Rudy Giuliani

Giuliani was married to his childhood sweetheart, Regina Peruggi from 1968-1975. He took legal separation from her as well as the Roman Catholic annulment from the Church.

He was married to local television personality, Donna Hanover from 1884-2002 and has two children with her, Caroline and Andrew. The differences in their marriage began when Giuliani started his alleged affair with one of his staff.

Whilst in his marriage with Hanover, he started an affair with Judith Nathan, a twice-divorced sales manager for a pharmaceutical company and got married to her in 2003. He has a step-daughter, Whitney, from his marriage to Nathan.

Rudy Giuliani was born on May 28, 1944 in New York to Harold Giuliani and Helen. He belonged to a working-class, Italian Immigrant family. His father was convicted for assault and robbery and was a part of an organized crime group.

He attended the local Catholic school in Garden City South, St. Anne’s and later went to the Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School and graduated with a high score, which paved his way in securing an admission in Manhattan College.

In the beginning, he aspired to become a priest since he had been studying theology for many years in college. He graduated in 1965 and instead pursued law in the New York University School of Law in Manhattan.

After graduating from the law school in 1968, Giuliani volunteered for Robert F. Kennedy’s presidential campaign and side by side, clerked for Judge Lloyd Francis MacMahon, United States District Judge for Southern District of New York.

In 1970, he joined the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York and was made the Chief of Narcotics Unit and the executive U.S. attorney in the next few years.

In the mid-1970s, he was named the Associate Deputy Attorney General and chief of staff to Deputy Attorney General Harold "Ace" Tyler.

In 1977, he left the United States Attorney’s Office and concentrated on his private practice for which he associated with the firm ‘Patterson, Belknap, Webb and Tyler’ in New York.

He came back to Washington in 1981 to serve as President Reagan's Associate Attorney General, the No. 3 position in the Justice Department and a few years later, Giuliani was made the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York.

Giuliani’s two consecutive terms as the mayor of New York is considered to be the time that established his dynamism as a leader. He reduced the crime rate by 1/3 and helped 600,000 New Yorkers in securing jobs and a better life for themselves.