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Category Archives: Antonio Villaraigosa
Interview with Luke Ford, the Blogger who Scooped Everyone on Mayor Tony’s Failed Marriage
From LAist.com: Luke, how were you able to scoop everyone on the big scandal that Mayor Tony had been cheating on his wife and his marriage was over? On January 29, I was just shooting the breeze with a fellow … Continue reading
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Mirthala Salinas In Trouble With Telemundo
ERSNews.com reports: High-level officials of NBC’s Telemundo are having meetings this 4th of July (not a barbecue) to consider what to do about Mirthala Salinas. General manager Manuel Abud and News Director Al Corral are meeting with their legal department … Continue reading
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Do We Have A Right To Know About The Sex Lives Of Public Officials?
My attorney Justin Levine blogs: …I continue to laugh at people who insist that the sex lives of our politicians are none of our business. If you actually believe that, then I can only assume that you generally don’t care … Continue reading
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Villaraigosa a no-show at Palisades parade
TabloidBaby reports: LA’s philandering and ethics-flaunting mayor Antonio Villaraigosa was scheduled to appear in the Pacific Palisades Fourth of July parade today– but to the surprise of few, didn’t show up. "He was… busy!" laughed a parade organizer. Today’s parade … Continue reading
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Sharing Women
From a post to MayorSam: This is nothing new. Fabian, Antonio, Miguel, Xavier – they all shared whores. It was the Marxist thing to do, you share everything – even your women… The list goes on and on – just … Continue reading
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Mayor reveals romantic link with TV newscaster
Duke Helfand and Steve Hymon write in the Los Angeles Times: In November 2005 — four months after he was sworn into office — Villaraigosa was seen one evening by a resident of the Sherman Oaks condominium complex where Salinas … Continue reading
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Villaraigosa’s Media Affair
David Zahniser writes in the LA Weekly: On Tuesday, the Los Angeles Daily News finally got confirmation of Villaraigosa’s romance with Salinas, a political reporter who had already dated former council President Alex Padilla, among others. Daily News reporter Beth … Continue reading
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Mickey Kaus Writes: ‘Luke Ford 1: LA Times 0’
Kaus writes on Slate.com: This may be a first: If you watch the third local news video linked on this LAT page** ("Mirthala Salinas reports Villaraigosa’s separation") you’ll see the news of Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa’s separation from his wife announced … Continue reading
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Revealed: The other woman in Antonio Villaraigosa’s life
In April 2005, I also broke the story that what the Los Angeles City Hall journalists were chattering about but not printing was their widespread belief that then mayor James Hahn’s wife had left him for another woman. Nobody paid … Continue reading
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KFI’s John & Ken Claiming Villaraigosa Has A Pregnant TV Anchor Girlfriend
Wednesday afternoon, KFI’s John & Ken said that Los Angeles mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has a girlfriend. They said I broke the story. They said the mayor’s girlfriend (they did not name her) is a reporter/anchor for Channel 52, which is … Continue reading
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