Dina Matos McGreevey Tells All
Dina Matos McGreevey, the estranged wife of the nation’s first openly gay governor, discusses how a political spouse feels when their husband gets caught in a gay sex scandal.
The former Governor of New Jersey is in a heated divorce settlement battle. Dina McGreevey is now requesting over 50 thousand dollars a month in spousal support.
Dina Matos McGreevey, born 1966 in Cantanhede, Portugal, is the former First Lady of New Jersey.
Dina is a former manager of Public and Professional Relations at Saint James Hospital, Executive Director of the Columbus Hospital Foundation in Newark, New Jersey.
She met Jim McGreevey in 1995, when he was setting up interviews with a Portuguese language newspaper and TV program. Although they began dating, they kept their relationship quiet during his 1997 campaign for governor.
They married October 7, 2000. Together they have a daughter, Jacqueline Matos McGreevey, born December 7, 2001 (a premature birth) after her mother, Dina, had been hospitalized for six weeks.
She served as first lady during the administration of her husband, former Gov. James McGreevey. She was standing beside McGreevey during his August 2004 press conference, where he announced he was homosexual and was resigning from office.
She and her husband decided to separate and in October, 2004, Dina Matos McGreevey purchased a three-bedroom, red brick ranch home in Springfield, New Jersey. She and James are currently in the midst of a divorce and custody battle that has gained much media attention.
Dina announced in January 2007 that she was writing a book, “Silent Partner”, to end media speculation on her life. On May 1, 2007, she broke her silence and spoke on The Oprah Winfrey Show promoting her book, which came out that day. When she appeared on ABC’s Good Morning America with Diane Sawyer, May 2, 2007, She said, “I thought I had it all, I thought it was the American dream, and it turned out to be a nightmare.” She said of her husband on the day that he resigned, “You know he had the entire day scripted. His entire life had been choreographed, and even as his world was falling apart, he was still trying to script everything and making sure that day went as he wanted it.”
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