Citigroup Chairman's Love Child With Model

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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By Jen Chung in News on May 22, 2009 9:44 AM

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dadoc

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

dadoc

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

NannyState

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

freddynyc

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

r1b2

I'd hit that.

whitecastlerock

Guess Dick didn't use a condom

JenChungsBaby

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

Snoopy

Does gothamist have a picture of this model?

hotstepper

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=MacDella+Cooper

theboneranger

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

Brooklynbobby

Boogie on!!!

rdsizzle

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

drewo

What does "love" have to do with it?

Bluealways

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.