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Look and hear who resurfaces in a podcast -- Detroit's notorious texting lovers and their steamy SkyTel messages from 2002-03.
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"He was a horrible husband; she an angry mistress," Tresa Baldas writes in Free Press coverage of a new podcast.
They broke up families, betrayed a city and cost taxpayers millions of dollars trying to hide their affair — a relationship that ex-Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and Christine Beatty are publicly discussing for the first time since the text message scandal outed them more than a decade ago.
Neither side appears angry with the other, though Beatty still insists on this: She and Kilpatrick were in love.
“What I do know is it wasn’t some random affair. You know, I was in love with him. He loved me . . . I know that he loved me. I'm not stupid," Beatty said in an interview that aired in January on "Crimetown," a national podcast that investigates the culture of crime in America’s cities. . . .
Kilpatrick's comments stem from more than a dozen telephone interviews he had from prison over the last year with "Crimetown" reporter John White.
Baldas notes that "the infamous affair between the hip-hop mayor and his chief of staff that was disclosed by the Free Press [in 2008] in an investigation that would land both in jail and end Kilpatrick’s political career."
In 2013, he began a 28-year federal prison term for racketeering, mail fraud and wire fraud.
The podcast episode, titled "The Affair," is here on Spotify (registration needed).
A five-minute WDIV report by Kevin Dietz is below.
