LA mayor’s mistress is placed on leave · 2007-07-08 15:03
Antonio Villaraigosa, 54-year-old married Los Angeles mayor, has a 35-year-old girlfriend. She is a local TV anchor, who reported on the air last month that the mayor was splitting from his wife, Seattle Times Newspaper reports.
“The rumors were true,” read Mirthala Salinas, an anchor on NBC-Telemundo Channel 52, in Spanish on June 8. “Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa confirmed today that he is separating from his wife, Corina, after more than 20 years of marriage.”
The gossip began months ago, when reporters noticed Corina Villaraigosa, 49, had stopped attending public events with her husband, who had stopped wearing his wedding ring. This gossip was not without foundation; they had a lengthy separation a decade ago after the former California Assembly speaker’s previous affair. Antonio, who has two teenage children with his wife, also has two grown daughters by two former girlfriends.
Mirthala Salinas who told viewers that the mayor of Los Angeles was separating from his wife, but failed to inform them that she had been having an affair with him, has been placed on leave while the station investigates if she has breached journalistic ethics.
The Spanish language network Telemundo announced the probe two days after Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, whose wife has filed for divorce, acknowledged he had been in an extramarital affair with newswoman Salinas for about a year, Times Online informs.
Manuel Abud, the station’s general manager, said: “We will conduct this investigation with the utmost respect to personal privacy and journalistic standards.”
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