Regina Peruggi – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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She married Rudy Giuliani, who is her second cousin once removed and whom she had known since childhood, on October 26, 1968 in a large Roman Catholic ceremony in Bedford Park, The Bronx.[3] She started her career as a drug abuse counselor in a state jail.[5][6] She worked as a teacher at the elementary school, college, and graduate school levels.[5] In 1974 she joined York College of The City University of New York,[5] then moved to Washington, D.C. with Giuliani and worked as a coordinator at the Psychiatric Institute of Washington.[7] The couple returned to New York in 1977, but had become separated to some degree.[8][9] Then around 1980 she went back to school,[10] and then earned an Master of Business Administration from New York University.[5] Giuliani filed for legal separation from Peruggi on August 12, 1982;[8] a civil divorce was issued by the end of the year.[4] A Roman Catholic Church annulment of the Giuliani-Peruggi marriage was granted at the end of 1983[8] on the grounds that they had not obtained a church dispensation for second cousins once removed to marry;[11] Giuliani later said he had believed they were third cousins.[12] The two had no children.
