harris]] for the [[2024 United States presidential election]], Caroline wrote that her relationship with her father was "cartoonishly complicated", and that "Despite his faults, I love him."<ref name="guard-30sep2024">{{cite news |last1=Luscombe |first1=Richard |title=Rudy Giuliani's daughter backs Harris and grieves 'loss of my dad to Trump' |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/30/rudy-giuliani-daughter-supports-harris |access-date=September 30, 2024 |work=[[The Guardian]] |date=September 30, 2024}}</ref><ref name="vf-30sep2024">{{cite news |last1=Giuliana |first1=Caroline Rose |title=Rudy Giuliani's Daughter: Trump Took My Dad From Me. Please Don't Let Him Take Our Country Too |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/caroline-giuliani-trump-kamala-harris |access-date=September 30, 2024 |work=[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]] |date=September 30, 2024}}</ref>

Nathan filed for divorce from Giuliani on April 4, 2018, after 15 years of marriage.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/reliable-source/wp/2018/04/04/judith-giuliani-files-for-divorce-from-rudy-giuliani/ |title=Judith Giuliani files for divorce from Rudy Giuliani |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=April 4, 2018 |first=Emily |last=Heil |department=Reliable Source |access-date=April 10, 2018}}</ref> According to an interview with [[New York (magazine)|''New York'']] magazine, Nathan said that "For a variety of reasons that I know as a spouse and a nurse . . . he has become a different man."<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/08/judith-giuliani-rudy-giuliani-divorce.html |title=The Giulianis Break Up |magazine=New York |date=August 31, 2018 |first=Tish |last=Durkin |access-date=June 29, 2021 }}</ref> The divorce was settled on December 10, 2019.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://apnews.com/287ed8192a26450a031d81e2b9647986 |title=Report: Giuliani settles long divorce from his third wife |date=December 11, 2019 |work=[[Associated Press]] |access-date=March 25, 2020 }}</ref>

=== Prostate cancer ===
Giuliani's father died at age 73 of [[prostate cancer]] at [[Memorial Sloan–Kettering Cancer Center]] in April 1981. Nineteen years later, in April 2000, Giuliani, then aged 55, was diagnosed with prostate cancer following a [[prostate biopsy]], after an elevated [[prostate cancer screening|screening]] [[prostate specific antigen|PSA]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Bumiller |first1=Elisabeth |author-link=Elisabeth Bumiller |date=April 28, 2000 |title=Giuliani fighting prostate cancer; Unsure on Senate |work=[[The New York Times]] |page=A1 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/04/28/nyregion/giuliani-fighting-prostate-cancer-unsure-on-senate.html |access-date=21 December 2023 }}</ref> Giuliani would go on to make a full recovery, becoming a spokesman for cancer survivors.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna8260675 |title=Giuliani: From survivor to cancer spokesman |work=CNBC News |date=June 18, 2005 |access-date=November 28, 2020 }}</ref>

=== Religious beliefs ===
Giuliani has declined to comment publicly on his religious practice and beliefs, although he identifies religion as an important part of his life. When asked if he is a practicing Catholic, Giuliani answered, "My religious affiliation, my religious practices and the degree to which I am a good or not-so-good Catholic, I prefer to leave to the priests."<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,299205,00.html |title=Outspoken Catholic Archbishop Raymond Burke Says He'd Deny Rudy Giuliani Communion – Fox News |date=October 3, 2007 |publisher=Fox News |access-date=August 16, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130527183827/http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,299205,00.html |archive-date=May 27, 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref>