Rudy Giuliani has been accused of having an affair with the married mother of his assistant a week before his wife filed for divorce.
The 74-year-old is alleged to have been having a relationship with 53-year-old Maria Rose Ryan, a doctor whose hospital he visited in March, a week before his wife Judith Nathan filed court papers.
Ryan is the mother of Giuliani’s assistant Vanessa who he defended in court earlier this year when she was accused of insurance fraud.
Rudy Giuliani has been accused of having an affair with 53-year-old hospital CEO Dr Maria Ryan who he is pictured with above on March 29 at her hospital in New Hampshire. After this visit, which was filmed by local news stations, the pair decamped to a mountain resort where staff say they were seen entering the suite Giuliani had rented together
Giuliani’s third wife, Judith Nathan, 63, filed for divorce on April 4. She filed a contested divorce, citing their assets as the source of dispute. It was a week after his trip to Ryan’s hospital
Page Six reports that Giuliani and Ryan spent the night together at an upscale resort in the mountains in Whitefield, New Hampshire, in March.
Staff at the hotel told the newspaper they saw them going into the same room together, a spacious suite Giuliani had reserved, after watching The Godfather in a private screening room.
Earlier in the night, they had dinner with three other men. Giuliani, the sources said, ate a $32 prime rib.
The overnight stay came hours after his visit to Cottage Point Hospital where Ryan is the CEO.
Local networks filmed Giuliani’s visit at the time. He said he was there to look at the hospital’s cyber security equipment which was of interest to one of his businesses.
In May, Giuliani represented Ryan’s daughter Vanessa in court. She has been accused of financial fraud and is said to have worked for Giuliani. At the time, he said he was defending her as a favor because her father served as a Marine
Ryan herself gave an interview about it at the time.
Giuliani denied having an affair but said he and Ryan, who is 21 years younger than him, is a ‘very, very fine woman’
The visit on March 29 came a week before Nathan filed for divorce on April 4.
Giuliani has denied having an affair with Ryan, who is married to a former marine, but said they were friends.
He admitted having dinner with her at the hotel in March but said they dined with others and that there was ‘no proof’ they had had sex.
‘I do know Dr. Ryan. She is a friend of mine, so is her husband Bob.
‘She’s a PhD and a very, very fine woman.
‘I was in effect separated by then,’ he said.
Pushed on whether or not the pair had a romantic relationship, he said: ‘I never spent the night with her. There’s no proof. There can’t be because we never did anything.’
He did not immediately respond to DailyMail.com’s questions on Tuesday morning.
Ryan refused to comment when questioned by Page Six. Her husband told its journalist to ‘f*** off’ when they approached the pair on Tuesday.
Nathan has not commented on the claims either. In April, she filed a contested divorce proceeding.
The pair did not sign a prenup when they married in 2002. They must now divide up their rumored $30million fortune which includes homes in New York and Florida.
Their romance famously began when Giuliani was still married to his second wife, Donna Hanover.
He met Nathan in a cigar bar in 1999 while he was still mayor.
In 2000, he announced at a press conference that he was leaving Hanover, the mother of his two children. She was unaware of it beforehand and later participated in her own press conference where she claimed he’d had a previous affair with a different woman.
Giuliani’s first marriage, to Regina Peruggi, was annulled in 1982 because they were second cousins.