Gay ex-gov, wife divorce trial to start

by Angela Delli Santi
Associated Press

TRENTON, N.J. - She claims she was duped into marriage by a closeted gay man who needed the cover of a wife to advance his political career. He says he gave her a child and the coattails she rode to the governor's mansion, thus fulfilling the marriage contract.

As Jim and Dina Matos McGreevey's three-and-a-half-year separation approaches the duration of their marriage, the former first couple is about to become unhitched _ finally _ when their divorce trial starts Tuesday.

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