Citigroup Chairman's Love Child With Model

2009_05_parsonsl.jpg Citigroup board chairman Richard Parsons really has a full slate. Besides trying to shepherd the troubled financial giant through the economic crisis, the Daily News reports that he "was also wrestling with a personal crisis - how to tell his wife and three children he has fathered a child with another woman." Parsons, 61, and MacDella Cooper, 32, a model, are the parents of a baby girl born last August. They apparently met through her charitable foundation which provides education and food to abandoned and orphaned children in Liberia. Cooper told the News, "My private life is private. I'm sure you can draw your own conclusions." And Parsons, once touted as a possible candidate for Mayor (if Bloomberg didn't get his way with term limits), only said, "This is a private matter, and I prefer not to talk about it at this time."

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Wow, another high-powered businessman with a broken moral compass. Surprise, surprise.

Aw, I'd love to see a CEO run for public office in this economic climate.

Plus Republican tokenism always winds up being a hilarious disaster.

What does "love" have to do with it?

Thats Awesome! Its so "money" to have a secret child by a 30 yr old model mistress.

you could see this a mile away with parson's jazz trumpet playing, shit eating grin

Does gothamist have a picture of this model?

OK, I'll say it -- she's hot.

Guess Dick didn't use a condom

She's cute but she doesn't have that "f-ck me good" look about her that would make me risk it all...

At least the wife will get all his Citigroup stock. Oh Wait...

Hey, he made a substantial deposit, and was just avoiding the penalty for premature withdrawal.

And to make sure he only dips his card at his home bank.

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