Former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani will not have to share with his estranged wife 2.7 million dollars he will get for writing two books, a judge ruled. Manhattan Supreme Court judge Judith Gische, who has been presiding over the high-profile divorce between Giuliani and television personality Donna Hanover, ruled that the book deal is not a marital asset because it was made after Giuliani filed for divorce.
Giuliani is to produce a memoir about public positions he has held, and another book on management strategies.
Giuliani filed for divorce from Hanover in December 2000 after a public break-up during his aborted U.S. Senate campaign earlier that year. Last July, Gische ordered him to pay Hanover child support for their two children of 1,800 dollars a month. Bureau Report