Who Wears a Tiara on Their Wedding Day?

Judith and Rudy Giuliani at Gracie Mansion on their wedding day, May 24, 2003. Denis Reggie/Getty Images.

Judith Nathan Giuliani, that's who. This fantastic article in Vanity Fair combines my love of politics with my secret love of trashy celebrity gossip. It is a must read. The first paragraphs will make you want to read the whole thing:

It was the first anniversary of 9/11 at Ground Zero, an occasion when the names of the dead were read aloud. The first reader was to be Rudy Giuliani, New York's mayor at the time of the disaster, whose actions during those terrible days would prove a political boon. An army of policemen flanked him—an excessive number, spectators thought, since, due to the hundreds of dignitaries gathered, security outside was extremely tight.

Inside the tent were Secretary of State Colin Powell, New York governor George Pataki, Richard Grasso, who was then head of the New York Stock Exchange, and New York mayor Michael Bloomberg. Senator Hillary Clinton stood in the aisle—until she was unceremoniously pushed by a phalanx of four burly cops entering the tent, these guarding Judith Nathan, Giuliani's girlfriend. No apologies were offered, one observer noted.