Andrew Cuomo Subjected Ex-Wife Kerry Kennedy to 'Instances of Physical Abuse': Report

[DonViejo]

COLIN KALMBACHER Mar 13th, 2021, 4:58 pm

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) reportedly subjected his former wife Kerry Kennedy to a litany of abuse, some of it physical, years before he was in the governor’s mansion.

According to a Friday report in Vanity Fair by Cuomo’s longtime biographer Michael Shnayerson, the 15-year marriage between Robert Kennedy‘s seventh child (out of eleven children total) and former New York Gov. Mario Cuomo‘s eldest son turned sour due to his “bullying ways and confrontational tactics.”

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“Kerry was done being ridiculed and belittled,” the author said an anonymous source close to the then-couple told him. “Either Andrew would work on the marriage or he wouldn’t, and the two would divorce.”

From that report:

Kerry demanded a divorce. They were living separate lives, but for six months Andrew refused to leave the house or respond to her lawyers. On more than one night during that period, Kerry slept in a locked bathroom, according to a source close to the family, who recounted instances of physical abuse. “I’ve been a human rights activist, and for women who have abusive husbands,” Kerry told a friend, “and here I am enduring this abuse.

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https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/andrew-cuomo-subjected-ex-wife-kerry-kennedy-to-instances-of-physical-abuse-report/

[Tarc]

3. Why are you here?

The DU isn't a place where women who come forward with assault allegations are harassed and nitpicked.

[Fullduplexxx]

5. What ? People never lie?

Especially ex spouses?

[spooky3]

7. Why are you implying that accusers are lying rather than waiting for

the investigation to play out? Denigrating accusers is a Republican thing, not ours.

[Fullduplexxx]

9. My response was essentially that statement . I didnt accuse them of lying

My point was not everyone always tells the truth so let the investigation run it's course

[DemocratSinceBirth]

6. Not a hill I would die on but I'm tipping my toes in the water.

I'm amazed by some of the reactions and I wonder how it would differ if the parties had (R)s after their name.

[spooky3]

8. Ditto Nt

[EX500rider]

19. yeah I noticed nobody had these issues with Kavanaugh's accusers coming out late..

....typical conformational bias IMO.

[kcr]

29. That is exactly what it is

Though I predict the same thing will happen with Cuomo that happened with Weiner and Spitzer. Their defenders have all disappeared, and I predict Cuomo's will as well. It doesn't stop it from being disturbing in the moment, however.

[kcr]

11. Well, you would think

But the response around here about Cuomo has been awful.

[treestar]

12. What?

DU is a place of such injustice that accusation is enough? No accusation should be even investigated ?

[kcr]

14. Right. Somehow she knew that years in the future

Republicans were going to need her for their hit job, so she falsely accused her husband and divorced him for abuse.

[treestar]

17. She might have

it happens all the time in divorces. For some people, that's the first thing they say, true or not.

Did she prove it in court? All she has to do is accuse? It is wrong to swing all the way back and now every man accused is guilty with nothing else.

And there are exes willing to say these things years later.

[kcr]

18. "she might have"

Whaaat?

[treestar]

22. Apparently you are so closed minded

that every man accused is guilty. And no one ever says anything bad about their ex spouse.

[kcr]

23. No. I'm not the one who is closeminded

The close-minded are the ones claiming that all of his own staff members, along with an ex-wife, can't possibly be telling the truth. it MUST be a Republican hit job.

[treestar]

25. Every one should be investigated

and proven, to say he is guilty due to number of accusations is closed minded. Especially for a politician. There is motive to gin up cases and people will go along for non-political reasons. That even applies to Trump. And we even have tape of his pussy grabbing comments. But Trump was running and not being demanded to resign. No Democrats should resign because of accusations. And not presumed guilty because we think as feminists we have to believe every accusation. That's not justice either.

[kcr]

27. I have no problem with an investigation

I have a problem with calling these women liars and claiming there must be some conspiracy against Cuomo.

[Demsrule86]

28. Fairfax's accuser wanted to testify but wanted no investigation.

[Fullduplexxx]

2. Rodger stone sure has been busy

[Drum]

4. The neverending whisper campaign n/t

[treestar]

10. People in midst of divorce

Are not credible without physical evidence. They will say anything about the other.

[JI7]

15. They aren't in the midst of divorce now. I will wait to see what she says

right now. So far this is anonymous sources .

[kcr]

13. Guess she's in on the Republican hit job, too

[treestar]

16. Exes don't need to be in on that

to say something bad about their ex.

[kcr]

21. True. However

Ex "saying something bad" in the context of several of his own staff members accusing him is something different.

[IbogaProject]

20. Not worthy of notice

So what. The former guy needs to submit DNA. And he needs to answer depositions.

[Boomerproud]

24. Who had custody of the 3 girls? Joint or sole?

This is snowballing out of control. What are the daughters saying?

[mopinko]

32. i know they had a lot of contact. his oldest daughter works for him.

she was around for a lot of the briefings.

[NancyBlueINOklahoma]

26. The linked Vanity Fair article is what posters need to read

before commenting. I now know why he has few friends.

[Klaralven]

30. An earlier piece by Shnayerson in Vanity Fair from 2015

THE FALL OF CUOMOLOT: INSIDE THE ILL-FATED KENNEDY-CUOMO MARRIAGE

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At the end of December 1997, the Kennedys would endure another death in the family. Michael Kennedy, not yet 40, sixth of Robert and Ethel’s 11 children, died in a skiing accident in Aspen. Two days later, when the family gathered to mourn at Hyannis Port, Andrew was there. Members of the press were up the street, but the family remained cloistered in grief. Other than by name, Michael had not been a public figure. “It was not something we were sharing with the world,” one close observer explained.

A television was on, and suddenly there on the screen were Andrew and his brother, Chris, speaking to the press about Michael and the impact his death had had on his family. They had just walked up the street on their own to give the interview.

Most of the family was too stunned to say anything to Andrew when he returned, but Rory managed to ask, “Andrew, why did you do that?” Two days before, she had been on a ski slope in Aspen, trying to save her brother’s life with C.P.R. Someone had had to do it, Andrew replied. In fact, the family was lucky that he was there to handle the moment. Speechless, Rory fled to her room upstairs.

“We had tried to be gracious,” one family member said. “In my family, no matter how much someone is an enemy, you can be gracious with them.” That was how Ted Kennedy conducted himself as a senator; it was how the next generation tried to act, too. With Andrew, graciousness didn’t work. “Andrew always interpreted graciousness as weakness,” Douglas Kennedy explained. “No matter what anyone did to be nice to him, it was going to be interpreted as political.”

For Douglas and—so he says—his siblings, that news conference after Michael’s death was the turning point. “That’s where I started to think, This is just a bully.”

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/03/cuomo-kennedy-cuomolot-marriage

[LovingA2andMI]

31. They Turn On Ya Quick

When one does not dances to the tunes anymore. Cuomo is experiencing it. Sad.

[MarcATL]

33. Glad this scumbag is out of the picture.

Good riddance to bad rubbish.