Story highlights Newt Gingrich says "the story is false" and he's "appalled" it came up at a debate Gingrich's second ex-wife speaks to reporters ahead of South Carolina's GOP primary Gingrich delivered a family values speech a day after asking for open marriage, ex-wife says His two daughters defend their father from their ex-stepmom's comments. Newt Gingrich offered his second wife a choice of an open marriage or a divorce when he revealed to her he was having an affair with the woman he later made his third wife, Marianne Gingrich said in interviews with ABC News and The Washington Post.
A day after he told his wife about his affair with Callista Bisek in May , the former House speaker delivered a speech titled " The Demise of American Culture " to a group of Republican women in Pennsylvania, The Washington Post reported Thursday. The former congressman responded forcefully to the allegations at the start of Thursday's Republican presidential debate moderated by CNN, calling the story "despicable" and saying he was "appalled that you would begin a presidential debate with a topic like that.
We offered several of them to ABC to prove it was false, but they weren't interested because they would like to attack any Republican. Marianne Gingrich's revelations echo what she told a reporter for an article published in Esquire magazine in August , but it is the first time Marianne Gingrich has talked about it on camera. ABC News began releasing excerpts of the interview Thursday morning, with a promise of the full interview on the network's "Nightline" program.
There is a widely spread rumor that Gingrich served his first wife divorce papers while she was on her deathbed. That story, however, is not true. The two argued while she was in the hospital after having a tumor removed, but she had been served the papers two months before.
I'm - I'm very fortunate today. I have my mom and my dad are here. They're right up there - Bob and Kit Gingrich. And I am so delighted that they were both able to be here. You know, sometimes when you get to my age, you can't have everyone near you you'd like to. Actually, in a uncomfortable twist, Gingrich first courted Ginther while still married to Battley.
He says that when they started dating he was 18 and she was 25, although Ginther insists that Gingrich was just 16 at the time the teacher-student courtship commenced. She said that he couldn't do it alone, he asked about her plans for the future.
The former Mrs. Gingrich says Newt began to plan a run for President at the time of the divorce and told her that Callista "was going to help him become President. In a statement to ABC News provided by the campaign, Gingrich's two daughters from his first marriage said, "The failure of a marriage is a terrible and emotional experience for everyone involved.
The daughters, Kathy Lubbers and Jackie Cushman said they would not say anything negative about Marianne and said their father "regrets any pain he may have caused in the past to people he loves. Click here to return to The Blotter homepage.
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