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09/18/2006
Cipel: Jimmy's jimmy didn't interest me
Golan Cipel (pic.) is disputing Jim McGreevey's claims that the duo had a two-year consensual affair (which the former Governor claims began while his wife was in the hospital after giving birth to their child), with Cipel telling the NY Times that he's "never met a liar like Jim McGreevey.” And Instead of McGreevey's loving account of the duo's first time in bed ("We undressed and he kissed me. It was the first time in my life that a kiss meant what it was supposed to mean..."), the Times details Cipel's version like this:
Mr. Cipel said the two men never kissed.
Mr. Cipel called it an encounter marked by deceit and physical force. He said the evening started at a bar near the governor’s home in Woodridge, where Mr. McGreevey tried to ply him with beer while state troopers waited outside. When he refused to drink, he said, Mr. McGreevey asked him to return to his home under the guise of doing work. Once there, Mr. McGreevey poured two glasses of Jägermeister. Again, Mr. Cipel said, he would not drink.
He said Mr. McGreevey downed both glasses, and said he had some paperwork upstairs he wanted to give him. “Contrary to what is in the book, we were not holding hands as we walked up the stairs,” Mr. Cipel said. As they neared the master bedroom, Mr. Cipel said, the governor pushed him onto the bed and jumped on top of him.
After a brief tussle, he forced him off and asked why he thought he was gay. “Everyone is a little bit gay,” he quoted Mr. McGreevey as saying. He said he returned home and the next day, the governor apologized, chalking it up to the liquor and the absence of his wife.
Not so romantic, Golan's account.
It remains to be seen if Cipel will write his own book challenging McGreevey's. In the meantime, you'll have to decide for yourself whether The Confession is an apt title for Mcgreevey's memoir, or if The Con would've been a more appropriate name.
Aide McGreevey Cited Says They Never Had an Affair [NY Times]
Excerpts From ‘The Confession,’ McGreevey’s Autobiography [NY Times]
**One small discrepancy: The Daily News quotes Cipel as saying that when he saw his boss the day after the bedroom incident, the only thing McGreevey said to him was, "I got rid of the liquor."
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