Another thought to consider.
As we’ve noted earlier, after the end of Bernard Kerik’s and Judith Regan’s affair or the end of their workouts, whichever you want to call it, she hired a bodyguard to protect her from Kerik’s ‘hounding’.
Now, TPM has a large readership (I was going to say a ‘broad’ readership, in an unintentional double entendre, but caught myself). So I’m wondering, if you were a successful, high-profile female book publisher and you were carrying on an affair with the police commissioner, and things went sour between you, how threatened would you have to feel before you hired a bodyguard?
I figure you’d have to feel pretty threatened — at least, harassed in a pretty serious fashion. And I guess you’d reason that calling the police for help probably wouldn’t work out all that well.
On top of that, there’s that never-quite-adequately-explained incident from March 2002 when Regan lost her cell phone and a necklace at Fox Studios in New York and Kerik followed up by sending homicide detectives out to question five Fox employees he suspected of possibly being the thiefs. (Kerik claimed a subordinate had given the order. Police later found the phone in a garbage can outside the studio and Regan found the necklace in her purse.) The five who were visited told the Times (see NYT, 3/11/02) that the officers came to “question them, fingerprint them and tell them they would have to take lie detector tests.”
After the Fox employees went public about Kerik and threatened legal action, Kerik told the Times that “they should be worried about [the theft of Regan’s property] more than who sent the people there. They should be worried about the thief among them.”
So, a couple questions.
How serious was the harrassment and/or threats that Regan faced? When did the workouts stop? And is this bizarre incident about six months after 9/11 have anything to do with it?
