From Carlita to his mother to his mistress to his sister to a close friend, Kilpatrick’s misdeeds helped stain a slew of promising futures well beyond just his own, Ross Jones reports on WXYZ-TV.
In his plea for a lighter prison sentence, Kilpatrick’s lawyer wrote that his client “still remembers sitting on his mother’s lap during her first swearing-in ceremony.”
Many believe his political career is traced back to his father Bernard, but it was actually Kilpatrick’s mother Carolyn who exposed her son to politics: going door to door with 6-year-old son Kwame to pass out her campaign literature.
When he addressed the judge Thursday, Kilpatrick said: "My mom, who was an incredible public servant, she lost her job because of her son. Her son that she raised and fed and taught and made do his homework killed her career."
The affair with chief-of-staff Christine Beatty, one of Kilpatrick’s biggest defenders, ignited Kilpatrick's criminals troubles in state court. Beatty is now divorced, bankrupt and living in Atlanta. She recently broke her long silence with a story in Essence magazine.
“He made me laugh, he made me angry, he propelled me to ecstasy and reduced me to tears,” Beatty writes of the ex-mayor. . . .
“I was totally consumed by my affair with Kwame. We would find any spare time we could to be together, at the office or at my home when my children weren’t there. In the morning as I dressed for work, I would find myself wondering if Kwame would approve of my outfit. . . . My happiness was completely dependent on whether I felt he adored me personally and was proud of me professionally.”
Jones goes on to recall the women who appeared to have passed through Kilpatrick's life for a moment: Carmen Slowski, the mystery woman he shared a romantic bubble bath with in North Carolina days before the text-message scandal broke.
Sheryl Robinson-Wood, left, the attorney appointed as Detroit Police monitor, overseeing the scandal-plagued department, had what she called a “brief, intimate encounter” with Kilpatrick, lost her job and was publicly humiliated.
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