Judith and Holo-Rudy?

(Ooh, somebody photoshop that, quick!!  There's a great painting . . . here.  Ergh!  Caravaggio.  Graphic!  Get to work, guys.)

Will Regan decapitate Giuliani with details of what she learned -- about Bernie Kerik, if not more -- while sleeping with the latter?

She threatened to do just that a while back, according to The New Republic, and now comes her first shot across the bow, in the filing of her $100 million civil lawsuit against News Corporation for improperly firing her and subjecting her to a "vicious smear campaign."  The money quote:

“Defendants were well aware that Regan had a personal relationship with Kerik,” the complaint says. “In fact, a senior executive in the News Corporation organization told Regan that he believed she had information about Kerik that, if disclosed, would harm Giuliani’s presidential campaign. This executive advised Regan to lie to, and to withhold information from, investigators concerning Kerik.”

She doesn't name the executive, but her lawyer claims she has evidence to back up this assertion.

News Corp. owns HarperCollins, where Judith had her own imprint, ReganBooks, and also Fox News, the objectivity of which regarding Rudy has been questioned because it's run by Roger Ailes, his close friend.  Rudy officiated at Ailes' wedding.

reader_iam sent me this story intrigued (very much in spite of herself) by the fact that I'm acquainted with Judith and others who know her better.  Unfortunately, I've lost touch and don't have anything to add.  I did hear through back channels that Judith was very frightened of Kerik after they broke up.  I thought I was being noble and loyal to my source by keeping mum, until even that turned up in the news.  Discreet is not Judith's middle name.

I'm torn about this, between my more civilized and atavistic levels.  Deep down, Judith is every woman's revenge fantasy -- a double-barreled loose cannon, firing from both boobs, playing with the big boys, but not by their rules.  (Hey, that scans like four lines of a song --  "The Ballad of Blazin' Judith"?)  Sort of like a comic book superhero for bad girls.  The Germans could coin a word for her -- maybe SCHWERGEWICHTSSCHEIDMONSTER.

Comments

[Randy (Internet Ronin)]

She probably has the goods. The questions are, "Will anyone believe her?" and "Will it matter?" As you say, she's perceived as a loose cannon, so I tend to think whatever she reveals will be heavily discounted and filed under "Woman, Scorned & Fired." Then again, you never know....

[amba]

Much as I love Rudy -- I was in NYC on 9/11 so I can't help it -- there's no way that, having spent his entire adult life in big-city law enforcement and politics, he doesn't have a lot of very dirty secrets.

[Randy (Internet Ronin)]

He was the perfect person for that that time (the time he was in office, not just 9/11).

[wj]

Oh, Amba, how could you have passed up the opportunity to make that song title TOTALLY alliterative????? :-(

[Icepick]

Okay, so I'm the only person out here that would consider voting for Rudy based solely on his record PRIOR to 9/11?

[Tom Strong]

Like I said on the next post, it would take a lot to get me exercised about some scandal in Rudy's past. I just think scandals are inescapable in the modern media climate.

[Randy (Internet Ronin)]

No, 'pick, I think you have a lot of company.

[amba]

He was a good mayor before 9/11, even if he skewed more than a bit corporate. (I didn't so much mind him turning Times Square into a family entertainment center, but I kinda minded his ripping up some handmade community gardens in vacant lots in the East Village.) It wasn't just that he cleaned up crime with his strategies of community policing and going after quality-of-life offenders, who often turned out to be the violent offenders as well. It was, as I've often said, the way he obviously loved the job and was as hands-on as a small-town mayor, willing to take on the smallest detail of urban life for nobodies.