I don’t believe this.
It ain’t often that I read a story that makes me whip out the ghetto-fabulous side of my personality, but this mornin’ I had to do a double-take, snap, and an “uh-uh, oh no she di-in’t - is Adri gonna hafta slap the stank off a ho?”
Yeah. It’s that bad.
I’ve talked about the feuding between Dinah Matos-McGreevey and Jim McGreevey before. Last time I said I was a little ambiguous as to who was telling the truth and thus unwilling to take sides despite Dinah making a wholly unlikable shrew of herself, unable to even look past her own vengeful bitterness to think about her child - but this time I’m gonna have to come down on the side of “woman, puh-lease“.
Gay Governor’s Wife Wants More Money - 365gay.com
The estranged wife of the nation’s first openly gay governor wants a judge to increase her monthly support nearly fourfold to $4,000 so she can live a lifestyle closer to that of New Jersey’s first lady.
Dina Matos McGreevey said she and the couple’s 5-year-old daughter live in a modest 3-bedroom house while her husband, Jim McGreevey, and his male partner live in a lavish 17-room mansion with gardens, according to court papers.
“In total, I need $11,162 per month to meet my expenses,” she told the judge. “This lifestyle by no means approximates the lifestyle which plaintiff enjoys, much less the lifestyle we enjoyed while plaintiff was governor.”
What’s that? I’m sorry, did someone say the word gold-digger? Seriously, who does this woman think she is, talking about how she needs to live a lifestyle closer to that of New Jersey’s first lady?
Who the hell needs $11,000 per month on top of her regular salary? What the hell kind of extravagant expenses does she have? Hell, I don’t make that much in six months; writers are on the bottom of the financial food chain, and yet I get by and can even afford little luxuries. Jim McGreevey was ordered by the courts to give her over a thousand dollars per month to look after their child; Dinah herself is no longer his responsibility. Her lifestyle is no longer his responsibility, and his lifestyle should no longer be her business.
Any sympathy I had for the woman is pretty much dead now; she has a well-paying job of her own, got more money for her book than most writers ever hope to see for any of their novels, and she is not in any way destitute or living poorly. This kind of bratty entitlement works my nerves to the bone. Matos-MacGreevey is now coming off as a spoiled, sulking brat more interested in harming her ex-husband and getting everything she can out of him than in her own well-being, or their child’s.
Honey, stop trying to play the martyr. I can understand that you’re bitter about the way your marriage ended, but damn, have a little class and decency. Acting like a money-grubbing harpy isn’t hurting anyone but you.
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September 14th, 2007 at 4:07 am
Imagine how their child will feel once it’s olf enough to understand all this…
September 14th, 2007 at 4:30 am
Wow, yeah. That’s pretty outrageous. I feel almost embarrassed for her. But she’s the one with egg on her face now, not him.
September 14th, 2007 at 10:43 am
I’ll take the role of the Devil’s Advocate and point out that divorce pushes most reasonable, rational people into raving wonko loons. That said, you would think someone with the public poise and grace of the former Jersey First Lady would have enough self respect to rise above. Guess not …
On a personal note, reading the description triggered like some sort of ‘Nam FLashback sequence in my mind of my own parent’s divorce. While they still aren’t what I call “friends”, they are at least civil. One day, hopefully, the McGreevey daughter will be able to say the same.
September 25th, 2007 at 5:08 am
[...] Remember when I was griping about Dinah Matos-McGreevey being a little gold-digger? Well, she got what she wanted. Absolutely [...]
February 7th, 2008 at 9:29 am
[...] The last time I caught them in the news, I actually ended up in a rather long phone conversation with my mother about this; I was still outraged that Matos-McGreevey was more interested in attaining revenge through a smear campaign while using the judicial system to take McGreevey for all he was worth than she was in safeguarding the health and well-being of their daughter, Josephine. What McGreevey did was hurtful, yes, and if he knew he was gay he never should have married her. There’s no question that he was in the wrong there, but it was an unfortunate situation for both of them (and I can’t blame McGreevey for the fact that social stigma made him feel as if he couldn’t be openly gay while running for office) and in the end she could have handled the situation with more class, kept their private business private , and done her best to look after their daughter rather than vindicate herself. [...]