The Man/The Myth: What Made Him Do It

Tony Castro writes:

Power and the feeling of invulnerability made Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa do it. That and his love affair with his image in the media and finding in Telemundo’s Mirthala Salinas the narcissistic reflection of himself.

“He had gotten to a point where he felt invulnerable and that he’d charmed his way into people’s lives and could do no wrong,” says Dr. Carole Lieberman, the Beverly Hills psychiatrist who has been paying special attention to Villaraigosa since last fall.

…Lieberman said she has also closely studied video of Villaraigosa’s recent announcements – on June 11 of the breakup of his 20-year marriage to wife Corina and on July 3 of his confirmation of his love affair with Salinas and found two troubling similarities.

“It’s bad enough that he seemed to announce he was getting a divorce without very much remorse, and he said it in this cavalier way in which you almost knew he was having an affair,” says Lieberman.