Jun 12, 2007 12:29 pm US/Eastern
McGreevey Ex: Homophobic Claims Hurting Book Sales
NEWARK (CBS/AP) ―
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James McGreevey and his wife Dina on the day he announced he was resigning because he is a "gay American."
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James McGreevey, and wife Dina Matos McGreevey during court appearance for motions in their divorce case in Superior Court in Elizabeth last week.
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The accusations continue to fly in the messy divorce of former governor James E. McGreevey and wife Dina Matos
McGreevey.
A little over a month after filing libel and defamation claims against her estranged husband for calling her homophobic and saying she made anti-gay statements, Matos McGreevey has charged in court papers that his claims have negatively affected the sales of her recently released memoir.
Matos McGreevey said the former governor "used his experience in manipulating the media" by making his claims "shortly before the publication of (her) much anticipated memoir."
The book, "Silent Partner," was released on May 1 and was ranked No. 4,044 on Amazon.com Tuesday morning. Her husband's book, titled "The Confession," was ranked 14,111. It was released last September.
Matos McGreevey alleges that the claims that she was homophobic and knew about her estranged husband's sexual orientation before they were married have kept book sales down "by deterring purchases by members of the gay community (and to) members of the general public who were interested in whether she knew of his sexual orientations when the parties married."
She also claims in court papers that because of her estranged husband's comments, "persons were deterred from associating with her" in her capacity as head of a nonprofit foundation that raises money for Newark's Columbus Hospital.
The former governor moved last month to have the libel and defamation charges dismissed.
McGreevey, 49, shocked the nation in August 2004 by proclaiming himself "a gay American" who had an extramarital affair with a male aide, and that he would resign that November. The aide denies having an affair and claims he was sexually harassed by the former governor.
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