Judith Regan and the Affair From Hell

Posted on December 16, 2004

Judith Regan, the President of HarperCollins' ReganBooks, is the driving force behind a multitude of bestsellers from personalities such as Howard Stern, Wally Lamb, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and Michael Moore. But even the most savvy businesswoman in the world can have lousy taste in men.

This week, the entire world learned this week of her affair with America's former top cop Bernard Kerik. Kerik, who was married at the time, apparently carried on an extramarital affair with Ms. Regan and some other poor woman at the same time. The trysts took place in a Battery Park apartment that overlooked Ground Zero in Manhattan. The revelations over Kerik's affairs, his dubious business venture and his illegal alien/nanny problem forced him to withdraw his name from consideration as the next Homeland Security chief.

Ms. Regan was the editor for Kerik's 2001 autobiography The Lost Son: A Life in Pursuit of Justice. Kerik brings new meaning to the term "multi-tasking." Cop, political campaigner, husband, father, employer of illegal aliens, instigator of shady business deals, philanderer -- one wonders when Kerik found time to write....