On his May 13, 2014 radio show, Dennis said about his third wife: “I have the Susan diet. It’s named after my wife. I’ve adopted it and it’s been very good for me. Eat whatever you want, just eat little of it. I even adopted her method of doing that. We’ve known each other ten years. I adopted this after year two. I have not had a whole desert in about seven years. The way to do that is to adopt her, I never saw it in practice before her, if you give her a piece of candy, it will last about 20 minutes. I watched her do this. It’s almost scalpel like, the tiny piece. It works because the taste buds do not know quantity. There’s nothing more pleasurable about a giant piece of cake than a tiny sliver of cake so if you keep eating slivers, you’ll reach half and you’ll feel like you’ve had a whole piece.”
In January 2010, I received emails from educator Deanna Bregman. She said she was Fran Prager’s best friend. She said she had lived with Dennis and Fran. She said that Dennis had a relationship with Sue while still married to Fran. She complained to me: “You painted a pretty picture [of Sue].”
There’s a whole cottage industry of people attacking Dennis Prager personally. Those who hate him look for his weaknesses and believe they’ve found them in his divorces.
“Of course I am committed to it [sexual fidelity],” said Dennis Prager on the air Dec. 9, 2009. “How could I do this show if I weren’t?”
In 2004, Dennis flirted publicly with running for the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate from California. After thinking about it for a few weeks, he decided against running, citing personal family reasons.
By Dennis’s account on his radio show May 13, 2014, this year of 2004 was the time he met Sue, his third wife. He was still married to wife number two at the time.
Sue came up to Dennis after a speech and the mutual attraction was immediate. He went home, presumably to his wife Fran, and Sue emailed him and they began a correspondence and phone calls and occasionally meeting in person.
Fran Prager, Dennis’s second wife, filed a petition for divorce (BD431230) on August 11, 2005.
Dennis did not mention this on his radio show until Dec. 30, 2005, when he broke into tears. He said his second marriage had been unraveling for years.
“You can ask my wife [first, second or third?],” said Dennis Dec. 13, 2010. “The pain that I have had in my life I have always viewed as a possibility of bringing more insights to people to help their life. Since I do have a microphone and I do write, I do have the ability to talk to more people than most people do. I’ve wanted to use whatever I’ve gathered from pain to help others.”
Dennis said in a February 2009 lecture: “I was gonna run for the U.S. Senate against Barbara Boxer. I don’t know that I should’ve. I think I touch more people through radio. That’s what I ultimately decided. As a senator, there’s one advantage — if you can get to the Senate, you can get to the presidency, but I don’t think that I’ll be president.
“I met with one of the highest ranking Republicans at his office [Arnold Steinberg?] in Beverly Hills and he didn’t know who I was. I don’t take it personally. It’s impossible to offend me. I wasn’t offended. I just thought, how could someone be so high up in the Republican party and never have heard of a man who had been on talk radio in his own city for 20 years? They are so out of it in the Republican party.”
“We do need an articulate charismatic spokesman. The press of course will eat up anyone who does this. I flirt with running all the time, with throwing my hat in the ring. I know I’m articulate. I know how to speak to people. I’ve had a lot of practice in this but I know among other things what the press would do to me. Talk about a track record. They would get all the recordings from 26 years in radio. They would isolate 17 different clips to show me to be every evil thing possible.”
